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Standardize your team on Data+ with a structured CompTIA training path — a blueprint-weighted practice exam and team admin reporting included on every CBT Nuggets Teams seat.

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Practice exam
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Core skills
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Exam fee (CompTIA)
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Difficulty
Difficulty: 3 of 5 (Moderate)
Moderate
Exam fee (CompTIA)
$255
Courses on path
1
Official source
CompTIA’s official exam page
Exam code
  • DA0-002

Exam datasheet

Prerequisites
CompTIA A+ or equivalent knowledge
Recommended experience
18–24 months in a report or business analyst job role, with exposure to databases and analytical tools, a basic understanding of statistics, and data visualization experience
Recertification
3 years
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Exams

Exams for this certification

Exam fees per engineer, paid to the exam vendor$255

Exam — Required

Every engineer on the Data+ path takes DA0-002.

  1. DA0-002CompTIA Data+Practice exam included on every Teams seat
    Exam fee
    $255
    Exam length
    90 minutes
    Questions
    Maximum of 90
    Passing score
    675 on a scale of 100-900

    Exam blueprint: DA0-002

Skills your team builds

Data miningData manipulationData visualizationData governanceBasic statistical methods

Training path

Your team's training path

One CBT Nuggets course covers the full Data+ path. Your team can start today and have admin reporting visible from day one.

  1. Start here · primary course

    CompTIA Data+

    This CompTIA Data+ certification training is a perfect data analyst course for beginners. With unlimited practice exams included, this course helps you build skills in organizing information, spotting patterns, and turning data into strategic insights. Starting with the basics of how modern data analysts gather, clean, analyze, and explain data, this Data+ certification training covers common data sources, basic statistics, and visual reporting. It also shows how AI for data analytics is evolving the role, how to work with data responsibly, and how to follow data compliance expectations. Data science expert Jonathan Barrios keeps the course practical and job-relevant, helping you learn data analytics skills you can use right away as you study for the Data+ v2 (DA0-002) exam.

    Jonathan Barrios
    163 videosPractice exam21h
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Every certification course includes

  • Expert-led video training
  • Certification practice exams
  • Per-team completion reporting

CompTIA career ladder

Where Data+ sits in your team's CompTIA progression

The cert your team is on now, plus the levels above and below. Use this to map an engineer's next-step credential or to plan headcount coverage across tiers.

  1. Entry level

    2 certs

    A+

    Core 1: 220-1201, Core 2: 220 …

    Tech+

    FC0-U71

  2. Associate level

    4 certs

    Data+

    DA0-002

    You are here

    Network+

    N10-009

    Project+

    PK0-005

    Security+

    SY0-701

  3. Professional level

    5 certs

    AutoOps+

    AT0-001

    Cloud+

    CV0-004

    CySA+

    CS0-004

    Pentest+

    PT0-003

    Server+

    SK0-005

  4. Expert level

    3 certs

    CloudNetX

    CNX-001

    DataAI

    DY0-001

    SecurityX

    CAS-005

Customer outcome

Build DA0-002 capability across the whole team, not one engineer

Assign the Data+ course to the engineers who need it, and the team report shows who has started, who has finished, and who has passed the practice exam — the view leadership uses to see CompTIA skills coverage across the team and where the gaps are.

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Team capability

Make DA0-002 a number on your team capability sheet, not a single engineer’s certificate.

Standardizing your team on DA0-002 gives leadership a clear picture of CompTIA skills coverage — who has completed the training, who is still on the path, and where the gaps are — so staffing and escalation plans rest on known capability instead of on one engineer.

Credential: Data+

Exam
  • DA0-002

Frequently asked questions about Data+ training

Common questions IT directors ask when evaluating Data+ training for their team.

How does Data+ fit into our internal compliance and data governance program?

Teams often cite Data+ when documenting that the people who handle, clean and report on organizational data have validated skills, and the linked course includes a lesson on AI automation and data governance. CBT Nuggets team reporting provides per-learner completion and exports that can serve as training evidence, while your auditor's control crosswalk decides the formal mapping to any framework.

Who on the team should hold Data+, and what can a certified team own?

Data+ suits data analysts, reporting and BI staff, and IT professionals who support data workflows. Based on the linked course lessons, a certified team can own integrating data from multiple sources, loading it into database tables, cleaning and profiling messy datasets, transforming and aggregating data, writing SQL queries on tables, and optimizing data workflows for performance.

What does CBT Nuggets Data+ training include for a team?

CBT Nuggets Data+ courses are built by named expert trainers. Where a course includes hands-on virtual labs or a practice exam mapped to CompTIA's published exam objectives, the course list on this page says so. Team admin reporting tracks assignment, completion and exam readiness per engineer — the view managers use to run a team training program.

How do I assign and track Data+ training for my team?

From the admin console, managers assign the Data+ courses directly to specific engineers or role groups and track completion and practice-exam scores per learner. Team-wide reporting rolls up to a single dashboard you can review or export for leadership reviews or compliance reporting.

How long does it take to certify a team on Data+?

The linked CBT Nuggets training for Data+ runs about 21 hours of video. Actual time to certify depends on each team member's starting point with data types, storage, SQL and the analytics process, so IT leaders typically plan around that baseline.

What if CompTIA updates the Data+ exam objectives?

CBT Nuggets updates CompTIA course content as exam objectives refresh, and this page shows the current exam's status and any retirement date the vendor has announced. When CompTIA restructures or renames a track, the assigned training stays aligned with the same team training plan, and the training stays current without anyone losing their progress mid-stream.

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Build Data+ capability across your team

See how CBT Nuggets helps IT leaders plan and track Data+ training across the team — a practice exam and reporting included.

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