I looked over the CCA175 page and while there is little mention of Hive or Avro one particular section stands out.   Exam Question Format Each CCA question requires you to solve a particular scenario. In some cases, a tool such as Impala or Hive may be used. In other cases, coding is required. In order to speed up development time of Spark questions, a template is often provided that contains a skeleton of the solution, asking the candidate to fill in the missing lines with functional code. This template is written in either Scala or Python. You are not required to use the template and may solve the scenario using a language you prefer. Be aware, however, that coding every problem from scratch may take more time than is allocated for the exam.   Perhaps you are looking at the exam as individual questions rather than tasks to complete. I would look over the required skills portion of that page and think about how you would accomplish each task. If Hive and Avro would be involved in your process to comlete a task, then prepare accordingly.    I hope this helps.  ... View more

I will reach out via PM. 🙂 ... View more

Thanks for responding, I would like to clarify your suggestion @lwmonster. Are you asking for a directory of Cloudera employees so you @ mention one on certain issues?    If that is the case it may not be the best solution but I'm willing to discuss it. 🙂   Looking at the Community guidelines you will see the following description of the community.    The mission of the community is to provide a first-class peer-based forum for developers and admins to collaborate on the use of Cloudera’s Apache Hadoop-based platform to build and manage enterprise data hubs.    Primarily the community is a peer to peer forum where users assist each other with issues. That being said, Clouderans do participate in addition to their normal duties as time allows. We also keep an eye out for threads with multiple posters experiencing the same issue. If there is a solution we sometimes turn the content into a community knowledge article so it is easier to find. If there isn't a solution, we sometimes are able to get a Clouderan to reply.   If anyone has a desire for additional support we have several options including the low cost Cloudera Developer Program for Dev/Test environments. As this thread suggests, we are indeed looking for ways to improve the community so I look forward to seeing your thoughts on this as well as any other suggestions you have.      ... View more

I would suggest starting a new thread with all the details involved in your specific case.  ... View more

I fixed the image issue in this thread. For clarification, we have a moderation filter for images to help avoid spam posts on the community. The images were waiting for me to approve them but I need to look into your account @csguna. I thought we had removed that filter on Community Champion posts. Sorry about the delay.  ... View more

Hi @EricLeBouffon,   Thank you for trying out the Quickstart VM. I suggest taking a look at our community article How to setup Cloudera Quickstart Virtual Machine which should get you through the install process.    Best of luck and let me know how it goes. 🙂   ... View more

@lwmonster If you read the previous comment from @GautamG the issue was resolved in a previous release. Unless something has changed this should be a seperate issue. I would suggest starting a new thread with further background on your specific situtaion.  ... View more

@chancabe if you check the CCA131 certification page and look at the bottom you will find information on the testing cluster.    Each user is given their own CDH5 (currently 5.10.1) cluster running on CentOS 7.3. ... View more