Cassandra Certification
Yesterday, I took my Cassandra Developer Certification at the Academy of Learning College and I'm proud to say that I made the cut! I am a Cassandra Developer Certified. The Academy of Learning College is the only Test Centre here in Victoria that can administer the Cassandra Certifications. You can register here http://www.oreilly.com/data/cassandracert.
This is the first year that Datastax Academy and O'Reilly has joined efforts in creating the Cassandra Certification. The very first certification was offered last Sept. 22 at the Cassandra 2015 Summit in Santa Clara, California. I was there, however, during the exam, I encountered some technical issues with my account. I was asked by the Proctor, if I could either wait for the technician to fix the technical issue or I can just take the certification in any test centres later. I choose the later, because the time has been ticking and they are not extending my exam time. I have to exit the room heart broken because I already set my heart and mind to be one of the first Cassandra Developer Certified.
Cassandra Summit 2015
How did I prepare for the certification?
- The company that I worked for has already migrated our large sensor data from Oracle to Cassandra. Having hands on experience helped me a lot.
- I took the Datastax Academy Self-Paced Course
- I did all the exercises in the Self-Paced Course
- I practised lots of data modelling
- The learnings that I acquired during the conference is also a great help
Benefits of being Cassandra Certified
- Cassandra is very in-demand technology and being one of the few people that are Cassandra Certified increases your market value.
- Most tech companies are all about NoSql database and big data. If you want to be in, then get yourself certified
- Being certified is the easiest way to prove your skillset
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