Stewardship and Workflows Flashcards

Which Informatica MDM capability allows a steward to see a complete record of all changes made to a golden record over time, including who made each change?

Answer: History Manager / audit trail

The History Manager and audit trail in MDM record every change to a golden record, including field-level edits, merge events, and the identity of the user who made each change.

In Informatica MDM's workflow system, what is the difference between a 'claim' and an 'assignment' for a task?

Answer: Claim means a steward voluntarily takes a pooled task; assignment means a manager or system explicitly routes it to a specific steward

Claiming lets a steward pull a task from a shared pool, while assignment is when the system or a manager explicitly routes the task to a named individual.

A business rule requires that any record whose 'Annual Revenue' field is changed by a steward must trigger a secondary approval from the Finance team. Which workflow mechanism implements this?

Answer: Conditional workflow branching based on field change detection

Conditional workflow branching evaluates whether a specific field was modified and can route the record to an additional approval step when the condition is true.

When integrating Informatica MDM with an external BPEL engine for workflows, which protocol is used to communicate task events between MDM Hub and the workflow engine?

Answer: Web services / SOAP or REST API calls

MDM Hub communicates with external workflow engines like ActiveVOS using web service calls (SOAP/REST), sending and receiving task lifecycle events programmatically.

A steward notices that a workflow task has been in the 'Pending' state for 10 days with no action. Which MDM configuration would have automatically escalated this task to a supervisor after 3 days?

Answer: Workflow deadline timer with escalation action

A workflow deadline timer configured with an escalation action automatically triggers reassignment or notification when a task exceeds the allowed inactivity period.

In Informatica Data Director, which role typically has permission to configure workflow definitions, whereas a regular data steward only executes them?

Answer: MDM Administrator or Business Administrator

The MDM Administrator or Business Administrator role has privileges to design and modify workflow definitions, while data stewards operate within the workflows as configured.

An organization uses Informatica MDM and wants rejected records to automatically notify the source system via a message queue so the originating application can correct and resubmit the data. Which integration approach enables this?

Answer: Workflow exit action invoking a JMS or message queue publish event

A workflow exit action can publish a rejection event to a JMS message queue, enabling the source application to receive the notification and initiate a correction workflow on its end.