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CompTIA Data+

CompTIA Data+ certification validates the skills of early-career professionals to analyze, interpret, and communicate data effectively, enabling informed, data-driven business decisions and demonstrat

CompTIA Data+

CompTIA Data+ certification validates the skills of early-career professionals to analyze, interpret, and communicate data effectively, enabling informed, data-driven business decisions and demonstrating competency in analytics for career growth.

Course Overview

CompTIA Data+ is an entry-level certification designed for professionals seeking to enhance their data analytics skills and support data-driven business decision-making. This certification validates essential data analysis, visualization, and reporting competencies, making it ideal for individuals looking to build a strong foundation in data analytics.

At Emigo Networks, we offer comprehensive training for CompTIA Data+, equipping learners with the knowledge and hands-on expertise needed to interpret and analyze data effectively. Our expert-led training program ensures that participants gain practical insights and industry-relevant skills to excel in data analytics roles.

What You'll Learn

  • Understand core data concepts by identifying data schemas, dimensions, and differentiating between common data structures and file formats.
  • Perform data acquisition and preparation including cleansing, profiling, and manipulation to improve data quality and mining skills.
  • Apply statistical methods and critical analysis techniques to summarize, interpret, and extract meaningful insights from data.
  • Translate business requirements into visual insights by creating effective reports, dashboards, and visualizations.
  • Implement data governance and quality control to ensure compliance, accuracy, and reliability in data-driven decision-making.

Syllabus Summary

Data concepts and environments
  • Data schemas and dimensions: identifying databases, data marts, data warehouses, data lakes, and slowly changing dimensions.
  • Data types: comparing date, numeric, alphanumeric, currency, text, discrete vs. continuous, categorical/dimension, images, audio, and video.
  • Data structures and file formats: comparing structured and unstructured data and file formats like text/flat files, JavaScript object notation (JSON), extensible markup language (XML), and hypertext markup language (HTML).
Data mining
  • Data acquisition: explaining integration methods like delta load, extract/load/transform (ELT), and collection methods like web scraping, application programming interfaces (APIs), surveys, sampling, and observation.
  • Data cleansing and profiling: identifying duplicate data, missing values, invalid data, outliers, specification mismatches, and data type validation.
  • Data manipulation techniques: executing techniques like merging, blending, concatenation, appending, imputation, aggregation, transposing, normalizing, and parsing.
  • Query optimization: explaining filtering, sorting, date functions, logical functions, aggregate functions, indexing, temporary tables, and execution plans.
Data analysis
  • Descriptive statistics: applying measures of central tendency, dispersion, frequencies, percentages, percent change, and confidence intervals.
  • Inferential statistics: explaining t-tests, z-scores, p-values, chi-squared tests, hypothesis testing, regression, and correlation.
  • Analysis techniques: summarizing trend analysis, performance analysis, exploratory analysis, and link analysis.
Visualization
  • Business requirements: translating requirements into reports using measures of central tendency, dispersion, and percentages.
  • Report and dashboard design: using cover pages, design elements, and documentation.
  • Dashboard development: applying considerations for development processes and delivery.
  • Visualization types: applying line charts, pie charts, scatter plots, bar charts, histograms, heat maps, geographic maps, tree maps, stacked charts, and word clouds.
  • Report types: comparing static vs. dynamic, ad-hoc, self-service, recurring, and tactical research reports.
Data governance, quality, and controls
  • Data governance: summarizing access, security, storage, use, entity relationships, classification, jurisdiction, and breach reporting.
  • Data quality control: applying validation methods, quality dimensions, rules, metrics, and automated checks.
  • Master data management (MDM): explaining processes and circumstances for MDM.

Pre-requisites

  • Approximately 18–24 months of experience in a report or business analyst role, involving data analysis and reporting tasks. 
  • Exposure to databases and analytical tools, with a basic understanding of statistics and data visualization techniques. 
  • Familiarity with data concepts and environments, including data schemas, dimensions, and various data structures and file formats. 
  • Experience in data mining and manipulation, encompassing data acquisition, cleansing, profiling, and applying basic statistical methods. 
  • Ability to translate business requirements into visual insights, by creating effective reports, dashboards, and visualizations. 
  • Understanding of data governance and quality control, ensuring compliance and accuracy in data-driven decision-making.

Required Exams

  • Exam: DA0-001
  • Cost: $255 USD
  • Duration: 90 minutes

Who Should Attend

CompTIA Data+ is designed for professionals seeking to develop and promote data-driven business decision-making. This certification is ideal for:

  • Early-career data analysts looking to validate their skills in data analysis and reporting.
  • Business analysts who wish to enhance their ability to interpret and communicate data insights.
  • Project managers interested in integrating data analytics into project planning and execution.
  • Individuals transitioning into data-focused roles from other disciplines.

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