ICC DevOps & Deployment 3 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which Informatica IICS component is responsible for communicating between the cloud service and on-premises data sources?
- Cloud Server
- Secure Agent (Correct answer)
- Informatica Cloud Hosted Agent
- Data Integration Service
Correct answer: Secure Agent
The Secure Agent is installed on-premises and acts as the bridge between IICS cloud services and local databases or file systems.
Question 2: When deploying a new version of a mapping in IICS, which action ensures the existing scheduled jobs use the updated version?
- Republishing the schedule
- Saving and activating the mapping, then reactivating the schedule (Correct answer)
- Restarting the Secure Agent
- Exporting and re-importing the mapping package
Correct answer: Saving and activating the mapping, then reactivating the schedule
After saving and activating the updated mapping, you must reactivate (re-save) any associated schedules so they reference the latest version.
Question 3: In an IICS CI/CD pipeline using Git, which file format do exported IICS packages use?
- XML
- JSON
- ZIP (containing XML files) (Correct answer)
- YAML
Correct answer: ZIP (containing XML files)
IICS export packages are ZIP archives that contain XML representation of each design object inside the bundle.
Question 4: Which Informatica IICS API endpoint is used to trigger a mapping task programmatically for CI/CD testing?
- /api/v2/job (Correct answer)
- /api/v2/mapping/run
- /api/v2/mttask/start
- /api/v2/activity/start
Correct answer: /api/v2/job
The /api/v2/job endpoint accepts a taskType and taskFederatedId to start mapping tasks, workflows, and other jobs via REST.
Question 5: What is the purpose of the IICS 'runtime environment' setting on a connection or task?
- Specifies the cloud region where data is stored
- Determines which Secure Agent or agent group executes the task (Correct answer)
- Sets the Java runtime version for the mapping
- Defines the time zone for schedule execution
Correct answer: Determines which Secure Agent or agent group executes the task
The runtime environment setting directs IICS to run the task on a specific Secure Agent or agent group, enabling environment-specific routing (dev/prod).
Question 6: Which IICS feature enables blue-green deployment by allowing two versions of a mapping to coexist and switch traffic between them?
- Versioned assets with activation control (Correct answer)
- A/B testing taskflows
- Shadow mode connectors
- Parallel agent groups with load balancing
Correct answer: Versioned assets with activation control
IICS versioned assets allow multiple saved versions of a mapping; controlling which version is 'active' enables switching between blue and green deployments.
Question 7: When configuring a Secure Agent behind a corporate proxy, which configuration file is edited to add proxy settings?
- infaagent.ini (Correct answer)
- proxy.properties
- javaagent.conf
- conf/default.properties
Correct answer: infaagent.ini
Proxy host, port, and credentials are configured in the infaagent.ini file located in the Secure Agent installation directory.
ICC DevOps & Deployment 3
Which Informatica IICS component is responsible for communicating between the cloud service and on-premises data sources?