Cleared Databricks Spark Certification
Last Week I cleared Databricks spark developer certification. Well exam was not that much difficult but it had some tricky question and bunch of scala/python spark program challenges. 1. You must go through ‘Learning Spark’ book. Try practicing all transformation and action given in book. 2. There were 40 questions in exam and all were MCQ. I am not sure about passing percentage; I scored 70% to pass. 3. 90% question were from Spark Core , Spark SQL and Spark Streaming . There were 2 questions from Machine learning and 1 question from GraphX. For GraphX I referred MapR blog , it has got nice explanation to begin with. https://www.mapr.com/blog/how-get-started-using-apache-spark-graphx-scala 4. Make sure you do enough hands on before appearing for the exam. Most of the questions were related to programming so must have through understanding how API works in detail. https://github.com/databricks/learning-spark 5. Try examples in all three language, you