Practice C16-001–014
Work closed-book. Commit an answer before opening diagnostics.
C16-001 — Current State & Operating Model Fundamentals
Foundational · Recall
Before redesigning a Data Management Organization, what does Chapter 16 say the organization should understand first?
A. Its current culture, operating model, people, decision practices, and the role data already plays.
B. Which new job titles are most popular in the market.
C. The final centralized organization chart it wants to impose.
D. Only the technology platforms currently licensed.
C16-002 — Current State & Operating Model Fundamentals
Standard · Understand
Which statement best describes a Data Management operating model?
A. A reporting chart that assigns every employee to a manager.
B. A framework that articulates roles, responsibilities, decision-making, and how people and functions collaborate.
C. A maturity score used to rank Data Management capabilities.
D. A technical architecture showing systems and data flows.
C16-003 — Current State & Operating Model Fundamentals
Standard · Distinguish
A team has drawn boxes with employee names and reporting lines but has not defined decision rights or collaboration. What is still missing?
A. The stakeholder map.
B. The Data Quality measurement plan.
C. The operating model.
D. The maturity baseline.
C16-004 — Current State & Operating Model Fundamentals
Difficult · Apply
An organization understands who manages data and how committees work, but leadership still has unreliable revenue reports and cannot track key performance indicators. What should the design team do next?
A. Immediately centralize every data role.
B. Conclude the current model is satisfactory because roles are already known.
C. Replace the reporting platform before considering organizational design.
D. Treat those business outcomes as evidence of dissatisfaction with current state and use them to identify Data Management needs and priorities.
C16-005 — Current State & Operating Model Fundamentals
Difficult · Apply
A highly decentralized company makes decisions through long-standing business-unit committees. A new DMO is designed to bypass those committees and route all decisions through a new central office. What is the leading risk?
A. The DMO may be hard to sustain because it is misaligned with existing cultural and decision-making norms.
B. The DMO will automatically become a federated model.
C. The company will lose all Data Quality capability.
D. The new office will necessarily report to the CIO.
C16-006 — Current State & Operating Model Fundamentals
Difficult · Apply
Why does Chapter 16 emphasize cross-functional participation when designing a Data Management Organization?
A. Because all Data Management roles should be transferred into IT.
B. Because data decisions and work span business stakeholders and functions, so the organization needs representation and credibility across those areas.
C. Because cross-functional participation eliminates the need for executive sponsorship.
D. Because every stakeholder must have equal decision authority.
C16-007 — Current State & Operating Model Fundamentals
Expert · Apply
A company has a workable decentralized structure, trusted committees, and moderate Data Management maturity. Leadership wants a complete overnight reorganization into a centralized DMO. Which response best follows Chapter 16?
A. Proceed immediately because centralized is always the most mature and therefore always best.
B. Keep the decentralized model permanently because changing culture is never appropriate.
C. Use the current structure as the starting point and evolve toward the needed model, unless a compelling external shock requires accelerated change.
D. Ignore current culture and choose whichever model has the clearest org chart.
C16-008 — Operating Model Selection & Evolution
Foundational · Recall
Which characteristic most strongly identifies the decentralized operating model?
A. A central Center of Excellence directs decentralized business-unit teams.
B. A RACI formally documents a network of accountability across distributed roles.
C. All Data Management functions report to one Data Management leader.
D. Data Management responsibilities are distributed across lines of business and IT, with committee-based collaboration and no single owner.
C16-009 — Operating Model Selection & Evolution
Standard · Understand
What distinguishes a network operating model from an informal decentralized model?
A. A documented set of connections and accountabilities, commonly through a RACI matrix.
B. A new executive position that owns every Data Management function.
C. Multiple regional Centers of Excellence under one enterprise Center of Excellence.
D. The elimination of business-unit Data Management roles.
C16-010 — Operating Model Selection & Evolution
Standard · Distinguish
Which combination is most characteristic of a centralized operating model?
A. Independent business units with no single owner and committee-only coordination.
B. One Data Management leader with Governance, Stewardship, Metadata, Data Quality, Master/Reference Data, Architecture, and related functions reporting into the DMO.
C. A distributed structure linked mainly by a RACI without changing reporting lines.
D. Enterprise strategy plus multiple regional hybrid models with decentralized execution.
C16-011 — Operating Model Selection & Evolution
Difficult · Apply
A company creates a central Data Management Center of Excellence, keeps Data Architects in Enterprise Architecture, and leaves Data Quality teams in the business units. An executive steering committee resolves enterprise priorities. Which model best fits?
A. Decentralized.
B. Network.
C. Hybrid.
D. Centralized.
C16-012 — Operating Model Selection & Evolution
Difficult · Apply
A global enterprise has an enterprise Data Management executive and Center of Excellence, while each major division runs its own hybrid Data Management structure tailored to regional needs. Which model is most appropriate?
A. Centralized.
B. Network.
C. Decentralized.
D. Federated.
C16-013 — Operating Model Selection & Evolution
Difficult · Apply
When choosing an operating model, which question is most useful according to Chapter 16?
A. How are decisions currently made and implemented, and how independent are divisions or regions?
B. Which model is most popular among competitors this year?
C. Which model places the most people in the DMO?
D. Which model has the highest maturity label regardless of culture?
C16-014 — Operating Model Selection & Evolution
Expert · Apply
Which sequence best reflects the organic operating-model evolution described in Chapter 16?
A. Centralized → decentralized → network → eliminate governance.
B. Decentralized grassroots work → formalized accountability through a RACI/network → synergies and economies of scale → hybrid or federated structures.
C. Federated → centralized → ad hoc → network.
D. Network → eliminate RACI → decentralized → centralized by default.