CompTIA · Professional Certification · Expert
CompTIA DataAI (formerly DataX)
Crydd Score 70
Demand Growing
Career Value Strong
Recognition Moderate
DataAI at a glance
- Provider
- CompTIA
- Credential type
- Professional Certification
- Exam required
- Yes
- Category
- Machine Learning
- Level
- Expert
- Cost
- $544 (exam voucher)
- Difficulty
- Advanced
- Time to earn
- 3–4 months
- Validity
- 3 years (renew with 75 continuing education units)
- Format
- DY0-001: up to 90 multiple-choice and performance-based questions, 165 minutes; pass or fail
- Prerequisites
- None required; CompTIA recommends 5+ years in data science or a similar role
What is DataAI?
CompTIA's expert-level, vendor-neutral certification for experienced data scientists, renamed from DataX: the mathematics, modelling, operations and applications of data science, tested at depth.
Skills it covers
- Statistics and mathematics for data science
- Machine learning modelling
- Data operations
- Model evaluation
- Specialised data science applications
Is DataAI worth it? The Crydd Verdict
CS 70Choose it if
You are an experienced data scientist who wants a vendor-neutral credential rather than one tied to a cloud platform.
Consider alternatives if
Your work runs on a specific platform: Google's Professional ML Engineer or Databricks' ML Professional carry more weight there. Earlier in your career, Data+.
Why we say so
There are few vendor-neutral credentials for senior data science, and this one tests the theory as well as the practice.
Market demand
Data science hiring values portfolios and platform skills above certificates; DataAI is most useful where employers prefer vendor-neutral credentials, such as government and defence contractors.
Where DataAI takes you
- Data Scientist
- Machine Learning Engineer
Career roadmaps show where this certification fits in each path. See the roadmaps.
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