MC	Which statement is NOT CORRECT?	An important disadvantage of the consolidation approach is that it does not cater for historical data.	correct	The essence of data consolidation as a data integration pattern is to capture the data from multiple, heterogeneous source systems and integrate it into a single persistent store (e.g., a data warehouse or data mart). 	incorrect	Besides the traditional set-up with ETL and a data warehouse, data lakes can also be considered an implementation of the consolidation pattern. 	incorrect	An ETL process typically induces a certain measure of latency, so the timeliness dimension may suffer, with the data being slightly out of date.	incorrect	
MC	Which statement is NOT CORRECT?	Process integration is to integrate and harmonize the various business processes in an organization as much as possible.	incorrect	The control flow perspective of a business process specifies the correct sequencing of tasks (e.g., a loan offer can only be made when the credit score has been calculated). 	incorrect	In a service oriented context, there is a tendency to physically integrate services with the purpose of task coordination with services that perform the actual task execution and services that provide access to the necessary data.	correct	The data flow perspective of a business process focusses on the inputs of the tasks (e.g., the interest rate offered depends on the credit score). 	incorrect	
MC	Which statement is NOT CORRECT?	The focus of MDM is on unifying company-wide reference data types such as customers and products.	incorrect	Setting up an MDM initiative involves a large number of steps and tools, including data source identification, mapping out the systems architecture, constructing data transformation, cleansing and normalization rules, providing data storage capabilities, monitoring and governance facilities, and so on. 	incorrect	Master Data Management (MDM) compromises a series of processes, policies, standards, and tools to help organizations to define and provide multiple points of reference for all data that is "mastered". 	correct	A key element in MDM is a centrally governed data model and metadata repository.	incorrect	
MC	Which statement is CORRECT?	An important disadvantage of the consolidation approach is that it does not cater for historical data.	incorrect	Process execution languages such as WS-BPEL aim at managing only the control flow.	incorrect	Setting up an MDM initiative involves a large number of steps and tools, including data source identification, mapping out the systems architecture, constructing data transformation, cleansing and normalization rules, providing data storage capabilities, monitoring and governance facilities, and so on. 	correct	Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and Enterprise Data Replication (EDR) are examples of data consolidation.	incorrect	
MC	Which statement is NOT CORRECT?	Analytics techniques are more and more used at the operational level as well by front-line employees.	incorrect	Nowadays, we see a complete divergence of the operational and tactical/strategic data needs and of the corresponding data integration tooling.	correct	The operational usage of business intelligence aims for a low (or even zero) latency so interesting events or trends in the data can be immediately detected and accompanied with the appropriate response.	incorrect	Analytics for tactic/strategic decision making increasingly uses real-time operational data combined with the aggregated and historical data found in more traditional data warehouses.	incorrect	
MC	Which statement is NOT CORRECT?	Data virtualization isolates applications and users from the actual (combinations of) data integration patterns used.	incorrect	Data virtualization extensively uses data consolidation techniques such as ETL.	correct	Contrary to a federated database as offered by basic EII, data virtualization does not impose a single data model on top of the heterogeneous data sources.	incorrect	In many real-life contexts, a data integration exercise is an ongoing initiative within an organization, and will often combine a variety of integration strategies and approaches.	incorrect	
MC	Which statement is NOT CORRECT?	Analytics for tactic/strategic decision making increasingly uses real-time operational data combined with the aggregated and historical data found in more traditional data warehouses.	incorrect	The operational usage of business intelligence aims for a low (or even zero) latency so interesting events or trends in the data can be immediately detected and accompanied with the appropriate response.	incorrect	Nowadays, we see a complete divergence of the operational and tactical/strategic data needs and of the corresponding data integration tooling.	correct	Analytics techniques are more and more used at the operational level as well by front-line employees.	incorrect	
MC	Enterprise Information Integration (EII) is an example of...	data integration.	correct	data replication.	incorrect	data propagation.	incorrect	data consolidation.	incorrect	
MC	Which statement is NOT CORRECT?	Setting up an MDM initiative involves a large number of steps and tools, including data source identification, mapping out the systems architecture, constructing data transformation, cleansing and normalization rules, providing data storage capabilities, monitoring and governance facilities, and so on. 	incorrect	Master Data Management (MDM) compromises a series of processes, policies, standards, and tools to help organizations to define and provide multiple points of reference for all data that is "mastered". 	correct	The focus of MDM is on unifying company-wide reference data types such as customers and products.	incorrect	A key element in MDM is a centrally governed data model and metadata repository.	incorrect	
MC	Which statement is NOT CORRECT?	Master Data Management (MDM) compromises a series of processes, policies, standards, and tools to help organizations to define and provide multiple points of reference for all data that is "mastered". 	correct	The focus of MDM is on unifying company-wide reference data types such as customers and products.	incorrect	Setting up an MDM initiative involves a large number of steps and tools, including data source identification, mapping out the systems architecture, constructing data transformation, cleansing and normalization rules, providing data storage capabilities, monitoring and governance facilities, and so on. 	incorrect	A key element in MDM is a centrally governed data model and metadata repository.	incorrect