Information Governance and Maintenance Flashcards
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A regulated financial firm must retain transaction records for seven years per SEC Rule 17a-4. Which governance process ensures this requirement is operationalized?
Answer: Records retention schedule enforcement
Records retention schedule enforcement translates regulatory retention periods into automated or procedural controls applied to specific data sets.
Which ISO standard provides guidance specifically on managing information as an asset and supports information governance frameworks?
Answer: ISO 8000
ISO 8000 defines requirements for data quality and the exchange of master data, directly supporting information asset governance.
In a federated data governance model, which characteristic distinguishes it from a centralized model?
Answer: Business units retain local data authority within enterprise-wide policy guardrails
Federated governance delegates domain-level decisions to business units while a central body enforces shared standards and policies.
What is data provenance in the context of information governance?
Answer: The documented history of data origin, movement, and transformation
Data provenance records where data originated and how it has been transformed, enabling trust, auditability, and compliance verification.
An organization is implementing a data catalog. Which governance benefit does the catalog primarily deliver?
Answer: Improved discoverability and understanding of enterprise data assets
A data catalog enables users to find, understand, and trust data assets by centralizing metadata, ownership, and lineage information.
Which governance principle requires that data policies be enforced consistently regardless of which department or system holds the data?
Answer: Policy universality
Policy universality ensures that the same governance rules apply enterprise-wide, preventing siloed exceptions that undermine data integrity.
A Chief Data Officer wants to establish accountability for customer data across five regional subsidiaries. Which governance structure is most appropriate?
Answer: Creating a cross-regional data stewardship network with local stewards reporting to a global council
A stewardship network balances local knowledge with global consistency, ensuring accountability at both the regional and enterprise levels.