Confluent Data Streaming Engineer Certifications

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Get Started with Your Data Streaming Engineering Certification Journey!

The Data Streaming Engineer Certification exams are designed to validate your expertise in related technologies and practices. Passing one or both of these exams will demonstrate your skills and also open up exciting opportunities.

Why Get Certified?

Earning the Data Streaming Engineering Foundations or Apache Flink certifications can significantly enhance your professional profile and career prospects. Here's what makes these certifications special:

  • Free of charge: Yes, you read that right! The exams are completely free, making it accessible to everyone eager to prove their skills.
  • Stand out from the crowd: n today's competitive job market, certifications help you distinguish yourself. These certifications prove your specialized knowledge and dedication to data engineering, data streaming, and stream processing.
  • Digital badge: Upon passing, you'll receive a digital badge that you can display on your LinkedIn profile, resume, and other platforms, showcasing your achievement.
  • Exclusive access: Join a private LinkedIn group exclusively for certified Data Streaming Engineers. Network, share insights, and collaborate with other professionals in the field.
  • Lounge access at Confluent Current conferences: Gain exclusive entry to the luxurious and fun certification lounge with specialized swag for Confluent certified engineers.

What to Expect During the Exam?

The Exams consist of 30 multiple choice and true-false questions. You are provided with 60 minutes to answer the 30 test questions. The test is in English, not proctored, and you can take it online at your convenience.

The results, including pass/fail information, your test score, and detailed break-down information will be displayed after submitting the test. You'll also receive an email notification with all this information. Your digital badge is sent to you shortly thereafter in a separate email.

You have the option to skip any of the questions and return to them before submitting the test.

We expect your commitment to academic integrity, and therefore we ask that you do not consult with colleagues or outside sources while attempting the exam.

Suggested Exam Preparation

To ensure you're well-prepared for the exam, study the following content on Confluent Developer:

Data Streaming Engineer - Foundations

  1. Apache Kafka® 101
  2. Apache Flink® 101
  3. Kafka® Connect 101
  4. Schema Registry 101
  5. Kafka® Streams 101

Tutorials:

  1. Kafka quick start
  2. Flink quick start
  3. Kafka console producer and consumer
  4. Read from a specific Kafka topic partition and offset
  5. Kafka producer API
  6. Kafka consumer API
  7. Kafka Streams intro application
  8. Optimize Kafka producer for throughput
  9. Multiple event types in a Kafka topic
  10. Filtering events with Flink SQL

Data Streaming Engineer - Apache Flink

  1. Apache Flink® 101
  2. Apache Flink® SQL
  3. Apache Flink® Table API: Processing Data Streams in Java

Tutorials

  1. Split a stream into substreams
  2. Merge many streams into one
  3. Interval joins
  4. Filter a stream of events
  5. Deduplicate events

For best preparation, review the Flink tutorials on Confluent Developer.

Sample Test Questions

Practice with Sample Questions: Practice questions will help you familiarize yourself with the exam format and question types. We recommend that you review a sample exam to get an idea for what the exam will feel like:

Have questions, or want to speak to fellow Data Streaming Engineers?

Sign in to the the Confluent Community Slack space and head over to #dse-cert to engage in discussions with fellow Data Streaming Engineers and the creators of this certification!

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