{"id":734,"date":"2014-08-05T04:53:24","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T04:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/?p=734"},"modified":"2015-05-05T22:02:26","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T22:02:26","slug":"passed-the-ccdh-exam-ccd-410-cloudera-certified-developer-for-apache-hadoop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/05\/passed-the-ccdh-exam-ccd-410-cloudera-certified-developer-for-apache-hadoop\/","title":{"rendered":"Passed the CCDH Exam CCD-410 Cloudera Certified Developer for Apache Hadoop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So today I passed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloudera.com\/content\/cloudera\/en\/training\/certification\/ccdh.html\">Cloudera Certified Developer for Apache Hadoop (CCDH)<\/a> Exam in my first attempt! YAY! If you&#8217;re curious, <a href=\"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/resume\/Shivdev_Kalambi_CCDH.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here&#8217;s my certificate<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/certification.cloudera.com\/verify\/\" target=\"_blank\">here&#8217;s the verification link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For sure, it is NOT a trivial exam to pass without studying and requires at least a few weeks of preparation\/practice.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended Study Material in the order that worked for me:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mock\/Practice\u00a0Tests<\/strong> : You will know what types of problems to expect<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hadoop Videos on YouTube!<\/strong> : Gives you a head start if you&#8217;re new or need a refresher<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hadoop In Action by Chuck Lam<\/strong> : Very interesting\/stimulating read, though its based on the old API<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hadoop : The Definitive Guide by Tom White<\/strong> : Comprehensive and gives you an understanding of Hadoop in theory (not a fast read) <\/li>\n<li><strong>Hadoop in Practice by Alex Holmes<\/strong> : A little more advanced (I didn&#8217;t have time to read more than the first few chapters) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I felt the programming questions on my test were pretty hard and time consuming and I had only about 10 minutes left at the end. Problem for me was that, you are graded for 50 questions, but you need to answer 55 questions because you don&#8217;t know which ones are those 5 experimental (beta) ones and you have to solve them regardless. <\/p>\n<p>So, how much should you prepare to pass the CCDH? I was always curiously interested in Hadoop and knew the general concepts already, but the CCDH really tests your fluency in all the areas listed on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloudera.com\/content\/cloudera\/en\/training\/certification\/ccdh\/prep.html\">Study Guide<\/a>. So a good 3-4 weeks (few hours after work) did it for me. In a typical work environment, you have Google or several other sources to refer to or try out and of course in the comfort of your IDE, but this is a test and all of it needs to be in your head! Nevertheless, it was a good experience and I really learned a lot from the preparation and in the end I&#8217;m glad I passed it. <\/p>\n<p>I would definitely recommend shelling out the $295, because that will really force you to prepare seriously. Good Luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So today I passed the Cloudera Certified Developer for Apache Hadoop (CCDH) Exam in my first attempt! YAY! If you&#8217;re curious, here&#8217;s my certificate and here&#8217;s the verification link. For sure, it is NOT a trivial exam to pass without studying and requires at least a few weeks of preparation\/practice. Recommended Study Material in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":850,"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions\/850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}