https://www.cloudera.com/about/training/certification/faq.html   What am I responsible for during the exam?  These are practical exams. During the exam you will be asked to evaluate a scenario and implement a solution. You are responsible for everything necessary to generate that solution, such as writing code, configuring tools, and debugging any issues. You may use any approach or tools on the cluster that will produce your solution. Only the results will be graded. ... View more

Kabali,   All certification requests are processed by certification@cloudera.com   I can see that Dora in the support team has already written you today and forwarded your request to the technical team. All outstanding certificates are scheduled to be sent out in the next 24 hours. ... View more

Cloudera courses give you background and information to be successful at a particular job role. Certification exams attempt to test your skills at a particular job role. The testing objectives on the exams are similar to the learning objectives in the course.   However, Cloudera training courses are not "prep courses" for the exam. There is not always a 1-to-1 correlation between presented materials/exercises and the exam. Suggested prerequisite training courses for our exams do NOT guarantee a passing score and are NOT be considered the only preparation required to successfully complete the exam. Since the exam webpages give you explicit required skills that will be tested, I would suggest that candidates practice those skills outside of the classroom experience before taking any exams.   More specifically, for this exam. 1) Should I have Linux or Cloudera administration experience? Yes, and yes. 2) CM or command-line? Cloudera Manager is provided during the CCA131 exam so you may use either. ... View more

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Content changes are made on the exams every week; questions are removed, questions are added, and questions are modified. With the release of the Data Analyst exam, there is less need to test "logging into Impala" questions, so CREATE TABLE questions have been moved to the Analyst exam. With the release of a new version of Spark, it is easier to test "using tables as a data source" questions, so expect some questions to have a table instead of just a directory of data files as the inputs. There has always been an Analysis section on the Required Skills for this exam. All that was done was to update that section to focus more on Spark. This is not a new exam, this is a minor update.   We are updating the version of CDH used with our exams. Data Analyst uses CDH5.9.1. All other exam continue to be on CDH5.3.2. This announcement is that Spark & Hadoop Developer has been converted over to CDH5.10.0.   The CCA175 Spark exam is being testing in development with Spark 1.6 now. When we are satisfied that the new version does not break any existing questions, we will be moving the new version into production. We are not announcing a date for when the exam content changes. If you wish to make sure that you your exam is with the latest versions of our products, wait to schedule your exam until April. If you wish to take the exam with the old version then schedule immediately. We will be making changes as soon as we can guarantee a proper exam and without any further warning.   ... View more

CDH4 and CDH5 are Cloudera specific releases.  They are not Cloudera specific tools.   There will not be questions about Cloudera Manager.  There will not be questions about Cloudera Director.  There will not be questions about Cloudera Navigator.  Each of these products begin with the name "Cloudera", and as such are Cloudera specific tools.   There will be questions about daemons.  This is a CDH5 exam.  If asked what daemons need to be running, you must answer with the daemons that are needed in CDH5.  If you chose the daemons that were present in CDH4, you will be marked as wrong (assuming that the daemons changed between versions). ... View more

In the case of an external library, no.  We are trying to give you flexibility to solve the problems in whatever way that you see fit, but since there may be dozens of ways to solve the problem, there is no way that we could provide a dozen different versions of the library.     For example, if the objective we are trying to test is your ability to use a UDFs, then you will need to use a tool that supports UDFs, such as Hive or Impala. ... View more

The CCA-175 exam is the Developer exam and maps to the Developer training:  http://www.cloudera.com/content/dam/www/static/documents/datasheets/developer-training-for-spark-and-hadoop.pdf   The DE-575 exam is our Data Engineering exam.  It includes topics that are coved in the Big Data Applications course: http://www.cloudera.com/content/dam/cloudera/Resources/PDF/Datasheet/Cloudera_Training_Designing-and-Building-Big-Data-Apps_103.pdf   I would like to point out that the DE-575 is a CCP (Cloudera Certified Professional) exam.  That means that it is our mastery level exam in the developer track.  It is meant for people that have industry knowledge and exerience working in the field; we do not provide a prep-course for taking that exam. ... View more

The vnc software that will set up your remote desktop will be using port 20443.  I don't know of any way to test that your company firewall will allow access to that port. ... View more

You are making a connection from your browser to a remote cluster running in AWS.  Your browser will become a virtual desktop, complete with IDEs, teminals, etc.   If you want a free environment to practice in, you can download the Cloudera Quickstart VM.  Here is a link to the latest version: http://www.cloudera.com/downloads/quickstart_vms/5-7.html ... View more

You can find the solution kit here: http://certification.cloudera.com/prep/dsc1sk/intro.html ... View more

SBT is not one of the packages that comes installed on the cluster. ... View more

http://www.cloudera.com/training/certification/cca-spark.html   Number of Questions: 10–12 performance-based (hands-on) tasks on CDH5 cluster.  ... View more

There are no exercises or practice exams for the new hands-on practical exams.   Our Cloudera Developer Training for Spark and Hadoop teaches you all the skills to pass the exam and gives you days worth of hands-on practice.   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.   Objective: Import data from a MySQL database into HDFS using Sqoop • sqoop.apache.org docs on importing data using Sqoop • Importing Data into HDFS using Sqoop • Video demonstration of user importing data from MySQL to HDFS using Sqoop   This can be done for any of our exams. Of course the quality of materials freely discovered on the internet differs greatly, as does the discount training vendors, which is why we only recommend Cloudera training. ... View more

You can run a virtual environment such as VM Ware on your Windows box and use an image from Cloudera. http://www.cloudera.com/downloads/quickstart_vms.html ... View more

1) The Developer course maps the the CCA175.  The CCP DE575 is a difficult exam meant to test development mastery.  A data analyst taking this exam would be very unhappy.  DE575 most closely maps to our Big Data Applications course (plus some years of experience).   We currently do not have a certification path that maps to our Data Analyst course, but you should continue to watch the website for announcements.  http://www.cloudera.com/training/certification.html   2) Look on the community site for the subject below this one labelled "Spark Scala AND Python" https://community.cloudera.com/t5/General-Questions-Training/CCA175-Spark-Scala-AND-Python/m-p/36070#U36070   3) The testing objectives for our certifications are close to the learning objectives for the courses, and the courses have exercises that will help you practice for the practical nature of the exam.  The training is not required, however.   4) There is no Java on the exam, but there is development work that needs to be done.  See question 2. You can also see all of the skills required at: http://www.cloudera.com/training/certification/cca-spark.html ... View more

The details about the exam are on Cloudera's website:  http://www.cloudera.com/training/certification/cca-spark.html   Cloudera offers a course that covers these topics and give you hands-on exercises to practice these skills:  http://www.cloudera.com/training/courses/developer-training-for-spark-and-hadoop.html?course=developer-training-for-spark-and-hadoop&loc=online   There are multiple books covering the basics of Hadoop, including Hadoop: The Definitive Guide   The website also shows you all of the skills that will be tested, so you could use that as a basis for your own self study. ... View more

You can expect that major changes to CDH will also change the version that is on the clusters.  There is not a schedule for when changes will be applied.   I would watch the Cloudera certifcation webpages for updates.  http://www.cloudera.com/content/www/en-us/training/certification/cca-spark.html ... View more