Level 1

# Foundations

Find and trust data

For everyone who needs to find, understand and use trusted data. No prior experience with Collate assumed.

## What you will be able to do

*   ✓Search across every asset type and narrow a broad result set with tags and filters
*   ✓Find trusted data assets and understand why they are trusted
*   ✓Interpret ownership, glossary terms, classifications and lineage
*   ✓Navigate from a business glossary term to the physical assets behind it
*   ✓Trace a data asset back to its source through lineage
*   ✓Assess whether a given dataset is fit for your purpose
*   ✓Request a description change when you do not have the rights to make it

## How this track works

1.  Work through the six Foundations modules
2.  Pass the knowledge check, which you can retake as often as you like

## Modules

1

### Getting Started with Collate

How metadata gets into Collate, and what the platform does with it once it arrives.

10 min

[Start](/training/foundations/getting-started)

2

### Data Discovery Basics

Finding the asset you need among tens of thousands, and narrowing a broad search down to a usable shortlist.

10 min

[Start](/training/foundations/data-discovery-basics)

3

### Understanding Related Elements

Reading an asset in context: its tags, its glossary terms, its owners, and everything else connected to it.

5 min

[Start](/training/foundations/related-elements)

4

### Lineage Basics

How to trace a number back to where it came from, at both table and column level.

10 min

[Start](/training/foundations/lineage-basics)

5

### Data Quality Basics

How quality is tested and expressed, so you can judge whether an asset is fit for your purpose.

10 min

[Start](/training/foundations/data-quality-basics)

6

### Data Description Basics

How descriptions are written, requested, discussed and versioned, including what to do when you lack the rights to edit.

10 min

[Start](/training/foundations/data-description-basics)

Final step

### Foundations knowledge check

10 questions, 8 to pass, unlimited retakes. Every answer is explained.

[Take the knowledge check](/training/foundations/quiz)

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