Course Overview

The Big Data Foundation certification is designed to provide candidates with a well-rounded understanding of big data. It used for solving real business problems and an overview of data mining and the tools used in it.

This is a fundamental course with practical, hands-on, exercises to experience using two of the most popular technologies in big data processing – Hadoop and MongoDB. The course exposes candidates to real-life big data technologies with the purpose of obtaining results from real data sets, including major social media platforms.

After completing the course, candidates will be equipped with fundamental big data knowledge, and introduced to a working development environment containing Hadoop and MongoDB, installed by them. This practical knowledge can be used as a starting point in the journey into big data.

COURSE OUTLINE

Module 1. Big Data Fundamentals

Module 2. Big Data Sources

Module 3. Data Mining – Concepts and Tools

Module 4. Big Data Technologies – Hadoop

Module 5. Big Data Technologies – MongoDB

BENEFITS

Participants in this course will obtain the following benefits:

Detailed understanding of Big Data and Data Mining concepts.

Ability to identify and obtain relevant datasets when looking at a business problem.

Ability to install and manage Big Data processing environments based on Hadoop or MongoDB at a departmental level (NOTE: we may replace this with a cloud based solution under your control).

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This course is best suited to IT professionals who possess intermediate to advanced programming, system administration, or relational database skills and are looking to move into the area of big data. These include:

Software Engineers

Application Developers

IT Architects

System Administrators

Data Analysts and Scientists

EXAM INFORMATION

There are no required prerequisites. We recommend that participants possess intermediate to advanced programming, system administration, or relational database skills to understand the concepts in this certification.

Exam Detail:

Exam Type: Multiple Choice

No. Of Questions: 40

Duration: 60 minutes

Additional Time Provisions: 15 minutes additional time for candidates who speak English as a second language.

Open Book: No

Pass Score: 65%

Mode Of Exam: Online