CDS Metadata & Master Data Management 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which metadata type describes the rules, constraints, and definitions that govern how data should be structured and used?
- Technical metadata
- Operational metadata
- Business metadata (Correct answer)
- Administrative metadata
Correct answer: Business metadata
Business metadata captures the rules, definitions, and governance constraints that describe data from a business perspective.
Question 2: In Master Data Management, a 'golden record' refers to:
- The most recently updated record in a system
- A record stored in a gold-tier SLA database
- The authoritative, best-version consolidated record for an entity (Correct answer)
- The record with the highest confidence score before deduplication
Correct answer: The authoritative, best-version consolidated record for an entity
A golden record is the single, authoritative, trusted version of a master data entity created after consolidating and deduplicating source records.
Question 3: A data catalog primarily leverages which type of metadata to allow users to search and discover datasets?
- Operational metadata
- Process metadata
- Technical and business metadata (Correct answer)
- Lineage metadata only
Correct answer: Technical and business metadata
Data catalogs combine technical metadata (schemas, formats) and business metadata (descriptions, tags, ownership) to enable discovery.
Question 4: Which MDM implementation style allows source systems to retain their own records while the MDM hub stores only cross-reference keys?
- Consolidation style
- Registry style (Correct answer)
- Coexistence style
- Centralized style
Correct answer: Registry style
Registry-style MDM maintains an index of cross-references and pointers without physically storing master records in the hub.
Question 5: Metadata lineage tracking is most critical for which compliance requirement?
- Response time SLAs
- Data subject access requests under GDPR (Correct answer)
- Network throughput auditing
- Software license management
Correct answer: Data subject access requests under GDPR
GDPR data subject access requests require organizations to trace exactly where personal data originated, how it transformed, and where it flows.
Question 6: What is the primary risk of managing master data without a defined data stewardship ownership model?
- Slower query performance
- Inconsistent, conflicting master records across domains (Correct answer)
- Higher storage costs
- Inability to run batch ETL jobs
Correct answer: Inconsistent, conflicting master records across domains
Without clear ownership, different teams may update master data independently, creating conflicting versions and eroding trust in the data.
Question 7: Which survivorship rule would a data steward apply when multiple source systems disagree on a customer's email address?
- Always pick the value from the oldest source system
- Apply a predefined trust score to select the most reliable source's value (Correct answer)
- Concatenate all values with a delimiter
- Leave the field blank until all sources agree
Correct answer: Apply a predefined trust score to select the most reliable source's value
Survivorship rules use source system trust scores, recency, or completeness metrics to elect the best value for the golden record.
CDS Metadata & Master Data Management 2
Which metadata type describes the rules, constraints, and definitions that govern how data should be structured and used?