Informatica Power Center
Informatica PowerCenter
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Course Summary
This course is architected for Database Developers who are looking to move their career to Informatica PowerCenter and introduces students to Informatica PowerCenter 9.5. Informatica PowerCenter is nothing but a collection of thick client workbench tools that developers use to create, execute, monitor, and even schedule ETL processes.
The course will introduce candidates to working with the PowerCenter Designer, Workflow Monitor, and Workflow Manager Tools. And this course is also aimed at teaching candidates to execute tasks such as the creation of transformations, reusable objects, mappings, sessions and workflows in order to extract, transform, and load data. Candidates will also learn to develop cleansing, formatting, sorting and aggregating procedures.
Informatica PowerCenter is considered as a premium data integration solution available in the market today. The reason it is known as the best solution in massive enterprises is because its Database is considered to be neutral and therefore can communicate with any other database without any issues. Also, worth noting is that it is probably the most powerful data transformation tool which converts an application’s data format to another.
The popular research firm IDG Research has come out with statistics showing that 71% of enterprises to adopt hybrid and even cloud-exclusive analytics by the year 2018. Also, Redwood Capital Report has stated that Cloud-Based Business Intelligence is the fastest growing BI segment and is expected to touch $2.94 Billion by the year 2018. Also, worth noting is that Informatica PowerCenter is the most broadly adopted ETL technology across the world.
Course Highlights
The Informatica PowerCenter course will cover the following topics: Informatica PowerCenter 9.X – An Overview In this section, candidates will comprehend the overview of PowerCenter spanning sections such as the Terminology, Architecture, Transformations, Tools GUI, Mappings, Sessions, Workflows, and Workflow Monitor.
ETL Fundamentals
Here candidates will learn about the ETL and the need behind it. They will also learn how to utilize Informatica PowerCenter tools to generate simple ETL jobs.
Informatica PowerCenter Designer
Candidates here will learn about various development units of PowerCenter and how they can be utilized to generate a simple mapping.
Informatica PowerCenter Workflow Manager and Monitor
Candidates here go through 2 other development units of Informatica PowerCenter mainly Workflow manager and monitor and how are they utilized to create various tasks and workflow.
Advanced Transformation Techniques
Candidates will comprehend advanced transformation techniques that will equip one to handle advanced concepts of PowerCenter transformations like, Java, XML, etc. along with the re-usability features of PowerCenter.
Parameters and Variables
Candidates on this topic will deal with parameters and variables are a way to achieve re-usability from PowerCenter. This module will deal with the scope and use of Parameters and Variables.
Debugging Troubleshooting Error Handling & Recovery
Candidates here will comprehend the operational part of the PowerCenter. This module will help candidates grasp the features provided by Informatica to debug, troubleshoot and resolve errors and will also deal with the concepts of recovery.
Caches
Caches play an important part of any application. Candidates on this topic will understand the implementation of Cache and how can they be utilized to accomplish performance efficient ETL jobs. Other Topics that will be handled are Performance Tuning and Optimization, PowerCenter Repository Manager, Informatica Administration Console and Security, Informatica 9.X – Technical Architecture, Informatica Installation and Configuration, Command line utilities, ETL Scenarios using Informatica, Best Practices and Velocity Methodologies.
Prerequisites
Even though there aren’t any highly specific requirements to learn Informatica PowerCenter here is a few nice-to-have pre-qualifications:
- An understanding of the fundamental knowledge sets of SQLs.
- A Mainframe Background for candidates taking this course up is also desirable
- A fundamental programming knowledge, preferably in Windows GUI will act as an added advantage
Why to learn Informatica PowerCenter
Before the completion of this course, candidates will be able to:
- Comprehend and recognize of various Informatica Products that exist
- Describe the architecture of Informatica PowerCenter and its various elements
- Use PowerCenter 9.x elements to create Workflows, Tasks, and Mappings
- Explain the fundamental and advanced features, functionalities of PowerCenter 9.X transformations
- Comprehend Workflow Task and job handling
- Explain Mapping Parameter and Variables
- Execute troubleshooting, debugging, error handling and recovery
- Calculate cache requirement and implement the session cache
- Implement Optimization and performance tuning
- Identify and describe the functionalities of the Repository Manager tool.
