diff --git a/mindspore/ccsrc/minddata/dataset/api/datasets.cc b/mindspore/ccsrc/minddata/dataset/api/datasets.cc
index d8191f462fcd7fee85adbfe1d695ab99ca080c7a..92222e541625381fea9473b7899f3c78f429ab35 100644
--- a/mindspore/ccsrc/minddata/dataset/api/datasets.cc
+++ b/mindspore/ccsrc/minddata/dataset/api/datasets.cc
@@ -86,9 +86,16 @@ Dataset::Dataset() {
 // (In alphabetical order)
 
 // Function to create a Cifar10Dataset.
-std::shared_ptr<Cifar10Dataset> Cifar10(const std::string &dataset_dir, int32_t num_samples,
-                                        std::shared_ptr<SamplerObj> sampler) {
-  auto ds = std::make_shared<Cifar10Dataset>(dataset_dir, num_samples, sampler);
+std::shared_ptr<Cifar10Dataset> Cifar10(const std::string &dataset_dir, std::shared_ptr<SamplerObj> sampler) {
+  auto ds = std::make_shared<Cifar10Dataset>(dataset_dir, sampler);
+
+  // Call derived class validation method.
+  return ds->ValidateParams() ? ds : nullptr;
+}
+
+// Function to create a Cifar100Dataset.
+std::shared_ptr<Cifar100Dataset> Cifar100(const std::string &dataset_dir, std::shared_ptr<SamplerObj> sampler) {
+  auto ds = std::make_shared<Cifar100Dataset>(dataset_dir, sampler);
 
   // Call derived class validation method.
   return ds->ValidateParams() ? ds : nullptr;
@@ -250,28 +257,27 @@ std::shared_ptr<SamplerObj> CreateDefaultSampler() {
   return std::make_shared<RandomSamplerObj>(replacement, num_samples);
 }
 
+// Helper function to validate dataset params
+bool ValidateCommonDatasetParams(std::string dataset_dir) {
+  if (dataset_dir.empty()) {
+    MS_LOG(ERROR) << "No dataset path is specified";
+    return false;
+  }
+  return true;
+}
+
 /* ####################################### Derived Dataset classes ################################# */
 
 // DERIVED DATASET CLASSES LEAF-NODE DATASETS
 // (In alphabetical order)
 
 // Constructor for Cifar10Dataset
-Cifar10Dataset::Cifar10Dataset(const std::string &dataset_dir, int32_t num_samples, std::shared_ptr<SamplerObj> sampler)
-    : dataset_dir_(dataset_dir), num_samples_(num_samples), sampler_(sampler) {}
+Cifar10Dataset::Cifar10Dataset(const std::string &dataset_dir, std::shared_ptr<SamplerObj> sampler)
+    : dataset_dir_(dataset_dir), sampler_(sampler) {}
 
-bool Cifar10Dataset::ValidateParams() {
-  if (dataset_dir_.empty()) {
-    MS_LOG(ERROR) << "No dataset path is specified.";
-    return false;
-  }
-  if (num_samples_ < 0) {
-    MS_LOG(ERROR) << "Number of samples cannot be negative";
-    return false;
-  }
-  return true;
-}
+bool Cifar10Dataset::ValidateParams() { return ValidateCommonDatasetParams(dataset_dir_); }
 
-// Function to build CifarOp
+// Function to build CifarOp for Cifar10
 std::vector<std::shared_ptr<DatasetOp>> Cifar10Dataset::Build() {
   // A vector containing shared pointer to the Dataset Ops that this object will create
   std::vector<std::shared_ptr<DatasetOp>> node_ops;
@@ -294,6 +300,37 @@ std::vector<std::shared_ptr<DatasetOp>> Cifar10Dataset::Build() {
   return node_ops;
 }
 
