GAFM-CDS Exam Information and Outline
Certified in Data Science (CDS)
Syllabus Update Checked on: October 30, 2026
GAFM-CDS Exam Syllabus & Study Guide
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official GAFM-CDS exam objectives. This course outline serves as your roadmap.
The information below reflects the 2026 syllabus defined by
GAFM.
Below are complete topics detail with latest syllabus and course outline, that will help you good knowledge about exam objectives and topics that you have to prepare. These contents are covered in questions and answers pool of exam.
- Exam Format
- Online multiple-choice certification examination following the GAFM Accredited Certification Training Program (ACTP)
- Data Science Process
- Problem framing and CRISP-DM
- Programming for Data Science
- Python, R and SQL
- Statistics and Probability
- Data Wrangling and Exploratory Data Analysis
- Machine Learning
- Regression, classification, clustering
- Model evaluation
- Big Data Tools and Cloud Platforms
- Data Visualisation, Ethics and Deployment