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

Answer

The Hosted Agent is a fully managed, cloud-resident agent provided by Informatica for cloud-to-cloud connectivity without customer installation.

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

Answer

IICS license bundles are assigned to the organization and control which services, connectors, and feature sets are available for use.

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

Answer

Asset-level permissions and roles scoped to specific environments (sandbox vs. production) control who can deploy or publish assets.

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

Answer

Projects and folders organize assets hierarchically in IICS and are used to control access permissions at the project or folder level.

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

Answer

After installation, the Secure Agent must be registered in the IICS Administrator, added to an agent group, and confirmed as Active before tasks can be assigned to it.

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IICS Certification IICS Security and Administration 3