This document provides an overview of a hands-on Hadoop training course. The 3-day basic course will cover building a Hadoop platform using Hadoop, Pig, Hive, and MapReduce. It will also cover topics like HDFS, Flume, REST interfaces, cluster management, and monitoring. The advanced course covers additional topics like management and tuning, dimensions, and Mahout. The course is aimed at administrators and IT professionals with basic Linux experience and a laptop with at least 8GB RAM. Tutors for the course will have at least 2 years of experience with Hadoop management, design, and data processing.