DAMA DMBOK SAMPLE EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
establish the data governance mission and plan - Answer- 1. An enterprise data governance forum is used to determine: A) assemble teams for data governance
B) guiding principles for program and project management
C) establish the data governance mission and plan
D) enterprise stewards
data stewards - Answer- Validity, referential integrity, invalid data, and data validation are terms most often associated with:
A) process managers
B) data coordinators
C) data stewards
D) production stewards
Legal, Political, Social - Answer- Data aspects that require governance include all of the
following EXCEPT: A) Ownership, Data Quality, Data Integration
B) Legal, Political, Social
C) Create, Read, Update, Delete
D) Retention Archiving, Distribution
A business responsibility - Answer- Executive information management is: A) A business responsibility
B) An IT responsibility
C) A process change strategy
D) Rule based data supporting employee decision making
field values within a specified range consisting of acceptable characters - Answer- Data validity is a term describing:
A) verification of non ‐zero values within a field
B) alphanumeric characters within a field of a data record
C) processes which check for numeric limits of field length for a record
D) field values within a specified range consisting of acceptable characters
data stewards - Answer- Defining data related business rules is a task leadership role taken up by: A) data governance
B) data management
C) data stewards
D) data operations & security Sarbanes‐Oxley Act - Answer- Critical data governance that supports financial reporting
for public companies is focused by federal regulations such as:
A) CSOX
B) "ID‐10‐T standard" error reporting aligned with the Whistleblowers Protection Act
C) Sarbanes‐Oxley Act
D) DTOX
data stewards - Answer- Managing external data providers is a function of: A) data steward
B) data architect
C) data modeler
D) database administrator
A) data modelers - Answer- Field record, record length, attribute, data capacity, back ‐
up, restore, and archiving are all attributes and activities most often associated with:
A) data modelers
B) database administrators
C) data development and security D) data stewards
C) data stewards - Answer- Creating, reviewing, and approving business definitions is a task leadership role taken up by: A) data operations and security
B) data management
C) data stewards
D) data governance
Document and content management is the control over capture, storage, access and use of data and information stored outside relational databases. Focus is on integrity and access.
C) Drafting a Records Retention Policy - Answer- Which task would you expect to fall under a document and content management program? A) Defining Data Requirements
B) Data Profiling
C) Drafting a Records Retention Policy
D) Assigning Data Stewards
The most accurate and current data value for shared, consistent use across applications - Answer- In Master Data Management, a "gold data value" is
A) The most expensive data set in an organization's holdings
B) The information represented in organization's business vocabulary
C) The data values that have been most recently cleansed and verified as non ‐
duplicative D) The most accurate and current data value for shared, consistent use across applications
establish the data governance mission and plan - Answer- 1. An enterprise data governance forum is used to determine: A) assemble teams for data governance
B) guiding principles for program and project management
C) establish the data governance mission and plan
D) enterprise stewards
data stewards - Answer- Validity, referential integrity, invalid data, and data validation are terms most often associated with:
A) process managers
B) data coordinators
C) data stewards
D) production stewards
Legal, Political, Social - Answer- Data aspects that require governance include all of the
following EXCEPT: A) Ownership, Data Quality, Data Integration
B) Legal, Political, Social
C) Create, Read, Update, Delete
D) Retention Archiving, Distribution
A business responsibility - Answer- Executive information management is: A) A business responsibility
B) An IT responsibility
C) A process change strategy
D) Rule based data supporting employee decision making
field values within a specified range consisting of acceptable characters - Answer- Data validity is a term describing:
A) verification of non ‐zero values within a field
B) alphanumeric characters within a field of a data record
C) processes which check for numeric limits of field length for a record
D) field values within a specified range consisting of acceptable characters
data stewards - Answer- Defining data related business rules is a task leadership role taken up by: A) data governance
B) data management
C) data stewards
D) data operations & security Sarbanes‐Oxley Act - Answer- Critical data governance that supports financial reporting
for public companies is focused by federal regulations such as:
A) CSOX
B) "ID‐10‐T standard" error reporting aligned with the Whistleblowers Protection Act
C) Sarbanes‐Oxley Act
D) DTOX
data stewards - Answer- Managing external data providers is a function of: A) data steward
B) data architect
C) data modeler
D) database administrator
A) data modelers - Answer- Field record, record length, attribute, data capacity, back ‐
up, restore, and archiving are all attributes and activities most often associated with:
A) data modelers
B) database administrators
C) data development and security D) data stewards
C) data stewards - Answer- Creating, reviewing, and approving business definitions is a task leadership role taken up by: A) data operations and security
B) data management
C) data stewards
D) data governance
Document and content management is the control over capture, storage, access and use of data and information stored outside relational databases. Focus is on integrity and access.
C) Drafting a Records Retention Policy - Answer- Which task would you expect to fall under a document and content management program? A) Defining Data Requirements
B) Data Profiling
C) Drafting a Records Retention Policy
D) Assigning Data Stewards
The most accurate and current data value for shared, consistent use across applications - Answer- In Master Data Management, a "gold data value" is
A) The most expensive data set in an organization's holdings
B) The information represented in organization's business vocabulary
C) The data values that have been most recently cleansed and verified as non ‐
duplicative D) The most accurate and current data value for shared, consistent use across applications
