Cloudera Certified Administrator For Apache Hadoop (ccah )- (cca-410)

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Candidates having successfully passed the CCA-410 exam will have the skills and knowledge of a core system administrator.

Exam Outline
HDFS
Describe the:
 function of Hadoop Daemons
 normal operation of an Apache Hadoop cluster
 major goals of HDFS Design
 components and daemon of an HDFS HA-Quorum cluster
 the role of HDFS security (Kerberos)
 file read and write paths

MapReduce
Understand how
 to deploy MapReduceMapReduce v1
 to deploy MapReduce v2
 basic design strategy for MapReduce v2

Hadoop Cluster Planning
 Principal points to consider in choosing the hardware and operating systems to host an Apache Hadoop cluster
 Understand kernel tuning and disk swapping
 Identify a hardware configuration in a given scenario
 Cluster sizing; Disk Sizing and Configuration
 Network Topologies

Hadoop Cluster Installation and Administration
 Identify cluster handling disk and ...
... machine failures
 Analyze a logging configuration
 Understand the basics of Hadoop metrics and cluster health monitoring
 Identify the function and purpose of available tools for cluster monitoring and for managing the Apache Hadoop file system

Resource Management
 Understand the overall design goals of each of Hadoop schedulers
 Determine how FIFO Scheduler allocates cluster resources
 Determine how Capacity Scheduler allocates cluster resources

Monitoring and Logging
 Understand functions and features of Hadoop’s metric collection abilities
 Understand how to monitor the Hadoop Daemons
 Analyze the NameNode and JobTracker Web UIs
 Interpret a log4j configuration
 Identify and monitor CPU usage on master nodes
 Identify how to view and manage Hadoop’s log files
 Describe how to monitor swap and memory allocation on all nodes

Ecosystem
 Understand Ecosystem projects

Exam Preparation
Candidates are recommended to take Cloudera Administrator Training for Apache Hadoop course to prepare for the examination

Registration Process
Cloudera professional certification tests are offered through Pearson VUE. They are two languages: English and Japanese. Candidates should plan to register five day prior to the exam date for processing registration and payment.
Candidates can register for the exam in the following way:

 Online: through the Pearson VUE website http://pearsonvue.com/cloudera
 By phone: http://pearsonvue.com/cloudera/contact
Scheduling can be done up to six weeks in advance in the U.S. and Canada. Scheduling policies vary at international locations.
Once the registration process to take the exam is completed candidates will get their Pearson VUE Cloudera Testing ID.

Exam Detail
Number of Questions: 60
Time Limit: 90 minutes
Passing Score: 70%
Languages: English, Japanese
Price: USD $295, AUD285, EUR225, GBP185, JPY25,500

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