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Overview

As the importance of data analytics grows, more job roles are required to set context and better communicate vital business intelligence. Collecting, analyzing, and reporting on data can drive priorities and lead business decision-making.CompTIA Data+ is an early-career data analytics certification for professionals tasked with developing and promoting data-driven business decision-making.

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.

Audience

Analytics professionals responsible for collecting and analyzing data in order to provide an accurate picture of business operations or performance for a company. The analyst may specialize in a core business function such as marketing and sales, finance and accounting, HR, or operations or may be aspiring to a more general data analyst role. Roles for which this course would be ideal are: Data Analysts, Report Analysts, Business Intellignece Analysts, Market Research Analysts or Operations Analysts.  

 


 

Skills Gained

After completing the course you should be able to:

  • 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

Attendees should meet the following prerequisites:

  • 18–24 months of hands-on experience working in a business intelligence, report/data analyst job role.
  • Working knowledge of Microsoft Excel or a spreadsheet program.
  • Understand how to build basic math calculations, like add, subtract, divide, and multiply (basic arithmetic).
  • Know how to build basic functions like Sums, Average, and Count.
  • Understand the basics of sorting and filtering data sets in Excel or a similar spreadsheet program. 
  • Have a working knowledge of how to build very basic pivot tables.
  • Have some understanding of databases and all knowledge toward understanding how databases designed will be helpful.
  • Have a basic understanding of how to build simple charts in using data. 

Outline

CompTIA training courses are developed to deliver competency in IT industry along with its different disciplines. CompTIA is a globally recognized organization that provides training courses and qualification certificates to IT professionals and organizations for demonstrating competency in some or the other field. CompTIA is a leading provider of technology-neutral and vendor-neutral IT certifications. These training courses will help you learn and incorporate the validated skills and knowledge required in today's competitive IT industry. These training courses will make you competent for the IT industry and help you fulfill the employer's needs. They deliver you credibility along with providing recognition of achievement and quality assurance in different spheres of information technology.

There is a broad spectrum of CompTIA training courses and certifications to choose from depending upon one's ability and needs.

CompTIA certifications

CompTIA certifications assist and help a candidate build a career in IT industry as well as help an organization develop a highly skilled and competent staff. Whether you are already an IT professional or aspire a career in information technology industry, CompTIA certifications will help you build an image of a dedicated and competent IT professional among your workplace, client, boss and customers. 

The different levels along with several courses provide a wide range of courses and levels to meet an individual's needs. The CompTIA A+ certification courses certify the foundational skills of information technology. The Network+ CompTIA training courses deliver the essential skills and techniques needed to design, monitor, configure and manage any wired and wireless devices. Operational security is one of the fastest developing fields in IT industry. CompTIA Security+ provides a worldwide benchmark for these security services.

The completion of CompTIA training courses will provide a qualification certification and also provide you an exposure to a whole new breadth of opportunities along with enhancing your knowledge and delivering a depth to your understanding.

So choose a suitable CompTIA training course and gain the knowledge and skills to efficiently apply and optimize different techniques required in the organization.

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