Pass rate
CDP Machine Learning Engineer Pass Rate
The score you need to pass the CDP Machine Learning Engineer certification exam, what the cut score actually means, and how to read your mock results against it.
- 60% to pass
- 45 questions
- 2.1/10 difficulty
The number you need to hit
Published cut score for this certification.
Pass score vs pass rate
Two different numbers that get mixed up constantly.
Pass score (cut score)
The scaled score the vendor publishes. For the CDP Machine Learning Engineer it is 60%. This is the number you can actually prepare against, and it is the one that decides your result on exam day.
Pass rate (percentage of candidates)
The share of candidates who pass. Cloudera generally does not publish this for individual exams, and the numbers you find online usually come from candidate self-reported surveys. We would rather tell you nothing than tell you a figure we cannot source.
Where you lose points
The exam is not scored flat. Each domain carries its own weight, so a domain where you lose everything can sink a score that looks fine on paper.
Losing this domain entirely costs you 25% of the exam, and it has 11 practice questions here.
Losing this domain entirely costs you 25% of the exam, and it has 11 practice questions here.
Losing this domain entirely costs you 30% of the exam, and it has 14 practice questions here.
Losing this domain entirely costs you 20% of the exam, and it has 9 practice questions here.
About these numbers: Cloudera does not publish a numeric cut score for the CDP Machine Learning Engineer, so the figure above is Certilum's own benchmark rather than an official threshold. We would rather show you that than present an invented percentage as fact.
The practical version: the CDP Machine Learning Engineer is not passed by knowing most of the content. It is passed by being strong in the domains that carry weight, and by not leaving one of them empty.
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