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Data Management AD7. Complete Annex II curriculum.

13 source-backed modules. 220 deterministic field questions. Every architecture, governance, policy, engineering, platform, analytics, master-data, metadata, quality, privacy and AI-readiness duty.

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13 modules220 field questions238 reserve placesVerified 12 Aug 2026

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Current EPSOHQ training for EPSO/AD/426/25

Complete curriculum

13 source-backed modules

All 11 Annex II duty families, plus competition mapping and final execution.

Field question bank

220 questions

Source-traceable questions and exact 30-question, 40-minute exams.

Reasoning practice

Verbal · numerical · abstract

Direct timed practice for every reasoning component in the published profile.

EUFTE preparation

40-minute method

Written-test knowledge, source handling and final execution workflow.

Published test profile

Train every component on its official clock

Reasoning gates participation. Field MCQ both passes and ranks. EUFTE remains a final pass gate.

Official notice

Verbal20 · 35 min · 10/20 Numerical10 · 20 min · combined Abstract10 · 10 min · combined Field MCQ30 · 40 min · ranking EUFTE40 min · 5/10

Field bank

220 source-traceable questions

Two deterministic variants from each of 110 verified principles. Distractors stay inside one duty family.

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Ranking gate

15/30 is only the pass floor. Field MCQ scores rank candidates before eligibility and EUFTE processing. Train above threshold.

Current status

5,597 applicants. Tests held 29 April 2026. Selection remains ongoing for 238 Luxembourg reserve-list places.

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Part 1

Competition map

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Competition profile

Competition guide: EPSO/AD/426/25

Eligibility, 238 reserve places, Luxembourg duty station, exact test clocks, pass marks, ranking logic and current procedure status.

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Part 2

Architecture, governance and strategy

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Annex II.1 — Architecture and interoperability

Data architecture and interoperability

Reference and cloud architectures, semantic interoperability, reusable building blocks, APIs and EU public-sector interoperability.

Study module

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Annex II.2 — Governance and compliance

Data governance and compliance

Decision rights, stewardship, ownership, quality accountability, maturity assessment and the EU data-law stack.

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Annex II.3 — Policies and strategy

Data policies and strategy

Policy design, stakeholder consultation, sharing rules, lifecycle policy, strategic alignment and measurable roadmaps.

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Part 3

Engineering, platforms and insight

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Annex II.4 — Engineering and integration

Data engineering and integration

ETL and ELT, batch and streaming, APIs, orchestration, contracts, observability, lineage and recovery.

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Annex II.5 — Warehousing and platforms

Data warehousing and data platforms

Warehouse, lake, lakehouse and cloud patterns; modelling, workload isolation, scalability, retention and cost governance.

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Annex II.6 — Business intelligence and reporting

Business intelligence and reporting

Semantic metrics, dashboards, self-service controls, predictive analytics, accessibility and automated distribution.

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Part 4

Trusted enterprise data

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Annex II.7 — Master and reference data

Master and reference data management

Golden records, matching, survivorship, hierarchies, code lists, glossaries, harmonisation and operating models.

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Annex II.8 — Taxonomy and metadata

Data taxonomy and metadata management

Catalogues, lineage, provenance, controlled vocabularies, ontologies, DCAT-AP, knowledge graphs and semantic governance.

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Annex II.9 — Data quality

Data quality management

Quality dimensions, profiling, validation, cleansing, monitoring, issue ownership, scorecards and control design.

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Annex II.10 — Security and privacy

Data security and privacy

Least privilege, encryption, key management, DPIAs, minimisation, pseudonymisation, test data and incident readiness.

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Part 5

AI readiness and final execution

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Annex II.11 — AI data preparation

Advanced analytics and data preparation for AI

Feature engineering, labelling, augmentation, representative evaluation sets, leakage control, bias and dataset governance.

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EUFTE and final revision

40-minute EUFTE workflow, 30-question field mock method, 11-duty revision loop and final-week execution plan.

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Source boundary

The notice publishes professional duties, not a closed textbook. EPSOHQ maps all 11 Annex II families to stable professional principles and primary EU or standards sources. The notice, corrigenda and candidate messages prevail.

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EPSO/AD/426/25 preparation resources

Connect data management and data knowledge knowledge with timed practice, written-test method and nearby EPSO specialist competitions. Use one route from first diagnostic to final simulation.

Competition guide