Certified Data Management Professional – Fundamentals (CDMP) — Question 69

Data provenance and data lineage are examples of:

Answer options

• A. Operational metadata
• B. Business metadata
• C. Industry metadata
• D. Strategic metadata
• E. Technical metadata

Correct answer: A

Explanation

The correct answer is A, as operational metadata refers to information that describes the operations of data and its flow, including provenance and lineage. The other options, while relevant to different aspects of metadata, do not specifically encompass the tracking of data's origin and movement.