Informatica Powercenter questions

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1 Informatica 2 Knowledge Easy What does a PowerCenter Domain require at
PowerCenter 8 minimum?
Architecture
2 Informatica 2 Analysis Average What is required for a node to be available?
PowerCenter 8
Architecture

3 Informatica 2 Knowledge Easy What are the two main categories of defining
PowerCenter 8 a node?
Architecture
4 Informatica 3 Knowledge Easy Which of the below functions are performed
Services by Service Manager
5 New features in 4 Analysis Average What does the term “resilience” mean with
Informatica 8 respect to PowerCenter high availability?

6 New features in 4 Analysis Average When you have the PowerCenter High
Informatica 8 Availability option, which of the following
actions increases the availability of a
PowerCenter domain?

7 Informatica 3 Analysis Average Which of the following statement accurately

Services describes the Respository service?

8 Informatica 3 Comprehension Easy What are the different types of application

Services services PowerCenter 8 supports?

9 Informatica 2 Analysis Average What does the term node generally denote?
PowerCenter 8
Architecture
10 New features in 4 Knowledge Easy Which of the below objects is rquired to
Informatica 8 create a Grid?
11 Working with 6 Knowledge Easy Which type of object cannot be created with
Administration Administration console
console
12 Informatica 3 Comprehension Easy In which of the below operating modes, an
Services Integration service can run?
13 Working with 6 Comprehension Average In which of the below tabs of Administration
Administration console you can manage users, monitor user
console activity and domain activity

14 Working with 6 Knowledge Easy Which type of objects can be visble in

Administration Administration console Navigator window
console

15 Working with 6 Analysis Average Which activties below can be performed

Administration using Administarion console?
console

16 Working with 6 Knowledge Easy Which of the below PowerCenter application

Administration is browser-based?
console
17 Working with 6 Knowledge Easy Which of the following actions you cannot
Administration perform in the PowerCenter Administration
console Console?
18 Informatica 3 Application Average Which of the below PowerCenter service
Services inserts/updates the metadata in the repository
database tables?
19 Connectivity 5 Comprehension Average What are the diiferent types of connectivity
Overview PowerCenter uses for communicating with
different PowerCenter components
20 Connectivity 5 Application Difficult Which connectivity method is used by
Overview PowerCenter Client to connect to source and
target database?
21 Connectivity 5 Comprehension Average To which of the PowerCenter components, an
Overview Integration service can connect?
22 New features in 4 Knowledge Easy What does the term “resilience” mean with
Informatica 8 respect to high availability for repository
service?

23 Informatica 3 Comprehension Easy In which of the below operating modes, a

Services Repository service can run?
24 Informatica 2 Application Average With which choice below is a master gateway
PowerCenter 8 associated?
Architecture

25 New features in 4 Comprehension Easy What are the different dispatch modes of load
Informatica 8 balancing?
26 Informatica 2 Analysis Average Which of the below dispatch modes ranks the
PowerCenter 8 nodes according to CPU availability?
Architecture
27 Informatica 2 Comprehension Average Which statement below is incorrect?
PowerCenter 8
Architecture

28 Informatica 2 Application Average Where does PowerCenter stores the Domain

PowerCenter 8 configuartion?
Architecture

29 Connectivity 5 Analysis Average Which of the below information is required

Overview while connecting to a Repository from any
powerCenter client application

30 Connectivity 5 Application Difficult Which of the below PowerCenter components

Overview uses Native connectivity to connect with
Repository database?
31 Informatica 2 Comprehension Easy Which of the following statement accurately
PowerCenter 8 describes the Domain?
Architecture
32 New features in 4 Analysis Average Which of the following high availability
Informatica 8 features are included in PowerCenter without
purchasing the High Availability option?
33 Working with 6 Comprehension Average Which tab of Administration console will
Administration display the domain and application service
console logs?
34 Working with 6 Application Difficult In which of the below PowerCenter tool you
Administration can view the log events for Integration service
console
35 Informatica 2 Knowledge Easy Which of the below is the administrative unit
PowerCenter 8 of the PowerCenter?
Architecture
36 New features in 4 Analysis Average Which of the below high avaliability
Informatica 8 components automatically completes the task
after a service is interrupted?
37 New features in 4 Comprehension Average Which of the below option is not required for
Informatica 8 configuring the high availability

38 New features in 4 Application Average In which tab of session properties you can
Informatica 8 configure the dynamic partitioning
39 New features in 4 Application Difficult While configuring load balancing for a node
Informatica 8 which of the below setting you can configure?

