Confluent Certifications — Apache Kafka Study Hubs, Syllabi & Practice

Confluent certification study hubs for Apache Kafka: blueprint-aligned syllabi, high-yield cheat sheets, study plans, FAQs, resources, and practice to help you prep efficiently.

Confluent certifications validate practical knowledge of event streaming with Apache Kafka and the Confluent ecosystem.

Overview: what’s tested and how to prepare
Study Plan: 30/60/90‑day schedules
Syllabus: learning objectives mapped to topics
Cheatsheet: high-yield tables, configs, and code patterns
Practice: drills and mixed sets (when available)
FAQ & Resources: common questions and authoritative links

Developer exam hub

CCDAK — Confluent Certified Developer for Apache Kafka
Producer/consumer APIs, consumer groups, offsets, delivery semantics, partitioning, and serialization (including Schema Registry awareness).

Administrator exam hub

CCAAK — Confluent Certified Administrator for Apache Kafka
Kafka cluster administration: brokers/controllers, topics/partitions/replication, security (TLS/SASL/ACLs), monitoring, troubleshooting, and safe operations.

Confluent Cloud Operator exam hub

CCAC — Confluent Cloud Certified Operator
Confluent Cloud operations: environments/clusters, networking (PrivateLink/peering), RBAC + API keys, governance, managed connectors, Cluster Linking, and monitoring.

Tip: Kafka questions reward “systems thinking” (latency, throughput, durability, ordering, failure modes). Pair study with a small lab (Docker) to make config choices feel automatic.

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CCAAK: Confluent Certified Administrator for Apache Kafka — Study Hub
Blueprint-aligned CCAAK prep: overview, objective-by-objective syllabus, a comprehensive Kafka admin cheat sheet (configs + commands + diagrams), 30/60/90-day study plan, FAQs, resources, and practice.
CCAC: Confluent Cloud Certified Operator — Study Hub
Blueprint-aligned CCAC prep: overview, objective-by-objective syllabus, a comprehensive Confluent Cloud operator cheat sheet (clusters + networking + governance + connectors + linking), 30/60/90-day study plan, FAQs, resources, and practice.
CCDAK: Confluent Certified Developer for Apache Kafka — Study Hub
Blueprint-aligned CCDAK prep: overview, objective-by-objective syllabus, a comprehensive Kafka developer cheat sheet (configs + code + diagrams), 30/60/90-day study plan, FAQs, resources, and practice.

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