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Eight questions on the Migration Strategy Guide, tailoring and substitution, project decomposition, Units of Migration, and PDM data models. Retake it as often as you like - your best score is saved.

1Within PDM, large data migration projects are decomposed into manageable pieces along four dimensions. Which set lists them?

Key Business Data Areas, Policies, Migration Form, and Technology Entities, Attributes, Relationships, and Keys Extract, Transform, Load, and Validate Scope, Time, Cost, and Quality

2Which of the following best describes a Unit of Migration?

The total volume of data to be moved in a single migration run The lowest level of data granularity for which rollback occurs The smallest ETL job that can be run independently The individual record type that is mapped in the gap analysis

3PDM's preferred modelling notation for Conceptual Entity Models is:

UML class diagrams BPMN process flows Box and crow's feet ERD Object-role modelling (ORM)

4True or false: the initial LDS list in the Migration Strategy Guide will always be complete, because it is based on the corporate IT inventory.

True False

5Which statement correctly describes the perverse incentive created by fixed-price contracts in data migration?

The supplier is incentivised to complete the migration as quickly as possible The supplier benefits financially when data quality issues cause delays on the client side The client is protected from unforeseen costs because the price is fixed Fixed-price contracts eliminate scope creep by locking the specification

6Which set correctly names the four types of data model used in PDM?

Logical, Physical, Canonical, and Dimensional Conceptual Entity, Legacy (or Migration), Target, and Individual Data Store Source, Staging, Target, and Archive Entity, Relationship, Attribute, and Domain

7In PDM, Migration MDM (Master Data Management) is:

An enterprise-wide MDM programme required before migration can begin A permanent data governance function installed on the target system A temporary measure to manage a single list of values for a migration-critical entity The same as the Data Quality Rules process

8When PDM is tailored to an organisation that already performs some activities its own way, which two elements can never be substituted?

Landscape Analysis and Gap Analysis The DQR process and the single virtual team The MSG and the project board ETL design and Continuous Testing