Business analysts, solution developers, project managers and anyone who is involved in managing corporate data or is responsible for database administration. Data Management Essentials is also a Specialist Practitioner module on the BCS International Diploma in Business Analysis.
Are you a data management practitioner, an IT or IS manager or a business manager? Would you like to learn the skills and techniques to be able to implement an industry standard, best practice approach to data management? If the answer to those questions is ‘yes’, then our course on Data Management Essentials is perfect for you.
During the course you will look at the development of procedures for managing corporate data and what’s required for the administration of data and database administration. You’ll also look at data and enterprise, data quality and current data management themes – and you’ll learn all this through short, focused lecture sessions, in which we’ll encourage you to share problems and issues you may have faced.
Presented to you by one of the expert training consultants pictured below, each member of our Business Architecture training team bring their substantial experience to the programme.
To give you more of an idea of what you’ll learn and how the course will help you, here’s a quick guide to those four days.
- Data and the enterprise
- What is data management?
- Database architecture
- Why we model data
- Basic data modelling concepts
- Drawing entity-relationship diagrams
- Finding attributes and domains
- An introduction to normalisation
- Corporate data modelling
- Data definition, naming and ownership
- Metadata
- Data quality
- Database administration
- Repository administration
- The management of data management
- The data management environment
- Current data management themes
- Revision and examination
Yes. During this four day course you’ll receive all the training you need to prepare for the BCS Data Management Essentials certificate exam, which is held on the final afternoon of the course. A pass in this module will contribute to the BCS International Diploma in Business Analysis.
At present, due to the Covid-19 crisis, the exam is not available in a classroom environment. However, for delegates attending a virtual or online course, the exam may be taken at a later date when restrictions have been lifted.
You’ll also be given a comprehensive Data Management Essentials course manual, containing further information and guidance on further reading.
Data Management Essentials (a four-day course)
Course Content
Introduction
- Data and the enterprise
- What is data management?
- Database architecture
Data Modelling
- Why we model data
- Basic data modelling concepts
- Drawing entity-relationship diagrams
- Finding attributes and domains
Data Analysis
- An introduction to normalisation
Corporate Data Modelling
- Corporate conceptual data modelling
- Data definition, naming and ownership
- Metadata
- Data quality
Data and Repository Administration
- Database administration
- Repository administration
Data Management in practice
- The management of data management
- The data management environment
- Current data management themes
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