I am following up here on one small point, just for the record (which is to say for the benefit of people who might arrive at this thread via search engine at some point in the near-to-medium term future). The original question from @vbar  included this: However, here's where it gets tricky. Sqoop was official [sic] retired this June and after that I don't really know if I am supposed to get prepared for a sqoop question or a "JDBC" format question. I can't speak at all to the question of whether or not the exam will have questions on Sqoop, but I do want to clarify that while Sqoop was moved to the Apache Attic in June 2021, the software will continue to be supported by Cloudera and shipped as part of CDP Public Cloud and CDP Private Cloud. See Cloudera's statement of support on this matter here: Apache Sqoop Support on Cloudera Data Platform     ... View more