MS Informatics: Relevant Professional Certificates
MS Informatics – Relevant Professional Certificates
These professional certificates focus on applied technical skills and current industry tools. Each certificate requires the completion of hands-on projects, such as deploying web applications, auditing security protocols, or analyzing datasets, which can provide students with tangible evidence of competency for their personal professional portfolios.
INFM 201: Tech Foundations
This certificate teaches skills & languages such as Python, Linux, Git, mySQL/SQL, Django, and REST APIs.
This certificate teaches how to code and build interactive web pages using HTML5, CSS and JavaScript. Students will use industry-standard tools such as Bootstrap, React, and Figma.
INFM 202: Security Overview
This certificate covers Python, Linux, SQL, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tools, Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), communication, collaboration, analysis, problem solving and more! It also helps students prepare for the CompTIA Security+ exam.
This certificate covers penetration testing, incident response, forensics, and threat intelligence.Students will also develop cybersecurity plans and compliance frameworks. This also helps students prepare for the CompTIA Security+ exam.
This certificate focuses on cybersecurity skills such as threat mitigation, access control, incident response, and disaster recovery planning. This helps students prepare for the ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity exam.
INFM 203: Big Data Analytics
This certificate prepares students for in-demand skills including data visualization, statistical analysis, predictive modeling, machine learning algorithms, and data mining. They will also work with languages, tools, and libraries including Python, SQL, Jupyter notebooks, Github, Rstudio, Pandas, Numpy, ScikitLearn, Matplotlib, and more.
This certificate teaches the core skills needed to build the systems and infrastructure that collects and processes large-scale data sets. Students will learn SQL, RDBMS, ETL, Data Warehousing, NoSQL, Big Data, and Spark.
INFM 204: Human Centered Design
This certificate covers core UX design topics and guides students through the end-to-end UX process of researching, wireframing, and testing. Focuses on foundational UX design principles.
This certificate teaches core UX design topics with a focus on building systems that are accessible to all users.
This certificate teaches core UX design topics with a focus on enterprise design thinking and tech/dev alignment.
INFM 205: Project Management
This certificate teaches project management skills with an emphasis on IT-specific scenarios and working with technical teams. This also helps students prepare for the CAPM certification exam.
This certificate teaches core project management skills and prepares students for the PMP exam.
These certificates build on foundational project management skills and cover aligning multiple projects with organizational strategy. Students can also prepare for the PgMP certification exam. The IBM certificate focuses slightly more on methodologies while the Microsoft certificate focuses slightly more on leadership and operations.
INFM 206: Electronic Records & INFM 207: Digital Assets Management
This certificate can complement these courses by teaching foundational data management concepts and the technical architecture of databases. It could be useful for students if they are interested in rounding out their skillset to learn industry-standard data tools and understand how to build and maintain the repositories where electronic records and digital assets live.
INFM 208: Information Assurance
This certificate covers core security principles, incident response, and disaster recovery planning. It provides the foundational knowledge needed to understand how risk management frameworks are applied to protect digital data.
This certificate focuses on the technical skills required to enforce security policies and protect organizational assets, particularly within an Azure environment.