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The DGSP exam has 110 questions and runs 1 hours 30 minutes.
These 10 free DGSP questions are organized by exam domain, so you can see how each part of the Data Governance and Stewardship Professional - Associate/Practitioner blueprint is tested. Reveal the answer and explanation under each question.
Before designing controls for automated supplier payments, a steward must identify the field whose failure poses the greatest risk to payment integrity. There are no compensating checks before payment execution. Which field warrants the highest control priority?
Correct answer: B - Beneficiary account identifiers, occasionally incorrect and capable of routing payments to an unintended recipient.
Following two acquisitions, a manufacturer needs common enterprise product identifiers and comparable financial reporting. Divisions must retain authority over product attributes and workflows specific to their markets, provided enterprise requirements are met. Consolidating the divisions' systems is not a prerequisite. Which allocation of decision rights fits these requirements?
Correct answer: D - Set binding enterprise standards and cross-domain arbitration, while delegating conforming local decisions to divisional owners.
In a small firm, the only platform administrator needs temporary payroll access for an authorized reconciliation. The applicable control requires the payroll data owner's approval before access is granted and activity review by someone other than the administrator. No second administrator is available. How can the access be arranged without breaching that control?
Correct answer: D - Obtain owner approval, then provision the limited access with independent review of the administrator's activity.
A supplier data owner asks a business steward to omit independent verification of changed payment-account details for long-standing suppliers. The owner's delegation covers supplier definitions and local quality targets, but not waivers of this enterprise financial control. An urgent payment batch is due, and the existing verification process remains available. What response respects the decision rights?
Correct answer: B - Retain verification and seek a waiver decision from the authorized enterprise control authority.
Finance counts an 'active customer' as one with a paid invoice in the preceding 12 months. Customer Support counts one with a current support agreement. Both definitions serve valid business needs, and both totals reconcile to their source records. An executive dashboard displays the two results under the same label. What should the data steward propose for the dashboard?
Correct answer: C - Publish distinct, owner-approved metric names and definitions that make each measure's intended use explicit.
Three weeks after a release, Finance must reproduce a previously issued net-sales report. The original source extracts and report are archived, but the catalog shows only today's transformations. Since the report ran, both the returns cutoff and currency-conversion mapping have changed. Which additional record would most directly close the reproducibility gap?
Correct answer: D - Versioned source-to-report lineage preserving the transformation rules and parameters executed for the original reporting run.
At 10:15, a steward discovers that an export containing customer account numbers and balances has been made publicly accessible without approval. Logs show downloads are still occurring. The incident procedure authorizes the steward to revoke public access; the incident-response team handles investigation and notification. What should the steward do immediately?
Correct answer: A - Revoke public access, alert incident response, and preserve the export and access logs.
During migration testing, every customer has a populated, correctly formatted postal code. Tracing several complaints reveals that a join assigned some customers another customer's otherwise valid code. Completeness and format checks remain green. Which additional test would detect this specific defect?
Correct answer: A - Compare each customer's postal code with the code in that customer's independently verified address.
Two suppliers use the same trading name and shared-services address. Their registration numbers have been checked against the same national register and identify two different active legal entities. The payment system maintains one supplier record per contracting legal entity. A name-and-address matching rule flags them as duplicates. How should the master records represent these suppliers?
Correct answer: B - Maintain separate master suppliers, each tied to its own verified registration number and legal entity.
A reviewed test set contains 10,000 customer-record pairs. A matching service proposes 200 pairs for automatic consolidation: 190 are true matches and 10 join different entities. It also misses 50 true matches elsewhere in the set. The release gate requires at least 98% of proposed consolidations to be correct. Which assessment applies the gate to the right population?
Correct answer: C - 95.0% of proposed merges are correct, so automatic consolidation fails the release gate.
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