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Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP) Training

SAQA US AATICD-0372 | NQF 5 | Credits 10 | Duration 5 Days
From $913 per delegate

Description

This comprehensive course equips participants with the essential skills and knowledge to manage data as a strategic asset, ensuring its accuracy, accessibility, and security. It covers the full data lifecycle, from capture and storage to analysis and disposal, aligning with industry best practices and regulatory requirements. By the end of the course, participants will be able to implement robust data management frameworks that drive informed decision-making and operational efficiency.

Learning Outcomes

  • Apply data governance principles to establish policies, standards, and procedures that ensure data quality and compliance.
  • Analyze data lifecycle stages to design strategies for data capture, storage, retrieval, and archival.
  • Evaluate data quality dimensions and implement metrics and improvement processes to maintain high data integrity.
  • Design and implement data security and privacy measures to protect sensitive information and meet regulatory requirements.
  • Demonstrate proficiency in using data management tools and technologies to support data integration, warehousing, and analytics.
  • Implement master data management and metadata management practices to ensure consistent and reliable data across the organization.

Target Audience

This course is designed for data professionals, database administrators, IT managers, and business analysts who are responsible for managing, governing, or utilizing data within their organizations. It is also suitable for individuals seeking to formalize their expertise and advance their careers in data management.

Prerequisites

None — open enrollment. However, a basic understanding of data concepts and computer literacy is recommended.

Course Outline

Day 1: Foundations of Data Management

Objectives:
• Understand the data management landscape and its strategic importance.
• Identify key data management principles and frameworks.
• Recognize the roles and responsibilities of a data management professional.
• Apply data governance fundamentals to real-world scenarios.

Topics:
• Introduction to data management: definitions, scope, and benefits.
• Data management frameworks (DAMA-DMBOK, etc.).
• Data governance: principles, policies, and accountability.
• Data architecture and lifecycle.
• Data quality dimensions and management.
• Data stewardship and ownership.
• Regulatory and compliance considerations (POPIA, etc.).
• Overview of data management tools and technologies.

Day 2: Data Governance and Quality

Objectives:
• Develop a data governance framework tailored to organizational needs.
• Design and implement data quality metrics and improvement processes.
• Apply data profiling and cleansing techniques.
• Understand the relationship between data governance and data quality.

Topics:
• Data governance operating models and maturity.
• Data policies, standards, and procedures.
• Data quality dimensions: accuracy, completeness, consistency, timeliness.
• Data profiling and assessment.
• Data quality improvement methodologies.
• Root cause analysis for data issues.
• Data quality tools and automation.
• Case studies: data governance in practice.

Day 3: Data Architecture and Modeling

Objectives:
• Design data architectures that align with business requirements.
• Apply data modeling techniques (conceptual, logical, physical).
• Implement normalization and denormalization strategies.
• Evaluate data integration and storage options.

Topics:
• Data architecture principles and components.
• Enterprise data models.
• Conceptual, logical, and physical data modeling.
• Normalization and denormalization.
• Dimensional modeling for data warehousing.
• Data integration and ETL/ELT processes.
• Database design and management.
• Big data architectures (Hadoop, cloud, etc.).

Day 4: Data Security, Privacy, and Compliance

Objectives:
• Implement data security controls and best practices.
• Understand privacy regulations and their impact on data management.
• Develop data classification and handling procedures.
• Plan for data privacy impact assessments.

Topics:
• Data security fundamentals: confidentiality, integrity, availability.
• Access control models (RBAC, ABAC).
• Encryption and anonymization techniques.
• Data privacy regulations (POPIA, GDPR).
• Data classification and handling.
• Privacy impact assessments.
• Incident response and data breaches.
• Auditing and monitoring for compliance.

Day 5: Data Integration, Metadata, and Strategy

Objectives:
• Integrate data from multiple sources using various approaches.
• Manage metadata to support data governance and usability.
• Align data management with business strategy.
• Develop a data management roadmap and implementation plan.

Topics:
• Data integration patterns (batch, real-time, streaming).
• Data warehousing and data lakes.
• Master data management (MDM).
• Metadata management: types, standards, and tools.
• Data lineage and impact analysis.
• Data management strategy and maturity models.
• Change management and adoption.
• Capstone project: develop a data management plan.

Practicals

16 hours of practicals To be conducted online or on-campus or in-house
Overview

The practicals provide hands-on experience with data profiling, modeling, governance, and security tools. Learners will apply concepts to realistic datasets, reinforcing theoretical knowledge and building job-ready skills.

Practical Activities
  • Data Profiling and Quality Assessment — Using sample datasets, learners will profile data, identify quality issues, and propose corrective actions. (4h)
  • Data Modeling Exercise — Learners will create conceptual, logical, and physical data models for a given business scenario using a modeling tool. (4h)
  • Data Governance Framework Simulation — In groups, learners will design a data governance framework for a fictional company, including policies and a stewardship plan. (4h)
  • Data Security and Privacy Implementation — Learners will implement data classification, masking, and access controls on a sample database, and conduct a privacy impact assessment. (4h)

Summatives

Each delegate is assessed continuously throughout the course via daily exercises, scored practical assignments, and a final summative test at the end.

Practical Assignments — 30%

Practical assignments are observed and scored against a rubric during the practical sessions. Each delegate's practical mark is averaged into a single 100% score and contributes 30% to the final total.

Daily Exercises — 20%

Every training day ends with a multiple-choice exercise scored out of 100%. The scores from each daily exercise are averaged across the duration of the course to produce a Daily Average mark, which contributes 20% to the final total.

Final Test — 50%

On the last day a final summative test is written. It is a multiple-choice paper with multiple-answer questions: each question may have more than one correct option, and a single wrong selection on a question marks the entire question wrong — no partial credit. The final test is scored out of 100% and contributes 50% to the overall mark.

Final Total
Component Out of Weight
Practical Assignments (rubric-scored) 100% 30%
Daily Average (multiple choice) 100% 20%
Final Test (multi-answer multiple choice) 100% 50%
Final Total 100%

All marks are recorded on the AATICD LMS and visible to each learner under their account.

Certificate

Certificate of Completion

Awarded to delegates who achieve an overall mark of 50% or higher on the Final Total (Practicals 30% + Daily Average 20% + Final Test 50%).

How it works
  • Certificates are auto-generated on the AATICD LMS as soon as the marks pass the 50% threshold.
  • Each certificate is a branded PDF with the delegate's name, the course title, the unit standard ID, NQF level, credits, and the date of issue.
  • You can download or print your certificate from your LMS dashboard at any time after issue — there's no reissue fee and no expiry date.
  • If you scored under 50% you can sit the final test again at the next scheduled session at no extra cost.
Where to find it

Sign in to the LMS, open your dashboard, and your certificates appear under My Certificates. Each entry has a View / Download button and a print option.

Training Discounts

Group discounts apply automatically — the more delegates you enrol, the greater the saving. Discounts are calculated at 3% per 5 delegates, scaling up to 40% off for 100+ delegates.

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3% discount per 5 delegates, up to 40% off for 100+ delegates. Contact us for a custom group quote.

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