Chapter-Specific Media Plan
Use this page to control depth and medium. It is not permission to invent chapter content before the controlling DMBOK chapter has been read.
| Chapter | Study emphasis | Primary media / depth |
|---|---|---|
| 1 — Data Management | Mental skeleton of the whole program; data as asset, principles, strategy, DAMA frameworks, Knowledge Areas | Orientation guide, framework maps, terminology/distinction drills, classification questions |
| 2 — Data Handling Ethics | Ethical principles, dilemmas, privacy-law principles at DMBOK level, online-data issues, culture, governance relationship | Concise teaching, dilemmas, best-action questions, principle comparisons, short recall |
| 3 — Data Governance | Major 11% domain; drivers, framework, councils/roles/stewardship, policies, issue management, compliance, glossary, valuation, implementation, culture, metrics | One of the deepest packages; operating-model visuals, role/RACI comparisons, sequencing, scenario lab, large bank |
| 4 — Data Architecture | Outcomes, enterprise alignment, artifacts/layers, practice establishment, lifecycle projections, governance, metrics | Diagrams, architecture-vs-modeling comparisons, artifact scenarios, visual recall |
| 5 — Data Modeling & Design | Major 11% domain; levels, entities/attributes/relationships, keys, normalization/design concepts, process, notation, review, naming, governance | Highly visual; model progression, diagram interpretation, comparisons, design scenarios, large bank |
| 6 — Data Storage & Operations | Database technology/operations, lifecycle/environments, availability/recovery, implementation, controls, governance | Process maps, scenarios, distinction drills; avoid excessive low-value memorization |
| 7 — Data Security | Requirements, confidentiality/integrity/availability context, identity/access, classification, masking/encryption, CRUD, metadata attributes, cloud/outsourcing | Access/control scenarios, classification drills, CRUD exercises, governance-vs-security comparisons |
| 8 — Integration & Interoperability | Drivers, patterns, plan/analyze/design/develop/implement/monitor, ETL/transformation, virtualization, profiling, metadata, sharing, lineage | Data-flow visuals, pattern comparisons, end-to-end scenarios, medium-large bank |
| 9 — Document & Content | Structured/unstructured content, lifecycle, retention, publishing, ECM, controlled vocabulary, e-discovery, governance | Lifecycle visual, retention/e-discovery scenarios, content-vs-data comparisons |
| 10 — Reference & Master Data | Major 10% domain; master vs reference, golden/authoritative records, matching/merging, IDs, hierarchies, MDM styles, stewardship | Intensive battle cards, MDM flows, source-of-truth scenarios, large bank |
| 11 — DW & BI | Major 10% domain; architecture, dimensional concepts, facts/dimensions, data movement, historical/analytical purpose, implementation, governance | Architecture/pipeline visuals, dimensional drills, scenarios, large bank |
| 12 — Metadata | Major 11% domain; categories, sources, repositories, architecture, lineage, glossary/catalog/dictionary distinctions, harvesting, standards, stewardship | Taxonomy maps, lineage diagrams, glossary-vs-dictionary-vs-catalog battle cards, scenarios, large bank |
| 13 — Data Quality | Major 11% domain; dimensions, business rules, profiling, assessment, measurement, monitoring, root cause, remediation, prevention, governance | Quality-cycle visuals, dimension comparisons, profiling/remediation scenarios, metrics, large bank |
| 14 — Big Data & Data Science | Fundamentals weight 2%; DMBOK terminology, characteristics, lifecycle/context, governance implications | Concise guide, recognition cards, a few strong scenarios, smaller bank |
| 15 — Maturity Assessment | Supporting/specialist context; maturity, evidence, planning, interpretation | Maturity ladder, assessment scenarios, organization-level cases |
| 16 — Organization & Role | Supporting but valuable for role questions; structures, accountability, stewardship, collaboration | Role cards, RACI-style comparisons, who-should-do-this drills, cross-domain role scenarios |
| 17 — Organizational Change | Supporting/specialist; stakeholders, communication, adoption, culture, sponsorship, transition | Change/stakeholder scenarios, sequencing, resistance/remediation cases |
Depth rule
High-weight chapters receive deeper explanation, more application/discrimination work, larger question banks, and more frequent revisits. Lower-weight chapters remain complete enough to support understanding and cross-domain reasoning without consuming disproportionate time.
Source: 00A-01, Section 6.