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Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP®) Certification

GET CERTIFIED, GET NOTICED, AND GET AHEAD WITH THE CDMP

Choose from 40+ courses across various formats and specializations to fast-track your CDMP.

Certification validates your skills and experience and signals to employers that you‘re adaptable, efficient, and ready to drive business success from day one.

ACHIEVE MORE WITH THE CDMP:

• Showcase your mastery of core data management principles and best practices
• Validate your ability to design, manage, and govern enterprise data systems
• Prove your skills in data quality, integration, modeling, security, and more

Choose from 40+ courses across formats and specializations to fast-track your CDMP.

What Is the CDMP Certification?

Why Choose the CDMP?

Who Should Obtain the CDMP?

Training and Additional Opportunities Available

CDMP Certification Levels

Real Voices. Real Results

What’s the CDMP? Watch & Learn!

FAQs: Everything You Need to Know

Backed by Industry Leaders

An internationally respected leader in data management education, providing trusted training, conferences, and industry insights. DATAVERSITY is one of the few DAMA-endorsed CDMP training providers globally, and the only one in North America.

A global nonprofit organization that sets industry standards for data management, offers the CDMP certification, and develops the DMBOK framework to advance best practices in data governance, quality, architecture, and more.

TOGETHER

We provide training at all levels of CDMP specialization and in multiple learning formats that are respected, relevant, and designed for the evolving world of data management.

WHAT IS THE CDMP® CERTIFICATION?

The Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP) is a globally recognized certification offered by the Data Management Association International (DAMA International) and DAMA-endorsed official training partner DATAVERSITY Education. It certifies an individual‘s proficiency in data management, assessing knowledge, skills, and experience according to the DAMA Data Management Body of Knowledge (DMBOK) framework.

WHY CHOOSE THE CDMP?

• Globally Recognized Certification: The CDMP validates your expertise in data management, aligning with worldwide industry standards.
• Career Growth: Enhance your job prospects, increase earning potential, and unlock leadership opportunities in data governance, architecture, and strategy.
• In-Depth Knowledge: Master key concepts in data governance, quality, modeling, and compliance, grounded in the DAMA-DMBOK framework.
• Future-Ready Skills: Equip yourself with best practices that remain relevant across industries, regulations, and emerging technologies.

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Who Should Get Certified?

The CDMP is ideal for any professionals who work with data management, governance, and strategy and want to demonstrate their expertise.

Such as:

Data Management Professionals
Business & IT Leaders
Data Analysts & Engineers
Compliance & Risk Specialists
Aspiring Data Professionals and those looking to change their career direction

CDMP Training & Learning Opportunities

DATAVERSITY offers over 40 courses in a variety of learning formats and specialization levels to help you earn your CDMP.

Self-Paced, On-Demand Courses

Live, Online, Instructor-Led Courses:

Quarterly Data Management Fundamentals Courses – Available in flexible formats, including intensive 2- to 4-day sessions and extended 6-week programs.

Advanced Practitioner & Master-Level Training – Regular courses covering data governance, data quality, data modeling, master & reference data, and metadata management.

Custom Team Training

Bring your team up to speed when you take advantage of our private in-person or virtual courses tailored to your organization’s needs. Custom team training for the CDMP ensures your organization develops a consistent, industry-aligned approach to data management while upskilling employees in key areas.

Live Study Groups for CDMP Certification

Join free Study Groups led by DAMA International-certified CDMP Masters to receive live tutoring to study for your CDMP exam.

Discount on CDMP Certification Testing

Get a discount code for 20% off your CDMP exam when you train with DATAVERSITY. Take your exam online or in-person at a DATAVERSITY conference.

DATAVERSITY Conference Testing

DATAVERSITY conference attendees who take the exam on site only pay if they pass.

CDMP Certification Levels

Associate

For beginners or those with less experience in data management.

Practitioner

For professionals with 2+ years of experience, requiring a deeper understanding of data management principles.

Master

For seasoned data management experts with 10+ years of experience.

Fellow

A prestigious level awarded to highly experienced professionals with significant contributions to the field.

Real Voices. Real Results.

“The intimate class size, engagement with instructor during material presentation, and specific requests to interact through chat really helped me love this course. The material was a good balance of real world and preparation for the exam.” – A recent DATAVERSITY Training Center student (Data Professional at BCBS) - Data Management Fundamentals (Live, Online)
“This course helped me understand the DMBoK concepts more thoroughly and provided helpful real-world examples of how the concepts can be applied.” – A recent DATAVERSITY Training Center student (Data Professional at US Transcom) – DMBOK/CDMP Learning Plan (Self-paced)
“One aspect that I feel was incredibly valuable was how Mark took the training material and applied it /correlated it to real life practical application.” – A recent DATAVERSITY Training Center student (Data Professional at TIAA) - Data Management Fundamentals (Live, Online)
“Outstanding course! Instructor is easy to follow, briefing slides do a great job visualizing the various concepts, and the content was spot on in helping me fill in several knowledge gaps I had to include more clarity on the types of metadata.” – A recent DATAVERSITY Training Center student (Senior Advisor in the US Federal Government) - CDMP Metadata Management Specialist Course (Live, Online)
“The content covered in the series was comprehensive and helpful for the preparation of the CMDP exam.” A recent DATAVERSITY Training Center student (Business Professional at Alshaya) – DMBOK/CDMP Learning Plan (Self-paced)
“Being able to work at my own pace and being able to review the content as much as I needed to really helped me pass the exam.” A recent DATAVERSITY Training Center student (Data Professional at Raymond Corp) – DMBOK/CDMP Learning Plan (Self-paced)
“All of the courses and sections were broken into parts that can be readily digested for efficient learning. It helped me to compartmentalize my entire training program.” A recent DATAVERSITY Training Center student (Data Professional in the US Military) – DMBOK/CDMP Learning Plan (Self-paced)
“The intimate class size, engagement with instructor during material presentation, and specific requests to interact through chat really helped me love this course. The material was a good balance of real world and preparation for the exam.” – A recent DATAVERSITY Training Center student (Data Professional at BCBS) - Data Management Fundamentals (Live, Online)
“This course helped me understand the DMBoK concepts more thoroughly and provided helpful real-world examples of how the concepts can be applied.” – A recent DATAVERSITY Training Center student (Data Professional at US Transcom) – DMBOK/CDMP Learning Plan (Self-paced)