We have numerous CCP exams. You’d have to be more specific. If it’s data science, as I infer from your query, the answer from our website: Currently, the cluster is open to the internet and there are no restrictions on tools you can install or websites or resources you may use. (http://www.cloudera.com/training/certification/ccp-ds/exams.html) so, yes. ... View more

yes, that’s the only administrator exam there is. ... View more

The exams were identical, only the prices were different. CCA-505 was the upgrade version of the exam offered when CDH5 rolled out for admins wishing to to update and maintain their certification but at a lower price point. It required you to have passed a previous version of administrator. As such it wasn’t a path in the traditional use of that word but an update. We no longer offer it. It crops up every now and again on a website either because it’s cached or because something rolls back but the exam no longer exists. ... View more

there is no old or new. The exams are the same; the delivery format changed but the content didn't. ... View more

There's over 100 pages of examples and a fully complete solution kit and problem set right there on the page. ... View more

You can take a look at the "how to prepare" section on our website http://www.cloudera.com/content/www/en-us/training/certification/ccp-ds/exams.html ... View more

I saw yours go through (as Devon asked me to go into the DB and check). I'll go in and manually push another now. Let certification@cloudera.com know if you still don't get it this time. ... View more

As it says on our website "Currently, the cluster is open to the internet and there are no restrictions on tools you can install or websites or resources you may use." That means the cluster (the exam environment). Not your machine or your machine's web browser. I just want to be clear about that. This means you have access -- via the cluster's web browser (on the gateway machine) -- to legitimate websites and documentation and search. The proctor was in error in your case (searching for Python xml parsing info) which is why we refunded your test fees and gave you a free retake. And why we're correcting it with the proctoring folks. In reality, I'll have to reconsider this allowance since it is open to interpretation and will likely have to close it down over time. Our goal was to leave everything as wide open as possible and let people work like they work. That may not be tenable in the long-run which is unfortunate but perhaps a fact of life. ... View more

Hi, We don't provide customer support on this forum. There's no way to do it and respect privacy laws. For example, I cannot post your exam chat logs (between you and the proctor), your keyboard logs, or the video of your session without exposing personal information in violation of our privacy rules. And, as employees, we don’t see your real name so it exposes us further legally as we are not allowed to discuss any facet of your certification publicly. Please email certification@cloudera.com for questions or customer support as instructed on your registration. ... View more

You're given a scenario, all the Java code (or sometimes Hive) and you have to fill in what's the correct syntax to complete it; or, you're given Java code and asked what it'll return, will it error, what needs to change. Or, you're then given 4 or 5 questions on that code that evaluates your ability to read, parse, understand, and fix (or update) Java MapReduce code. There are also general questions about data management and pipelines (per the objectives on the website at http://cloudera.com/content/cloudera/en/training/certification.html) ... View more

CCP: Data Engineer is much much more relevant since you have to do ETL. CCD-410 does not address ETL as it's much less a tools exam. ... View more

To your question if it has to be perfect or workable, I'd answer that as a multiple-choice exam it has to be perfect at the level of the individual item as it's a dichotomous scoring structure but only 70% perfect overall since you're allowed to miss items. CCD-410 is aimed at individuals who want to validate their skills on Java MapReduce. If you want to validate your skills using other programming frameworks and tools, you should look at the Cloudera Certified Professional program such as our CCP: Data Engineer (http://cloudera.com/content/cloudera/en/training/certification.html ) or look at the entry-level version we're beta-testing now, the Cloudera Certified Associate program, our first developer exam is currently in limited beta but will go live soon, CCA: Spark and Hadoop Developer (CCAD). The exam you have to pass for that is CCA175, which you can find here: https://university.cloudera.com/content/CCA175 ... View more

Our performance-based exams (Data Engineer and Data Scientist) require two levels of skills: Theoretical skills (skills to know what the right approach is) Practical skills (skills to implement the solution) Think of it as a multiplce-choice test wrapped inside a hands-on test. We don't tell you "ingest this with Sqoop, partition the data like this, and write it to this format with this compression" -- we give you a scenario, inside of which is wrapped a number of theoretical decisions you must recognize -- but these are quite routine scenarios. There's nothing exotic or tricky, just real.   We've noticed some people really struggle with translating "book learning" into practice and just as many translating "practice into implementation."    As such, we really recommend the training and are not offering practice sessions divorced from a full experience and context with an instructor. As stated before,  t he best preparation is Developer Training for Spark & Hadoop I (http://university.cloudera.com/instructor-led-training/developer-training-for-spark-and-hadoop-i) of which there is the first public beta August 18 (50% off). That gives you the VM and lots of hands-on tutorials, and an instructor to help guide you.   We are considering doing a series of free monthly tech talks where one of our exam developers walks through a scenario and how to approach it, but this takes time and we're still focused on the beta. We want to see where people struggle and where they don't before spending lots of time developing guides.   If you don't want to take the time or spend the money to learn these skills in an environment designed to teach you these skills, there are many options if you search the internet (EdX, Coursera, etc.). So many great free tutorials and blogs and classes available.   We've collected many of them New to Hadoop: http://www.cloudera.com/content/cloudera/en/developers/home/developer-admin-resources/new-to-hadoop.html Getting Started Tutorial: http://www.cloudera.com/content/cloudera/en/developers/home/developer-admin-resources/get-started-with-hadoop-tutorial.html The quickstart VM: http://www.cloudera.com/content/cloudera/en/downloads/quickstart_vms/cdh-5-4-x.html Data Processing and Analytics tutorials: http://www.cloudera.com/content/cloudera/en/developers/home/developer-admin-resources/data-processing-analytics.html and a list of books: http://www.cloudera.com/content/cloudera/en/developers/home/hadoop-ecosystem-books.html After that, all you really need is the apache docs which are also made available to you during the exam. Everything in the exam is answered in the docs.   ... View more

