The HDP Certified Administrator (HDPCA) exam has five main categories of tasks that involve: Installation, Configuration, Troubleshooting, High Availability and Security.
Each CCA question requires you to solve a particular scenario. In some cases, a tool such as Hive may be used. In most cases, coding is not required.
Your exam is graded immediately upon submission and you are e-mailed a score report within three days of your exam. Your score report displays the problem number for each problem you attempted and a grade on that problem. If you fail a problem, the score report includes the criteria you failed (e.g., “Records contain incorrect data” or “Incorrect file format”). We do not report more information in order to protect the exam content. Read more about reviewing exam content on the FAQ.
If you pass the exam, you receive a second e-mail within a week of your exam with your digital certificate as a PDF. Please mind, this type of exam is not providing you with any credential ID or license number.
There are no prerequisites required to take any Cloudera certification exam. The CCA HDP Administrator exam (CCA121) follows the same objectives as Cloudera HDP Administration and the training course is an excellent preparation for the exam.
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