Hi Mary,   I suggest reading over the CCA Data Analyst Exam (CCA159) page as it lists out the required skills and has a sample question.   ... View more

From the Cloudera Certification FAQ page:   What is Cloudera’s retake policy? Candidates who fail an exam must wait a period of thirty (30) calendar days, beginning the day after the failed attempt, before they may retake the same exam. You may take the exam as many times as you want until you pass, however, you must pay for each attempt; Cloudera offers no discounts for retake exams. Retakes are not allowed after the successful completion of a test. ... View more

From the community FAQ on certification.    The answer is yes, there are questions using both languages.   However, please remember that the goal of the exam is to test your Spark knowledge, not your Scala and Python knowledge.  The development questions typically provide you some code and ask you to fill in TO-DO sections.  So the key is to understand the Spark API.  You must have some knowledge of programming, as you will need to be able to read the existing code and understand how to store and retrieve the results you get back from calling the API, but the focus will be on you adding the Spark calls. ... View more

Thank you for the feedback @ramarov. You are correct, to post a new message a user needs to navigate to a specific board to be able to post. Can you describe further how this affects your ability to participate on the community? ... View more

@Shashank and @shamik,   As each person's setup is typically different I was suggesting you start a new thread or conversation. In this new thread you can explain your unique situation in terms of overall system specifications (RAM, number of processors, etc.) as well as how much of those resources have been allocated to the Quickstart VM.   As @jmartin1938 has pointed out the Quickstart VM in inherently slow due to being a single node cluster. The issue can be made worse if the VM is not allcated the appropriate resources or used for large scale projects.    To start a new thread go to the appropriate board and use the "new message" button.    This will open a page for you to post the wording and title for the new thread.  ... View more

Thank you for asking @ABP. Cloudera doesn't have such a book. If you are wondering what to study for the CCA Administrator Exam (CCA131), you can find out on the certification page which lists: Number of questions Time limit Score required to pass Pricing How the test is evaluated and scored Audience and Prerequisites Exam delivery and cluster information Of course the part you would be interested in is listed as well in the Required Skills section. This section lists all the skills you will need to be able to perform as part of the test.  ... View more

Thank you for posting the feedback @ramarov. Community members who are logged in can use the "New Message" button at the top of each board to start a new topic. Is there a specific area you are not seeing this button?     ... View more

Following up on this. The 404 error has been corrected. 🙂   I'm sorry it took so long.  ... View more