Course Catalog

Talend Data Integration Certification & Training

(Basic and Advance)
Course Summary

The training is designed to help you master Talend Data Integration. It is an open source ETL
tool which will help you in boosting up your productivity. With this you can easily integrate
all your data with your data warehouse and applications, or synchronize data between
systems. You'll also use Talend Administrator Center to create users, Projects Scheduling and
Publishing Talend jobs etc.

Target Audience
 Business Analysts
 Data warehousing professionals
 Data Analysts
 Solution & Data Architects
 System Administrators
 Software Engineers
 College Students

Prerequisites
As such, there are no pre-requisites for learning Talend Data Integration. Knowledge of basic
Computer languages, RDBMS (MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle any one) and ETL
fundamentals will be beneficial, but certainly not a mandate.

Course Duration
 40 hours

How will you execute the Practical?

The Practical can be executed on your machine by installing the Talend Open Studio 6.5 in
your system along with MySQL.

Minimum System Requirement (for this course)

RAM : 8 GB
OS : Windows/ CentOS/Linux
HDD : 20GB (SDD preferable)
What will you Learn?
Participants will learn to use Talend Open Studio and its features. They will understand the
art of data integration and will also get an overview of job scheduling and monitoring. This
course aims to educate them about ETL through Talend data Integration ‘powerful products
of Talend’
It focuses on the basic capabilities of Studio and how you can use it to build reliable,
maintainable data integration tasks that solve practical problems, including extracting data
from common database and file formats, transforming it, and integrating it into targets.

Course Objectives
After the completion of this course, you should be able to:

 Understand the ETL concepts and How to solve the real-time business problems
using Talend
 Understand Talend Architecture and its various components.
 Learn how to install and configure Talend product. Create a project
 Create and run a Job that reads, converts, and writes data
 Merge data from several sources within a Job
 Save a schema for repeated use
 Create and use metadata and context variables within Jobs
 Connect to, read from, and write to a database from a Job
 Access a web service from a Job
 Work with master Jobs and Sub Jobs
 Build, export, and test-run Jobs outside Studio
 Implement basic error-handling techniques
 Demonstration of a list of 100 mostly used components.
 Implement several methods of parallel execution in a Talend Job
 Create Job lets and call from a master job.
 Create a unit test from a working Job
 Configure a database to monitor and log changes in a separate change data capture
(CDC) database
 Use the CDC database to perform incremental updates between the source and target
 Understand SCD(Slowly change dimension) and its implementation.
 Use best practices for Job and component naming, hints, and documentation
 Talend job optimization and improvement.
 Course Outline

Module 1: Talend - A Revolution in Data Integration

Goal:
In this module, you will get an overview of ETL Technologies and the reason why Talend is
referred as the next Generation Leader in Data Integration. You will also get a brief on
various products offered by Talend corporation till date and its relevance to Data Integration
and Big Data. Further you will learn about the Talend Studio Data Integration and installation

Objectives:
At the end of this module, you should be able to:

 Adapt to ETL – Data Integration Industry

 Describe the Role of Talend in Data Domain
 Explain what is Talend and the essential features of Talend
 Explain various products/tools offered by Talend
 Describe Talend Data Integration and it’s features.

Topics:
 Working with ETL
 Rise of Data Integration and Migration.
 Role of Open Source ETL Technologies in Big Data
 Comparison with other market leader tools in ETL domain
 Importance of Talend (Why Talend)
 Talend and its Products
 Introduction of Talend Open Studio
 Talend for Data Integration
 GUI of Talend Studio

Hands On:
Downloading
1.Talend Open Studio(TOS)
2.Talend Data Integration for 30 days trial.
Module 2: Installing Talend Studio and understand Talend Glossary

Goal:
This module will make you acquainted with different installation method of Talend product
in different environment like Window Linux Mac etc. We will understand hardware and
software requirement for installing Talend. In this module we will understand how to install
Talend product using Talend Installer. Once the installation is finished will start Talend
Studio and will understand all the related glossary. In this module, you will understand what
are the different section in Talend Studio and how to use these sections. You will also learn
items present in different section.

