IICS Certification Trivia 4 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which IICS capability provides automated data profiling, cataloging, and lineage tracking across cloud and on-premises sources?
- Cloud Data Integration
- Cloud Data Governance and Catalog (Correct answer)
- Master Data Management
- Data Quality
Correct answer: Cloud Data Governance and Catalog
Cloud Data Governance and Catalog (CDGC) provides automated discovery, profiling, lineage, and policy enforcement across all data assets.
Question 2: In IICS B2B Gateway, which standard protocol is most commonly used for exchanging EDI documents with trading partners?
- REST
- AS2 (Correct answer)
- MQTT
- FTP
Correct answer: AS2
AS2 (Applicability Statement 2) is the dominant protocol for secure, reliable EDI document exchange in B2B integration scenarios.
Question 3: What IICS feature enables a mapping to be called from within another mapping, promoting reuse?
- Mapplet (Correct answer)
- Subflow
- Reusable Mapping
- Shared Transformation
Correct answer: Mapplet
A Mapplet is a reusable data transformation object that can be embedded inside other mappings to avoid logic duplication.
Question 4: Which IICS runtime environment type runs entirely in the Informatica cloud without requiring customer-installed infrastructure?
- Hosted Agent
- Serverless Runtime (Correct answer)
- Cloud Server
- Informatica Managed
Correct answer: Serverless Runtime
The Serverless Runtime in IICS runs mappings in a fully managed, auto-scaling cloud environment with no customer-side agent installation.
Question 5: In IICS, when a mapping task encounters a non-fatal data error, the row is typically written to which location?
- Error Log
- Reject File (Correct answer)
- Dead Letter Queue
- Bad File
Correct answer: Reject File
IICS writes rows that violate target constraints or encounter non-fatal transformation errors to a reject file for later inspection and reprocessing.
Question 6: Which transformation in IICS is used to combine rows from two or more sorted input sources based on a common key?
- Union
- Joiner (Correct answer)
- Router
- Merge
Correct answer: Joiner
The Joiner transformation in IICS merges data from two sources using a key-based match, similar to a SQL JOIN operation.
Question 7: What is the role of the IICS 'Organization' object in multi-tenant deployments?
- It is the top-level tenant container isolating users, assets, and connections (Correct answer)
- It groups Secure Agents into clusters
- It stores API tokens for external services
- It defines row-level security on datasets
Correct answer: It is the top-level tenant container isolating users, assets, and connections
An Organization in IICS is the top-level tenant boundary that isolates all assets, users, connections, and configurations from other tenants.
IICS Certification Trivia 4
Which IICS capability provides automated data profiling, cataloging, and lineage tracking across cloud and on-premises sources?