Practice Questions 043–056
DCM9-043 — Activities & Tools · Foundational · Recall
Which is one of the four activities in “Plan for Lifecycle Management”? - A. Present ESI at trial. - B. Run database replication. - C. Destroy all non-record content immediately. - D. Develop a content strategy.
DCM9-044 — Activities & Tools · Standard · Apply
What should normally happen when content is captured into a managed repository? - A. Tag/index it with appropriate Metadata so it can be classified, retrieved and governed. - B. Remove all creation dates to reduce legal exposure. - C. Convert it to a relational table before storage. - D. Delete the original immediately regardless of policy.
DCM9-045 — Activities & Tools · Standard · Distinguish
Which pair belongs to the Publish and Deliver phase? - A. Retention and disposition; legal hold. - B. Provide access/search/retrieval; deliver through acceptable channels. - C. Profile data; define source-to-target mappings. - D. Normalize; denormalize.
DCM9-046 — Activities & Tools · Standard · Understand
Which statement best describes an ECM platform? - A. It is only a scanner for paper forms. - B. It is only a legal-hold database. - C. It may integrate document management, records, content management, workflow, collaboration, Metadata/search and related capabilities. - D. It replaces governance because the system enforces everything automatically.
DCM9-047 — Activities & Tools · Standard · Distinguish
Which source-level distinction is most accurate? - A. XML and JSON are both database backup formats only. - B. JSON is an ontology language; XML is a legal-hold process. - C. XML cannot represent structured data. - D. XML is a markup language that tags structure/content; JSON is a lightweight text interchange format commonly used between servers and web applications.
DCM9-048 — Activities & Tools · Difficult · Understand
What does RDF contribute in Chapter 9's semantic-web discussion? - A. A subject-predicate-object framework for describing resources and relationships. - B. A replacement for all document-retention schedules. - C. A physical image compression standard. - D. A control level below custody.
DCM9-049 — Activities & Tools · Difficult · Apply
Why is an e-discovery/litigation-response data map valuable? - A. It records only storage costs. - B. It catalogs ESI sources, locations, accessibility, custodians/owners and related Metadata so the organization can respond faster and more defensibly. - C. It eliminates the need for interviews and legal holds. - D. It is a taxonomy used only for website navigation.
DCM9-050 — Governance & Metrics · Standard · Apply
An ECM implementation is technically sound but user adoption is low and departments continue working outside the system. What should be examined next? - A. Only storage utilization. - B. Only XML schema design. - C. Readiness, executive sponsorship, workflow fit, training, policy and organizational change. - D. Whether all content can be deleted.
DCM9-051 — Governance & Metrics · Standard · Understand
What implementation warning does Chapter 9 emphasize? - A. Technology is always the hardest problem. - B. Culture does not matter once ECM is installed. - C. Records management should remain low-level and invisible. - D. People and cultural change can be more difficult than the technology itself.
DCM9-052 — Governance & Metrics · Standard · Apply
Why does Chapter 9 emphasize C-suite-level sponsorship and a cross-functional Information Governance council? - A. Documents, records and unstructured content create enterprise-wide legal, business and technology risk requiring policy, standards and decision rights. - B. Only executives are allowed to retrieve records. - C. The council should manually approve every document edit. - D. Technology teams cannot participate in governance.
DCM9-053 — Governance & Metrics · Difficult · Understand
Why is proliferation of unstructured information a governance problem? - A. Unstructured data grows more slowly than structured data. - B. It can grow rapidly, exist outside clear business ownership, and multiply storage, retrieval, protection and retention challenges. - C. It cannot contain sensitive data. - D. It is never discoverable in litigation.
DCM9-054 — Governance & Metrics · Difficult · Apply
Which action best reflects governing for quality content? - A. Let every department define incompatible terms and retention rules. - B. Focus only on file size and uptime. - C. Use coordinated policies for retention, signatures, reporting, Metadata/classification, security and stewardship so content remains trustworthy and usable. - D. Treat unstructured content as exempt from Data Quality.
DCM9-055 — Governance & Metrics · Standard · Apply
A search retrieves 100 documents, 80 of which are relevant. There are 100 relevant documents in the entire collection. What are precision and recall? - A. Precision 100%; recall 80%. - B. Precision 80%; recall 100%. - C. Precision 20%; recall 80%. - D. Precision 80%; recall 80%.
DCM9-056 — Governance & Metrics · Expert-discrimination · Apply
An ECM program reports only “2 million documents stored.” Which measurement set would better demonstrate Chapter 9 value? - A. Only the raw document count. - B. Only the number of Metadata fields. - C. Only the number of users with administrator rights. - D. Adoption/user satisfaction, retrieval precision/recall, compliance/retention outcomes, workflow/cost improvements, system performance, and risk/e-discovery reduction.