About This Course

Cloudera University’s administrator training course for Apache Hadoop provides participants with a comprehensive understanding of all the steps necessary to operate and maintain a Hadoop cluster using Cloudera Manager. From installation and configuration through load balancing and tuning, Cloudera’s training course is the best preparation for the real-world challenges faced by Hadoop administrators.

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Payment and Registration

You can purchase this course on its own, or as part of our Full Library subscription.

• Purchase this course alone
• Purchase the full OnDemand library (includes courses for developers, administrators, and data analysts)

Course Length

This course includes 4 hours of video content. Hands-on exercises will take approximately 8.5 hours. Students who have purchased this course on its own are allowed up to 20 hours of lab time. (Subscribers to the full OnDemand library are given 100 hours of lab time across all courses.)

Course Outline

Through videos and interactive, hands-on exercises, participants will navigate the Hadoop ecosystem, learning topics such as:

• Cloudera Manager features that make managing your clusters easier, such as aggregated logging, configuration management, resource management, reports, alerts, and service management
• The internals of YARN, MapReduce, Spark, and HDFS
• Determining the correct hardware and infrastructure for your cluster
• Proper cluster configuration and deployment to integrate with the data center
• How to load data into the cluster from dynamically-generated files using Flume and from RDBMS using Sqoop
• Configuring the FairScheduler to provide service-level agreements for multiple users of a cluster
• Best practices for preparing and maintaining Apache Hadoop in production
• Troubleshooting, diagnosing, tuning, and solving Hadoop issues

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Audience and Prerequisites

This course is best suited to systems administrators and IT managers who have basic Linux experience. Prior knowledge of Apache Hadoop is not required.

Certification

Upon completion of the course, attendees are encouraged to continue their study and register for the Cloudera Certified Administrator for Apache Hadoop (CCAH) exam. Certification is a great differentiator. It helps establish you as a leader in the field, providing employers and customers with tangible evidence of your skills and expertise.