DS0-001
- Duration
- 90 min
English, Japanese
CompTIA
Credential
Certification
Level
Certification
Exam duration
90 min
credential overview
About this credential
Vendor-neutral database administration certification validating database fundamentals, deployment, management and maintenance, data and database security, and business continuity.
Who this is for
Database administrators and professionals responsible for deploying, managing, securing, and maintaining data systems.
Assessment
Exam details
Exam blueprint
Skills measured
Database fundamentals (24%)4 topics
- Compare relational and non-relational database structures including NoSQL, DynamoDB, and MongoDB.
- Apply DDL, DML, TCL, ACID principles, stored procedures, and views.
- Compare server-side and client-side scripting and use Python, PowerShell, and command-line scripting.
- Use ORM tools, validate SQL code, and analyze database-server impact.
Database deployment (16%)3 topics
- Gather requirements, design database architecture, and create data dictionaries and ERDs.
- Validate schemas, perform stress tests, manage version control, and test database connectivity.
- Install, configure, provision, and validate database scalability.
Database management and maintenance (25%)4 topics
- Monitor alerts, performance metrics, transaction logs, and resource utilization.
- Optimize queries, manage patches, plan capacity, and tune performance.
- Use data dictionaries, ERDs, SOPs, and compliance documentation.
- Modify data, manage redundancy, define relationships, and use views and materialized views.
Data and database security (23%)5 topics
- Apply encryption in transit and at rest, data masking, and secure data destruction.
- Implement data loss prevention, retention policies, and compliance requirements such as GDPR and PCI DSS.
- Manage authentication, authorization, access controls, password policies, and identity management.
- Apply physical and logical infrastructure security controls.
- Mitigate SQL injection, DoS, phishing, ransomware, and brute-force attacks.
Business continuity (12%)3 topics
- Create disaster-recovery plans, replication strategies, and backup and restore processes.
- Implement high availability through clustering, load balancing, and redundancy.
- Conduct impact analysis, risk mitigation, and continuity testing.
Before you certify
Requirements and recommended experience
None required
No formal prerequisites
Recommended experience
2-3 years of experience in a database administrator role
Corporate certification enablement
Turn this pathway into a team capability plan
We can align the learning path, instructor support, practice environment and delivery schedule to your team’s roles and certification target.