Top 14 Big Data Certifications in 2021
Big Data is now growing as an opportunity rather than a problem and the organisations that figured this out earlier, are the successful ones now. Hence, this change is also reflected in the rise of demand for Big Data skills and Big Data certifications.
Organizations are on the hunt for data analysts and scientists and with expertise in the techniques required to analyze big data. These skills are in high demand and are relatively rare. Choosing the right certifications can help and boost your career.
If you are looking for ways to get an edge in your career, I would recommend you to ride the Big data tide. Having a certification always gives you a stronger hold against others in the queue. Certification is something that proves your knowledge and skillset against industry and vendor-specific benchmarks in front of employers.
As Big Data is growing, the number of big data certifications is also expanding rapidly. While opting for the Big Data certification, there is a lot of confusion. So to ease up things for you, below is the list of the most reputed Big Data certifications:
Cloudera Certified Associate (CCA)
Organization: Cloudera
Price: USD $295
CCA exams test your basic foundation skills and set forth the groundwork for a candidate to get certified in CCP program. Cloudera has 3 certification exams at CCA level (Cloudera Certified Associate).
- CCA Spark and Hadoop Developer: Person clearing the CCA Spark and Hadoop Developer certification has proven his core skills to ingest, transform, and process data using Apache Spark and core Cloudera Enterprise tools.
- CCA Data Analyst: Person clearing CCA Data Analyst certification has proven his core analyst skills to load, transform, and model Hadoop data in order to define relationships and extract meaningful results from the raw input.
- CCA Administrator: Individuals who earn the CCA Administrator certification have demonstrated the core systems and cluster administrator skills sought by companies and organizations deploying Cloudera in the enterprise.
Cloudera Certified Professional (CCP) Data Engineer
Organization: Cloudera
Price: $400
CCP Data Engineers possesses the skills to develop reliable, autonomous, scalable data pipelines that result in optimized data sets for a variety of workloads. It certifies the ability to perform core competencies required to ingest, transform, store and analyse data in Cloudera’s Distribution environment.
The skillset required to clear this certification exam are:
- Transfer data between external systems and your cluster.
- Convert a set of data values in a given format stored in HDFS into new data values and a new data format and write them into HDFS or Hive.
- Filter, sort, join, aggregate, and transform one or more data sets in a given format stored in HDFS. These tasks may include reading from different formats (Parquet, Avro, JSON, delimited text).
- The ability to create and execute various jobs and actions that move data towards greater value and use in a system.
Edureka
Edureka Big Data Hadoop Certification Training
This Hadoop training is designed to make you a certified Big Data practitioner by providing you rich hands-on training on the Hadoop ecosystem and best practices about HDFS, MapReduce, HBase, Hive, Pig, Oozie, Sqoop. This course is a stepping stone to your Big Data journey and you will get the opportunity to work on multiple Big data Analytics projects with different data sets like social media, customer complaints, airlines, movies, loan datasets etc.
Edureka Hadoop Administration Certification Training
Hadoop Administration training from Edureka provides participants expertise in all the steps necessary to operate and maintain a Hadoop cluster, i.e. from Planning, Installation and Configuration through load balancing, Security and Tuning. Edureka’s training will provide hands-on preparation for the real-world challenges faced by Hadoop Administrators. The course curriculum follows Apache Hadoop distribution.
Edureka Apache Spark Certification Training
This Edureka Apache Spark certification training will enable learners to understand how Spark executes in-memory data processing and runs much faster than Hadoop MapReduce. Learners will master Scala programming and will get trained on different APIs which Spark offers such as Spark Streaming, Spark SQL, Spark RDD, Spark MLlib and Spark GraphX.
Hotonworks
There are five Hadoop certifications provided by Hortonworks related to Hadoop:
- HDP CERTIFIED DEVELOPER (HDPCD): for Hadoop developers using frameworks like Pig, Hive, Sqoop and Flume.
- HDP CERTIFIED APACHE SPARK DEVELOPER (HDPCD-Spark): for developers responsible for developing Spark Core and Spark SQL applications in Scala or Python.
- HDP CERTIFIED JAVA DEVELOPER (HDPCD-Java): for developers who design, develop and architect Hadoop-based solutions written in the Java programming language.
- HDP CERTIFIED ADMINISTRATOR (HDPCA): for administrators who deploy and manage Hadoop clusters.
- HORTONWORKS CERTIFIED ASSOCIATE (HCA): for an entry point and fundamental skills required to progress to the higher levels of the Hortonworks certification program.
The cost of the exam is $250 USD per attempt and the duration is 2 hours. Hortonworks has a dynamic marking scheme based on the question you are attempting and the approach taken by you. So, now we will focus on the required skill for clearing different Hortonworks certifications.
Analytics: Optimizing Big Data Certificate
- Organization: University of Delaware
- Price: $2,895
It is an undergraduate-level program. This program introduces students to the tools needed to analyze large datasets in order to make more informed business decisions. Students learn to gather and organize data for more effective analysis and how to communicate their analyses in a clear and concise manner. Topics include:
- Importing data into an analytics software package
- Performing exploratory graphical and data analysis
- Building analytics models using tools such as multiple regression and decision trees
- Finding the best model to explain correlation among variables
- Learning how to control and assess data variability to better meet customer requirements
For successful completion of this certification & earning certificate, you need to complete the following modules with a “C” or above grade.
