MDM Stewardship and Workflows 5 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: 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?
- Match History Report
- History Manager / audit trail (Correct answer)
- Cleanse Log Viewer
- Schema Diff Tool
Correct 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.
Question 2: In Informatica MDM's workflow system, what is the difference between a 'claim' and an 'assignment' for a task?
- Claim means the system assigns the task; assignment means a steward picks it up voluntarily
- Claim means a steward voluntarily takes a pooled task; assignment means a manager or system explicitly routes it to a specific steward (Correct answer)
- There is no difference; the terms are interchangeable
- Claim permanently locks the task; assignment allows other stewards to override
Correct 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.
Question 3: 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?
- Field-level trust override
- Conditional workflow branching based on field change detection (Correct answer)
- Source system priority reranking
- Duplicate threshold adjustment
Correct 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.
Question 4: 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?
- FTP file drop
- Web services / SOAP or REST API calls (Correct answer)
- Direct JDBC database writes
- SFTP batch synchronization
Correct 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.
Question 5: 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?
- Match threshold decay
- Workflow deadline timer with escalation action (Correct answer)
- Trust score expiry rule
- Batch recurrence schedule
Correct 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.
Question 6: In Informatica Data Director, which role typically has permission to configure workflow definitions, whereas a regular data steward only executes them?
- Data Consumer
- MDM Administrator or Business Administrator (Correct answer)
- External Source System Owner
- Read-only Analyst
Correct 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.
Question 7: 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?
- Manual export from Data Director to CSV
- Workflow exit action invoking a JMS or message queue publish event (Correct answer)
- Scheduled batch re-extract from the Hub Store
- Direct SQL update to the landing table
Correct 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.
MDM Stewardship and Workflows 5
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?