Welcome to The DataStax Apache Cassandra™ Certification Workshop! In this two-hour workshop, we'll give you all of the details and resources needed to prepare yourself for both the Administrator Associate and Developer Associate certification exams. Plus, we'll work through some practice questions and discuss some of the main exam topics you'll encounter on your path towards certification.
It doesn't matter if you join our workshop live or you prefer to do at your own pace, we have you covered. If you would like to attend one of our live sessions please register HERE. In this repository, you'll find everything you need for this workshop:
| Title | Description |
|---|---|
| 1. Why should I do this? | Why should I do this |
| 2. Which certification? | Which certification |
| 3. What steps do I need to take? | What steps do I need to take |
| 4. Practice questions | 📚🔥 Practice questions🔥📚 |
Stealing an excerpt from https://www.datastax.com/dev/certifications...
The demand for Apache Cassandra™ and NoSQL skills is skyrocketing, with Cassandra developers commanding 31% higher salaries, the highest of any database technology.
An Apache Cassandra™ Administrator Associate Certification or Apache Cassandra™ Developer Associate Certification is the best way to get started learning and mastering the popular NoSQL database used by teams at Apple, Netflix, Sony, Uber, and thousands more.
An official certification helps you gain confidence in your knowledge of Apache Cassandra™ and increases opportunities for career advancement.
Again, stealing from https://www.datastax.com/dev/certifications...
The Developer Certification is designed for professionals that use Apache Cassandra clusters to manage data. This includes roles such as application developers, data architects, database designers, and database administrators.
The Administrator Certification is designed for professionals who install, configure, manage and tune the performance of Apache Cassandra clusters, such as database administrators, DevOps engineers and Site Reliability Engineers (SREs).
You can choose one path or do them both, it's up to you. Either way you'll level up your game and give your career an edge up to boot.
✅ Step 1.
Go to https://www.datastax.com/dev/certifications, read through the material, and take special note of the Exam Rules and Process section.
✅ Step 2.
Choose a learning path, either the Developer Certification or the Administrator Certification.
✅ Step 3.
Go to DataStax Academy and sign up if you have not already done so. Academy is FREE along with all of the course content.
✅ Step 4.
Based on the learning path you've chosen complete the course material within Academy. These links are provided for you in the Learning Paths section at https://www.datastax.com/dev/certifications. You can also use the following links:
✅ Step 4a.
For the administrator path you will need courses DS201 and DS210.
OR
For the developer path you will need courses DS201 and DS220.
✅ Step 5.
At a minimum you will need to watch ALL course videos and comfortably pass practice quizzes for each course based on your learning path.
In some cases virtual machines are provided that provide exercises and go into significantly more detail on the same topics covered in the videos. While these are highly recommended they are not absolutely required to pass the exams.
Note: The VMs can be pretty large both in size and resources for some laptops. You may want to consider our free Katacoda courses as an option, however, these scenarios don't cover ALL material from the Academy courses just yet.
For Katacoda, use https://www.datastax.com/learning-series/cassandra-fundamentals for DS201 and https://katacoda.com/datastax/courses/cassandra-data-modeling for DS220. Again, these don't cover ALL of the material the exercise VMs do, but are a great alternative if VMs arent an option.
✅ Step 6.
Get your exam voucher.
Complete either the administrator or developer learning paths within Academy. Then, to receive a free voucher email academy@datastax.com using the same email associated with your Academy account and the subject Certification workshop voucher. Be sure to let us know which learning path you've chosen.
Note: the free coupon code can be used 2x: to retake an exam or if you pass, take a different exam. If you pay for an exam using $145.00, this will allow you to take one exam although you have the ability to retake your exam for an additional $145.00.
✅ Step 7.
Take your exam.
Navigate to the DataStax Certification course in Academy HERE
You will need to register for your exam and follow the instructions to setup your environment. Be sure to Review the Exam Rules and Check your computer for compatibility and install a Google Chrome Extension. Both options will be presented to you from within the course itself.
✅ Step 8.
Celebrate, shout from the rooftoops, and don't forget to tell everyone on your LinkedIn profile.
If you successfully pass your exam you will receive an email congratulating you on your passing grade. From there log back into your Mettl account (or just login through the DataStax Certification course in Academy) to get proof of accomplishment.
As part of this workshop we have provided a set of 20 practice questions that span DS201, DS220, and DS210 material. These questions use the same style and form you can expect in the actual exams and will give you an idea of what to expect.
We highly suggest you run through these and test yourself. Each question will have a hidden answer. Try and answer them first before revealing the solution.