The CompTIA DataSys+ exam sets a unified standard of skills for the successful management and securing of data assets. It covers what database administrators need to deploy, manage, and maintain high-availability systems, including employing the fundamentals of scripting and programming in a relational database environment while using security and business continuity best-practices.
Learning Objectives
- Understand database structure types while developing, modifying and running structured query language (SQL) code, providing the groundwork to gather, store, and drive data assets on any operating system.
- Secure databases, protect against attacks, and control authorization while ensuring governance and regulatory compliance.
- Compare and contrast the different aspects of database design and planning and explain the various phases of the implementation, testing, deployment and optimization of collected data.
- Prepare for and recover from incidents by implementing best practices for disaster recovery, backup and restoration of database management systems.
- Learn the purpose of monitoring and reporting database performance, explain common database maintenance processes, and produce critical documentation.
Prerequisite Skills
- Recommended 2-3 years of experience in a database administrator role.