+// Constructor for Cifar100Dataset
+Cifar100Dataset::Cifar100Dataset(const std::string &dataset_dir, std::shared_ptr<SamplerObj> sampler)
+    : dataset_dir_(dataset_dir), sampler_(sampler) {}
+
+bool Cifar100Dataset::ValidateParams() { return ValidateCommonDatasetParams(dataset_dir_); }
+
+// Function to build CifarOp for Cifar100
+std::vector<std::shared_ptr<DatasetOp>> Cifar100Dataset::Build() {
+  // A vector containing shared pointer to the Dataset Ops that this object will create
+  std::vector<std::shared_ptr<DatasetOp>> node_ops;
+
+  // If user does not specify Sampler, create a default sampler based on the shuffle variable.
+  if (sampler_ == nullptr) {
+    sampler_ = CreateDefaultSampler();
+  }
+
+  // Do internal Schema generation.
+  auto schema = std::make_unique<DataSchema>();
+  RETURN_EMPTY_IF_ERROR(schema->AddColumn(ColDescriptor("image", DataType(DataType::DE_UINT8), TensorImpl::kCv, 1)));
+  TensorShape scalar = TensorShape::CreateScalar();
+  RETURN_EMPTY_IF_ERROR(
+    schema->AddColumn(ColDescriptor("coarse_label", DataType(DataType::DE_UINT32), TensorImpl::kFlexible, 0, &scalar)));
+  RETURN_EMPTY_IF_ERROR(
+    schema->AddColumn(ColDescriptor("fine_label", DataType(DataType::DE_UINT32), TensorImpl::kFlexible, 0, &scalar)));
+
+  node_ops.push_back(std::make_shared<CifarOp>(CifarOp::CifarType::kCifar100, num_workers_, rows_per_buffer_,
+                                               dataset_dir_, connector_que_size_, std::move(schema),
+                                               std::move(sampler_->Build())));
+  return node_ops;
+}
+
 ImageFolderDataset::ImageFolderDataset(std::string dataset_dir, bool decode, std::shared_ptr<SamplerObj> sampler,
                                        bool recursive, std::set<std::string> extensions,
                                        std::map<std::string, int32_t> class_indexing)
@@ -304,14 +341,7 @@ ImageFolderDataset::ImageFolderDataset(std::string dataset_dir, bool decode, std
       class_indexing_(class_indexing),
       exts_(extensions) {}
 
-bool ImageFolderDataset::ValidateParams() {
-  if (dataset_dir_.empty()) {
-    MS_LOG(ERROR) << "No dataset path is specified.";
-    return false;
-  }
-
-  return true;
-}
+bool ImageFolderDataset::ValidateParams() { return ValidateCommonDatasetParams(dataset_dir_); }
 
 std::vector<std::shared_ptr<DatasetOp>> ImageFolderDataset::Build() {
   // A vector containing shared pointer to the Dataset Ops that this object will create
@@ -339,14 +369,7 @@ std::vector<std::shared_ptr<DatasetOp>> ImageFolderDataset::Build() {
 MnistDataset::MnistDataset(std::string dataset_dir, std::shared_ptr<SamplerObj> sampler)
     : dataset_dir_(dataset_dir), sampler_(sampler) {}
 
-bool MnistDataset::ValidateParams() {
-  if (dataset_dir_.empty()) {
-    MS_LOG(ERROR) << "No dataset path is specified.";
-    return false;
-  }
-
-  return true;
-}
+bool MnistDataset::ValidateParams() { return ValidateCommonDatasetParams(dataset_dir_); }
 
 std::vector<std::shared_ptr<DatasetOp>> MnistDataset::Build() {
   // A vector containing shared pointer to the Dataset Ops that this object will create
diff --git a/mindspore/ccsrc/minddata/dataset/include/datasets.h b/mindspore/ccsrc/minddata/dataset/include/datasets.h
index 595404dd038d84495aa90f66927417b0df8931a0..14f8233ef293a466be4d72ca108c691dea60c6c5 100644
--- a/mindspore/ccsrc/minddata/dataset/include/datasets.h
+++ b/mindspore/ccsrc/minddata/dataset/include/datasets.h
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ class TensorOperation;
 class SamplerObj;
 // Datasets classes (in alphabetical order)
 class Cifar10Dataset;
+class Cifar100Dataset;
 class ImageFolderDataset;
 class MnistDataset;
 // Dataset Op classes (in alphabetical order)
@@ -57,12 +58,19 @@ class ZipDataset;
 /// \brief Function to create a Cifar10 Dataset
 /// \notes The generated dataset has two columns ['image', 'label']
 /// \param[in] dataset_dir Path to the root directory that contains the dataset
-/// \param[in] num_samples The number of images to be included in the dataset
 /// \param[in] sampler Object used to choose samples from the dataset. If sampler is `nullptr`, A `RandomSampler`
 ///    will be used to randomly iterate the entire dataset
 /// \return Shared pointer to the current Dataset
-std::shared_ptr<Cifar10Dataset> Cifar10(const std::string &dataset_dir, int32_t num_samples,
-                                        std::shared_ptr<SamplerObj> sampler);
+std::shared_ptr<Cifar10Dataset> Cifar10(const std::string &dataset_dir, std::shared_ptr<SamplerObj> sampler = nullptr);
+
+/// \brief Function to create a Cifar100 Dataset
+/// \notes The generated dataset has two columns ['image', 'coarse_label', 'fine_label']
+/// \param[in] dataset_dir Path to the root directory that contains the dataset
+/// \param[in] sampler Object used to choose samples from the dataset. If sampler is `nullptr`, A `RandomSampler`
+///    will be used to randomly iterate the entire dataset
+/// \return Shared pointer to the current Dataset
+std::shared_ptr<Cifar100Dataset> Cifar100(const std::string &dataset_dir,
+                                          std::shared_ptr<SamplerObj> sampler = nullptr);
 
