It means Spark replaces MapReduce, Spark replaces Pig, and tools and abstractions like Hive and Impala are more central. The exam has the same objectives as Data Engineer only much easier and the questions require less experience and less skill. ... View more

Currently, none of our exams are for beginners. Moreover, CCD-410 is aimed specifically at Java MapReduce which is no longer the direction of the company and community. So I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone who is getting into big data. We are beta-testing a beginner’s exam this month and, if all goes well, will launch it soon. The beginner exam is part of a learning path that provides an integrated and comprehensive hands-on training and performance-based certification program to teach and validate the skills needed to develop reliable, scalable data pipelines that take raw data from ingest to insight. ... View more

Cloudera will no longer approve or support test centers as we could no longer abide the issues so prevalent in test centers. I do not know of a single program in business today that isn't looking to get out of test centers. Test centers are a last-century, archaic, relic that completely ignores technological advances of the past decade.    I've been working in and managing certification programs since 1991 and I can pretty safely say: In the next five years, I believe you will see the complete demise of test centers and multiple-choice exams in any highly technical arena. And I think you'll see that happen in our industry/market much much sooner. I meet montly with the directors of some of the most important and high-profile IT certification programs and not a single one of those companies is moving forward with multiple-choice exams and test centers. And in our space, all the programs are already there or moving that direction. Even the test center vendors are acquiring remote proctoring companies and technologies and moving away from brick-and-mortar delivery. Just like more and more data and storage and activity is moving to the cloud, so are exams and so are proctors.      ... View more

No, you cannot use notes. It's a high-stakes certification exam. You can't drink during it, you have to scan the room, your biometrics are recorded, your eye movement, you cannot talk to yourself, etc. it's a secured environment.     Nothing has changed with the exam. We added the note because we get daily inquiries if the exam is on Spark and it's not. The exam covers the objectives on the website.       ... View more

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