CCDH Certification Expiration

[#1]

As I recall, the FAQ for the CCDH previously specified that the certification itself does not expire, although the certification is tied to that version of CDH/Hadoop.

The new wording in the FAQ states "CCDH, CCAH, and CCSHB certifications align to a specific CDH release and remains valid for that version. Once that CDH version retires or the certification or exam retires, your certification retires."

Is this a change in policy?

Does this mean that on Jan. 1st, 2016 all of us with CDH will no longer have a valid license number for this certification? 

Thanks,

Matt

[#2 · Accepted solution]

You will always have a license number and you will always have a public
transcript that shows you passed CCDH on CDH version X on date X.
After all, a certification is a measurement at a point in time of your
achievement at that time.

That said, as the number of scenarios for which MapReduce is the answer,
or even the preferred programming framework, for a workload decreases,
the value of that certification diminishes over time.

We hear from our customers and from hiring managers that a stale
certification is worse than none. I recognize their point though I
perhaps wouldn't go that far. However, we need to balance the market's
desire to delineate that there is an old way and there's what is
increasingly being used as newer frameworks come into the platform. This
is why we're re-branding, going to hands-on exams, and requiring
recertification -- so that the program can keep pace without needing to
completely change paradigms. We'll need to be honest to our customers
and state that the version of CDH (say version 3) is retired and mark
the certification program as retired since it is, and promote and give
benefits to those who are current.

As the version of CDH retires (the EOM dates are
http://www.cloudera.com/content/www/en-us/legal/support-lifecycle-policy.html),
we'll move those certifications to retired status in the transcript
portion on our verification portal (current, retired, and exam
transcript are those sections)

[#3]

Hi , I registered for CCP Data engineer exam and it says two things

Thank you for your recent purchase of CCP: Data Engineer Exam — DE575 from Cloudera University.

You may schedule and take your exam from your home or office location. Cloudera exams are no longer offered at testing centers. Your registration expires on 31 December, 2015 at 11:59PM US Pacific Time. You must schedule and take your exam before the expiration date as exam registrations cannot be extended.

and below it says that

Once you have scheduled an exam, you may reschedule or cancel that reservation up to 24 hours before the start time of the exam. You will not be able to make changes to the reservation when 24 hours or less remain before the exam reservation. No-shows forfeit the money paid for an exam.

Please note that you will only be able to access this item until Wednesday, 12 October 2016 PDT.

I have not scheduled the exam yet and I want to schedule it in feb 2016, So want to check if I will be able to schedule it in 2016 before Wednesday, 12 October 2016 PDT. or 31st december 2015 will be the last date.

I am confused between these two dates. Can some cloudera employee clarify this question ?

[#4]

Apologies for the error. You have one full year from the date of purchase on all our exams save the ones retiring.

This is correct: Please note that you will only be able to access this item until Wednesday, 12 October 2016 PDT.

This is wrong: You may schedule and take your exam from your home or office location. Cloudera exams are no longer offered at testing centers. Your registration expires on 31 December, 2015 at 11:59PM US Pacific Time. You must schedule and take your exam before the expiration date as exam registrations cannot be extended.

The error arose when we set the expiration of other exams, the LMS triggered that warning in all exams until someone pointed it out like you are and we were able to correct it.