Objectives:
At the end of this module, you should be able to:
 What is the hardware and software requirement to install Talend product.
 How to set JAVA_HOME as environment variable.
 What is repository in Talned Studio
 What are different items present in repository
 What is design workspace and palette in Studio
 How to use Talend configuration tab

Topics:
 Installing your Talend Studio and set JAVA_HOME.
 Talend repository and following items
o Job Designs
o Contexts
o Codes
o SQL Templetes
o Metadata
o Documentation
o Business Model
o Recycle bin
 Talend design workspace and palette
 Talend configuration tabs

Hands On:
Above all topics are hands-on intensive. Creating connection with MySQL database. Creating
different files in metadata.
Module 3: Components in Talend Studio

Goal:
In this module, you will understand what is a component in Talend and what is the role of a
component. You will also understand different family of components and commonly used
component in Talend

Objectives:
At the end of this module, you should be able to:
 Understand the role of a component in talend
 Explain Communication between homogeneous/heterogeneous data sources
 Filter data
 Different family of components

Topics:
 Databases (DB2, MySql, SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSql, AS400 etc.)
 Files (xml files,Json files,Excel file,CSV file etc)
 Processing components
o tFilterRow
o tJoin
o tMap
o tNormalize
o tReplace
o tReplaceList
o tSampleRow
o tSampleRow
o tSortRow
o tSplitRow
o tUniqRow
o tReplicate
o tUnite)
o tJoin
o tFilter
o tSortRow
o tAggregateRow
o tReplicate
o tSplit
 Orchestration family components
o tFileList
o tFlowToIterate
 o tForeach
o tInfiniteLoop
o tIterateToFlow
o tLoop
o tPostjob
o tPrejob
o tReplicate
o tRunJob - Orchestration
o tSleep
o tUnite
 Logs & Errors components
o tAssert
o tAssertCatcher
o tChronometerStart
o tChronometerStop
o tDie
o tFlowMeter
o tFlowMeterCatcher
o tLogCatcher
o tLogRow
o tStatCatcher
o tWarn

Hands On:
Will create Talend Jobs for all these component
Module 4: Basic Transformations, custom code and Context
Variables

Goal:
In this module, you will understand data mapping and transformations using TOS. You will
also learn how to filter and join various data sources and then search and sort through them.

Objectives:
At the end of this module, you should be able to:
 Perform data mapping and transformations
 Explain Communication between homogeneous/heterogeneous data sources
 Filter data
 Join different data sources
 Implement advance Lookups
 Search and sort different sets of data
 Enhance Data Quality
 Use context variables and routines
 Understand tMap and its wide usages

Topics:
 How to select right component for my task
 Routines in talned
 Custom code in Talend
 Accessing job level/ component level information within the job
 Data Quality and Cleansing
 Context variables and uses
 tMap functionality

Hands On:
Above all topics are hands-on intensive
Module 5: Advanced Transformations (CDC, SCD) and Executing
Jobs Remotely in Talend

Goal:
In this module, you will understand the transformation and various steps involved in program
looping of Talend, ways to search files in a directory and how to process them in a sequence.
You will also learn to export and import jobs and run them remotely.

Objectives:
At the end of this module, you should be able to:
 File management
 Explain Casting
 Describe looping components
 Read data from folders and different FTP locations
 Export and import Talend jobs
 Use tFileList, tRunJob
 Understand CDC and implementation
 Parameterize a Talend job
 Understand SCD
 Schedule and run Talend DI jobs externally/ remotely

Topics:
 Various components of file management
 Type Casting (convert datatypes among source-target platforms)
 Looping components (like tLoop, tFor)
 tFileList, tFTPFileList
 tRunJob
 How to schedule and run Talend DI jobs externally (not in GUI)
 Parameterizing a Talend job
 CDC and SCD

Hands On:
Above all topics are hands-on intensive
Module 6: Different data source and target for Talend jobs

Goal:
In this module, you will learn about the different data source we can use in Talend and the
component available for these data sources. You will understand how to read data from
files(csv,xml,json,excel) , database(MySQL,SQL Server,Oracle) and APIs.

Objectives:
At the end of this module, you should be able to:
 Understand different types of files(CSV,XML,JSON, EXCEL)
 Xpath and JSON path query
 Understand the components available for XML and JSON files in talned
 Understand database components
 Webservices and components to call REST and SOAP service form talned Studio
 Commonly used CRMS Components (SalesForce, SugarCRM, etc.)

Topics:
 CSV files and related components
 Different components for Creating XML files
 Wide use of tXMLMap components in talnd
 Different way to create a database connection
 Difference between built in and Repository schema
 X-Path query and JSON-Path query
 Big Data setup using Hortonworks Sandbox in your personal computer
 Explaining the TOS for Big Data Environment

Hands On:
Above all topics are hands-on intensive. Will cover number of assignment for XML and
JSON files and Database components

Module 7&8: Assignments and Project

Goal:
In this final module, you to solve 5-7 assignments and will be developing an end to end
project using Talend DI.