Data engineering accreditation

Empower your data engineering skills with free training, assessments, and digital badges for Teradata employees, partners, customers, and academics.

Skill level

Advance your data engineering skills at all levels

Explore foundational, professional, and expert-level training, assessments, and digital badges for comprehensive upskilling.

PurposeIntroduces the basics of data engineering for Teradata. View curriculum
Focus

Focuses on fundamental concepts such as:

  • Basic software engineering models
  • Basic data warehousing
  • Features of the analytics database
  • Data ingestion, profiling, preparation
  • Teradata Vantage™ and Teradata VantageCloud Lake architectures
AudienceLess than a year of experience in data engineering
Training hoursAbout 5.5 hours
Test-out exam optionYes, for Teradata employees, customers, partners and academics
Digital badge earnedYes
PurposeBuilds on data engineering foundational knowledge in order to develop data pipelines in Teradata Vantage, with emphasis on job-ready skills. Access to the professional and expert curriculums is limited based on the chart below. View curriculum
Focus

Covers more advanced data engineering techniques, such as:

  • Introduction to data engineering tools
  • Designing and operationalizing data processing systems
  • Understanding the explain plan and performance tuning
  • Leveraging the tools and features of the Vantage platform to enable interoperability
  • Agile methodology
  • Basic SQL
Audience1 – 3 years of experience in data engineering
Training hoursAbout 13 hours
Test-out exam optionNo
Digital badge earnedYes
PurposeProvides deep knowledge of data engineering, including specialized skills. Access to the professional and expert curriculums is limited based on the chart below. View curriculum
Focus

Focuses on

  • Data management
  • Data integration
  • Advanced data warehousing concepts
  • AI/ML
  • Advanced performance tuning and optimization
  • Cloud integration with Teradata
  • Introduction to analytic pipelines
  • Basic understanding of query grid
Audience3+ years of experience in data engineering
Training hoursAbout 19 hours
Test-out exam optionNo
Digital badge earnedYes

Accreditation Program benefits for Teradata certification holders

Bypass Foundational and Professional accreditation levels and move directly to Expert job role accreditation level training and exam

If you have this Vantage Certification:

You can go directly to accreditation level:

Administration (TDVAN5)Administrator – Expert*
Administrator (TDBL2-16.10)
Administrator – Expert*
Advanced Administrator (TDBL3-16.10)
Administrator – Expert*
Analytics (TDVAN2)Analyst – Expert*
Architecture (TDVAN6)
Architect – Expert*
System Architect (TDBL6-16.20)
Architect – Expert*
Data Engineering (TDVAN4)
Data Engineer – Expert*
Developer (TDBL4-16.20)
Data Engineer – Expert*
Advanced Developer (TDBL5-16.20)
Data Engineer – Expert*
Data Science (TDVAN3)
Data Scientist – Expert*

* The Accreditation Program is based on current Teradata technology and market changes. All learners must complete the Expert level training and exam to earn the Expert accreditation.

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