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  1. What is the function of a cloud 'availability zone' (AZ)?

    Answer: An isolated data center within a region that provides fault isolation

    An availability zone is one or more discrete data centers within a region with independent power, cooling, and networking, enabling high-availability architectures.

  2. In IICS, what does a 'connection' object represent?

    Answer: Stored credentials and endpoint details used to access a data source or target

    An IICS connection stores all the information needed to connect to a data system, including host, port, credentials, and driver details, reusable across multiple tasks.

  3. Which Informatica Cloud service is purpose-built for real-time data streaming and event-driven integration?

    Answer: Cloud Application Integration

    Cloud Application Integration (formerly Cloud Integration Hub / Process Designer) handles real-time, event-driven integration and process orchestration.

  4. What is 'cloud bursting' in a hybrid cloud architecture?

    Answer: Automatically offloading peak workloads from private to public cloud

    Cloud bursting allows an application running in a private cloud to 'burst' into a public cloud when on-premises capacity is exceeded, handling traffic spikes cost-effectively.

  5. Which IICS feature allows you to parameterize connection names and file paths so the same mapping task can run in DEV, QA, and PROD environments?

    Answer: Runtime parameters

    Runtime parameters in IICS let you define variable placeholders for connections, file paths, and filter conditions that are resolved at task execution time per environment.

  6. In the shared responsibility model for cloud security, who is responsible for patching the guest operating system on an IaaS instance?

    Answer: The customer

    In IaaS, the cloud provider secures the physical infrastructure and hypervisor, but the customer is responsible for the OS, patches, and everything above.

  7. Which transformation in IICS is used to combine rows from two or more input pipelines based on a matching key?

    Answer: Joiner

    The Joiner transformation merges data from two sorted or unsorted pipelines by matching on one or more key columns, similar to a SQL JOIN.

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