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Hi all. I’m going to acquire CCDAK. We are using Apache Kafka in production but I’m going to attend confluent training course before anyway.
Will “Confluent Developer Skills for Building Apache Kafka®” Be enough?
As I understand topics from “Confluent Stream Processing using Apache Kafka® Streams & ksqlDB” will not be included into exam? I still want to listen this source too, but first milestone is certification.

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Hello,

The “Confluent Developer Skills for Building Apache Kafka®” course is enough to get the CCDAK. This course include a nice overview of both Kafka Streams and KSQL. The course handbook contains a lot of details information needed for the certification.

I personally got my certification after following the course. You can prepare using Confluent Exam questions, Confluent Certification Bootcamp.

I personally followed an Udemy course on the subject which was ok but not great. Other Udemy courses we created meanwhile that may be worthwhile but I didn’t personally experience it.

What I ended up doing for preparing for the CCDAK was preparing a bullet-points list of subjects I needed to study (around 15~) and study every one of them deeply using Confluent resources and numerous blog articles. Asking a few questions to senior colleagues also helped.

Good luck!

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That is great advice and many congratulations on passing your exam.
I’d like to add a few more suggestions here:-
Some study tips to help you prepare are listed below

  1. Confluent Certification helps your prepare by offering you a 35-minute (go to the cert webpage to get the link)
  2. Taking our free Accreditation is a great way to see what you know – go to Confluent Fundamentals Accreditation
  3. Take a Free assessment to see if you need training Confluent Fundamentals of Apache Kafka® Survey
  4. Take the Free Introduction to Kafka Series on YouTube
  5. Attend a meet-up, meet-ups are great places to learn more and expand your knowledge
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I’d also like to add that practical work experience is highly recommended.

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Already did 1-4. And 5 just started to do today. Keep movin’

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Hi @CertMgr !
What about the 101 series on What is Apache Kafka®? Online Course for Beginners
Are they enough for the cert? Which one of them should I go through in order to do my cert?

Thanks in advance.