DS0-001

About This Exam

DS0-001 is the exam for the CompTIA DataSys+ certification. It validates the ability to explain database fundamentals such as relational and non-relational (NoSQL) database types, SQL development with DDL, DML and TCL, ACID principles, stored procedures and views, server-side and client-side scripting with tools like Python and PowerShell, and the impact of ORM tools and application code on the database server; to plan, design, implement, test and deploy databases, from requirements gathering, architecture, data dictionaries and ERDs to schema validation, stress testing, version control, connectivity testing, provisioning and scalability; to manage and maintain databases through monitoring and reporting, query optimization, patch management, capacity planning, performance tuning, documentation and data management tasks such as handling redundancy, relationships and views; to secure data and databases with encryption in transit and at rest, data masking and destruction, data loss prevention, retention policies, compliance with GDPR and PCI DSS, authentication and authorization, physical and logical controls and protection against SQL injection, DoS, phishing, ransomware and brute-force attacks; and to ensure business continuity with backup and recovery, disaster recovery plans, replication, failover, clustering and high availability. It is for database administrators, data analysts, DevOps engineers and other IT professionals with two to three years of database administration experience who run databases on premises, in the cloud and in hybrid environments. CompTIA has announced that the English version of DS0-001 retires on April 16, 2027, and the translated versions on June 11, 2027, after its successor DS0-002 (DataSys+ V2) launched on October 13, 2026.