Do not discuss certification exams tasks in a public forum. This violates the agreement you accepted when you registered for the exam. If you have any questions or issues, please send an email to certification@hortonworks.com ... View more

The Spark exam is currently on HDP 2.4, which is Spark 1.6. ... View more

No - there is no Java on the HDPCD exam. It is Pig, Hive, Sqoop and Flume, and to be fully prepared you should be able to perform all of the exam objectives listed here: http://hortonworks.com/training/certification/hdpcd-certification/ ... View more

I wonder if they were just having system errors at the time you tried to login. I just logged in fine. If you are still having the issue, you will need to contact PSI. They will be able to assist: http://it.psionline.com/contact-us/support/ ... View more

There is no IDE available on the Spark exam. You can use pyspark or spark-shell to execute your code. You do NOT have access to google or the internet. You DO have access to the Spark doc pages, the Python and Scala doc pages, and the Hortonworks documentation as well. There is currently no practice exam for the Spark exam. If you need experience writing Spark applications on HDP using Python or Scala, I recommend downloading the Sandbox and working through the Hortonworks Spark tutorials. ... View more

List the contents of the following folder: # /usr/hdp/current You will see the version number of HDP (plus the version of every component). For example, I have HPD 2.3.0.0-2557 on the machine below: [root@namenode ~]# ls -la /usr/hdp/current/ total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 26 2015 . drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jul 26 2015 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Jul 26 2015 accumulo-client -> /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/accumulo lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Jul 26 2015 accumulo-gc -> /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/accumulo lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Jul 26 2015 accumulo-master -> /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/accumulo lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Jul 26 2015 accumulo-monitor -> /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/accumulo lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Jul 26 2015 accumulo-tablet -> /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/accumulo lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Jul 26 2015 accumulo-tracer -> /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/accumulo lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Jul 26 2015 atlas-server -> /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/atlas lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Jul 26 2015 falcon-client -> /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/falcon lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Jul 26 2015 falcon-server -> /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/falcon lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Jul 26 2015 flume-server -> /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/flume lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Jul 26 2015 hadoop-client -> /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/hadoop lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Jul 26 2015 hadoop-hdfs-client -> /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/hadoop-hdfs lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Jul 26 2015 hadoop-hdfs-datanode -> /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/hadoop-hdfs lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Jul 26 2015 hadoop-hdfs-journalnode -> /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/hadoop-hdfs lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Jul 26 2015 hadoop-hdfs-namenode -> /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/hadoop-hdfs lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Jul 26 2015 hadoop-hdfs-nfs3 -> /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/hadoop-hdfs lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Jul 26 2015 hadoop-hdfs-portmap -> /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/hadoop-hdfs lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Jul 26 2015 hadoop-hdfs-secondarynamenode -> /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/hadoop-hdfs lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 Jul 26 2015 hadoop-httpfs -> /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/hadoop-httpfs lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38 Jul 26 2015 hadoop-mapreduce-client -> /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/hadoop-mapreduce lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38 Jul 26 2015 hadoop-mapreduce-historyserver -> /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/hadoop-mapreduce lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Jul 26 2015 hadoop-yarn-client -> /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/hadoop-yarn lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Jul 26 2015 hadoop-yarn-nodemanager -> /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/hadoop-yarn lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Jul 26 2015 hadoop-yarn-resourcemanager -> /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/hadoop-yarn lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Jul 26 2015 hadoop-yarn-timelineserver -> /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/hadoop-yarn lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Jul 26 2015 hbase-client -> /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/hbase lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Jul 26 2015 hbase-master -> /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/hbase lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Jul 26 2015 hbase-regionserver -> /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/hbase lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Jul 26 2015 hive-client -> /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/hive lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Jul 26 2015 hive-metastore -> /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/hive lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Jul 26 2015 hive-server2 -> /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/hive lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 Jul 26 2015 hive-webhcat -> /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/hive-hcatalog lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Jul 26 2015 kafka-broker -> /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/kafka lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Jul 26 2015 knox-server -> /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/knox lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Jul 26 2015 mahout-client -> /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/mahout lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Jul 26 2015 oozie-client -> /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/oozie lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Jul 26 2015 oozie-server -> /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/oozie lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Jul 26 2015 phoenix-client -> /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/phoenix lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Jul 26 2015 phoenix-server -> /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/phoenix lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Jul 26 2015 pig-client -> /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/pig lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Jul 26 2015 ranger-admin -> /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/ranger-admin lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Jul 26 2015 ranger-kms -> /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/ranger-kms lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 37 Jul 26 2015 ranger-usersync -> /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/ranger-usersync lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Jul 26 2015 slider-client -> /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/slider lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Jul 26 2015 spark-client -> /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/spark lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Jul 26 2015 spark-historyserver -> /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/spark lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Jul 26 2015 sqoop-client -> /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/sqoop lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Jul 26 2015 sqoop-server -> /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/sqoop lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Jul 26 2015 storm-client -> /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/storm lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Jul 26 2015 storm-nimbus -> /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/storm lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 41 Jul 26 2015 storm-slider-client -> /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/storm-slider-client lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Jul 26 2015 storm-supervisor -> /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/storm lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Jul 26 2015 tez-client -> /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/tez lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Jul 26 2015 zookeeper-client -> /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/zookeeper lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Jul 26 2015 zookeeper-server -> /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/zookeeper ... 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Got it! No - that's not really anything we have that is in any kind of public-facing format. ... View more