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Rapid Discrimination Cards 21–40

  1. Check vs Act — monitor against requirements vs respond/correct when monitoring reveals need.
  2. DQ Team vs Business Process Owner — DQ facilitates/coordinates; process owner is responsible for quality produced by the process.
  3. Data Owner vs Data Steward — Owner is accountable; Steward carries delegated operational/quality actions.
  4. Manage Rules vs Monitor Quality — maintain expectations vs measure actual conformance.
  5. Issue Assignment vs Escalation — route to responsible expert vs move upward based on impact/duration/urgency/risk.
  6. DQ SLA vs Scorecard — service commitments for response/remediation vs summarized measured condition.
  7. Scorecard vs Trend — current/aggregated status vs change over time.
  8. Profiling Tool vs Rules Engine — pattern/statistical discovery vs automated evaluation of approved rules.
  9. Parsing vs Standardization — decompose/recognize components vs transform them to target representation.
  10. Standardization vs Enrichment — normalize existing values vs add new context/data.
  11. Enrichment vs Accuracy — more context can help, but added data does not automatically make values correct.
  12. Fully Automated vs Manually-Directed Correction — no human review vs automation plus confidence-based human review.
  13. Manually-Directed vs Manual Correction — tool proposes/executes with review vs human performs correction through controlled interface.
  14. Manual Correction vs Direct Production Patch — controlled/audited human correction vs risky direct DB change bypassing controls.
  15. Top-Down vs Bottom-Up Implementation — sponsorship/consistency/resources vs actual-data discovery/incremental wins.
  16. Readiness vs Improvement Planning — can we launch/scale? vs what specific changes will we make?
  17. Business Rule vs DQ Rule — operational/data expectation vs dimension-aligned testable DQ requirement.
  18. DQ Metadata vs Raw Data Value — information about quality/rules/results/context vs business value itself.
  19. Integration Control Point vs Final Cleanup — inspect between stages to isolate corruption vs wait until end to repair.
  20. Control Limit vs Acceptance Threshold — statistical process-variation boundary vs business quality requirement cutoff.

Last-minute battle test

Explain Cards 25, 28, 29, 32, 35, and 40 without notes. For each, state the exact word or fact in a stem that would decide the answer.

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