IICS Certification Mass Ingestion and Data Synchronization

Question 1

What is 'Mass Ingestion' in IICS primarily designed for?

Accepted Answer

High-volume, efficient ingestion of data from databases or files into cloud targets with minimal configuration

Answer

Mass Ingestion is optimized for high-volume bulk data loading from databases or files into cloud data warehouses or data lakes with minimal setup.

Question 2

Which two types of Mass Ingestion tasks does IICS provide?

Accepted Answer

Mass Ingestion Files and Mass Ingestion Databases

Answer

IICS offers Mass Ingestion Files (for file-to-cloud loads) and Mass Ingestion Databases (for database-to-cloud loads) as the two primary task types.

Question 3

In IICS Mass Ingestion Databases, what does 'initial load' refer to?

Accepted Answer

The first historical bulk load of all data from the source database into the target

Answer

An initial load performs a full historical bulk extract of source table data into the target, establishing the baseline dataset.

Question 4

What technology does IICS Mass Ingestion Databases use to capture ongoing changes from the source after the initial load?

Accepted Answer

Change Data Capture (CDC) using database transaction logs

Answer

Mass Ingestion Databases uses CDC, reading database transaction logs to capture inserts, updates, and deletes in near real-time after the initial load.

Question 5

Which cloud storage targets are commonly supported by IICS Mass Ingestion Files?

Accepted Answer

Amazon S3, Azure Data Lake Storage, Google Cloud Storage, and similar cloud object stores

Answer

IICS Mass Ingestion Files can land data in major cloud object stores including Amazon S3, Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, and Google Cloud Storage.

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IICS Certification Mass Ingestion and Data Synchronization