Principal Data Scientist

PDS™ Examination Preparation

Getting the PDS™ - A Preview of the Journey

There are eight distinct stages of your journey toward becoming a PDS. Here's what these stages look like. Of course, we've just tried to take you through a quick tour, so many of the details may be missing. You may Contact Us for more information.

The PDS™ Journey

• 1CHECK -

  Check if you fit the PDS™ candidacy requirements. Also check the exciting QualiFly™ program, which offers several privileges on convenience, validity, speed, and affordability to individuals holding degrees from DASCA-recognized institutions and universities.

• 2APPLY +

  If you meet the PDS™ or QualiFly™ candidacy criteria, please fill out the online application form for the PDS™ program from your myDASCA account available on www.dasca.org. Click here to create your myDASCA account.

• 3ACKNOWLEDGE +

  Once you have finished applying, please wait for our acknowledgement response email with instructions for the next course of actions regarding assessments etc. Simultaneously, we also initiate the process for assessing your candidacy and to arrive at a prima-facie or a provisional decision about your fit for the PDS™ credential.

• 4VALIDATION +

  An internal check is conducted to validate your credentials against the prescribed candidacy prerequisites for earning the PDS™.

• 5SCHEDULING +

  Check your emails on the DASCA-registered mailbox for a communication from Pearson Vue. These emails contains your Authorization-To-Test (ATT) and Web Account details, which will help you to create your Web Account. Click Here, if you have your Pearson Web Account login information and the ATT details, and want to schedule your exam now.

• 6SHIPMENT +

  Post your payment confirmation, one unit of the PDS™ Certification Starter Kit containing reading and learning material is shipped to the address you have registered with us.

• 7PDS™ EXAM +

  You get 225 days from the date of registration and successful payment to prepare for and complete your online PDS™ exams, which you can take in a Pearson Test Center nearest to you. The books included in the PDS™ Starter Kit should help you brace up nicely for your PDS™ Certification exam. Please read more about PDS™ exams in the dedicated section on the subject.

• 8AWARD +

  If you qualify the PDS™ exam and meet other conditions laid down by the DASCA Professional Certifications Board (DPCB), you are recommended for the award of the PDS™ Credential and the PDS™ Digital Badge is immediately issued to you. You can expect the shipment of the physical pack of credential to reach you within three to four weeks of the date of the award.

Learning Coverage

Though the PDS™ Kit is designed as a study and preparation resource for the online PDS™ Certification examination, the books, lab handbooks, and other learning aids included in the PDS™ kit have been put together to help aspiring Big Data Scientists build longer–lasting sets of skills and a more penetrative Big Data perspective. The PDS™ Kit contents therefore seek to develop in learners, a strong and complete generic, as well as platform–based understanding of the concepts, principles, tools, techniques, and technologies of designing, developing, and applying analytics frameworks and utilities required for sharper information management and decision making.

Indeed, while the Wiley–produced kit has been developed around the DASCA Essential Knowledge Framework (EKF™), the idea behind its design, coverage, content, and structure is also to provide to aspiring Big Data Scientists, a liberal exposure to all important proprietary analytics platforms currently in vogue in the Big Data space, and concurrently, they can prepare themselves rightly for the PDS™ Certification examinations, as well. The contents of the PDS™ Kit straddle all essential knowledge areas – divided up into eight sections or modules.