 /// \brief Function to create an ImageFolderDataset
 /// \notes A source dataset that reads images from a tree of directories
@@ -204,7 +212,7 @@ class Dataset : public std::enable_shared_from_this<Dataset> {
 class Cifar10Dataset : public Dataset {
  public:
   /// \brief Constructor
-  Cifar10Dataset(const std::string &dataset_dir, int32_t num_samples, std::shared_ptr<SamplerObj> sampler);
+  Cifar10Dataset(const std::string &dataset_dir, std::shared_ptr<SamplerObj> sampler);
 
   /// \brief Destructor
   ~Cifar10Dataset() = default;
@@ -219,7 +227,27 @@ class Cifar10Dataset : public Dataset {
 
  private:
   std::string dataset_dir_;
-  int32_t num_samples_;
+  std::shared_ptr<SamplerObj> sampler_;
+};
+
+class Cifar100Dataset : public Dataset {
+ public:
+  /// \brief Constructor
+  Cifar100Dataset(const std::string &dataset_dir, std::shared_ptr<SamplerObj> sampler);
+
+  /// \brief Destructor
+  ~Cifar100Dataset() = default;
+
+  /// \brief a base class override function to create the required runtime dataset op objects for this class
+  /// \return The list of shared pointers to the newly created DatasetOps
+  std::vector<std::shared_ptr<DatasetOp>> Build() override;
+
+  /// \brief Parameters validation
+  /// \return bool true if all the params are valid
+  bool ValidateParams() override;
+
+ private:
+  std::string dataset_dir_;
   std::shared_ptr<SamplerObj> sampler_;
 };
 
diff --git a/tests/ut/cpp/dataset/c_api_test.cc b/tests/ut/cpp/dataset/c_api_test.cc
index 5ff1862cfd68f227a2c4762bef3a77d9c14bce56..8544c5c569c6b405785f1d7cd16b23246ccd9829 100644
--- a/tests/ut/cpp/dataset/c_api_test.cc
+++ b/tests/ut/cpp/dataset/c_api_test.cc
@@ -84,6 +84,12 @@ TEST_F(MindDataTestPipeline, TestBatchAndRepeat) {
   iter->Stop();
 }
 
+TEST_F(MindDataTestPipeline, TestMnistFail1) {
+  // Create a Mnist Dataset
+  std::shared_ptr<Dataset> ds = Mnist("", RandomSampler(false, 10));
+  EXPECT_EQ(ds, nullptr);
+}
+
 TEST_F(MindDataTestPipeline, TestTensorOpsAndMap) {
   // Create a Mnist Dataset
   std::string folder_path = datasets_root_path_ + "/testMnistData/";
@@ -274,6 +280,12 @@ TEST_F(MindDataTestPipeline, TestImageFolderBatchAndRepeat) {
   iter->Stop();
 }
 
+TEST_F(MindDataTestPipeline, TestImageFolderFail1) {
+  // Create an ImageFolder Dataset
+  std::shared_ptr<Dataset> ds = ImageFolder("", true, nullptr);
+  EXPECT_EQ(ds, nullptr);
+}
+
 TEST_F(MindDataTestPipeline, TestImageFolderWithSamplers) {
   std::shared_ptr<SamplerObj> sampl = DistributedSampler(2, 1);
   EXPECT_NE(sampl, nullptr);
@@ -630,17 +642,7 @@ TEST_F(MindDataTestPipeline, TestCifar10Dataset) {
 
