diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
index 09ec41a25d..287205df0f 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -302,6 +302,9 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
     YARN-3375. NodeHealthScriptRunner.shouldRun() check is performing 3 times for 
     starting NodeHealthScriptRunner. (Devaraj K via wangda)
 
+    YARN-2725. Added test cases of retrying creating znode in ZKRMStateStore.
+    (Tsuyoshi Ozawa via jianhe)
+
 Release 2.7.1 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/recovery/ZKRMStateStore.java b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/recovery/ZKRMStateStore.java
index 9da6400a42..97dd02990d 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/recovery/ZKRMStateStore.java
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/recovery/ZKRMStateStore.java
@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ public synchronized void startInternal() throws Exception {
     createRootDir(amrmTokenSecretManagerRoot);
   }
 
-  private void createRootDir(final String rootPath) throws Exception {
+  protected void createRootDir(final String rootPath) throws Exception {
     // For root dirs, we shouldn't use the doMulti helper methods
     new ZKAction<String>() {
       @Override
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/recovery/TestZKRMStateStore.java b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/recovery/TestZKRMStateStore.java
index 6b09d3920e..c632a061e3 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/recovery/TestZKRMStateStore.java
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/recovery/TestZKRMStateStore.java
@@ -100,6 +100,15 @@ public String getAppNode(String appId) {
         return workingZnode + "/" + ROOT_ZNODE_NAME + "/" + RM_APP_ROOT + "/"
             + appId;
       }
+
+      /**
+       * Emulating retrying createRootDir not to raise NodeExist exception
+       * @throws Exception
+       */
+      public void testRetryingCreateRootDir() throws Exception {
+        createRootDir(znodeWorkingPath);
+      }
+
     }
 
     public RMStateStore getRMStateStore() throws Exception {
@@ -148,6 +157,8 @@ public void testZKRMStateStoreRealZK() throws Exception {
     testDeleteStore(zkTester);
     testRemoveApplication(zkTester);
     testAMRMTokenSecretManagerStateStore(zkTester);
+    ((TestZKRMStateStoreTester.TestZKRMStateStoreInternal)
+        zkTester.getRMStateStore()).testRetryingCreateRootDir();
   }
 
   @Test (timeout = 60000)