CompTIA Data+ Data Governance, Quality, and Controls Flashcards
CompTIA Data+ DA0-001 (V1) Flashcards
| Front | Back |
| What does a data dictionary contain? | Definitions, types, relationships, and constraints for data elements. |
| What does PHI stand for? | Personal Health Information. |
| What does PII stand for? | Personally Identifiable Information. |
| What is a business rule in data governance? | A guideline that defines or constrains data-related operations. |
| What is a data audit? | A formal review of data processes, accuracy, and compliance. |
| What is a data breach? | Unauthorized access or disclosure of sensitive or protected data. |
| What is a data policy? | A documented set of principles for managing and protecting data assets. |
| What is a data steward responsible for? | Managing metadata, data quality, and ensuring correct usage of data. |
| What is data classification? | Organizing data into categories based on sensitivity and importance. |
| What is data governance? | The overall management of data availability, usability, integrity, and security. |
| What is data integrity? | Ensuring that data is accurate, consistent, and trustworthy over its lifecycle. |
| What is data lineage? | The history of data from origin to final form, showing transformations and movement. |
| What is data masking? | Hiding or obfuscating real data for privacy or testing purposes. |
| What is data quality? | The degree to which data is accurate, complete, timely, and consistent. |
| What is data stewardship? | The role responsible for ensuring data quality and proper data usage. |
| What is data validation? | The process of checking data for correctness and completeness. |
| What is deduplication? | Removing duplicate records from a dataset to improve accuracy. |
| What is encryption used for? | Protecting data by converting it into unreadable format without a key. |
| What is GDPR? | General Data Protection Regulation — EU law on data protection and privacy. |
| What is master data management (MDM)? | Processes and tools to maintain consistent and accurate master data. |
| What is role-based access control (RBAC)? | A security approach where users have access based on job roles. |
| What is sensitive data? | Data that must be protected due to regulations or risk, like PII or PHI. |
| What is the purpose of a backup? | To create a copy of data that can be restored after data loss or corruption. |
| What is the purpose of data retention policies? | Define how long data should be stored and when to dispose of it. |
| What is the role of a data owner? | Responsible for data accuracy, privacy, and security within their domain. |
| What is version control in data? | Tracking changes to code, data or metadata over time. |
About the Flashcards
Flashcards for the CompTIA Data+ exam give you rapid recall of the terminology and core concepts that underpin effective data governance. The deck breaks down stewardship roles, business rules, data dictionaries, and lineage so you can explain how organizations maintain availability, usability, integrity, and security throughout a dataset's life.
Additional cards reinforce quality techniques such as validation, deduplication, and audits, then dive into security and compliance topics-classification of PII and PHI, GDPR requirements, RBAC, encryption, masking, backups, and breach response. Master these ideas to answer scenario questions on retention policies, master data management, and other critical exam domains.
Topics covered in this flashcard deck:
- Data governance fundamentals
- Metadata & lineage
- Data quality management
- Security & privacy controls
- Regulations & compliance
- Backup, retention & breaches