CDMP 4

Who is most responsible for communicating and promoting awareness on the value of Data Governance in the organization?

• The Data Governance Council
• Data Champions
• The Data Governance Office
• Data Owners and Stewards
• Everyone in the Data Management Community

What Organization Structure should set the overall direction for Data Governance?

• Data Governance Office
• Data Quality Board
• Data Governance Steering Committee
• PMO
• IT Leadership Team

Which of these is NOT a standard motivation for Data Governance?

• Installing a new application package
• Company reorganization following a merger or acquisition
• Proactive as part of a strategy
• Reactive following a data breach
• Pre-empting new legislation

Which of these does NOT characterize an effective data steward?

• He / She works in association with the Data Owner to protect and enhance the data assets under his or her control
• Is a highly experienced technical expert in a variety of data management disciplines & tools
• He / she works collaboratively across the organization with data stakeholders and others identifying data problems and issues
• Is a recognized subject matter expert in the data subject area / business domain that he or she is responsible for
• He / She is an effective communicator

When new governmental and industry regulations are formulated and enacted, Data Governance plays a key role in the process of identifying the data and information components for compliance. What do you see as their most important role in any regulatory compliance project?

• Create a DG 'in-house' project with a team of data stewards to create a standard response
• Working with business and technical leadership to find the best answers to a standard set of regulatory compliance (How, Why, When, etc)
• Provide access to any possible data set to the compliance team and allow them to mine the data for non-compliance
• Work in isolation and mine the data and information for compliance and non-compliance issues
• Take no part in any project at all, declaring it an audit and risk project

Which of the following are primary deliverables of proper document and record management?

• Managed records in many media formats, e-discovery records, policies and procedures, contracts and financial documents
• Local drives of laptops, transcripts of phone calls
• Data from tracking devices, building sensor data
• Relational databases, database logs, paper documents
• Spreadsheets, company library books, sales transactions

In 2009, ARMA International published GARP for managing records and information. GARP stands for:

• G20 Approved Recordkeeping Principles
• Gregarious Archive of Recordkeeping Processes
• Global Accredited Recordkeeping Principles
• Generally Acceptable Recordkeeping Principles
• Generally Available Recordkeeping Practices

Non value-added information is often not removed because:

• It should not be removed. All data is value-added
• The policies are unclear of what is defined as non-value-added, storage is cheap so there is no cost driver, and it takes more effort to dispose than to keep
• Legislation is unclear on what should be kept
• We might need the information at a later stage
• Data is an asset. It is likely to be recognized as valuable in the future

Which statement best describes the relationship between documents and records?

• Documents are a sub-set of records
• Documents and records are not related
• Records are a sub-set of documents
• Documents are written and records are audio
• Documents and records are the same thing

The needs of data protection require us to ensure that:

• Data is frequently backed up so that it can be recovered in all cases
• Data is secured with a password
• Data is encrypted at all times
• Data can always be freely used in the company as it is a company asset
• Data is processed only in ways compatible with the intended and communicated use it was collected for, and respects the consent of the data subject