You are documenting a company's current enterprise architecture. You need to evaluate the architecture of the data to identify its influences. Which three data influences should you ask the company…

Question

Options

• Auser access
• Bquality
• Cpain points
• Dlocation
• Ehistory

• A
  7% (2)
• B
  79% (22)
• C
  14% (4)

Explanation

When evaluating a company's data architecture, quality (B), location (D), and history (E) are recognized data-specific influences that directly shape how data is governed, stored, and managed across the enterprise.

• Quality reveals data accuracy, consistency, and fitness-for-purpose issues that drive architectural decisions around cleansing, validation, and master data management.
• Location captures where data physically resides (on-premises, cloud, regional data centers), which influences latency, sovereignty/compliance requirements, and replication strategies.
• History exposes how data has evolved over time - including legacy migrations, system changes, and data lineage - which constrains or informs what future architecture is feasible.

Why the distractors are wrong: User access (A) is an application-layer or security concern (identity and access management), not a data influence itself. Pain points (C) are a business stakeholder elicitation technique - they describe problems with the current state, not an architectural data characteristic.

Memory tip: Think of data as a living artifact - it has a past (history), a present condition (quality), and a place (location). Those three dimensions = the three data influences. Access and pain points belong to the people and process layer, not the data layer itself.

No community discussion yet for this question.