Informatica CDGC Foundation flashcards
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- CDGC
- Informatica Cloud Data Governance and Catalog: a cloud service for discovering, cataloging, classifying, and governing data assets across connected sources, with glossary, lineage, and quality features.
- Catalog source
- A configured connection to an external system (database, file store, BI tool, application) whose metadata CDGC scans to create catalog assets.
- Catalog asset
- A metadata object created in CDGC from a scanned source, such as a table, view, file, report, dashboard, or topic; columns are child assets.
- Business glossary
- A governed collection of business terms with definitions, synonyms, and categories that standardizes vocabulary and links business meaning to technical assets.
- Glossary term
- A single defined business concept in the glossary, with a definition, status, and optional synonyms and related terms; it can be associated with catalog assets.
- Term association
- The link between a glossary term and a technical asset or column, made manually by a steward or suggested by automated matching.
- Data classification
- The process of tagging assets or columns with categories such as PII or financial data, using pattern, regex, or machine-learning rules during a scan.
- Classification rule
- A rule that defines how CDGC detects a data category, for example a regex pattern for email addresses or a model for personal names.
- Data profiling
- A scan that computes column statistics such as row count, null count, distinct count, and value frequency, producing quality and completeness metrics for the asset.
- Quality scorecard
- An aggregated view of profiling results and quality metrics rolled up from column to asset to domain, used to monitor data health over time.
- Column-level lineage
- A directed map showing which source columns feed which target columns, derived from scanned job and SQL metadata; it appears only after successful catalog runs.
- Upstream vs downstream
- Upstream lineage shows where an asset's data originates; downstream lineage shows which assets consume it. Both directions are filterable in the lineage view.
- Governance domain
- A scoping construct that groups assets and glossary content so stewards and policies apply only to their area of responsibility within the catalog.
- Data steward
- A role responsible for curating assets, approving glossary terms, associating terms with columns, and resolving quality or classification issues in their domain.
- Catalog administrator
- A role that configures catalog sources, schedules scans, manages users and permissions, and monitors job status across the organization.
- Data access policy
- A governance rule that restricts who may view or use an asset, evaluated against user roles, asset attributes, and classification tags.
- Masking policy
- A rule that obscures sensitive values, such as partially redacting a column classified as PII, applied based on classification and user context.
- Metadata completeness
- The degree to which assets have descriptions, owners, terms, and classifications; higher completeness improves search relevance and governance reporting.
- Catalog job
- A scheduled or on-demand scan that extracts metadata from a source and creates or updates assets, columns, and lineage in the catalog.
- Job run status
- The outcome of a catalog or profiling job (success, partial, failed); failed runs leave asset inventories and lineage stale until rerun.
- Lineage parser limitation
- Lineage may be missing when SQL is dynamic, uses temporary tables, or references unsupported source types the parser cannot resolve.
- Term approval status
- A glossary term's lifecycle state, typically Draft, Approved, or Published; only approved or published terms are broadly usable in the catalog.
- Synonym in glossary
- An alternate name attached to a glossary term so that search and automated matching recognize variants of the same business concept.
- Automated term matching
- A CDGC capability that suggests glossary terms for assets or columns based on name similarity and profiling values, which a steward then confirms.
- PII classification
- A sensitivity tag for personally identifiable information such as names, emails, or national IDs, used to trigger masking and access policies.
- Asset search filters
- Catalog search facets such as asset type, source, domain, term, classification, and owner that narrow results to relevant governed assets.
- IDMC platform
- The Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud that hosts CDGC alongside other services, sharing organization, user, and metering configuration.
- Reference data
- Controlled value sets, such as country codes or status values, that are cataloged and governed so systems use consistent valid values.
- Data owner
- A role accountable for an asset's content, access decisions, and quality, distinct from the steward who performs day-to-day curation.
- Quality dimension
- A measurable aspect of data health, such as completeness, validity, uniqueness, or timeliness, that profiling results can be mapped to.
- Asset relationship
- A stored link between catalog assets, such as parent-child, lineage, or association, that supports impact analysis and discovery.
- Impact analysis
- Using lineage and relationships to determine which downstream reports, dashboards, or systems are affected by a change to an upstream asset.