- Analytics Basics
- Big Data Tools
- Process Control and Capability
- Individual Project
Certification of Professional Achievement in Data Sciences:
Organization: Columbia University
Price: $1,936 per credit
This certification is a non-degree program that helps students to prepares for expanding their career prospects and giving them the opportunity to change their career paths by developing foundation data science skills. It covers 4 major courses:
- Algorithms for Data Science (CS/IEOR)
- Probability & Statistics (STATS)
- Machine Learning for Data Science (CS)
- Exploratory Data Analysis and Visualization (STATS)
Certified Analytics Professional
Organization: INFORMS
Price: $695 ($495 for INFORMS member)
CAP is the premier global professional certification for analytics practitioners. It empowers users with an end-to-end understanding of the analytics process, starting from analytic problems for acquiring data, methodology adoption, model building, deployment and model lifecycle management.
EMC Proven Professional Data Scientist Associate (EMCDSA)
Organization: Dell EMC Education Services
Price: $600 (video-ILT streaming), $5,000 (instructor-led)
This certification proves the required skills to participate in Big Data and other analytics projects. The course provides grounding in basic and advanced analytic methods and an introduction to Big Data analytics technology and tools, including MapReduce and Hadoop.
While going through this course you’ll also learn how to deploy the data analytics life cycle, re-frame business challenges, apply analytics techniques. It also covers tools to analyze Big Data, create Statistical models and selecting the appropriate data visualizations.
IBM Certifications
Organization: IBM Professional Certification Program
Price: $200
IBM Certified Data Architect — Big Data
The Big Data Architect works closely with the customer and the solutions architect to translate the customer’s business requirements into a Big Data solution. The Big Data Architect has deep knowledge of the relevant technologies, understands the relationship between those technologies, and how they can be integrated and combined to effectively solve any given big data business problem.
IBM Certified Data Engineer — Big Data
This certification is intended for IBM Big Data Engineers. The Big Data Engineer works directly with the Data Architect and hands-on Developers to convert the architect’s Big Data vision and blueprint into a Big Data reality. The Data Engineer possesses a deep level of technical knowledge and experience across a wide array of products and technologies. A Data Engineer understands how to apply technologies to solve big data problems, and has the ability to build large-scale data processing systems for the enterprise. Data engineers develop, maintain, test and evaluate big data solutions within organizations. They provide input on the needed hardware and software to the architects.
Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE): Data Management and Analytics
Organization: Microsoft
Price: $165 per exam
This certification demonstrates broad skill sets in SQL administration, building enterprise-scale data solutions, and leveraging business intelligence (BI) data in both on-premises and cloud environments. To earn the certification, candidates must pass one of 12 exams.
Mining Massive Data Sets Graduate Certificate
Organization: Stanford Center for Professional Development
Price: $18900 tuition
This certification is designed for statisticians, software engineers, market researchers, analytics professionals, predictive modellers, and data miners. This certification demonstrates mastering very important skill sets like efficient, powerful techniques and algorithms for extracting information from large data sets.
MongoDB Certified DBA Associate, Developer Associate
Organization: MongoDB University
Price: $150
MongoDB Certified DBA Associate
The MongoDB Certified DBA Associate Level Exam is for administrators with knowledge of the concepts and mechanics of MongoDB. This certification is recommended for operations professionals who know the fundamentals and have some professional experience administering MongoDB.
MongoDB Certified Developer Associate
The MongoDB Certified Developer, Associate Level exam is intended for individuals with knowledge of the fundamentals of designing and building applications using MongoDB. This certification is recommended for software engineers who have a solid understanding of MongoDB fundamentals and some professional experience developing applications with MongoDB.
Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation Suite 11 Certified Implementation Specialist
Organization: Oracle University
Price: $245
This certification identifies professionals that are skilled in implementing solutions based on Oracle Business Intelligence Suite. The certification covers skills such as installing OBIEE, building the BI Server metadata repository, building BI dashboards, constructing ad hoc queries, defining security settings and configuring and managing cache files. The exam targets the intermediate-level implementation team member.
Stanford Data Mining and Applications Graduate Certificate
Organization: Stanford Center for Professional Development
Price: $11,340 — $12,600 (9–10 units)
Data mining and predictive models are at the heart of successful information and product search, automated merchandising, smart personalization, dynamic pricing, social network analysis, genetics, proteomics, and many other technology-based solutions to important problems in business.
The Data Mining and Applications graduate certificate introduces many of the important new ideas in data mining and machine learning, explains them in a statistical framework, and describes some of their applications to business, science, and technology.
I hope this blog was informative and helped in gaining an idea about various Big Data certification and their training. Now go ahead, choose a Big Data Certification and get certified which will boost your professional career. All The Best! If you wish to check out more articles on the market’s most trending technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Python, Ethical Hacking, then you can refer to Edureka’s official site.
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Originally published at https://www.edureka.co on December 14, 2017.
