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Data Management Fundamentals Practice Exam

Question 1
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Every enterprise is subject to many governmental and industry regulations, many of which
regulate how data and information is used and managed. Part of the Data Governance
Function is to:

This is a risk and audit responsibility; Data Governance plays no role in this

Perform ad-hoc audits of possible regulations to report to the DG Council on an information

only basis

This is about data; Data Governance is accountable for the whole process, with Risk and
Audit reporting to DG

Enforce enterprise-wide mandatory compliance to regulations

Correct!

Monitor and ensure that organisations meet any regulatory compliance requirements

Question 2
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Which of these is NOT a standard motivation for Data Governance?

Company reorganization following a merger or acquisition

Reactive following a data breach

Proactive as part of a strategy

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Pre-empting new legislation

Installing a new application package

Question 3
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What Organization Structure should set the overall direction for Data Governance?

Data Quality Board

Data Governance Office

IT Leadership Team

PMO
Correct!

Data Governance Steering Committee

Question 4
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How do data management professionals maintain commitment of key stakeholders to the data
management initiative?

Find and deliver benefits to the stakeholders early in the initiative

Correct!

Continuous communication education and promotion of the importance and value of of

data and information assets

Weekly email reports showing metrics on data management progress/ lack thereof

It is not necessary, as the stakeholders signed up at the beginning of the program

Rely on the stakeholder group to be self-sustaining

Question 5
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When new governmental and industry regulations are formulated and enacted, Data
Governance plays a key role in the process of identifying the data and information
components for compliance. What do you see as their most important role in any regulatory
compliance project?

Take no part in any project at all, declaring it an audit and risk project

Work in isolation and mine the data and information for compliance and non-compliance
issues

Create a DG 'in-house' project with a team of data stewards to create a standard response
Correct!

Working with business and technical leadership to find the best answers to a standard
set of regulatory compliance questions (How, Why, When, etc)

Provide access to any possible data set to the compliance team and allow them to mine the
data for non-compliance

Question 6
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The needs of data protection require us to ensure that:

Data is secured with a password

Data is frequently backed up so that it can be recovered in all cases

Data can always be freely used in the company as it is a company asset

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Data is encrypted at all times

Data is processed only in ways compatible with the intended and communicated use it
was collected for, and respects the consent of the data subject

Question 7
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In 2009, ARMA International published GARP for managing records and information.
GARP stands for:

Gregarious Archive of Recordkeeping Processes

Correct!

Generally Acceptable Recordkeeping Principles

Generally Available Recordkeeping Practices

G20 Approved Recordkeeping Principles

Global Accredited Recordkeeping Principles

Question 8
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A document management system is an application used to track and store electronic
documents and electronic images of paper documents which provides the following
capabilities:

Wiki, collaboration, online editing

Scanning and transcoding of documents

Securing forwarding of documents to colleagues, never having to dispose of documents

Local disk storage and indexing of documents

Correct!
Storage, versioning, security, meta-data management, indexing and retrieval

Question 9
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Which of the following is not a step in the 'document and content management lifecycle'?

Manage versions and control

Capture records and content

Audit documents and records

Manage retention and disposal

Correct!

Create a content strategy

Question 10
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Non value-added information is often not removed because:

Legislation is unclear on what should be kept

We might need the information at a later stage

Correct!

The policies are unclear of what is defined as non-value-added, storage is cheap so there
is no cost driver, and it takes more effort to dispose than to keep

Data is an asset. It is likely to be recognized as valuable in the future

It should not be removed. All data is value-added

Question 11
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Dimension tables:

Do not contain hierarchies

Are the same as Facts

Correct!

Have many columns but few rows

Contain measures

Have few columns but many rows

Question 12
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Which of these is NOT a type of key found in a data model?

Local key

Primary key

Foreign key

Surrogate key

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Alternate key

Question 13
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Components of logical data models include:
Correct!

All of the above

Attributes

Entities

Keys

Relationships

Question 14
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All of the following are TRUE statements on relationship types except:

A one-to-one relationship says that a parent entity may have one and only one child entity

Correct!

A one-to-many relationship says that a child entity may have one or more parent
entities

A many-to-many relationship says that an instance of each entity may be associated with
many instances of the other entity, and vice versa

A recursive relationship relates instances of an entity to other instances of the same entity

A one-to-many relationship says that a parent entity may have one or more child entities

Question 15
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In a non-identifying relationship:
Correct!

The primary key of the parent entity becomes a foreign key in the child entity

The primary key of the child entity is removed

The foreign key of the parent entity migrates to the child entity

The primary key of the parent entity becomes part of the primary key of the child entity

The primary key of the child entity is concatenated

Question 16
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Which of these is a key process in defining data quality business rules?

Producing data management policies

De-duplicating data records

Producing data quality reports & dashboards

Correct!

Separating data that does not meet business needs from data that does

Matching data from different data sources

Question 17
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Which of these is NOT an expected role of a Data Quality Oversight Board?
You Answered

Producing certification & compliance policies

Establishing communications & feedback mechanisms

Developing & maintaining data quality

Data profiling & analysis

Setting data quality improvement priorities

Question 18
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Data quality measurements can be taken at three levels of granularity. They are:

Historical data, current data and future dated data

Correct!
Data element value, data instance or record, and data set

Departmental data, regional data, and enterprise data

Fine data, coarse data, and rough data

Person data, location data, and product data

Question 19
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Which of the following is NOT usually a feature of data quality improvement tools?

Data modelling

Standardization

Transformation

Parsing
Data profiling

Question 20
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Which of these statements is true?

