Information Governance (IG) consists of? A. the overarching policies and processes to optimize and leverage information while keeping it secure and meeting legal and privacy obligations in alignment with organizationally stated business objectives; B. established frameworks and best practices to gain the most leverage and benefit out of IT investments and support accomplishment of business objectives; C. the processes, methods, and techniques to ensure that data is of high quality, reliable, and unique (not duplicated), so that downstream uses in reports and databases are more trusted and accurate D. All of the above

Answer: A) the overarching policies and processes to optimize and leverage information while keeping it secure and meeting legal and privacy obligations in alignment with organizationally stated business objectives

Explanation: Information governance (IG) is the act for the information to store, create, archive, deleting, valuing etc. This step is used for making the information secure and optimizable when required. IG gives the control over the information with respect to particular policy.

Other options are incorrect because frameworks used for extraction of most of IT investments is known as IT (Information technology) governance and method used for ensuring the data for forming database is known as data governance. Thus, the correct option is option (A).