- Recognize how to handle services in the Administration Console
- Comprehend techniques of XML Processing, SCD, Constraint based loading, Partitioning, and Incremental Aggregation
- Attain insights on the ETL best practices utilizing Informatica.
Who can learn Informatica PowerCenter?
This certification course has a wide target audience as stated below:
- Business Intelligence Professionals and ETL & SQL Developers
- Database & Mainframe Professionals, Project Managers
- Mainframe developers and Architects
- Individual Contributors in the field of Enterprise Business Intelligence
Advantages of Informatica PowerCenter
- The availability of excellent GUI interfaces for Administration, Job Scheduling, ETL Design, Debugging, Session monitoring and more.
- Access to a broad range of enterprise data sources such as Mainframe and file-based data, Relational data, Message queues, XML and unstructured data and Third party application data
- Easy adoption and integration with vendor supplied data handling utility such as Oracle direct path load, Teradata tpump etc.
- Parallel processing and Load balancing are highly advantageous features
- Single point of web based control for enterprise wide applications, ensuring high degree of security with minimized administration overhead
- The Grid option offers cost effective solutions to meet high processing demands with linear scalability and high availability (automatic failover)
Companies that use Informatica PowerCenter
- US Air Force Using Informatica PowerCenter, the Air Force recognized more than $600 million in excess parts and recouped $300,000 in excess equipment in around one week.
- Amdocs Amdocs, the leading software, service provider for communications and media companies enhances the efficiency and quality of data-migration and minimizes rollout time for massive transformation projects.
- CWB The world’s largest wheat and barley marketer utilize Informatica PowerCenter to deliver timely business intelligence to decision makers, farmers and industry partners.
- Chubb This insurance enterprise with Informatica PowerCenter, enhanced its understanding of customer needs, and increased its ability to recognize growth opportunities
- Daewoo PowerCenter enabled Daewoo to maximize data processing performance, accelerate order processing speed by more than 50% and minimize recovery response time from 4 hours to just 25 minutes.
Why Bumaco Global?
We are considered the best-in-class for certification courses, and especially for Informatica PowerCenter:
- We provide hands-on and practical training post completion of each major topic of the module through the Informatica instructor
- Training for Informatica is done using real-time case studies with a project explanation
- Discussion about real time project domains such as SCM, CRM, Banking, Telecom and more.
- We renew and update our course content according to the latest industry standards to ensure the candidate is industry ready before the course is completed.
What Do We Provide?
- Experienced faculties who are certified in the area of Informatica PowerCenter
- Quality study materials like assignments, assessments, case studies and video presentations
- Access to tools to perform analysis and reporting
- Become a certified with the concepts, techniques and its tools
ICP PowerCenter Data Integration 9.x: Developer Specialist Exam
This exam aims to assess a candidate’s competency as a junior team member in a project implementation team. One must be able to import sources, targets and lookups, put together gradually changing dimension mappings to implement best practices, design reusable transformations, and mapplets, implement reusability utilizing shortcuts, be able to utilize the debugger to efficiently debug a mapping with or without a prebuilt session and workflow, and perform and monitor the session and workflow.
Test takers will be tested on:
- Transformation Language
- Troubleshooting
- Workflows and Worklets
- Mapping Design Basic
- Mapping Design Advanced
- Parameters and Variables
- Architecture and Administration
The skills and knowledge areas assessed by this exam are focused on product core functionality within the limits of a standard project implementation.
Prerequisites:
The various training prerequisites for this certification level are the completion of
- Informatica 9.x PowerCenter Developer Level 1. and
- Informatica 9.x PowerCenter Developer Level 2.
This exam measures your competency across installation and configuration, architecture, server maintenance, security, deployment, PowerCenter Repository management, web services, command line utilities and Informatica Velocity Best Practices and Implementation Methodology as a full member of a project implementation team.
