CDO Information Architecture & Strategy 2

Question 1

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?

Accepted Answer

Data mesh

Answer

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

Question 2

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

Accepted Answer

Data fabric

Answer

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.

Question 3

In the Zachman Framework, what do the columns represent?

Accepted Answer

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

Answer

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

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

Phase C: Information Systems Architectures

Answer

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

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

Logical model

Answer

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

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CDO Information Architecture & Strategy 2