Thanks for the reply! That is exactly my feeling. Because everything is on one page, a search in the Flume docs is easy. Hive is the worst for this... But once you know where you want to get it, it's relatively easy to find it. One question I had was whether when they say "write a hive query", whether that meant that the query had to be one statement? Because I would be able to do it in 2/3 statements but not sure how to do it in only one statement. Of course when you save the query file, it's all executed in one batch but if they only care about the result, I guess it would work either way. Thanks for the info, I guess I'll practice a bit more and sign up for the exam. Cheers ... View more