When you keep your Informatica certifications up to date, you have the skills and capabilities you need for successful data integration, data quality, and master data management projects. Certification helps you realize the return on your Informatica investment faster. It also helps you distinguish yourself from the competition.
Certification Tracks:
The Informatica Professional Certification Program comprises of three certification levels
- Specialist
- Expert
- Master
Exam Details
- Exam Score – 70% (For Specialist Designation)
- Exam Duration – 90 mins
- Exam Question types: Multiple Choice, Multiple Response, and True or False
- PowerCenter Data Integration 9.x: Developer, Specialist Certification
ICS Data Integration PowerCenter Administrator Exam
This exam assess a candidate’s competency across processes of installation and configuration, server maintenance, web services, security, architecture, deployment, PowerCenter Repository management, command line utilities and Informatica Velocity Best Practices and Implementation Methodology as a complete member of a project implementation team. This is an outline of the technical topics and subject areas that are covered in each exam.
Test takers will be tested on:
- Workflows and Worklets
- Architecture & Administration
- Parameters and Variables Informatica University,
- Transformation Language
- Mapping Design Basic
- Mapping Design Advanced
- Troubleshooting
Prerequisites
The recommended training prerequisites for Specialist certification are the completion of PowerCenter 9.x: Administration (IVA, ILT or onDemand)
Exam Details
- Exam Score – 70% (For Specialist Designation)
- Exam Duration – 90 mins
- Exam Question types: Multiple Choice, Multiple Response, and True or False
- PowerCenter Data Integration 9.x: Administrator, Specialist Certification
What are the types of transformations in Informatica PowerCenter?
- Active Transformation
- Change the number of rows
- Change the transaction boundary
- Change the row type
- Passive Transformation
- Do not change the number of rows that pass through the transformation
- Maintains the transaction boundary
- Maintains the row type.
- Connected Transformation
- Transformations which are connected to other transformation in the data flow
- Unconnected Transformation
- Transformations which are not connected to other transformation in the data flow
- Blocking Transformation
- Custom transformation with Input that block property enabled
Differentiate Homogeneous and Heterogeneous joins.
Homogeneous means identical or same and Heterogeneous literally mean mixed or different.
For example, if a mapping uses similar databases like only Oracle sources or only Flat files or DB2 or XML or any other, then they are called Homogeneous sources. While if a mapping uses Oracle source tables, Flat file, DB2 source and XML source then they are called as Heterogeneous sources
List the types of Lookup Caches
- Persistent cache: When the processing of lookup transformation happens in the Informatica server, storage and reuse of the cache files for the next time can be done.
- Static cache: A static or read-only cache memory lookup table is formed. By default, Informatica server creates a static cache. Caching of the lookup table and values associated with it for every row is done with it. In case the lookup condition turns out to be valid or true, no cache update happens during the process of the transformation.
- Recache from the database: This happens in the case of no syncing of the cache with the lookup table.
- Dynamic cache: This type of cache allows to insert new rows into the cache and the target, you can create a Lookup transformation to use the dynamic cache.
- Shared cache: Sharing of cache between various affairs can be done between changes by this keeping the mapping diverse
Define Router Transformation and the types of groups in router transformations
In Router transformation, data is tested for one, or if needed, more than one condition. If some rows of data do not satisfy any one condition, then it is routed to an output group by default.
The different types of groups in router transformation are
- Input group
- Output group
The output group contains two types. They are
- User defined groups
- Default group [/accordion]
Discuss the Lookup Transformation and list the types of ports from which it is created
The Lookup transformation finds its usage in looking up a source, any qualifier associated with it, or target for taking out valid data. They can be connected and unconnected. Data extraction happens from the lookup table. Sometimes, a file related to the lookup table is used to extract data from it.
The lookup transformation is created with following type of ports
What are Informatica PowerCenter and its advantages?
Informatica PowerCenter is a software used for building data warehouses using ETL technique. The components within Informatica PowerCenter help in extracting data from the source, transforming it as per business requirements and loading it into a target data warehouse. Informatica PowerCenter is produced by Informatica Corp
[accordion title="2.List the sectors where Informatica PowerCenter is used" connect="180"]Informatica PowerCenter can be used in the following areas:
- Banking and capital markets: Large dataset set can be used to grow revenue and counter frauds.
