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Introduction:
The Big Data Foundation certification is designed to provide candidates with a well-rounded understanding of big data. It covers the potential data sources that can be used for solving real business problems, an overview of data mining and the tools used in it. This is a 3-day fundamental course with practical, hands-on, exercises to experience using two of the most popular technologies in big data processing – Hadoop and MongoDB. Students will get the opportunity to practice installing these two technologies through lab exercises. The course also exposes students to real-life big data technologies with the purpose of obtaining results from real datasets, including major social media platforms. After completing the course, students 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.
Audience profile:
This course is intended for 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. This includes, but is not limited to:
- Software Engineers
- Application Developers
- IT Architects
- System Administrators
- Data Analysts and Scientists
Pre-requisites:
This course has no formal prerequisites; however, it is recommended that students have a basic understanding of relational-databases.
Course objectives
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Explain Big Data, its origin, and its characteristics
- Discuss about the tools applicable to Big Data processing
- Explain data mining
- Discuss the popular Big Data technologies – Hadoop and MongoDB
- Discuss the Big Data projects and the main players involved
- Identify and obtain relevant datasets when looking at a business problem
- Install and manage Big Data processing environments based on Hadoop or MongoDB at a departmental level
Module 1: Big Data Fundamentals
Big Data – History, Overview, and Characteristics |
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Module 2: Big Data Sources | |
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Module 3: Data Mining – Concepts and Tools | |
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Module 4: Big Data Technologies – Hadoop | |
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Module 5: Big Data Technologies – MongoDB | |
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Associated certifications and exam:
This course will prepare delegates to write the Cloud Credential Council (CCC) Big Data Foundation (BDF) exam.
Upon successful completion of this course, delegates will receive a Torque IT course attendance certificate.
BDF Exam Information:
- Length of Exam: 60 minutes
- Number of Questions: 40
- Question Format: 40 Multiple-choice questions
- Passing Score: 65%
- Exam Availability: English
- Testing Center: Exin

Because of the rapidly expanding need for Cloud Training and Certification, Torque IT has embarked onto a new and exciting growth phase that will further cement the organizations position as the leading Training, Enablement and Certification solutions provider in our market. As part of this strategy, Torque IT has achieved the status of Accredited Training Partner with the Cloud Credential Council. This allows us to further broaden our training capability and scope to deliver on a spectrum of technologies through a variety of delivery methods.
The Cloud Credential Council (CCC) is an international member-based organization mandated to drive cloud readiness through effective competence development. The CCC has established critical cloud certifications for key IT roles in order to cultivate cloud-ready IT professionals. As an independent and vendor neutral certification body, the CCC has an expanding list of members consisting of public sector and academic institutions, cloud service providers, cloud users, cloud training providers, professional associations and international certification bodies across the world.
The Cloud Credential Council portfolio offers certifications which speak to Cloud Computing, Big Data as well as the Internet of Things (IoT). The move into more digitally transformed organisations has seen an immense growth in cloud computing and big data, and the growth in the amount of devices which are now connected to the internet has given organisations an opportunity to look at different business models and processes, while also allowing then to reduce costs. The CCC welcomes businesses to the digital revolution by helping them transform through their vendor-neutral certifications aimed at IT Professionals.