DAMA DMBOK SAMPLE EXAM QUESTIONS &
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
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
Data cleansing tools - Answer -All of the following are examples of Business
Intelligence tools EXCEPT
A) Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) tools
B) Advanced Data Visualization tools
C) Data Cleansing tools
D) Data Mining tools
Identify data quality issues critical to the achievement of business objectives - Answer -
In data quality management, what is the first step to improving data quality?
A) Purchase a data profiling tool
, B) Identify data quality issues critical to the achievement of business objectives
C) Institute a monitoring process to identify data quality issues as they occur
D) Test and validate data quality rules
A) Data Management Process Maturity
Not B) Regulatory Requirements (input because mandatory)
Not C) Business Goals and Strategies (also an input)
Not D) Data Needs (is an input) - Answer -All of the following are considered inputs to
the Data Governance process EXCEPT
A) Data Management Process Maturity
B) Regulatory Requirements
C) Business Goals and Strategies
D) Data Needs
The purpose of the Data Governance Office is to provide full time support for part time
business data stewardship responsibilities. - Answer -The role of the Data Governance
Office in an organization is to
A) Conduct project planning for IT infrastructure projects
B) Provide full‐time support for part‐time business data stewardship responsibilities
C) Approve data management budget requests
D) Oversee service level agreements for data acquisition and use
Business data steward - Answer -Which role is the recognized subject matter expert
who works with data management professionals on an ongoing basis to define and
control critical data?
A) Executive Data Steward
B) Coordinating Data Steward
C) Business Data Steward
D) Data Operations Manager
Have another senior level office in addition to the CDO responsibility - Answer -A Chief
Data Officer should have all of the following characteristics EXCEPT
A) Have another senior level office in addition to the CDO responsibility
B) Be dedicated solely to data asset leveraging
C) Be unconstrained by an IT project mindset
D) Report directly to the business side of the organization
High Level Executives and Stakeholders - Answer -A typical Data Governance Steering
Committee will be comprised of
A) Data Modelers, Data Architects, and IT developers
B) High Level Executives and Stakeholders
C) Operational Data Stewards
D) Database Administrators
Warehousing Metadata
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
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
Data cleansing tools - Answer -All of the following are examples of Business
Intelligence tools EXCEPT
A) Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) tools
B) Advanced Data Visualization tools
C) Data Cleansing tools
D) Data Mining tools
Identify data quality issues critical to the achievement of business objectives - Answer -
In data quality management, what is the first step to improving data quality?
A) Purchase a data profiling tool
, B) Identify data quality issues critical to the achievement of business objectives
C) Institute a monitoring process to identify data quality issues as they occur
D) Test and validate data quality rules
A) Data Management Process Maturity
Not B) Regulatory Requirements (input because mandatory)
Not C) Business Goals and Strategies (also an input)
Not D) Data Needs (is an input) - Answer -All of the following are considered inputs to
the Data Governance process EXCEPT
A) Data Management Process Maturity
B) Regulatory Requirements
C) Business Goals and Strategies
D) Data Needs
The purpose of the Data Governance Office is to provide full time support for part time
business data stewardship responsibilities. - Answer -The role of the Data Governance
Office in an organization is to
A) Conduct project planning for IT infrastructure projects
B) Provide full‐time support for part‐time business data stewardship responsibilities
C) Approve data management budget requests
D) Oversee service level agreements for data acquisition and use
Business data steward - Answer -Which role is the recognized subject matter expert
who works with data management professionals on an ongoing basis to define and
control critical data?
A) Executive Data Steward
B) Coordinating Data Steward
C) Business Data Steward
D) Data Operations Manager
Have another senior level office in addition to the CDO responsibility - Answer -A Chief
Data Officer should have all of the following characteristics EXCEPT
A) Have another senior level office in addition to the CDO responsibility
B) Be dedicated solely to data asset leveraging
C) Be unconstrained by an IT project mindset
D) Report directly to the business side of the organization
High Level Executives and Stakeholders - Answer -A typical Data Governance Steering
Committee will be comprised of
A) Data Modelers, Data Architects, and IT developers
B) High Level Executives and Stakeholders
C) Operational Data Stewards
D) Database Administrators
Warehousing Metadata
