CDP Generalist Exam (CDP-0011) Guide

Audience

The exam tests general, broad knowledge of the Cloudera CDP platform. Unlike other CDP Certification Program role-based exams, this exam is applicable to multiple roles:

Administrator
Developer
Data analyst
Data engineer
Data scientist
System architect

Whether an experienced professional, or just starting an enterprise data career, this exam allows candidates to demonstrate their broad understanding of CDP.

Exam Details

Exam Number: CDP-0011
Number of questions: 60
Duration: 90 minutes
Pass Score: unpublished
- We do not publish exam pass scores. Candidates should not be trying to achieve any particular score. Rather they should be aiming for the highest score possible.
Delivery: online, proctored
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Allowed resources: none.
- You may not use reference materials, white papers, user guides, or any other resources during your exam.
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Cloudera Skills & Knowledge Measured

This exam measures the skills and knowledge topics listed in Table 1. below. The weighting of each topic (number of exam items/questions) is also listed.

Topic	WEIGHT (% of exam, # questions)
1. Describe function of the main components of CDP architecture HDFS Ozone Hive Hue YARN Spark Impala Oozie Kafka NiFi HBase Phoenix Kudu	25%, 15 questions
2. Describe and compare security features of CDP Public Cloud and CDP Private Cloud Base Shared Data Experience (SDX) CDP Public integration with cloud SSO CDP Private Cloud integration with LDAP, Kerberos CDP Private Cloud Base HDFS transparent encryption CDP Public Cloud security features of cloud providers storage security Describe how CDP protects protects data on the O/S file system i.e. (Cloudera navigator encrypt) SSL/TLS implementation Kerberos authentication	20%, 12 questions
3. List and describe 5 analytic experiences Cloudera Data Engineering Cloudera Data Warehouse Cloudera Operational Database Cloudera Machine Learning Cloudera DataFlow	15%, 9 questions
4. Describe requirements to deploy CDP Public cloud on major cloud infrastructure providers AWS Azure GCP	15%, 9 questions
5. Describe local system requirements to deploy CDP Private Cloud Base	10%, 6 questions
6. Describe the use and major functions of Cloudera Manager	5%, 3 questions
7. Describe the use and major functions of Workload XM	5%, 3 questions
8. Describe the use and major functions of Replication Manager	5%, 3 questions

Table 1: Exam topics and weighting

Suggested Training

In addition to real world, hands on experience, training is highly recommend in preparation for attempting a certification exam. The courses listed below cover some of the topics listed above

Other Skills & Knowledge

Although not directly tested on this exam, it is assumed that the candidate also possess the prerequisite skills and knowledge listed below that may help answer exam questions:

Cloud providers
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Linux
Network security e.g. SSL/TLS
User authentication, authorization e.g. kerberos, LDAP, SQL, etc.

Contributors

Thank you to those who helped design and develop this exam: Adham Bani Baker, William Dailey, Marton Klausz, Carlo Lazzaris, Lester Martin, Xavier Morera, Mary Myers, Nathan Neff, Francois Reynald, Yogesh Sharma, Tristan Stevens, Kai Voigt, Tom Wheeler

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