Information Governance and Maintenance Flashcards
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An enterprise data governance program is struggling with low business adoption. Which action is most likely to improve engagement?
Answer: Demonstrating tangible business value through quick-win governance initiatives
Demonstrating business value through quick wins builds credibility and stakeholder buy-in, which is more effective than top-down enforcement alone.
What does 'data lineage' enable that raw metadata alone cannot?
Answer: End-to-end traceability of data as it flows and transforms across systems
Data lineage maps the complete journey of data from source to consumption, enabling impact analysis, root-cause investigation, and regulatory traceability.
Which principle of information governance ensures that data access is granted only to those with a legitimate business need?
Answer: Need-to-know access control
Need-to-know access control is a core governance principle limiting data exposure to authorized users, reducing breach risk and regulatory liability.
A data governance team is designing a data quality framework. Which dimension measures whether data values fall within acceptable domain ranges?
Answer: Validity
Validity measures whether data values conform to defined formats, ranges, and business rules, ensuring values are acceptable within the domain.
When an organization undergoes a merger, which information governance activity is most critical to harmonize data from two separate entities?
Answer: Master data management reconciliation across both entities' systems
MDM reconciliation identifies, matches, and merges conflicting master records (customers, products, suppliers) to create a single authoritative source post-merger.
Which information governance process ensures that data assets are decommissioned in compliance with legal holds and retention schedules?
Answer: Disposition management
Disposition management governs the end-of-life phase of data, ensuring retention schedules and legal hold obligations are satisfied before deletion or archival.
A company implements a data governance maturity model assessment. At which maturity level is governance characterized by defined, documented, and consistently followed processes?
Answer: Level 3 – Defined
Level 3 (Defined) in most maturity models signifies that processes are standardized, documented, and followed consistently across the organization.