@PrashantUjjwal wrote: now it seems there is no point in doing a certification wihch is soon going to be deprecated. I think there's another way to look at this, which is less about certification and more about your career and job prospects (which is ultimately the point of certification). So to turn your sentence: there's no point in spending your time learning a technology that is soon being deprecated as well. Which is why we're saying look to the future. Cloudera's goal is to train and certify on those skills and tools the job market desires, and to create courses and exams that will help you be successful. Increasingly, the right tools and the right skills required for a given job is no longer Java MapReduce. The ecosystem tools have gotten much better, and if you're processing data programmatically, you'll likely be using Spark in the future.   By the end of the year, you won't see us teaching Java MapReduce programmatically very often. We'll teach many tools that rely on MapReduce but writing mappers and reducers is less and less the answer to a processing problem.   Just as CCDH aligned to our Developer training for Java MapReduce (a class being superseded by the below class), so CCP: Data Engineer aligns to our Developer training for Spark and Hadoop I (and Developer ...II: Advanced Techniques which will become available this fall).   For more info: Developer Training for Spark & Hadoop I http://university.cloudera.com/instructor-led-training/developer-training-for-spark-and-hadoop-i   The Hadoop ecosystem is dynamic. In the past year or so we've seen the entire resource model EOL and change (to YARN and Mesos, etc.) and now we're mid-change from Java MR to Spark and other tools and frameworks. It's gonna keep changing -- there is no one certification that is good for all time; there is only ongoing professional growth.   And you can certainly credit your CCD exam to DE575 between now and Dec 31, 2015. If you choose to continue and get your CCDH, that's still valid and we'll always verify that you received it and that you proved, at a point in time, that you had the ability to understand Java MR, it's just that having that credential may not be all that helpful in the very near future.  ... View more

Developer Training for Spark & Hadoop I ( http://university.cloudera.com/instructor-led-training/developer-training-for-spark-and-hadoop-i) of which there is the first public beta August 18 (50% off). ... View more

We’re looking into our options. Unlike Hortonworks, we’re using large data sets and multi-node clusters and problems designed to test you in that environment. As such, it’s quite a bit more expensive. Even if we could get the storage, memory, and node footprint down to $10/hr, that’s still prohibitive. And while we could build something smaller, there are some pieces we just couldn’t count as valid (real-time ingest for example, but others that relate to performance and size) so we’re looking at options. We do have training courses with practice exercises of course. We’re considering holding regularly-scheduled webinars (or a kind of MOOC) to walk through exam problems -- maybe give out the problems first and let people try and then convene and discuss/demonstrate approaches and solutions and why -- use the quickstart VMs and post at least smaller sample data and code so people start to understand how it all works and why it’s important and why we feel strongly about our approach. We’re also watching the beta to see where people get stuck and what skills are prevalent and which ones are just non-existent. Since we monitor and have the logs and can see every command you execute, etc. and save all that and run analysis, it’s valuable for us to see where people succeed and fail and build learning events that address the gaps. ... View more

correct on all questions. CCD-410 is not a prerequisite. CCD-410 focuses on MapReduce which will be somewhat worthless a year from now. CCP is where the value is. As we’ve said in numerous forums: Cloudera is announcing several changes to its professional certification program. We have several goals in making these changes: - To support a growing catalog of products and offerings in the CDH ecosystem with relevant certification programs that can evolve and adapt to changes in the open-source Big Data ecosystem - To provide more value to certified individuals and to the organizations that rely on certifications by moving to performance-based (hands-on) exams. - To encourage ongoing professional growth and development in our customer community. The following changes will go into effect immediately. - Cloudera recommends that all candidates take CCP: Data Engineer which is already available. - Candidates who have purchased a CCD-410 exam may transfer their registration to CCP: Data Engineer Exam (DE575) with no additional cost. - Candidates may apply the purchase price of a CCD-410 practice exam towards the CCP: Data Engineer Exam (DE575) between July 1, 2015 and December 31, 2015. ... View more

your comment: "Instead of completely scrapping the exam - the existing certification could have been evolved to be more stringent in terms of level of  questions/practical scenarios covered/demanding" is an exact definition of the CCP exam.   We're changing the name rather than evolving because evolving is illegal -- a credential must defensibly equal across time.    Who said it would take 3-5 years experience? The first people who beta tested scored perfect or near-perfect scores and they don't have 3-5 years experience.(and time is a very poor marker of experience -- what takes one person three days to master takes others a lifetime.)   Perhaps you should take the exam before you judge it.     ... View more