I had some drama yesterday when I was trying to setup my laptop for Cloudera’s Hadoop Administrator Exam with Innovative Exams (http://examslocal.com/). I was unable to share my screen inside Chrome with the examiner. I spent about 20 minutes trying different ways and finally it worked, but I had no idea what the problem was and how I fixed, it just happened.
Anyway, the exam went smoothly afterwards and it took 90 minutes. I had taken the practical exams lots of times before this and I have to say that there are lots more trickier questions in the actual exam than the practical one. And some of the questions, although not many, that you can not find in the course note, meaning you will have to do lots of practical work with Hadoop by hand to know the answer.
I got the score back straightaway after the exam, and guess what, the result was PASS. I will get the actual certification confirmation in about 2 business days. Oh Yeah!
Now next one is the Developer certification. Cloudera is in the process of changing the exam structure for the Developer course, and there will be some practical questions, meaning you will have to actually write some code, rather than pure single/multiple choice questions.
Wish us luck!!
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Congratulations on passing the Hadoop Administrator examination! This is a great step forward in your IT Career with Big Data and Hadoop. Hoping that you will not see any technical issues like that again during your tests. Thanks for sharing your experience.