Do you wish you had more confidence in bringing data analysis to life? Would you like to mine data more effectively? Analyze with rigor? Avoid confounding results?
We thought so.
Last February, CompTIA released the CompTIA Data+ exam, an early-career data analytics certification for professionals tasked with developing and promoting data-driven business decision-making. Soon, you’ll be able to add CompTIA Data+ to your training course offerings.
30 Bird’s CompTIA Data+ course covers the skills necessary for data professionals who facilitate business decisions based on data; mine, manipulate, visualize, and report data; apply statistics to business decisions; and analyze complex data sets, all while meeting specified quality and governance standards as they apply to the data life cycle. The course prepares learners to pass the CompTIA Data+ certification exam (DA0-001).
Topics include general database concepts, an overview of the data analytics process and techniques, understanding data types and data structures, data-mining concepts and process, data analysis and its tools, statistical analysis methods and techniques, data analysis tools and machine learning, business requirements, reporting and visualizing data, and data governance and management.
The CompTIA Data+ Exam
The CompTIA Data+ exam will certify the successful candidate has the knowledge and skills required to transform business requirements in support of data-driven decisions through mining and manipulating data, applying basic statistical methods, and analyzing complex datasets while adhering to governance and quality standards throughout the entire data life cycle.
What Skills Will You Learn?
Candidates who pass the Data+ exam prove their worth as valuable team members. Data literacy makes them more employable and upwardly mobile in their field.
- Data Concepts and Environments: Boost your knowledge in identifying basic concepts of data schemas and dimensions while understanding the difference between common data structures and file formats.
- Data Mining: Grow your skills to explain data acquisition concepts, reasons for cleansing and profiling datasets, executing data manipulation, and understanding techniques for data manipulation.
- Data Analysis: Gain the ability to apply the appropriate descriptive statistical methods and summarize types of analysis and critical analysis techniques.
- Visualization: Learn how to translate business requirements to create the appropriate visualization in the form of a report or dashboard with the proper design components
- Data Governance, Quality, & Controls: Increase your ability to summarize important data governance concepts and apply data quality control concepts.
Jobs You Can Land With CompTIA Data+
- Reporting Analyst
- Operations Analyst
- Marketing Analyst
- Business Intelligence Analyst
- Data Architect
- Data Analyst
