Cloudera Certified Associate Administrator (CCA-131) Practice Exam

The Cloudera Certified Associate Administrator (CCA-131) exam validates your ability to administer a Cloudera Hadoop cluster (CDH). It's targeted towards individuals with experience in system administration who want to demonstrate their proficiency in:

• Deploying and configuring CDH clusters
• Managing HDFS, YARN, and the core Hadoop ecosystem
• Using Cloudera Manager for cluster management
• Securing your Hadoop environment
• Troubleshooting and performing basic maintenance tasks

Who should take the exam?

While there are no specific prerequisites for Cloudera certification exams, it's highly advised to have prior experience in system administration or similar training. The CCA Administrator exam (CCA131) aligns closely with the objectives covered in Cloudera Administrator Training, making the course an invaluable component of exam preparation.

Exam Details

• Exam Code: CCA131
• Exam Name: CCA Administrator Exam
• Number of Questions: 8–12 performance-based (hands-on) tasks on pre-configured Cloudera Enterprise cluster. 
• Time Limit: 120 minutes
• Passing Score: 70%
• Language: English

Exam Course Outline 

The Exam covers the given topics  - 

Topic 1: Learn Installing

Demonstrate an understanding of the installation process for Cloudera Manager, CDH, and the ecosystem projects.

• Set up a local CDH repository
  
• Perform OS-level configuration for Hadoop installation
• Install Cloudera Manager server and agents
• Install CDH using Cloudera Manager
• Add a new node to an existing cluster
• Add a service using Cloudera Manager

Topic 2: Understand Configuring

Perform basic and advanced configuration needed to effectively administer a Hadoop cluster

• Configure a service using Cloudera Manager
  
• Create an HDFS user's home directory
• Configure NameNode HA
• Configure ResourceManager HA
• Configure proxy for Hiveserver2/Impala

Topic 3: Managing

Maintain and modify the cluster to support day-to-day operations in the enterprise

• Rebalance the cluster
  
• Set up alerting for excessive disk fill
• Define and install a rack topology script
• Install new type of I/O compression library in cluster
• Revise YARN resource assignment based on user feedback
• Commission/decommission a node

Topic 4: Secure

Enable relevant services and configure the cluster to meet goals defined by security policy; demonstrate knowledge of basic security practices

• Configure HDFS ACLs
  
• Install and configure Sentry
• Configure Hue user authorization and authentication
• Enable/configure log and query redaction
• Create encrypted zones in HDFS

Topic 5: Test

Benchmark the cluster operational metrics, test system configuration for operation and efficiency

• Execute file system commands via HTTPFS
  
• Efficiently copy data within a cluster/between clusters
• Create/restore a snapshot of an HDFS directory
• Get/set ACLs for a file or directory structure
• Benchmark the cluster (I/O, CPU, network)

Topic 6: Troubleshoot

Demonstrate ability to find the root cause of a problem, optimize inefficient execution, and resolve resource contention scenarios

• Resolve errors/warnings in Cloudera Manager
  
• Resolve performance problems/errors in cluster operation
• Determine reason for application failure
• Configure the Fair Scheduler to resolve application delays