Hi. I am going to be talking the hdpcd spark exam shortly. Regarding documentation that you are allowed to access during the exam. There are links from the official Hortonworks documentation (which is explicitly allowed for review during exam from what I know) to the spark documentation (e.g., steaming programming guide). Can we access the spark docs during the exam for reference ? example.. from this page-> https://docs.hortonworks.com/HDPDocuments/HDP3/HDP-3.1.0/developing-spark-applications/content/using_spark_streaming.html There is a link to this documentation -> https://spark.apache.org/docs/2.0.0/streaming-programming-guide.html is it allowed to access the docs at spark.apache.org that are linked to from hortonworks docs ? thnx for the info ! ... View more

Hi. On Azure I found HDP 2.6 image in 'Marketplace', but for spark certification exam I am assuming latest version of platform will be used(3.1) ? If this is the case, I am hoping someone can point me to an HDP 3.1 image on Azure that has Spark and no kerberos security or complex stuff like that. Just a nice practice environment w/spark/hive/hdfs. I prefer an image on AZure, but could also use AWS if that's the only option. Thanks v. much in advance ! /cb ... View more