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Questions 1–10 of 10

1. When should a Metadata Strategy take place relative to project or product strategies?
Question 1A. Only after the first dashboards have gone liveB. Alongside them, and the earlier the betterC. After the Data Lake has been fully populatedD. Once Data Lineage problems have appearedE. At the end of the project, as a documentation exercise
2. By roughly how much can Metadata and Master Data reduce an organisation's BI footprint?
Question 2A. About 10%B. About 25%C. About 50%D. They cannot reduce it at allE. About 80%
3. Which everyday example illustrates Metadata as the index of a book?
Question 3A. The index indicates which page contains which topicB. The index lists every word in the book alphabeticallyC. The index is the longest chapter of the bookD. The index holds the raw text of each chapterE. The index is the ISBN printed on the cover
4. Which type of metadata covers business definitions, descriptions, data models, data quality rules and data standards?
Question 4A. Operational MetadataB. Technical MetadataC. Business MetadataD. Execution MetadataE. Spatial Metadata
5. Which of the following is an example of Operational Metadata?
Question 5A. A data quality ruleB. A column's business descriptionC. An index definitionD. A job's execution date, duration and error alertsE. An access permission on a table
6. Which of the following is NOT listed among the types of metadata?
Question 6A. Business MetadataB. Technical MetadataC. Operational MetadataD. Financial MetadataE. Metadata about database, table and column names
7. What happens to data if Metadata is not in place and Data Lineage therefore cannot be figured out?
Question 7A. The data becomes a Data SwampB. The data becomes Master DataC. The data is automatically archivedD. The data becomes Active MetadataE. The data is compressed to save space
8. In a metadata architecture, what is the Metadata Portal?
Question 8A. The centralised store that holds metadata from all source systemsB. The layer exposed for users to search metadataC. The high-level model of connections between systemsD. The individual repository hosting metadata at the source sideE. The ETL job that loads metadata overnight
9. In a Distributed Metadata Architecture, which capability is NOT available?
Question 9A. Connecting the portal to source metadata repositoriesB. Hosting metadata at the source sideC. Cross-system metadata searchD. Searching metadata through a portalE. Having many source metadata repositories
10. Which metadata architecture is described as the most complex, with metadata pulled from source systems and pushed back to them after updates?
Question 10A. Centralised Metadata ArchitectureB. Distributed Metadata ArchitectureC. Hybrid Metadata ArchitectureD. Source Metadata ArchitectureE. Bi-Directional Metadata Architecture