Business domains should own their data with shared rules. What model is this?
Why C is the answer
Federated governance
In federated governance, business domains own their data while following shared rules.
In detail
- Domains owning data under shared rules is federated governance.
- Domains need clear owners.
Use case
An illustrative scenario, not a real incident.
Marketing and finance own their data, and both follow shared company rules.
See it in different ways
flowchart LR A["Cloud Storage"] --> C["Dataplex"] B["BigQuery"] --> C C --> D["Discovery and quality"] C --> E["Federated governance"]
mindmap
root((Governance))
Location
Regional storage
Organization policies
Protection
Cloud DLP
Data masking
Separation
Project per environment
Ownership
Federated governancemindmap
root(("Federated governance"))
n1["Central"]
n2["Shared rules"]
n3["Domains"]
n4["Marketing data"]
n5["Finance data"]Key point: Federated governance shares responsibility.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. No governance
- That is the opposite.
- B. A monolithic cluster
- That is about compute.
- D. A single shared login
- A shared login is a security problem.

