Our Cloudera Developer Training for Spark and Hadoop  teaches you everything you need to know for the exam and gives you days worth of hands-on practice. We both train and test the same objectives (although we train on more of course) If you do not wish to take our training or cannot afford it, there are hundreds of free resources on the internet. For example, if I point my browser to the List of objectives from our website. I then copy the first objective and search on it, I get dozens of free docs and training on the skill. • Import data from a MySQL database into HDFS using Sqoop • s qoop.apache.orgdocs on importing data using Sqoop • Importing Data into HDFS using Sqoop • Video demonstration of user importing data from MySQL to HDFS using Sqoop And there are dozens more. As the exam page also tells you that you have access to some of these during the exam, I suggest becoming intimate with the those. If you take some time to search each objective and learn the skill, the exam will be easy. If you don’t want to take the time to learn on your own, and you’re not learning on your job, then training is your answer. This is always true, of all technical skills, not just this one exam. And part of the learning is figuring out which free resources are the best if that’s the route you choose to go, or which paid ones are. As for the style of question, it’s quite straightforward: for the above objective, you’ll be given the location of a MySQL database on one of the nodes and you’ll be required to use Sqoop to import a portion or all of that data from the MySQL instance we give to the instance of HDFS we give you. It's really that straightforward if you take the time to learn the skills. ... View more

It's hard to say without knowing the quality of the training and the quality of your practice and your aptitude. We've put a fairly representative question on http://www.cloudera.com/content/www/en-us/training/certification/ccp-data-engineer.html . If that sample is immediately obvious and if you look at is and could solve it without too much trouble, then perhaps. If not, then CCA Spark and Hadoop Developer is more appropriate. The distinction is that with CCA, we're validating discrete skills, in CCP, we're evaluating both your skills and higher level mastery skills like analysis, application, evaluation, and synthesis (to put it into traditional Bloom's taxonomy terms). ... View more

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) ... View more

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More information to understand the context read Mike Olson on why Spark should replace MapReduce back in 2013: http://vision.cloudera.com/mapreduce-spark/ read our more recent announcement: http://vision.cloudera.com/one-platform/ join a webinar to hear Doug Cutting talk about it: http://go.cloudera.com/OnePlatformInitiative or read the press release: http://www.cloudera.com/content/cloudera/en/about/press-center/press-releases/2015/09/09/cloudera-launches-effort-to-unite-apache-spark-and-apache-hadoop.html     ... View more