CDF Project Access for Data Engineer – Data Modeling Course

I’m currently working through the Data Engineer – Data Modeling learning course, specifically the hands-on section where we use the Cognite Toolkit to deploy and extend the provided cognite_dm_skilling repo repository.

The course instructions state that, before starting, learners should have:

• VS Code set up

• CDF Toolkit installed

• The cognite_dm_skilling repo cloned

• Read and write access to a CDF project

My question is: does Cognite provide a dedicated training or sandbox CDF project with read/write access for this course, or is access expected to be arranged separately (for example via an internal org project)?

I can complete the local build steps with the Toolkit, but deploying and validating the model changes appears to require an actual CDF project with write access.

Any guidance on the intended setup for learners here would be much appreciated.