Which of the following terms are applicable for Datawarehousing?

OLAP

OLTP

Dimension

Cube

Fact

Which of the following are security options not available in repository manager?

Manage users

Manage Groups

Manage Folders

Manage Privileges

Manage Repository

Which of the following are false about metadata extensions?

Its not a property of the object in which it is created

It appears on the metadata extension tab of the each object of that type created

Metadata extension names need not be unique for each type of object in a domain

The datatype could be numeric(integer), string or Boolean

Metadata extension names must be unique for each type of object in a domain

Where will you set the type of update for an update strategy transformation?

In session

In mapping

In repository

In workflow

In task

Which of the following properties belong to update strategy transformation?

Variable

Forward reject rows

Tracing

SQL Override

When the stored procedure transformation is after the joiner transformation, the informatica server
uses the database connection of the

Detail table

Master table

Target table

1 or 2

2 or 3

Where do you configure the index and data cache of aggregator transformation?

Session properties

Aggregator transformation

Mapping properties

Changes can be made using Designer or workflow manager tool

Parameter Variables

Which Transformation wont allow addition of any port?

Custom

Union

Sequence

Mid Stream XML Parser

Aggregator

Which one is correct for the following example?

The total commission of employees who exceeds their quarterly quota?

Sum(commission, commission > quota)

Sum(commission, commission >= quota)

Sum(commission, commission > quota = )

Sum(commission, commission <= quota)

To verify the target tables and diskspace on the target system, Stored procedure must be the type of

Source pre-load

Target pre-load

Source post-load

Target post-load

Source commit-load

What is the purpose of SQL Override in a source qualifier?

Joining 2 or more homogenous sources

Perform cross-platform joins

Joining 2 or more heterogenous sources

To change column order of source

To eliminate duplicate data

When can we use a connected lookup?

Does not support user-defined values

Dynamic cache is possible

Returns multiple columns

Dynamic cache is not possible

If rows are to be passed to a filter or router transformation directly

When using Mapping Designer, what are all the transformations that cannot be used in a mapplet?

Sequence generator

Sources

Aggregator

Targets

Normaliser
Based on a flag (0 or 1) either Insert or Update has to be done on a target. What are the ways in
which this can be best achieved?

Use router transformation

Use filter transformation

Group the data using aggregator and send to target

Use update strategy and use the flag for setting the condition as DD_UPDATE or DD_INSERT

Write two mappings and filter data using source qualifier

Which of the following properties you can change for a newly added source column without
invalidating a mapping:

Datatype

Table Name

Redefines

Key constraints

Column name

When you import the source definition, which of the following source metadata you import?

Source name

Triggers

Column names

Key constraints

Indexes

When you import a COBOL source, the designer scans the file for which of the following
components?

Target

Source

Redefines

Fields

Occurs
You can create transformations in designer using

Mapping designer

Source analyzer

Mapplet designer

Transformation developer

Warehouse designer

Which of the following are tools of designer?

Source analyzer

Session developer

Task developer

Warehouse designer

Mapping designer

Sources do not contain

Input ports

Output ports

Variable ports

Sorted ports

Metadata extensions

Which of the following tasks can we perform in the designer?

Create shortcuts

Export/import Registry

Export and import repository objects

Copy objects

Compare folders

If the object is target, then what are the dependencies that are displayed when “View
Dependencies” is selected for it?

Target within the same folder that reference the target through a foreign key relationship
Shortcuts to the target

Mappings using the target

Mapplets using the target

Sources that are dependent on the target

I used a sequence generator in a mapping and I have done some testing on this particular mapping.
In this particular scenario, how I can set the sequence generator to its initial value?

Set the current value to 1

Remove from mapping and recreate it

Cannot be reset

1,2

2,4

What is the default source option for update strategy transformation?

Insert

Update

Delete

Data driven

Reject

The designer includes a “Find” search tool as part of the standard toolbar. What can be searched
using the tool?

Persistent values

Port names

Source definitions

Target definitions

Descriptive text

If a source is imported from a databases what all can be configured?

Owner name

Database type

Constraint name
Index name

Database name

If a target is imported from databases what all can be configured?

Constraint name

Database type

Index name

Business name

Nullability

Which of the following is not possible while copying/moving from one source to another without
connecting to database?

Create a shortcut and rename it

Cannot be copied

Use the copy column option

Drag and drop columns into the new source.

Use the move columns option

Which of the following is true about advanced external procedures?

AEP transformations are connected transformations

AEP transformations cannot be referenced in an expression

AEP transformations can be referenced in an expression

AEP transformations are un-connected transformations

AEP can be created only using Transformation developer

Which tracing level of Informatica Server logs

1. Initialization

2. Error message and

3. Notification of rejected data

Normal

Verbose Init
Verbose data

Terse

Descriptive

You want to use the same session to extract transaction records for each of your customers
individually. Which way is preferred?

Create a mapping parameter to represent a single customer account

Create individual session for each customer account

Create individual mappings and session for each customer account

Create mapplets

Create mapplets and worklets for re-using

Which of the following is not applicable for CONTROL task in workflow manager?

To send e-mails when session fails

To stop the workflow that is running

To send alerts to the Notification window

To fail a workflow that is running

To check the performance of session

Which of the following is applicable for COMMAND task in workflow manager?

To check the performance of session

Allows Batch file to be executed

Allows unix command to be executed

To send alerts to the notification window

Allow shell scripts to be executed

Which threads are created in DTM Process?

Master

Input, Output

Transformation

Mapping
Reader

Whether or not a Session Task can be considered to have heterogeneous targets is determined by

The mapping properties alone

The session task properties alone

Either the mapping properties or the session task properties

Either the mapping properties or the workflow properties

Either the mapping properties or the workflow properties or session properties

How can we compare the mapping and mapplets of the same name belonging to different folders?

Mapping designers

Mapplet designers

Cannot be compared

Only by using repository manager compare

Workflow manager

Which of the following tasks are re-usable?

Command

Control

Email

Session

Timer

Worklet variables are not used for

Reference values

Record information

Performance tuning

Database comparisons

Storing metadata extensions

Task instance can be edited using workflow designer

Changes made to an instance is only applicable to the instance

Changes made to an instance is propagated to the original task

Once an instance property is changed, the changes cannot be reverted

An instance property if changed, can be reverted

User defined worklet variables cannot be

Static

Dynamic

Persistent

Non-persistent

Volatile

Which of the following objects you cannot include in a mapplet?

Filter

XML Sources

Normaliser

Aggregator

Target Definitions

I selected sorted input option but workflow takes same amount of time as before. What all could be
the reason for this?

Aggregator expression contains nested aggregate functions

Source use incremental aggregation

Source data is data-driven

Source data has lesser data

Source has lesser columns

The number of threads depends on the ________ information for each pipeline?

Partition
Expression

CPU bandwidth

Session

Workflow

To improve the session performance which one has to be done?

Increase the number of partitions

Always use verbose tracing

Use only normal load

Use ODBC for loading huge data

Avoid staging area

What is the order of identifying performance bottleneck?

Source->Target->Mapping->Session->System

Target->Source->Mapping->Session->System

System->Source-> Target->Mapping->Session

Mapping->Session->System->Source->Target

Mapping->Session->System->Target->Source

To increase the performance of target load which one we have to do?

Use External load

Use Normal load

Decrease checkpoint intervals

build indexes

to enable cache

Which of the following is applicable in Sources with respect to File sources

Fixed-width file is supported

De-limited file is supported

No header should exist in a file

Escape character should always be / for delimited files.