The Certified Data Operations Professionals (CDOP) is a foundation-level certification exam designed to validate your competence in managing, maintaining, and operationalizing data systems. It confirms your ability to work behind the scenes to ensure data flows are reliable, pipelines are efficient, and data platforms are optimized for business use.

This exam is ideal for those in data support, infrastructure, warehousing, DevOps for data, and platform operations—who want to gain a respected credential without taking a course.

✅ Who Should Take This Certification Exam?

• Entry-level professionals in DataOps, Data Engineering, or IT/Data Support

• Operations and platform teams working with ETL/ELT processes

• Professionals seeking to validate knowledge in data warehousing and pipelines

• Data professionals interested in the automation and reliability side of data

• Analysts transitioning into a technical data operations role

🔍 What the Certification Validates

• Understanding of data lifecycle operations and system workflows

• Ability to manage data ingestion, transformation, and validation pipelines

• Familiarity with ETL/ELT tools and concepts

• Knowledge of data storage, warehousing, and architecture basics

• Handling of data quality, consistency, and error resolution

• Collaboration with teams for automated, scalable data delivery

🧠 Topics Covered

• Introduction to DataOps: Principles, culture, and objectives

• Data Pipelines: Design, execution, and monitoring

• ETL vs ELT: Concepts, tools, and practical examples

• Data Warehousing: Schema design, staging, performance

• Automation & Scheduling: Orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow, Cron, etc.)

• Data Quality Management: Validations, profiling, error logs

• Monitoring & Troubleshooting: Logs, alerts, performance tuning

• Governance & Access: Permissions, backups, security considerations

📝 Exam & Credential Details

• Format: Online, scenario-based + multiple choice

• Duration: 60 minutes

• Questions: 50

• Passing Score: 70%

• Cost: $70

• Retake Policy: One free retake

• Credential Includes:

  • Certified Digital Certificate

  • Shareable Credential Badge

  • ✅ Placement in the CDIPS Global Registry of Certified Data Operations Professionals