Description

The demand for data professionals has been exponentially growing year over year and becoming CompTIA Data Plus (DAO-001) Certified can really elevate your career opportunities in the world of data and business analytics.

Data is the foundation for many organizations and offers the potential for growth in almost any industry. Data analysts collect, store, transform, maintain, analyze, and secure data for use in their organizations.

A CompTIA Data Plus certified professional is proficient at the collection, analysis, and visualization of data that provides value so that their organizations achieve goals and can make complex business decisions.

The Data+ exam is designed to be a vendor-neutral certification for data professionals and those seeking to enter the data fields.

Did you know in Oct 2023, the average salary for a Data Analyst is $74,753 dollars per year in United States according to Glassdoor.

Entry level business analysts in the United States can start at $64,026 per year while the most sought-after solutions architects can make over $154,000 per year.

Once you complete this CompTIA Data Plus Certification Crash Course you will truly be prepared to take your place amongst the highly sought-after data professionals in your organization.

About the Course

In this course we focus on preparing you for a successful sitting for the challenging CompTIA Data Plus DA0-001 exam.

This course provides full content, free practice questions and study eBook as well optional demonstration and exercises.

An important aspect that data professional must know is focused on data mining, data manipulation as well as visualizing and reporting data to stakeholders.

So, whether applying basic statistical methods or analyzing complex datasets while adhering to governance and quality standards throughout the entire data life cycle a data professional is an important role to enterprises.

All of the exam objectives are covered as specified by CompTIA for the exam in these domains.

Data Concepts and Environments

Data Mining

Data Analysis

Data Visualization

Data Governance, Quality, and Controls

ABOUT THE COMPTIA DATA+ CERTIFICATION

CompTIA Data+ is an early-career data analytics certification for professionals tasked with developing and promoting data-driven business decision-making. The certification validates the data analytics skills and competencies that are needed to organize, understand, and act on relevant data.

This course covers 100% of the DA0-001 objective domains and also provides exam test tips, topic focused demonstrations and over 100 practice questions along with a free downloadable study guide.

What will you learn in the course?

Understand the importance of the CompTIA Data Plus exam and its objectives.

You'll learn to how to collect, analyze, and report on various types of commonly used data.

You’ll learn about how to transform raw data into usable information for your stakeholders.

Learn about database types, data structures, data schemes and other important aspects of data management.

Understand how JSON data, HTML data, and XML data is used with data professionals.

Understand how ETL and ELT processes work, how APIs connect us to the cloud and learn about profiling datasets.

Learn about data manipulation techniques and important concepts around data transposition and normalization.

Learn about descriptive statistics, inferential statistics, and various analytic techniques.

Identify common analytics tools used in data analysis.

Learn about the importance of Structured Query Language (SQL) and its main components.

Learn about reporting, reporting dashboards and the various visualization types.

Describe the importance of data governance, data stewardship and quality controls to ensure compliance and data consistency.

Identify the compliance requirements, security controls and privacy.

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