This document outlines the content of a course on BIG DATA & HADOOP. The course is intended for developers and data warehouse professionals and will provide both lectures and hands-on experience working with Hadoop. It will cover key concepts like HDFS, MapReduce, YARN, and popular Hadoop ecosystems including Hive, Pig, HBase, Spark, and Impala. Lectures will be complemented by assignments and exercises working directly in a local virtual Hadoop cluster to gain experience administering, configuring, and troubleshooting Hadoop systems.