title: Need advice on learning Spark
body: <p>I have recently got a call to work at Senior positions for big data technologies where spark is one of the go-to technologies they are planning to adopt. Ofcourse i want to learn it before i join them.</p>
  
  <p>I have a desktop which has <strong>8 Gigs of Ram and 2 cores</strong>. I want to download pre-built VMs offered by <strong>HDP</strong> and <strong>Cloudera</strong> but clearly i am running short of resources as per their prescription. </p>
  
  <p>Can you please suggest any way i can follow to learn few practice tests on spark and how can i get the required infrastructure for it.</p>
  
  <p>Please help</p>