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Overview
This 1-day DAMA DMBOK Data Management Specialist course addresses all required disciplines required for the Data Quality (DQ) specialist exam by the international standard, DAMA Body of Knowledge (DMBOK2) and is aimed at individuals interested in developing concrete professionalism in the field of Data Management with a specialization in Data Quality.
This course provides a solid foundation of the different information disciplines across the complete Data Quality spectrum.
The DQ specialist course explores the essential concepts and techniques for ensuring data accuracy, consistency, and completeness. This includes understanding data profiling methodologies to assess data quality issues and anomalies. You'll delve into strategies for data cleansing, deduplication, and standardization to improve data quality. By the end, you'll be equipped with the knowledge and skills to establish robust data quality processes and metrics within your organization.
Prerequisites
CDMP-DMF, DAMA DMBOK Data Management Fundamentals Recommended prerequisites:
- CDMP-DMF - DAMA DMBoK Data Management Fundamentals
Delegates will learn how to
- Grasping the core concepts and principles of data quality, including accuracy, completeness, consistency, and timeliness.
- Learning how to conduct data profiling to assess the quality of datasets and identify anomalies, inconsistencies, and errors.
- Mastering various data cleansing techniques, such as deduplication, standardization, and validation, to improve data quality.
- Developing skills in establishing data quality processes, policies, and metrics to monitor and measure data quality over time.
Outline
Course Content
- Overview of data quality concepts, importance, and implications for organizations.
- Understanding the dimensions of data quality: accuracy, completeness, consistency, integrity, reasonability, timeliness, uniqueness, and validity.
- Techniques for conducting data profiling to assess the quality of datasets.
- Implementing data cleansing processes to improve data accuracy and consistency.
- Establishing data quality metrics and standards to measure and monitor data quality.
- Understanding the role of data governance in ensuring data quality and integrity.
- Tips and strategies for successfully completing DAMA certification exams in data quality.
Agenda of the Course
The course includes training, practice, and downloadable materials for the facilitation of learners. The main sections of the training are:
- Introduction
Relations with other DAMA topics, drivers, goals, and principles. - Essential concepts
Quality, critical data, DQ dimensions, DQ improvement Lifecycle, business rules, common causes of DQ issues, data profiling, data cleansing, data parsing, and data transformation. - Activities
Define high quality data, define a DQ strategy, identify critical data and business rules, perform DQ assessment, identify potential improvements, develop and deploy DQ operations, measure and monitor DQ. - Tools & Techniques
Data Profiling, Query tools, Modelling and ETL tools, Metadata repositories, preventive and corrective actions, statistical process control, and root cause analysis. - Implementation
Readiness assessment, Risk assessment, and organizational change. - Governance
Roles, policies, and metrics.
Benefits
There are several benefits of participating in the Data Quality Specialist course. Some of them include:
- Learners get a solid foundation on data quality.
- Learners become certified data quality Specialists.
- Learners learn to understand the principal concepts and terminology.
This course is designed to facilitate the learning and understanding of learners about data quality and its related concepts.
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