Description
CompTIA Data+ is an early-career data analytics certification for professionals tasked with developing and promoting data-driven business decision-making.
CompTIA offers everything you need to get you ready for your Data+ certification exam.
Jobs in data are spreading like wildfire. For years organizations have been collecting data, but until recently, they’ve just been skimming the surface regarding what they can do with that information. If you want to break into a data role, you need to improve your data analytics skills – and CompTIA Data+ could help you get there.
Goals
Gain the skills required to facilitate data-driven business decisions, including:
- Mining data
- Manipulating data
- Visualizing and reporting data
- Applying basic statistical methods
- Analyzing complex datasets while adhering to governance and quality standards throughout the entire data life cycle
Contents
- Identify basic concepts of data schemas
- Understand different data systems
- Understand types and characteristics of data
- Compare and contrast different data structures, formats, and markup languages
- Explain data integration and collection methods
- Identify common reasons for cleansing and profiling data
- Execute different data manipulation techniques
- Explain common techniques for data manipulation and optimization
- Apply descriptive statistical methods
- Describe key analysis techniques
- Understand the use of different statistical methods
- Use the appropriate type of visualization
- Express business requirements in a report format
- Design components for reports and dashboard
- Distinguish different report types
- Summarize the importance of data governance
- Apply quality control to data
- Explain master data management concepts
- Identify common data analytics tools
Prerequisites
CompTIA Data+ recommends 18 to 24 months of experience in a report/business analyst job role, exposure to databases and analytics tools, a basic understanding of statistics, and data visualization experience.Study Materials
The Official CompTIA Data+ Student Guide
