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00 — START HERE — CDMP Program Navigation

This is the doorway into the entire CDMP learning system.

🏠 START HERE · 🚀 Study Dashboard · 🧭 What Should I Study? · 🔎 Topic Finder · 📊 Progress Snapshot · ▶ Session Launcher · ☑ Live Progress · 📚 00A Mastery · 🧪 00B Meridian

Route system: ✅ 330 / 330 execution cards online and navigable.
00A mastery system: ✅ Chapters 1–17 available through current-source Artifacts 01–07, with local DMBOK source PDFs.
Learner status: separate from route/artifact availability. The live Google checklist remains authoritative.

If you want to study right now

Use this three-step path:

  1. ☑ Find your actual learner position in the live 330-row checklist.
  2. 🔎 Open that exact Sequence.
  3. ▶ Choose how to work it today.

If you are stuck on what kind of study action you need rather than your route position, use 🧭 What Should I Study?. If you remember a term but not its chapter, use the 🔎 Master Topic Finder.

That is the normal operating loop. You do not need to browse all of 00A, 00B, or the 330 cards first.

Current read-only snapshot

The authoritative checklist was read on August 15, 2026. At that snapshot:

  • Learner completion: 0 / 330
  • Current learner action: Sequence 001 — Understand the four-part CDMP system
  • Status: Not Started

📊 Open the learner progress snapshot
▶ Open Sequence 001

The snapshot is convenience only. If it ever differs from the live Google Sheet, the Sheet wins.

Understand the system once

Think of the program as one route with three working systems:

System Job Open it when…
00A — DMBOK Mastery Learn, understand, retrieve and repair DMBOK knowledge A 00C card sends you to chapter study, exam maps, scenarios, comparisons, question banks, teach-back or error repair
00B — Meridian Applied Laboratory Apply data-management knowledge through Meridian, technology, evidence and portfolio work A 00C card assigns a technology gate, Meridian lab, evidence task, platform exercise or capstone
00C — Execution System Tell you exactly what to do next and in what order Every normal study session

00C is the conductor. 00A teaches the knowledge. 00B makes you apply it.

00A — DMBOK Mastery System

Use 00A when the active 00C card sends you there, or when you need targeted learning/repair through the study router or Topic Finder.

00A is for:

  • source-grounded DMBOK learning;
  • plain-language explanation before formal terminology;
  • chapter mental models and exam maps;
  • comparison/battle cards;
  • scenario reasoning;
  • question banks;
  • teach-back and blank-page recall;
  • Error Repair based on real misses.

All Chapters 1–17 have current-source 00A mastery packages available. Each chapter also contains the original DMBOK chapter PDF locally in the private GitHub repository and a Formatted Originals panel linking the current Drive study artifacts.

The controlling DMBOK chapter PDF remains authoritative for DAMA-specific meaning.

📚 Open 00A — DMBOK Mastery

00B — Meridian Applied Data Management Laboratory

Use 00B only when the active 00C card authorizes applied work.

00B is for:

  • Meridian business context;
  • bounded technology prerequisites;
  • synthetic data and working copies;
  • applied labs;
  • evidence capture;
  • portfolio proof;
  • Data Governance platform practice;
  • cross-chapter capstones.

Technology is the medium, not the curriculum. The route deliberately stops before unnecessary Data Engineering, DBA, software-engineering, cloud-engineering or security-admin specialization.

🧪 Open 00B — Meridian Applied Laboratory

00C — Step-by-Step Execution System

00C is the program's execution engine.

It contains:

  • the 330-card browser-native route;
  • the CDMP Study Dashboard;
  • the Learner Progress Hub;
  • the read-only learner Progress Snapshot;
  • the Study Session Launcher;
  • the Searchable 330-Sequence Directory;
  • 24 route-block landing pages;
  • card-level Previous / Next navigation from Sequence 001 through Route Complete at Sequence 330.

🚀 Open the CDMP Study Dashboard

Your exact study routine

  1. Open 00C.
  2. Find the first unfinished Sequence in the live checklist.
  3. Open only that Sequence card.
  4. Read the card completely before acting.
  5. Use only the 00A/00B resources assigned by the card.
  6. Follow What you should learn and What to read / study.
  7. Perform Do this in order.
  8. Respect every Stop / boundary.
  9. Create and save the required evidence.
  10. Pass the Completion gate / DONE WHEN requirement.
  11. Update learner status in the Google Sheet only after the gate passes.
  12. Move to the next Sequence.

For the length and style of today's study session, use the Study Session Launcher.

Do not browse the repository to invent your own order

The detailed manual is intentionally granular. One meaningful learner action equals one execution card.

You are not expected to read hundreds of cards in advance. Work the current Sequence, follow its navigation, and stop when it tells you to stop.

A future card being visible means only that the route is available in the browser. It does not mean its prerequisites are complete.

Three statuses that must stay separate

Status Meaning
Card online The execution instruction exists in browser-native GitHub form. All 330 are online.
Artifact available The required 00A mastery artifact or 00B applied lab actually exists and is ready for use. All Chapter 1–17 00A mastery packages are now available; separate 00B/non-00A gates may still vary.
Learner complete You personally did the work and passed the Sequence completion gate. The live checklist records this.

Do not infer learner completion from repository completeness.

Source and build rule

All 00A Chapter 1–17 mastery packages are now built. If a route card stops for a genuinely missing artifact, that remaining gate is a separate 00B lab, evidence workspace, technology prerequisite, platform exercise, or another non-00A requirement unless the card itself says otherwise.

The required missing material must be built through the appropriate 00B/other workflow before the learner route advances. Interface work never overrides a real prerequisite.

Fast navigation

Need Open
Not sure what kind of study action to take What Should I Study?
Find a DMBOK concept Master Topic Finder
Normal study front door CDMP Study Dashboard
Actual live learner status Learner Progress Hub / Google checklist
Last-read visual learner position Progress Snapshot
Decide how to study today Study Session Launcher
Find Sequence 001–330 Sequence Finder
Browse all route blocks Full Manual Map
DMBOK mastery work 00A
Meridian / applied work 00B

Source links

First action

▶ Open Sequence 001 — Understand the four-part CDMP system

Or, for the full control panel, open the CDMP Study Dashboard.