CCBA Information Architecture & Data Analysis Flashcards

Which modeling technique best represents the structure of data and relationships between data entities in a business domain?

Answer: Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD)

An Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) depicts data entities, their attributes, and the relationships between them within a business domain.

A business analyst is documenting the rules that govern how data is defined, managed, and used across an organization. This work falls under which discipline?

Answer: Data Governance

Data governance involves establishing policies, standards, and rules for managing data quality, access, and usage across the organization.

In business analysis, a 'data dictionary' is primarily used to:

Answer: Define and document the meaning, format, and usage of data elements

A data dictionary provides standardized definitions of data elements, including their names, descriptions, data types, and allowable values.

A business analyst notices that the same customer data is stored differently across multiple US regional systems. This is an example of a:

Answer: Data quality issue

Inconsistent data stored across systems represents a data quality issue, specifically a consistency or integrity problem that must be addressed.

Which of the following best describes 'information architecture' in the context of business analysis?

Answer: The structure, organization, and labeling of information to support usability and findability

Information architecture refers to the structural design of how information is organized, labeled, and presented to make it accessible and useful to users.

A state table (state-transition diagram) is used in business analysis to model which aspect of a system?

Answer: How an object or entity changes from one status to another based on events

A state-transition diagram models the different states an object can be in and the events or conditions that cause it to move from one state to another.