Data Quality Management is the application of technology to data problems

Correct!
Data Quality Management is a continuous process

Data Quality Management only addresses structured data

Data Quality Management is usually a one-off project

Data Quality Management is a synonym for Data Governance

Question 21
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What is the role of the Data Governance Council in defining an Information Security policy?

The Data Governance Council should draft early versions of the Data Security Policy

The Data Governance Council should have no role in Data Security

The Data Governance Council should define the Data Security Policy

The Data Governance Council should implement the Data Security Policy

Correct!
The Data Governance Council should review and approve the high-level Data Security
Policy

Question 22
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A RACI matrix is a useful tool to support the ______ in an outsourced arrangement.

Transfer of access controls

rect!
Segregation of duties

Alignment of Business goals

Service level Agreement

Attributing Costs

Question 23
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Which of the following define the data security touch points in an organisation?

Internal Audit

Risk Assessmentrrect!

Business rules and process workflow

Industry standards

Legislation

Question 24
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Definition of Data Security Policies should be:
Correct!
A collaborative effort between Business and IT
Based on defined standards and templates

Conducted by external consultants

Reviewed by external Regulators

Determined by external Regulators

Question 25
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When outsourcing information management functions, organisations can:

Align strategy and control privacy

Transfer accountability but not control

Reduce cost of compliance and improve turnaround

Improve controls while reducing costs

Correct!

Transfer control but not accountability

Question 26
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Slice, Dice, Roll-up and Pivot are terms used in what kind of data processing?

OLTP

EDI

ODS
EIEIO
rect!

OLAP

Question 27
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A comparatively new architectural approach is where volatile data is provisioned in a data
warehouse structure to provide transactional systems with a combination of historical and
near real time data to meet customer needs. This is a definition of:

Behavioural Decision Support Systems

You Answered

On Line Analytical Processing Cube

Operational Data Store

On Line Transactional Processing System

Active Data Warehousing

Question 28
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A data lineage tool enables a user to:

Track the historical changes to a data value

Enables rapid development of dashboard reporting

Line up the data to support sophisticated glossary management

Correct!
Track the data from source system to a target database; understanding its
transformations
Visualize how the data gets to the data lake

Question 29
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You need to discover possible relationships or to show data patterns in an exploratory fashion
when you do not necessarily have a specific question to ask. What kind of data tool would
you use to identify patterns of data using various algorithms?

Data Visualisation Application

Data Mining

You Answered

ETL Jobs

Meta-Data Data Lineage View

Data Quality Profiler

Question 30
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One of the difficulties when integrating multiple source systems is:
Correct!

Determining valid links or equivalences between data elements

Completing the data architecture on time for the first release

Maintaining documentation describing the data warehouse operation

Having a data quality rule applicable to all source systems

Modifying the source systems to align to the enterprise data model

Question 31
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Reference Data:

Is also known as External data

Is more difficult to Govern than Master Data

Is free

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Usually has more attributes than Master Data

Usually has fewer attributes than Master Data

Question 32
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Master Data Management:
Correct!

Controls the definition of business entities

Is synonymous with Reference Data Management

Is time-consuming with questionable impact on data quality

Ensures coded values are always used

Allows applications to define business entities as needed and manages the mappings between
common data in a central location

Question 33
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A common driver for initiating a Reference Data Management program is:

Managing codes and descriptions requires little effort and low cost

It can be a one-time-only project

It will consolidate the process of securing third party code sets

ect!

It will improve data quality and facilitate analysis across the organization

It fosters the creative use of data

Question 34
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Master data differs from Reference data in the following way:

Master data should be held to a higher data quality standard than Reference data

Master data is stipulated and controlled by Data Governance where Reference data is not

Correct!
Unlike Reference data, Master data is not usually limited to predefined domain values

Master data does not require a data steward

Master data does not require business definitions

Question 35
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What is a common motivation for Reference and Master Data Management?

Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing

The need to consolidate all data into one physical database

Regulatory acts such as BCBS239, GDPR and SOX

The need to build a Data Dictionary of all core data entities & attributes
Correct!

The need to improve data quality and data integrity across multiple data sources

Question 36
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Metadata repository processes will not include:

All of these

Selecting Data Management Library software, search, and storage technologies

Managing change to data products (e.g. Data Dictionary or Business Data Glossary) entries
e.g. new data term to be defined, new data requirement, new database tables added, new
system included into the technical landscape

Assessing impact where change to existing data product entries are proposed e.g. the impact
of change on related data on other systems

You Answered

Controlling versions of data product will be required to manage the required single published
master copy in conjunction with the variants potentially established as work in progress

Question 37
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To which of the following initiatives was the establishment of an industry Meta-Data
Standard essential?

EDI
JSON

You Answered

BASEL II/ SOX

Internet Protocols

Proprietary XML

Question 38
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The role of the Physical data model in the Metadata repository is:

What the business definition of data concepts is

When the duplicated records were merged

How many master data records are stored in our MDM system
Correct!

To describe how and where our data is stored in our systems applications or packages

Which version of COTS software (E.g. SAP) is implemented

Question 39
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What would you not expect to find in the MetaData repository?

Data Models

Data Dictionary

Data Lineage diagrams and models

ect!

Data storage devices

Data Requirements

Question 40
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The MetaData repository enables us to establish multiple perspectives of data. These are:

3rd normal form and un normalised

Internal and External

Dimensional and non dimensional perspective

Correct!
Business and Technical Perspective

Structured and unstructured

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