MDM Services Integration Framework (SIF) 2

Question 1

Which SIF API call is used to retrieve the history of changes made to a record in Informatica MDM Hub?

Accepted Answer

GetRecordHistory

Answer

GetRecordHistory retrieves the audit trail and change history for a specific record in the MDM Hub.

Question 2

In SIF, what is the purpose of the 'SiperianClient' class?

Accepted Answer

It acts as the main entry point for making SIF API calls from Java clients

Answer

SiperianClient is the primary Java class used to create and send SIF requests to the MDM Hub server.

Question 3

Which protocol does the SIF Web Services API use for message transport?

Accepted Answer

SOAP over HTTP/HTTPS

Answer

SIF Web Services use SOAP over HTTP or HTTPS as the underlying transport protocol.

Question 4

What does the 'SiperianObjectUID' represent in a SIF request?

Accepted Answer

A unique identifier combining the object type and rowid to reference an MDM object

Answer

SiperianObjectUID is a compound identifier that specifies both the type and the unique row ID of an MDM Hub object.

Question 5

Which SIF operation allows external systems to add a new record to a landing table without triggering the match-and-merge process immediately?

Accepted Answer

Put (to landing table)

Answer

Putting data into a landing table loads records for staging without immediately invoking the match-and-merge batch process.

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