Data and Analytics Data Governance and Quality 3

Question 1

What is a data dictionary?

Accepted Answer

A centralized repository documenting data elements, definitions, formats, and relationships

Answer

A data dictionary documents metadata about data elements including field names, data types, definitions, acceptable values, and relationships.

Question 2

What is the 'right to be forgotten' in data governance?

Accepted Answer

A legal right for individuals to request deletion of their personal data from an organization's systems

Answer

The right to be forgotten (right to erasure) allows individuals to request that organizations delete their personal data, recognized under GDPR and similar regulations.

Question 3

What is data tokenization?

Accepted Answer

Replacing sensitive data with non-sensitive placeholder tokens while preserving format

Answer

Tokenization substitutes sensitive data (like credit card numbers) with non-sensitive tokens that have no exploitable value if intercepted.

Question 4

What is a data breach in the context of compliance?

Accepted Answer

An unauthorized access or exposure of protected, sensitive, or confidential data

Answer

A data breach is a security incident where unauthorized individuals access, steal, or expose confidential or protected data.

Question 5

What is the purpose of data profiling?

Accepted Answer

Analyzing datasets to understand structure, content, quality, and relationships

Answer

Data profiling examines dataset characteristics including structure, content, quality, completeness, and statistical properties to understand the data before use.

Data and Analytics Practice Test

Data and Analytics Practice Test

Data and Analytics Data Governance and Quality 3