Practice Questions MD12-001–017
MD12-001
Which statement best matches Chapter 12's definition of Metadata Management?
A. Planning, implementing, and controlling activities that enable processing, maintenance, integration, security, audit, and governance of other data.
B. Creating only a business glossary for enterprise terms.
C. Storing copies of every database table in a central repository.
D. Managing only technical column names and data types.
MD12-002
Why does DAMA compare Metadata to a library catalog?
A. Because Metadata replaces the underlying information resources.
B. Because Metadata makes information easier to find, understand, relate, and govern.
C. Because every Metadata repository must use library classification standards.
D. Because Metadata is only descriptive information about documents.
MD12-003
Which is a Chapter 12 Metadata Management goal?
A. Eliminate the need for Data Governance.
B. Make all Metadata public to all employees.
C. Collect and integrate Metadata from diverse sources.
D. Keep Metadata only inside source applications.
MD12-004
Which goal is most directly addressed by ensuring definitions and technical Metadata are current, consistent, and protected?
A. Replace operational data with Metadata.
B. Centralize every source application.
C. Remove the need for technical standards.
D. Ensure Metadata quality, consistency, currency, and security.
MD12-005
Which principle says Metadata requirements should be defined before evaluating and installing Metadata products?
A. Strategy.
B. Socialization.
C. Audit.
D. Improvement.
MD12-006
A company designs an enterprise Metadata target state but delivers one prioritized domain at a time. Which principle is best illustrated?
A. Audit.
B. Enterprise perspective.
C. Access.
D. Organizational commitment.
MD12-007
Users repeatedly report stale definitions, but there is no mechanism to submit corrections. Which guiding principle is most directly missing?
A. Organizational commitment.
B. Enterprise perspective.
C. Improvement.
D. Audit.
MD12-008
Which statement best reflects Chapter 12's view of the boundary between data and Metadata?
A. Metadata is always technical and data is always business-facing.
B. Anything stored in a repository is Metadata, while anything stored elsewhere is data.
C. Metadata can never be governed using the same principles as data.
D. The distinction can depend on context; Metadata is itself data and one person's Metadata can be another person's data.
MD12-009
Which item is the clearest example of Business Metadata?
A. The approved business definition and Steward for 'Active Customer'.
B. The VARCHAR length of CUSTOMER_STATUS.
C. The runtime duration of last night's load.
D. The database server patch level.
MD12-010
Which item is the clearest example of Technical Metadata?
A. A glossary definition of Customer.
B. A source-to-target mapping from CRM.customer_id to DW.party_key.
C. The number of failed rows in last night's ETL run.
D. A survey showing whether users like the Metadata portal.
MD12-011
Which item is the clearest example of Operational Metadata?
A. The approved definition of Net Revenue.
B. The logical relationship between Customer and Order.
C. The timestamp and result of the most recent extraction job.
D. The business owner of Customer.
MD12-012
A BI repository records the SQL query's execution time and how often a report is accessed. What type of Metadata is this primarily?
A. Business Metadata.
B. Reference Data.
C. Master Data.
D. Operational Metadata.
MD12-013
Which example is Structural Metadata in the information-science classification?
A. Metadata describing the relationship of pages and chapters within a document.
B. The document's author and subject.
C. The date the document was archived.
D. The Steward who approved a business definition.
MD12-014
What is the primary Chapter 12 significance of ISO/IEC 11179?
A. It defines the four Metadata architecture patterns.
B. It provides a Metadata registry framework supporting standardized data-element definitions and Metadata-driven exchange.
C. It requires every enterprise to use a distributed repository.
D. It is a Data Quality scoring standard.
MD12-015
A user asks, 'What does Net Revenue mean and who owns this term?' Which source is the strongest first fit?
A. Database system catalog.
B. CMDB.
C. Business Glossary.
D. Event messaging tool.
MD12-016
A developer asks for a field's datatype, default, storage characteristics, relationships, and uniqueness. Which source is strongest?
A. Business Glossary.
B. Service Registry.
C. Business Intelligence report catalog.
D. Data Dictionary.
MD12-017
An analyst knows the concept Customer but needs to discover which enterprise systems and sources contain customer data. What is the best Metadata source?
A. Directory or Catalog.
B. Data Dictionary only.
C. Business rule repository only.
D. Job execution log.