Bumping this slightly to get more up to date answers on study materials. There's a book on amazon for CCA 175 which looks decent but seems to be a cheat sheet more than anything else.   Other certifications, e.g. SAS advanced cert, do offer a study guide too. It's a shame that Cloudera don't do that. ... View more

I am quite interested in writing CCA Spark and Hadoop exam. The current version is using Spark 1.6. However i wish to write the exam using Spark 2.x version. Is this possible to write exam using Spark 2.x API? ... View more

That’s not correct. Please see the release notes http://www.cloudera.com/documentation/enterprise/5-3-x/topics/cdh_rn_spark_ki.html SparkSQL just exited alpha and is far from stable. As such, SparkSQL is currently considered a “preview” in CDH. We love it and we’re dedicating a lot of engineering resources to bring it to our standards but as I’m sure you’re aware, it’s mainly Scala (pyspark lags), it’s very buggy, it causes all kinds of havoc (esp. with Hive)….the list goes on. Once we get it running at scale, we’ll support it fully in our distribution and we’ll test it. But today, it’s just not ready. ... View more

Hi Hasanj,   CCP is seems to be liberal with the languge or data processing engin(hadoop or spark) you use, if you choose spark then you could do it all with python. You could learn python faster than java.   Im also from DWH back ground, I would suggest you CCA175 certification. But CCA175 require you to write program in Scala and Python. If you are incliend towards programming then you could learn python and scala pretty fast.     ... View more

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. ... View more

Hi Brad Can you please send me the certification questions  ... View more

Also one final query .   Are there any exit certifications for hadoop in India. I see lot of exit certifications here in USA locations. Appreciate if you can let me know if there are any exit certified course for SPARK in India  ... View more

Hello Brad,    is there any changes in the CCD-410 exam pattern or course , please let me know as i am planning to take this exam , near to this this months .   please advise on the same , is something changed    Thank you, Amit ... View more