Hello,   I took my exam on 04/10/2016 (yesterday at the time of writing this 🙂 ) and my exam is still not graded yet. Do you know if there could be lags in the grading process? ... 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

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