Information Architecture & Strategy Flashcards

A CDO wants domain teams to own, publish, and serve their data as products while a central team provides a self-serve platform and federated governance. Which architectural paradigm is this?

Answer: Data mesh

Data mesh rests on domain ownership, data as a product, a self-serve platform, and federated computational governance.

Which architecture relies mainly on active metadata, knowledge graphs, and automation to integrate distributed data without necessarily moving it?

Answer: Data fabric

A data fabric uses active metadata and automated integration to link data across environments, which is a technology-led approach rather than an organizational one.

In the Zachman Framework, what do the columns represent?

Answer: The interrogatives What, How, Where, Who, When, and Why

Zachman columns are the six interrogatives, and its rows are the stakeholder perspectives.

Which TOGAF ADM phase covers defining the baseline and target data and application architectures?

Answer: Phase C: Information Systems Architectures

Phase C of the ADM covers both the data architecture and the application architecture.

A data model with entities, attributes, keys, and normalization but no DBMS-specific details such as indexes or partitions is which kind of model?

Answer: Logical model

Logical models capture detailed structure and relationships but stay independent of any particular technology.

When building a data strategy, what should a CDO establish first so that data initiatives get funded and prioritized?

Answer: Links between data capabilities and specific business objectives and outcomes

A data strategy gets investment when it is tied directly to measurable business goals.

Which streaming-era architecture processes all data, including reprocessing of history, through a single stream-processing path?

Answer: Kappa architecture

Kappa removes Lambda's separate batch layer by replaying the immutable log through one streaming pipeline.