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Data Governance And Security questions

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To comply with CCPA, an organization must track the 'Right to Know' requests. Which component of a Data Governance Framework is most relevant?

Trap 1: Data Ingestion Pipeline

This is an ETL process, not a governance activity.

Trap 2: Load Balancing

Load balancing relates to infrastructure availability.

Trap 3: Data Compression

Compression reduces storage, unrelated to compliance.

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A
Data Ingestion Pipeline
Why wrong: This is an ETL process, not a governance activity.
B
Data Cataloging
Catalogs map data assets to owners and sensitivity levels.
C
Load Balancing
Why wrong: Load balancing relates to infrastructure availability.
D
Data Compression
Why wrong: Compression reduces storage, unrelated to compliance.

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Data Governance And Security questions

To comply with CCPA, an organization must track the 'Right to Know' requests. Which component of a Data Governance Framework is most relevant?

Which access control model should be implemented to ensure that a user can only access files based on their specific job role?

An administrator needs to restrict access to a specific S3 bucket so that only the Finance team can view files. Which configuration is the most effective approach?

An organization is migrating sensitive financial records to a cloud environment. Which security control ensures that only authorized applications can decrypt the data?

A company subject to GDPR needs to ensure that user data is deleted upon request across all distributed nodes in a NoSQL cluster. Which process is most critical to demonstrate compliance?

A data analyst discovers that raw log files contain unmasked social security numbers. Which data governance practice should be implemented immediately to remediate the risk?

A database administrator needs to implement column-level encryption for sensitive PII in a SQL Server environment. Which tool should be used to ensure the encryption keys are managed outside the database engine?

A company needs to audit all administrative actions taken on their database server. Which feature should the DBA enable?

Which technology provides the best protection against data exfiltration from an on-premises database by a rogue administrator?

What is the primary purpose of a Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) under GDPR?

In a multi-tenant cloud database, which mechanism ensures that tenant A cannot see data belonging to tenant B?

A developer wants to use a subset of production data for testing. Which method ensures the test data retains its structure while protecting privacy?

Which document outlines the 'Data Owner' responsibilities in a data governance framework?

Which protocol should be enforced for all data-in-transit between application servers and database instances?

An administrator needs to enforce password complexity on the database level. Where should this policy be configured?

A company is using a cloud-based data lake. To satisfy data sovereignty requirements, they must ensure data remains in a specific region. How can this be enforced?

Which action represents a 'Data Lifecycle' phase where data is safely removed?

When decommissioning a legacy server, what is the most secure way to handle the hard drives containing sensitive data?

A company needs to implement centralized identity management for all database administrators. Which service is appropriate?

To ensure non-repudiation in a database system, what must be captured for every transaction?

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