Practice C15-037–C15-048
C15-037 — Readiness, Change & Governance · Foundational · Recall
Who normally provides oversight for the DMMA lifecycle?
A. The Data Governance team
B. The software vendor
C. Only external auditors
D. The Data Science team
C15-038 — Readiness, Change & Governance · Standard · Understand
If formal Data Governance is not in place, who should oversee the DMMA?
A. No one until a Data Governance office is created.
B. The steering committee or management layer that initiated the DMMA
C. The newest employee because the assessment should be neutral.
D. The framework vendor automatically becomes accountable.
C15-039 — Readiness, Change & Governance · Standard · Distinguish
Which risk/mitigation pairing is most accurate?
A. Stale assets → ignore dates so the rating is not biased
B. Inaccessible staff → expand scope to compensate
C. Lack of buy-in → socialize benefits and concepts and engage an executive sponsor
D. Lack of expertise → remove the framework methodology
C15-040 — Readiness, Change & Governance · Difficult · Apply
Assessment workshops keep collapsing into technical system debates because participants lack shared Data Management language. What is the best response?
A. Continue because technical debate proves engagement.
B. Remove business participants and assess only IT.
C. Replace all interviews with automated scoring.
D. Orient participants to key concepts and relate the DMMA to concrete business problems through the communications plan.
C15-041 — Readiness, Change & Governance · Difficult · Apply
An assessment relies heavily on repositories that have not been updated in 18 months. What is the best treatment?
A. Flag the evidence as stale and adjust/balance the rating or seek current corroborating evidence.
B. Treat the repository as current because it is official.
C. Delete all stale evidence and assign Level 0.
D. Ignore evidence age because maturity is a long-term concept.
C15-042 — Readiness, Change & Governance · Expert · Apply
A DMMA identifies large gaps, but managers resist the roadmap because roles, methods, and tools will change. Which Chapter 15 concept best explains what is needed?
A. A higher criterion score without process change
B. Organizational and cultural change supported by governance, shared vision, communication, and measurement
C. A different maturity framework only
D. A larger technical tool inventory
C15-043 — Metrics & Reassessment · Foundational · Recall
Which metric represents the organization's capability level at a point in time?
A. Rate of change
B. Resource utilization rate
C. DMMA rating
D. Spend management
C15-044 — Metrics & Reassessment · Standard · Understand
What does the rate-of-change metric measure?
A. How fast the assessment team completes interviews
B. How frequently data records change
C. How quickly a vendor updates the maturity framework
D. How quickly the organization's capability is improving relative to the baseline through periodic reassessment
C15-045 — Metrics & Reassessment · Standard · Distinguish
Which metric family best reveals the hidden labor cost of weak Data Management practices?
A. Resource utilization rates
B. DMMA ratings
C. Assessment input counts
D. Maturity level names
C15-046 — Metrics & Reassessment · Difficult · Apply
A maturity score improves, but the reassessment covers only half the original systems and different business units. What is the strongest concern?
A. Any higher score automatically proves progress.
B. The apparent improvement may not be comparable to the baseline because reassessment parameters and input coverage changed.
C. The reassessment should be discarded because scope can never change.
D. Rate of change should be calculated from the raw scores without qualification.
C15-047 — Metrics & Reassessment · Difficult · Apply
An organization wants to know whether current manual Data Management can support a new highly automated business. Which metric concept is most relevant?
A. Only DMMA input count
B. Only spend management
C. Risk exposure or ability to respond to risk scenarios relative to maturity
D. Only the number of framework criteria
C15-048 — Metrics & Reassessment · Expert · Apply
Why should DMMA input metrics such as systems covered, teams involved, data volumes, and availability be tracked?
A. They replace the need for maturity ratings.
B. They guarantee that two assessments are comparable even if methodology changes.
C. They are used only to calculate financial return.
D. They help interpret the completeness, depth, and scope behind the score, so readers understand how much evidence the rating actually represents.