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1. What is Data Curation about?
Question 1A. Generating, managing and maintaining data for future useB. Reducing rows returned by a queryC. Matching records across systemsD. Generating fake datasets for testingE. Assigning monetary value to data
2. From which Latin word does 'curation' come, and what does it mean?
Question 2A. 'datum', meaning something givenB. 'curae', meaning care forC. 'syndicus', meaning caretaker of an issueD. 'currere', meaning to runE. 'cura', meaning to cure
3. Which phrase best captures the span of Data Curation?
Question 3A. From landing zone to staging zone onlyB. From extraction till loading, from raw till transformed, from generation till secured and private storageC. From training data to production modelD. From source system to floppy driveE. From canned data to ad hoc report
4. Besides day-to-day care, what else does Data Curation involve?
Question 4A. Deleting data as soon as it is usedB. Selling data as a serviceC. Taking steps to preserve data for future referenceD. Restricting data to one departmentE. Converting data to synthetic form
5. Data Curation is described as the process of preparing data for what?
Question 5A. Encryption and archivingB. Regulatory submission onlyC. Machine learning onlyD. Business and decision support systemsE. Physical transport between sites
6. Which of the following is NOT one of the listed steps for Data Curation?
Question 6A. Understanding the dataB. TransformationC. Metadata ManagementD. GeocodingE. Reconciliation
7. What are the three stages of Data Curation, in order?
Question 7A. Sharing, Storing, DiscoverableB. Discoverable, Storing, SharingC. Storing, Sharing, DiscoverableD. Collecting, Cleansing, ProfilingE. Landing, Staging, Transformed
8. Which step of Data Curation is concerned with cleaning the data?
Question 8A. Understanding the dataB. TransformationC. Metadata ManagementD. ReconciliationE. Cleansing
9. Which pair of contrasts both describe the reach of Data Curation?
Question 9A. From open till encryption, and from management to governanceB. From SISD till SIMD, and from OLTP till OLAPC. From canned till ad hoc, and from cube till warehouseD. From data drift till concept driftE. From latitude till longitude
10. How does the author of *I Am Datapedia!* characterise the definition of Data Curation?
Question 10A. As highly technical and complexB. As controversial among expertsC. As identical to Data GovernanceD. As outdated since Big DataE. As something with nothing complex about it