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2. DATA WAREHOUSE-INFORMATICA ONLINE TRAINING
COURSE CONTENT
Course Syllabus:
 Introduction to DWH
 Informatica Designer
 Transformations
 Parameters and Variables
 Caches
 UNIX
 Administration
 Deployment
 Scheduling tools

3. Introduction to DWM
 Introduction to DWH
 DWH purpose and usage
 Decision Support system
 OLTP and OLAP Systems
 Normalization rules
 Komball and Inmon Approaches
 Dimension and Fact Tables in DWH
 Different types of Dimensions and Fact Tables
 Schemas
 .Star and Snow Flake Schema
 .Advantages and disadvantages

4. Informatica Designer
Source and Target Analyzer
Transformation Developer
 Mapping and Mapplet designer
 WORKING with Flat Files and Tables

5. Transformations
 Each transformation scope and functionality
 Usage of transformations in different situations
 Interview questions on each transformation
 Debugger functionality and usage
 SQL Query Overrides
 Purpose of the Source, Lookup and Target overrides
queries and
 Advantages
 Mapplets, Reusable and Shared Objects
 Scope of Reusable transformations and Shared Objects
 Creating Mapplets, its usage and limitations

6. Parameters and Variables
 Using Mapping parameters and variables with real
time situations
 Incremental Load Concepts with Parameters and
Variables
 Dynamic and Static Parameter Files

7. Caches
Usage of Caches and Advantages
 Static, Dynamic and Persistant ccches and uses.
 Slowly Changing Dimensions (SDCs)
 SCD conecpts and purpose.
Type I, TypeII and TypeIII scds implementation.
Performance Tuning
SQL override Query tuning
Improving Mapping performance
Workflow Manager
Creating sessions and Workflows

8. Creating reusable sessions and Worklets
Each task scope and functionality
Session settings for each task
workflow settings
Scheduling workflows in informatica

9. UNIX
Required UNIX commands
 Purpose of UNXI in informatica
Using UNIX scripts from Informatica COMMAND
tasks

10. Administration
 Informatica Architecture: 9.
 Introduction to Architecture
 Differences between 8 and 9 versions
 Informatica Administration Console
 Setting up different services in Informatica (Webservices,
Data Quality Services)
 Strating and Stopping various services
 GRID Overview and Set up
 High Availability Overview and set up with GRID
 Pros and Cons of HA and GRID
 Adding New Liscences

11. Best Practises in cofiguring the properties in the
Admin Console
 Informatica User and Permissioning setup (LDAP Set
up)
 Binding user to database connections
 Restricting the tools a user can use
 Backing up user data and restoring it
 Best Practises in Setting up multiple environements
(DEV/QA/PRD)
 Assigning Groups to OS profiles
 Assigning OS Profiles to Folders
 Repository Back up and Restoration
 Informatica Repositories & File dir structures

12.  Deployment Groups
 Versioning
 Analysis on Failures in Integration service
Various commands (infacmd, infarep, pmcmd) available
and used
Performance Data collection
 Identifying the perfomance Issues and Fixing the
bottlenecks

13. Deployment
Deployment process
Integration of the code
Pre and post deployment check points
 Pre and post deployment issue fixing
Advanced Topics:
SQL Transformation purpose and usage
Pushdown Optimization Technique and Usage
Informatica 9.0 version options

14. Scheduling tools
Purpose and usage of scheduling tools
Advantages of using third party scheduling tools