CDMP Confusion Book — Foundation Set

Purpose: a living encyclopedia of concepts close enough to produce plausible wrong answers.

Each entry contains plain-language meaning, formal distinction, similarities, differences, deciding clue, trap, mini scenario, counterexample, and an immediate retrieval question with answer/explanation/source.

Foundation inventory — 13 entries

Governance / Management / Roles

1. Data Governance vs Data Management
2. Data Owner vs Business Steward vs Technical Steward
3. Data Steward vs Data Quality Analyst

Architecture / Modeling / Metadata

1. Data Architecture vs Data Modeling & Design
2. Data Model vs Metamodel
3. Business Glossary vs Data Dictionary vs Data Catalog/Directory

Reference / Master / Data Quality

1. Reference Data vs Master Data
2. Profiling vs Initial Assessment vs Monitoring
3. Prevention vs Correction vs Root-Cause Remediation
4. Validity vs Accuracy

Data Warehousing / BI

1. Staging vs ODS vs Data Warehouse vs Data Mart
2. Fact vs Dimension vs Conformed Dimension
3. Mapping vs Remediation vs Transformation

Study method

Cover the deciding clue, classify the scenario, state the changed fact that would make the neighboring concept correct, then attempt the retrieval question.

This book is organized by confusion cluster—not alphabetically—because the goal is category-boundary learning.

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