IICS Certification API Management in IICS 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: In IICS API Center, what is an 'API Consumer'?
- An internal IICS user who designs APIs
- An application, developer, or system that subscribes to and calls a published API (Correct answer)
- A Secure Agent that routes API traffic
- An Informatica-managed gateway server
Correct answer: An application, developer, or system that subscribes to and calls a published API
An API Consumer is the external application, developer, or system that subscribes to and invokes a published API through API Center.
Question 2: What is an 'OAuth 2.0' policy in IICS API Center used for?
- Encrypting the API response payload
- Securing API access using OAuth 2.0 token-based authentication and authorization (Correct answer)
- Limiting the number of API calls per minute
- Transforming API request payloads automatically
Correct answer: Securing API access using OAuth 2.0 token-based authentication and authorization
An OAuth 2.0 policy enforces token-based security on APIs, requiring callers to present a valid OAuth access token issued by an authorization server.
Question 3: What does the 'Developer Portal' in IICS API Center provide to API consumers?
- A self-service portal where developers can discover APIs, view documentation, and obtain access credentials (Correct answer)
- A GUI for designing Application Integration processes
- A monitoring dashboard for Secure Agent health
- A code repository for storing IICS assets
Correct answer: A self-service portal where developers can discover APIs, view documentation, and obtain access credentials
The Developer Portal is a self-service web interface where API consumers can browse available APIs, read documentation, and subscribe for access.
Question 4: In IICS API Management, what is 'API Analytics' used for?
- Profiling source data quality before ingestion
- Tracking API usage metrics such as call volume, latency, error rates, and consumer activity (Correct answer)
- Analyzing ETL job performance and row throughput
- Auditing user login activity across the platform
Correct answer: Tracking API usage metrics such as call volume, latency, error rates, and consumer activity
API Analytics provides visibility into how APIs are being used — including call counts, latency trends, error rates, and which consumers are most active.
Question 5: What is the purpose of a 'CORS policy' applied to an API in IICS API Center?
- Compressing API responses to reduce bandwidth
- Controlling which browser origins are allowed to make cross-origin API requests (Correct answer)
- Routing API requests to different backend processes based on URL
- Caching API responses to reduce backend load
Correct answer: Controlling which browser origins are allowed to make cross-origin API requests
A CORS policy specifies which browser origins are permitted to make cross-origin requests to the API, controlling browser-based security.
Question 6: In IICS, what does 'API lifecycle management' encompass?
- Managing ETL job run lifecycles from start to finish
- The end-to-end process of designing, publishing, versioning, deprecating, and retiring APIs (Correct answer)
- Controlling the lifecycle of Secure Agent updates
- Managing the deployment lifecycle of IICS itself
Correct answer: The end-to-end process of designing, publishing, versioning, deprecating, and retiring APIs
API lifecycle management covers all phases of an API's existence from initial design and publishing through versioning, deprecation, and eventual retirement.
IICS Certification API Management in IICS 2
In IICS API Center, what is an 'API Consumer'?