Data Governance: understand the concepts and exam cues.

Authority, accountability and decision rights for enterprise data.

Data Governance is the exercise of authority, control and shared decision-making over the management of data assets. It is the operating system on which every other DAMA knowledge area runs: it clarifies who can decide, who is accountable, which policies apply, and how disputes are resolved. In the CDMP exam, governance questions repeatedly test the boundary between setting the rules (governance) and executing the work (management).