CCA Spark and Hadoop Developer

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CCA Spark and Hadoop Developer

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We scored 10 real CCA Spark and Hadoop Developer exam questions 1-10 on question complexity and broke the result down by exam domain.

10 questions scored
6 domains
1.7/10 overall complexity

Complexity by exam domain

Higher scores mean more demanding question formats. The exam score is computed over the whole bank, not averaged across domains.

Exam complexity score1.7/10Gentle · measured across 10 bank questions
  • Cluster Management1 questions · complexity 1.0/10 · Gentle

    0% multi-select · 0% scenario · 0% interactive

  • Data Analysis2 questions · complexity 2.0/10 · Gentle

    50% multi-select · 0% scenario · 0% interactive

  • Data Ingestion1 questions · complexity 1.0/10 · Gentle

    0% multi-select · 0% scenario · 0% interactive

  • Data Processing3 questions · complexity 2.0/10 · Gentle

    33% multi-select · 0% scenario · 33% interactive

  • Data Storage2 questions · complexity 2.0/10 · Gentle

    50% multi-select · 0% scenario · 0% interactive

  • Security1 questions · complexity 3.0/10 · Gentle

    0% multi-select · 100% scenario · 0% interactive

Full per-domain breakdown

Blueprint weight, bank size and question format mix for every domain of the exam.

DomainBlueprintQuestionsSingleMultiInteractiveComplexity
Cluster Management10%11001.0/10Gentle
Data Analysis20%21102.0/10Gentle
Data Ingestion15%11001.0/10Gentle
Data Processing30%31112.0/10Gentle
Data Storage20%21102.0/10Gentle
Security5%11003.0/10Gentle

How the score is calculated

The formula is fixed and public, so anyone can reproduce these numbers from the same bank.

Every question in the CCA Spark and Hadoop Developer bank is measured on four signals that can be read directly from the database. Each signal is expressed as a share of the questions in the domain, and the four shares are combined with fixed weights:

  • Multi-select questions (40% weight). Items with more than one correct answer. The candidate has to find all of them, which is the single hardest format in the bank.
  • Scenario questions (30% weight). Questions longer than 150 characters, which describe a situation instead of a definition and therefore test reasoning rather than recall.
  • Interactive questions (20% weight). Items that require reading code or a configuration snippet.
  • Deep explanations (10% weight). Questions whose explanation runs past 300 characters, which signals a concept with real nuance behind it.

The combined share is multiplied by ten to produce a 1-10 score. The exam-level score is computed over the whole bank rather than averaged across domains, so a small domain cannot distort the total. Figures on this page are recomputed from the live bank on every crawl.

Data set: Certilum CCA Spark and Hadoop Developer Foundation question bank, 10 questions, 6 domains. Published by CERTILUM. This is Certilum’s own measurement of its own question bank and is not an official Cloudera statistic.

Questions analysed
10
Exam domains
6
Hardest domain
Security (3.0)
Most approachable domain
Cluster Management (1.0)
Question mix
6 single · 3 multi · 1 interactive
Measured on
Foundation

Frequently asked questions

What our CCA Spark and Hadoop Developer complexity numbers mean and how they are produced.