https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/How-to-start-preparing-for-HDPCA/m-p/163997#M53626 <P>Great. </P><P>Good luck on the exam. </P> Tue, 07 Feb 2017 22:07:25 GMT wgonzalez 2017-02-07T22:07:25Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/How-to-start-preparing-for-HDPCA/m-p/163993#M53622 <P>For HDPCD, we could use the Hortonworks Sandbox and try to go through the exam objectives to prepare ourselves.</P><P>For HDPCA, can we use the same Sandbox and try to implement the tasks in Exam Objectives ?</P><P>Since I am not planning on taking the Hortonworks Official Training course, I would like to know </P><P>1. What basic setup(Sandbox/VM with only Linux flavor and no hadoop) do I need to start with ?</P><P>2. How to go about preparing for HDPCA, specially what do I need to start with(other than referring the exam objectives).</P> Fri, 16 Sep 2022 11:02:05 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/How-to-start-preparing-for-HDPCA/m-p/163993#M53622 dineshc 2022-09-16T11:02:05Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/How-to-start-preparing-for-HDPCA/m-p/163994#M53623 <P>Hello, Dinesh, all good questions. You are correct that to "pass" the HDPCA exam you need to be at least familiar with the tasks in the Exam Objectives (http://hortonworks.com/training/certification/exam-objectives/#hdpca). </P><P> The best way to prepare for the Exam is to run a Practice Exam on AWS (http://2xbbhjxc6wk3v21p62t8n4d4.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/HDPCA-PracticeExamGuide.pdf). </P><P>This practice environment has the same version as the exam will have and the tasks in practice are similar to the ones on the actual exam. </P><P>In the actual exam you will have a minimally configured cluster, so you will not need to install from scratch on a base OS, but you will be required to configure different services as per the Objectives. If you still want to create a cluster from scratch, which is always a great thing to learn, you would probably want to install an HDP version that is close to the exam. </P><P>The exam is based on the Hortonworks Data Platform 2.3 installed and managed with Ambari 2.1. </P><P>Hope that this helps. </P> Tue, 07 Feb 2017 21:39:35 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/How-to-start-preparing-for-HDPCA/m-p/163994#M53623 wgonzalez 2017-02-07T21:39:35Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/How-to-start-preparing-for-HDPCA/m-p/163995#M53624 <P><A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/228/wgonzalez.html" nodeid="228">@William Gonzalez</A> - Thank you for the details, for now I would just stick with exam objectives but I am definitely interested in doing things from scratch to get a in-depth understanding.</P> Tue, 07 Feb 2017 22:04:57 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/How-to-start-preparing-for-HDPCA/m-p/163995#M53624 dineshc 2017-02-07T22:04:57Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/How-to-start-preparing-for-HDPCA/m-p/163996#M53625 <P>Great. </P><P>Good luck on the exam. </P> Tue, 07 Feb 2017 22:07:00 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/How-to-start-preparing-for-HDPCA/m-p/163996#M53625 wgonzalez 2017-02-07T22:07:00Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/How-to-start-preparing-for-HDPCA/m-p/163997#M53626 <P>Great. </P><P>Good luck on the exam. </P> Tue, 07 Feb 2017 22:07:25 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/How-to-start-preparing-for-HDPCA/m-p/163997#M53626 wgonzalez 2017-02-07T22:07:25Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/How-to-start-preparing-for-HDPCA/m-p/163998#M53627 <P>Great. </P><P>Good luck on the exam. </P> Tue, 07 Feb 2017 22:07:56 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/How-to-start-preparing-for-HDPCA/m-p/163998#M53627 wgonzalez 2017-02-07T22:07:56Z