Hadoop Certifications Overview

There are several Hadoop and Spark Developer Certifications available today to test developer skills in Hadoop Eco system and Spark. Before getting into details of certifications, we need to understand different technologies available in Hadoop and Spark Eco system. What are the skills required for each exam, what is the exam cost, duration and sample format to related to each exam. Following table to provides the more detail on all above queries that generally comes in our mind.

Vendor Name	Exam Name	Skills Required	Exam Cost	Duration	PassScore	Exam Format / No of Questions
Cloudera	CCA Spark and Hadoop Developer	HDFS, Sqoop, Flume, Spark with Python and Scala, Hive, Impala, avro	USD $295	2 hours	70%	Programming: 10 to 12 scenarios
Cloudera	CCP Data Engineer	Sqoop, Flume, Hive, Oozie	USD $400	4 hours	70%	Programming: 5 to 8 scenarios
Hortonworks	HDP Certified Developer – Java (HDPCD:Java)	Java Map Reduce APIs	USD $250	2 hours	70%	Programming: 1 scenario
Hortonworks	HDP Certified Developer	HDFS, Sqoop, Flume, Hive, Pig	USD $250	2 hours	70%	Programming:7 to 10 scenarios
Hortonworks	HDP Certified Developer – Spark (HDPCD:Spark)	Core Spark and Data Frames	USD $250	2 hours	70%	Programming
MapR	MapR Certified Hadoop Developer	Map Reduce APIs – Java as well as Streaming	USD $250	2 hours	70%	Objective: 60 to 80 questions
MapR	MapR Certified HBase Developer	HBase using Java	USD $250	2 hours	70%	Objective: 60 to 80 questions
MapR	MapR Certified Spark Developer	Core Spark, Spark Streaming, Spark DataFrames, Spark MLLib	USD $250	2 hours	70%	Objective: 60 to 80 questions
Databricks	Databricks Certified Developer	Core Spark, Spark Streaming, Spark DataFrames, Spark MLLib, GraphX	USD $300	2 hours	70%	Objective

 
There are several Hadoop and Spark Developer Certifications available today to test developer skills in Hadoop Eco system and Spark. Before getting into details of certifications, we need to understand different technologies available in Hadoop and Spark Eco system. What are the skills required for each exam, what is the exam cost, duration and sample format to related to each exam. Following table to provide you more details on all above queries that generally comes in our mind.