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IBM Data Warehouse Engineer Professional Certificate

Kickstart your Career in BI Engineering. Develop job-ready skills for an entry level role in Data Warehousing.

IBM Skills Network Team
Shubhra Das
Rav Ahuja

Instructors: IBM Skills Network Team

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4 months
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Earn a career credential that demonstrates your expertise
4.7

(767 reviews)

Beginner level

Recommended experience

4 months
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Compose and execute various types of SQL statements and queries to access and manipulate data in databases

  • Deploy, Manage, Secure, Operationalize, Monitor and Optimize relational database systems like MySQL, PostgreSQL, and DB2

  • Create Data Pipelines to extract, transform and load data repositories using shell scripts, and tools such as Apache Airflow & Kafka

  • Design and populate Data Warehouses and analyze their data with Business Intelligence (BI) tools like Cognos Analytics

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Taught in English

Professional Certificate - 9 course series

What you'll learn

  • List basic skills required for an entry-level data engineering role.

  • Discuss various stages and concepts in the data engineering lifecycle.

  • Describe data engineering technologies such as Relational Databases, NoSQL Data Stores, and Big Data Engines.

  • Summarize concepts in data security, governance, and compliance.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Extract Transform and Load (ETL)
Category: Shell Script
Category: Linux
Category: Linux Commands
Category: Bash (Unix Shell)

What you'll learn

  • Describe data, databases, relational databases, and cloud databases.

  • Describe information and data models, relational databases, and relational model concepts (including schemas and tables). 

  • Explain an Entity Relationship Diagram and design a relational database for a specific use case.

  • Develop a working knowledge of popular DBMSes including MySQL, PostgreSQL, and IBM DB2

Skills you'll gain

Category: Apache Kafka
Category: Extract Transform and Load (ETL)
Category: Data Pipelines
Category: Data Engineer
Category: Apache Airflow

What you'll learn

  • Analyze data within a database using SQL.

  • Create a relational database on Cloud and work with tables.

  • Write SQL statements including SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE.

  • Build more powerful queries with advanced SQL techniques like views, transactions, stored procedures and joins.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Data Pipelines
Category: OLTP Databases
Category: Data Warehousing
Category: Relational Database
Category: Extraction, Transformation And Loading (ETL)
Category: SQL

What you'll learn

  • Describe the Linux architecture and common Linux distributions and update and install software on a Linux system.

  • Perform common informational, file, content, navigational, compression, and networking commands in Bash shell.

  • Develop shell scripts using Linux commands, environment variables, pipes, and filters.

  • Schedule cron jobs in Linux with crontab and explain the cron syntax. 

Skills you'll gain

Category: Database Security
Category: Database Servers
Category: Database (DBMS)
Category: Relational Database
Category: database administration

What you'll learn

  • Create, query, and configure databases and access and build system objects such as tables.

  • Perform basic database management including backing up and restoring databases as well as managing user roles and permissions. 

  • Monitor and optimize important aspects of database performance. 

  • Troubleshoot database issues such as connectivity, login, and configuration and automate functions such as reports, notifications, and alerts. 

Skills you'll gain

Category: Databases
Category: Data Management
Category: Network Security
Category: Data Science
Category: Leadership and Management
Category: Database (DBMS)
Category: Big Data
Category: Information Engineering
Category: NoSQL
Category: SQL

What you'll learn

  • Describe and contrast Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) processes and Extract, Load, Transform (ELT) processes.

  • Explain batch vs concurrent modes of execution.

  • Implement ETL workflow through bash and Python functions.

  • Describe data pipeline components, processes, tools, and technologies.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Google Looker Studio
Category: IBM Cognos Analytics
Category: Data Visualization
Category: Dashboards
Category: Business Intelligence
Data Warehouse Fundamentals

Data Warehouse Fundamentals

Course 715 hours

What you'll learn

  • Job-ready data warehousing skills in just 6 weeks, supported by practical experience and an IBM credential.

  • Design and populate a data warehouse, and model and query data using CUBE, ROLLUP, and materialized views.

  • Identify popular data analytics and business intelligence tools and vendors and create data visualizations using IBM Cognos Analytics.

  • How to design and load data into a data warehouse, write aggregation queries, create materialized query tables, and create an analytics dashboard.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
Category: Postgresql
Category: Database (DB) Design
Category: MySQL
Category: Database Architecture

What you'll learn

  • Explore the purpose of analytics and Business Intelligence (BI) tools

  • Discover the capabilities of IBM Cognos Analytics and Google Looker Studio

  • Showcase your proficiency in analyzing DB2 data with IBM Cognos Analytics

  • Create and share interactive dashboards using IBM Cognos Analytics and Google Looker Studio

Skills you'll gain

Category: Star Schemas
Category: Data Lakes
Category: Snowflake Schemas
Category: Cubes
Category: Data Warehousing
Category: Data Marts
Category: Rollups

What you'll learn

  • Demonstrate proficiency in skills required for an entry-level data warehouse engineering role.

  • Design and implement various concepts and components in the data warehouse engineering lifecycle such as data repositories.

  • Showcase working knowledge with relational databases, data warehouses, and data pipelines.

  • You can use your expertise in Linux shell scripting, SQL, and business intelligence Cognos dashboard design, to tackle data warehousing problems.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Databases
Category: Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
Category: Data Management
Category: Create, Read, Update And Delete
Category: Data Analysis
Category: Computer Programming
Category: Data Structures
Category: MySQL
Category: SQL

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Instructors

IBM Skills Network Team
IBM
67 Courses1,221,228 learners
Shubhra Das
7 Courses21,999 learners
Rav Ahuja
IBM
54 Courses3,522,476 learners

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