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2707 questions of the kind that actually get asked — in interviews, in architecture review boards, and by the person who has to run the thing at 3 AM. Every answer states the trade-off rather than the slogan, and says when the obvious choice is the wrong one.

All areas2707 Architecture Fundamentals81 Distributed Systems101 Data Architecture90 Cloud Architecture87 Networking86 API & Integration Architecture78 Reliability & Resilience88 Observability81 Performance & Capacity Engineering90 Security Architecture95 Cost Architecture & FinOps92 Business Architecture93 Architecture Communication91 Enterprise Architecture91 Legacy Modernization92 AI-Era Architecture96 Software Architecture & Engineering84 Architecture Patterns84 Architecture Decision-Making91 The Architect's Meta-Skills92 Delivery & Release Engineering93 Platform Engineering & Developer Experience92 Testing & Quality Architecture90 Data Platform Architecture98 Streaming & Real-Time Data93 Data Governance & Semantics91 Frontend & Experience Architecture91 Edge, Mobile & IoT88 Regulatory & Data Protection Architecture90 Assurance, Audit & Model Risk98
Difficulty Any beginner intermediate advanced

35 questions in Data Governance & Semantics.

  1. BI Governance intermediate Multiple choice

    A company certifies 400 of its 4000 dashboards with a badge an owner and a review at the moment the badge is granted. Eighteen months later an audit finds the certified set has the highest proportion of reports whose underlying model has changed since certification. Review the design. Which single change matters most?

    2 min answer bi governancecertificationstalenessattestation
  2. BI Governance intermediate

    A travel company has thousands of dashboards, several conflicting definitions of the same metric, and a large BI bill. Diagnose it.

    1 min answer bi-governancemetric-consistencysprawlcost
  3. BI Governance intermediate

    Two dashboards disagree about revenue. What mechanism would have prevented it, and what would not?

    2 min answer bi-governancesemantic-layercertificationdefinitions
  4. Business Glossary intermediate

    A governance programme harvests 1,400 candidate business terms from dashboard titles and column comments and proposes to define and own all of them. Roughly how many terms can an organisation actually keep true, and what does that number change about the plan?

    3 min answer business glossarydefinitionsgovernance capacityreview cadence
  5. Business Glossary intermediate

    Finance, sales and product each define "active customer" differently, and all three are correct for their purpose. How should the glossary handle this?

    1 min answer glossarysemanticsdefinitionsgovernance
  6. Business Glossary intermediate

    Three dashboards report different numbers for "active users" and each is defensible. What is the actual problem, and what does a semantic layer have to provide to fix it?

    2 min answer semantic-layermetricsdefinitionsgovernance
  7. Data Catalog intermediate

    A company deploys a data catalogue. Six months later almost nobody uses it and most entries are stale. What went wrong, and what would make it work?

    1 min answer catalogmetadataadoptionautomation
  8. Data Catalog intermediate

    An organisation deploys a data catalogue and nobody uses it. What makes a catalogue useful rather than an inventory?

    2 min answer deelcatalogdiscoverylineage
  9. Data Catalog intermediate

    You bought a data catalogue eighteen months ago. It is populated and nobody uses it. What went wrong?

    1 min answer data-governancecatalogueadoption
  10. Data Contracts intermediate

    GitLab publishes its data quality approach in its open handbook: a Trusted Data Framework of SQL and YAML test cases with PASS or FAIL results, four test types, and tiered data assets. What problem does that shape solve that a schema registry does not, and what does it cost?

    2 min answer gitlabdata-contractstestingdata-quality
  11. Data Observability intermediate

    A dashboard has shown the same numbers for eleven days. The pipeline reports success every night. What monitoring was missing?

    2 min answer monitoringqualityfreshness
  12. Data Observability intermediate

    A dashboard was wrong for three weeks before anyone noticed. What monitoring would have caught it?

    2 min answer nykaadata-observabilityfreshnessanomaly