Populating the Question Library

The Question Library is an application in Archer that stores assessment questions that you can reference and copy into a questionnaire. Depending on the use cases that you have licensed, the Question Library contains a large set of pre-built questions by default. In addition, you can add or import new questions and store them in the Question Library.

Each question is stored as an individual record, and each record contains information including the question and answer text as well as information necessary to display and score the question. These settings enable you to dynamically filter the questions that are presented in specific assessments.

Additionally, you can easily link questions to authoritative sources, control standards, and corporate policies to measure and report compliance. If your organization uses the Policy Management solution as the foundation to an enterprise risk and compliance management program, you can link individual questions directly to relevant internal controls and authoritative sources. While this linkage is not required, it enables you to measure compliance with controls and regulations for any type of target, such as a vendor, business process, or facility.

When you create a questionnaire, you can copy any number of questions from the Question Library to the questionnaire. Once copied, you can modify and configure that question as needed, without affecting the original question record stored in the Question Library.