diff --git a/phoenix5-hive/pom.xml b/phoenix5-hive/pom.xml
index 8abea8c8..28bb5d73 100644
--- a/phoenix5-hive/pom.xml
+++ b/phoenix5-hive/pom.xml
@@ -254,7 +254,6 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.zookeeper</groupId>
       <artifactId>zookeeper</artifactId>
-      <version>${zookeeper.version}</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
 
diff --git a/phoenix5-hive4/pom.xml b/phoenix5-hive4/pom.xml
index a59cc223..da5b03e6 100644
--- a/phoenix5-hive4/pom.xml
+++ b/phoenix5-hive4/pom.xml
@@ -288,14 +288,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.zookeeper</groupId>
       <artifactId>zookeeper</artifactId>
-      <version>${zookeeper.version}</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
-      <exclusions>
-                <exclusion>
-                    <groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
-                    <artifactId>*</artifactId>
-                </exclusion>
-            </exclusions>
     </dependency>
     <!-- Used by the copied Hive Testing Code -->
     <dependency>
diff --git a/phoenix5-spark/pom.xml b/phoenix5-spark/pom.xml
index 1e5878f1..9dedc346 100644
--- a/phoenix5-spark/pom.xml
+++ b/phoenix5-spark/pom.xml
@@ -61,6 +61,10 @@
       <version>${spark.version}</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
       <exclusions>
+        <exclusion>
+          <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+          <artifactId>slf4j-reload4j</artifactId>
+        </exclusion>
         <!-- The shaded hadoop-client libraries conflict with hbase-shaded-mapreduce -->
         <exclusion>
           <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
@@ -383,7 +387,6 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.zookeeper</groupId>
       <artifactId>zookeeper</artifactId>
-      <version>${zookeeper.version}</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
 
@@ -393,13 +396,6 @@
       <artifactId>mockito-core</artifactId>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
-
-    <!-- We want to take the implementation from Spark -->
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
-      <artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
-      <scope>test</scope>
-    </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 
   <build>
diff --git a/phoenix5-spark3/pom.xml b/phoenix5-spark3/pom.xml
index 634cb9de..c6fbf97e 100644
--- a/phoenix5-spark3/pom.xml
+++ b/phoenix5-spark3/pom.xml
@@ -168,7 +168,6 @@
       <!-- Why is this not provided transitively via Phoenix ? -->
       <groupId>org.apache.zookeeper</groupId>
       <artifactId>zookeeper</artifactId>
-      <version>${zookeeper.version}</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index acb45f16..3c91ad78 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -574,6 +574,16 @@
         <groupId>org.apache.phoenix</groupId>
         <artifactId>phoenix5-spark</artifactId>
         <version>${project.version}</version>
+        <exclusions>
+          <exclusion>
+            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+            <artifactId>slf4j-reload4j</artifactId>
+          </exclusion>
+          <exclusion>
+            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+            <artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
+          </exclusion>
+        </exclusions>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.phoenix</groupId>
@@ -671,6 +681,7 @@
       </dependency>
       <!-- End of exclusion-only dependencies -->
 
+
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
         <artifactId>hbase-annotations</artifactId>
@@ -691,6 +702,10 @@
             <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
             <artifactId>hadoop-hdfs</artifactId>
           </exclusion>
+          <exclusion>
+            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+            <artifactId>slf4j-reload4j</artifactId>
+          </exclusion>
         </exclusions>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
@@ -807,6 +822,10 @@
             <groupId>org.xerial.snappy</groupId>
             <artifactId>snappy-java</artifactId>
           </exclusion>
+          <exclusion>
+            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+            <artifactId>slf4j-reload4j</artifactId>
+          </exclusion>
         </exclusions>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
@@ -818,11 +837,23 @@
         <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
         <artifactId>hadoop-mapreduce-client-core</artifactId>
         <version>${hadoop.version}</version>
+        <exclusions>
+          <exclusion>
+            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+            <artifactId>slf4j-reload4j</artifactId>
+          </exclusion>
+        </exclusions>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
         <artifactId>hadoop-minicluster</artifactId>
         <version>${hadoop.version}</version>
+        <exclusions>
+          <exclusion>
+            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+            <artifactId>slf4j-reload4j</artifactId>
+          </exclusion>
+        </exclusions>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
@@ -909,9 +940,28 @@
         <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
         <artifactId>hadoop-minikdc</artifactId>
         <version>${hadoop.version}</version>
+        <exclusions>
+          <exclusion>
+            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+            <artifactId>slf4j-reload4j</artifactId>
+          </exclusion>
+        </exclusions>
       </dependency>
 
       <!-- General Dependencies -->
+      <dependency>
+        <groupId>org.apache.zookeeper</groupId>
+        <artifactId>zookeeper</artifactId>
+        <version>${zookeeper.version}</version>
+        <scope>test</scope>
+        <exclusions>
+          <exclusion>
+            <groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
+            <artifactId>*</artifactId>
+          </exclusion>
+        </exclusions>
+      </dependency>
+
       <dependency>
         <groupId>com.google.protobuf</groupId>
         <artifactId>protobuf-java</artifactId>