- Healthcare: Data can be used to build a competitive differentiator
- Insurance: Complex analysis can be run to understand the policies better and reduce risk.
- Public Sector: Cloud data to be maintained to increase efficiency and manage data in a better way
- Retail: Create personalized retail shopping to boost customer growth and increase capital value
- Life Sciences: Provides a multipurpose solution, clinical trials and compound data management, drug discovery and regulatory compliance of life sciences
Discuss the features that make Informatica PowerCenter a successful ETL tool
Informatica PowerCenter is the enterprise leader in ETL
- It provides good extraction of the enterprise data for business
- It uses technology to optimize performance in terms of speed, cost, and quality.
- The integration service provides a centralized error logging system for effective error handling
- The maintenance cost is very low, it does not necessarily need a technical person to rerun jobs.
- It helps to choose what is best for the market and is easily adaptable to changes
What are the roles and responsibilities of an Informatica PowerCenter Professionals?
Installation and configuration of Informatica Power Center.
- Build Informatica Data Exchange/Data Transformation (DX/DT) and Data Quality environments.
- Monitoring Informatica environments using UNIX
- Support multiple Informatica environments, production, and development
- Support development teams with performance tuning and troubleshooting issues
- Scheduling and Monitoring Informatica repository backups
- Review of Informatica ETL design documents
- Scheduling jobs through Autosys
- Creating new repositories from scratch, backup and restore
- On Call Support as required during the weekends and off hours
- Scheduling real-time system jobs
Describe the guidelines to work with Informatica PowerCenter
What are the Prerequisites of Informatica Power Center Course ?
Even though there aren’t any highly specific requirements to learn Informatica PowerCenter here is a few nice-to-have pre-qualifications:
- An understanding of the fundamental knowledge sets of SQLs.
- A Mainframe Background for candidates taking this course up is also desirable
- A fundamental programming knowledge, preferably in Windows GUI will act as an added advantage
What are the system requirements to attend the live sessions?
- Processor I3 with 4GB RAM, OS can be 32 or 64 bit (Laptop/Desktop)
- Internet connection with Min 1 MBPS speed
- Good quality headset
- Power back up
- You can also log in through your Android mobile phone/ Tablet with 4G internet connectivity
What if the trainee miss any session?
The trainee can watch the recorded video of all the sessions in the LMS or Trainee can attend the missed session in the upcoming batches.
What do the trainee get from the LMS?
The trainee will have the access to Recorded sessions, Assignments, Quizzes, Case studies, few course documents posted by trainers, Placement related docs etc.
What is the validity of the LMS access? What if the LMS access is expired
The trainee will get 1-year access to the LMS. You can contact our support team to extend the validity of the LMS.
Will the trainee get any project to work on with Informatica Power center course?
Yes, Of course! The trainee will get the project at the end of the course, you need to submit a project. Our trainers will assist you to complete the project.
How are the practicals done?
The trainee will get step by step assistance from our expert trainers during the practical sessions, post live sessions, you can practice at your end and submit your queries if any to our support team support@corpconsult.co for further assistance.
What are the types of training we offer?
- WBLT- Web-based live Training
- WBVT- Web-based Video Training
- One on One live training
- Self-paced training
- In class training
What are the benefits of online training ?
- Flexible location
- Flexible schedule
- Travel free
- Time saving
- Cost saving
- LMS access
- You will never miss a class
- Two-way interactive
- Fast learning
- Trainer support for 1 year
Who are our Trainers?"
Our trainers are industry experts having 10 to 15 years of industry experience and 3-4 years of training experience. Most of the trainers are working professionals who teach the real time scenarios which will help the students to learn the courses in an effective manner.
Will the trainee get the certification post the course completion?"
Yes, Trainee will get the participation certificate from CorpConsult upon successfully completing the course.
What if the trainee has more queries and need assistance?"
The trainee can drop an email to support@corpconsult.co an automatic ticket will get generated. Our support team works 24/7 to assist you with all your queries.
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