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1. What does ISO 11179 provide guidelines for?
Question 1A. The representation and management of metadata describing data and information resourcesB. The codes used to identify countries and territoriesC. The capital requirements of banksD. The management of physical assetsE. The encryption of data in transit
2. What is metadata, as referenced by ISO 11179?
Question 2A. Data that has been deletedB. Data about data, describing the characteristics, properties and context of dataC. Data stored in a cloud serviceD. Data that has been encryptedE. Data collected from sensors
3. What does ISO 11179 define as the basic building blocks of data?
Question 3A. TablesB. CountriesC. Data elementsD. ServersE. Supertypes
4. What does the representation concept of ISO 11179 cover?
Question 4A. How to price data assetsB. How to back up a databaseC. How to assign three-letter codes to countriesD. How to define names, data types and relationships between data elementsE. How to train employees
5. What does ISO 11179 encourage through registration?
Question 5A. Registering each employee's credentialsB. Registering software licences with the vendorC. Registering the company with regulatorsD. Registering servers in a hardware inventoryE. Registering data elements in a central repository to promote consistency and reusability
6. How does ISO 11179 promote interoperability?
Question 6A. By standardising metadata so different systems and organisations can share and integrate data more effectivelyB. By requiring all systems to use the same database vendorC. By converting all data to a single file formatD. By removing metadata from shared dataE. By restricting data to one department
7. How does ISO 11179 contribute to data quality?
Question 7A. By automatically correcting spelling mistakes in recordsB. By improving metadata so users can understand and trust the information they work withC. By deleting incomplete recordsD. By enforcing a maximum table sizeE. By limiting who can insert rows
8. In the library analogy for ISO 11179, what does the card for each book represent?
Question 8A. The database serverB. The data warehouseC. The metadata describing a data elementD. The user's access rightsE. The country code
9. Which of the following is NOT listed as a benefit of ISO 11179?
Question 9A. InteroperabilityB. Consistency in data definitionsC. Improved data qualityD. Reduced bank capital requirementsE. All of these are listed benefits
10. What kind of metadata is associated with each data element under ISO 11179?
Question 10A. Its price and supplierB. Its physical storage addressC. Its country and currencyD. Its owner's salaryE. Its name, definition and data type