IICS Certification IICS Security and Administration 3

Question 1

What is a 'Hosted Agent' in IICS, and how does it differ from a Secure Agent?

Accepted Answer

A Hosted Agent is Informatica-managed in the cloud and used for cloud-to-cloud integrations; a Secure Agent is customer-installed for on-premise access

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A Hosted Agent runs on-premise; a Secure Agent is cloud-hosted

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They are identical but branded differently

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A Hosted Agent only supports REST APIs; a Secure Agent supports all connectors

Question 2

How does IICS handle license management for services like Data Integration and Application Integration?

Accepted Answer

License bundles are assigned at the organization level and determine which services and features are available

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All services are included in every IICS subscription by default

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Licenses are purchased per mapping run

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Each Secure Agent requires its own individual license key

Question 3

Which IICS feature lets administrators control which users can publish assets to the production environment versus the sandbox?

Accepted Answer

Asset-level permissions and environment-scoped roles

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IP allowlisting on the target database

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Secure Agent group access control

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Scheduled deployment windows

Question 4

What is the purpose of 'projects' and 'folders' in IICS for asset organization?

Accepted Answer

They provide a hierarchical organizational structure for grouping and managing assets with access permissions

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They define the runtime execution order of tasks

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They act as database schemas for storing integration metadata

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They configure environment-specific connection settings

Question 5

In IICS, what must an administrator do after installing a new Secure Agent before it can run jobs?

Accepted Answer

Register and associate the agent with an agent group and verify it shows an 'Active' status in Administrator

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Manually upload agent binaries to the IICS portal

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Install a separate license key on the agent machine

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Configure a static IP on the agent and whitelist it in IICS

Question 6

Which IICS security mechanism ensures that data in transit between the Secure Agent and the IICS cloud is protected?

Accepted Answer

TLS (Transport Layer Security) encryption for all agent-to-cloud communication

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VPN tunnel only

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SSH key-based authentication only

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Data is compressed but not encrypted in transit