   // Create a Cifar10 Dataset
   std::string folder_path = datasets_root_path_ + "/testCifar10Data/";
-  std::shared_ptr<Dataset> ds = Cifar10(folder_path, 0, RandomSampler(false, 10));
-  EXPECT_NE(ds, nullptr);
-
-  // Create a Repeat operation on ds
-  int32_t repeat_num = 2;
-  ds = ds->Repeat(repeat_num);
-  EXPECT_NE(ds, nullptr);
-
-  // Create a Batch operation on ds
-  int32_t batch_size = 2;
-  ds = ds->Batch(batch_size);
+  std::shared_ptr<Dataset> ds = Cifar10(folder_path, RandomSampler(false, 10));
   EXPECT_NE(ds, nullptr);
 
   // Create an iterator over the result of the above dataset
@@ -652,6 +654,9 @@ TEST_F(MindDataTestPipeline, TestCifar10Dataset) {
   std::unordered_map<std::string, std::shared_ptr<Tensor>> row;
   iter->GetNextRow(&row);
 
+  EXPECT_NE(row.find("image"), row.end());
+  EXPECT_NE(row.find("label"), row.end());
+
   uint64_t i = 0;
   while (row.size() != 0) {
   i++;
@@ -666,6 +671,54 @@ TEST_F(MindDataTestPipeline, TestCifar10Dataset) {
   iter->Stop();
 }
 
+TEST_F(MindDataTestPipeline, TestCifar10DatasetFail1) {
+
+  // Create a Cifar10 Dataset
+  std::shared_ptr<Dataset> ds = Cifar10("", RandomSampler(false, 10));
+  EXPECT_EQ(ds, nullptr);
+}
+
+TEST_F(MindDataTestPipeline, TestCifar100Dataset) {
+
+  // Create a Cifar100 Dataset
+  std::string folder_path = datasets_root_path_ + "/testCifar100Data/";
+  std::shared_ptr<Dataset> ds = Cifar100(folder_path, RandomSampler(false, 10));
+  EXPECT_NE(ds, nullptr);
+
+  // Create an iterator over the result of the above dataset
+  // This will trigger the creation of the Execution Tree and launch it.
+  std::shared_ptr<Iterator> iter = ds->CreateIterator();
+  EXPECT_NE(iter, nullptr);
+
+  // Iterate the dataset and get each row
+  std::unordered_map<std::string, std::shared_ptr<Tensor>> row;
+  iter->GetNextRow(&row);
+
+  EXPECT_NE(row.find("image"), row.end());
+  EXPECT_NE(row.find("coarse_label"), row.end());
+  EXPECT_NE(row.find("fine_label"), row.end());
+
+  uint64_t i = 0;
+  while (row.size() != 0) {
+    i++;
+    auto image = row["image"];
+    MS_LOG(INFO) << "Tensor image shape: " << image->shape();
+    iter->GetNextRow(&row);
+  }
+
+  EXPECT_EQ(i, 10);
+
+  // Manually terminate the pipeline
+  iter->Stop();
+}
+
+TEST_F(MindDataTestPipeline, TestCifar100DatasetFail1) {
+
+  // Create a Cifar100 Dataset
+  std::shared_ptr<Dataset> ds = Cifar100("", RandomSampler(false, 10));
+  EXPECT_EQ(ds, nullptr);
+}
+
 TEST_F(MindDataTestPipeline, TestRandomColorAdjust) {
   // Create an ImageFolder Dataset
   std::string folder_path = datasets_root_path_ + "/testPK/data/";
@@ -843,7 +896,7 @@ TEST_F(MindDataTestPipeline, TestZipSuccess) {
   EXPECT_NE(ds1, nullptr);
 
   folder_path = datasets_root_path_ + "/testCifar10Data/";
-  std::shared_ptr<Dataset> ds2 = Cifar10(folder_path, 0, RandomSampler(false, 10));
+  std::shared_ptr<Dataset> ds2 = Cifar10(folder_path, RandomSampler(false, 10));
   EXPECT_NE(ds2, nullptr);
 
   // Create a Project operation on ds