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DA0-001 · 10-week plan · Free

Last updated: September 29, 2026

Content note. The domain breakdown below is for CompTIA Data+ exam version DA0-001. CompTIA's current version is DA0-002 (launched October 2025), which renamed and reweighted two domains: "Data Mining" became "Data Acquisition and Preparation," and "Data Governance, Quality, and Controls" became "Data Governance." See the DA0-002 study guide for the current curriculum.
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Domain Weight Distribution

D1: Data Concepts and Environments
15%
D2: Data Mining
25%
D3: Data Analysis
23%
D4: Visualization
23%
D5: Data Governance, Quality, and Controls
14%

Week-by-Week Study Plan

Week 1

Domain 1: Data Concepts. Data types, Schemas (Star, Snowflake), Warehouses vs Lakes

Week 2

Domain 1: Data Environments (ETL/ELT, File formats, Integration methods, APIs)

Week 3

Domain 2: Data Mining (Data acquisition, Cleansing, Profiling, Missing values)

Week 4

Domain 2: Data Manipulation (SQL joins, Aggregation, Filtering, Query optimization)

Week 5

Domain 3: Descriptive Statistics (Mean, Median, Mode, Standard deviation, Variance)

Week 6

Domain 3: Inferential Statistics (Hypothesis testing, Regression, Correlation, p-values)

Week 7

Domain 4: Visualization (Chart types, Dashboard design, KPIs, Data storytelling)

Week 8

Domain 4: Reports & Dashboards (Interactive reports, Drill-down, Accessibility, Color theory)

Week 9

Domain 5: Governance & Quality (GDPR, CCPA, Data quality dimensions, MDM, Retention policies)

Week 10

Full Review: Practice tests, SQL exercises, Visualization practice, Exam logistics

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