DAMA DMBoK Data Quality Specialist

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.