40 Working with 6 Comprehension Average In which of the tab of Domain in

Administration Administartion console you can view or
console modify the user permissions?
41 Working with 6 Application Average Which of the below legend shows the
Administration PowerCenter object in Running state (Image
console will be provided)
42 Informatica 3 Comprehension Easy Which application service is required to run
Services the sessions and workflows
43 Informatica 3 Comprehension Easy While configuring a repository service, which
Services step you should perform first?

44 Informatica 3 Application Difficult If you want to designate the primary and

Services backup nodes to run the service then in which
Repository service property you will do this?
45 Informatica 3 Comprehension Average To perform maintanance activity on the
Services repository you want to prevent users from
running sessions and workflows. How you will
achieve this?

46 Connectivity 5 Comprehension Easy How you can connect to Repository service

Overview from any PowerCenter client application?

47 Connectivity 5 Comprehension Easy How domain and nodes communicate with

Overview other nodes and services
48 Connectivity 5 Application Difficult When you perform the Preview Data on any
Overview source in designer, which connectivity is used
to access source database
49 Connectivity 5 Comprehension Average What should be the relationship between the
Overview code pages of Informatica Server, Source &
Target?

50 Connectivity 5 Application Difficult In Informatica, using the ODBC data source,

Overview we can access the data from
__________________.
51 Connectivity 5 Application Average To connect to databases Informatica
Overview recommends _____________________.
52 Connectivity 5 Application Difficult Application services and the Service
Overview Managers in a domain use
_______________________to communicate
with other nodes and services.
53 Connectivity 5 Application Difficult To establish ODBC connectivity between a
Overview database and the PowerCenter Client,
Integration Service, or Repository Service,
which of the following components needs to
be installed on the machine hosting the
PowerCenter application?
54 Connectivity 5 Comprehension Easy Which PowerCenter client tool you can use to
Overview create connections to databases?
55 Informatica 3 Application Average Which of the following components
Services Integration Service does not use to move
data from sources to targets?

56 Informatica 3 Application Average You cannot run the Integration Services on

Services ______________

57 Working with 6 Application Average In which of the Adminstration tab of

Administration Administration console you can generate the
console domain activity report
58 Working with 6 Comprehension Average Which of the following tasks you can perform
Administration using the Administration console to manage
console the domain and nodes and services within the
domain?
59 Working with 6 Application Average In which of the following locations can you
Administration search for error messages related to
console Integration Service log events?
60 New features in 4 Application Difficult PowerCenter resources are the database
Informatica 8 connections, files, directories, node names,
and operating system types required by a
workflow task. When you run a workflow on a
grid, the Integration Service matches the
resources available to nodes in the grid with
the resources assigned to tasks in a
workflow. What happens when you run a
workflow on a single node when the workflow
tasks
have resources assigned to them?

61 Working with 1 Knowledge Easy Which of the below statement acuurately

Repository describes the Repository?
Manager
62 Working with 1 Knowledge Easy Which of the below is not a Repository
Repository manager task?
Manager
63 Working with 1 Comprehension Average Which type of objetcs can be visible in
Repository Repository Manager Navigator window?
Manager

64 Working with 1 Comprehension Average what type of activities given below can be
Repository performed using Repository manager?
Manager

65 Working with 1 Comprehension Average What is the purpose of output window in

Repository PowerCenter client application?
Manager

66 Working with 1 Knowledge Easy What information does a PowerCenter

Repository application require to connect to a
Manager Repository?

67 Working with 1 Comprehension Average What type of dependenacies you can view in
Repository the dependency window of Repository
Manager Manager?
68 Working with 1 Knowledge Easy which of the below statement is correct
Repository regarding revoking the privileges from a user
Manager group?

69 Working with 1 Knowledge Easy Which fo the below privileges are required to
Repository connect to a Repository using Repository
Manager Manager?
70 Working with 1 Application Difficult After deleting the user group which contains
Repository users what will happen to users in that
Manager group?

71 Working with 3 Analysis Average During the repository configuration the option
Repository related to character sets is
Manager ____________________.
72 Working with 1 Knowledge Easy Metadata is stored in __________________.
Repository
Manager
73 Working with 1 Knowledge Easy You create and maintain folders in the
Repository __________________.
Manager
74 Working with 1 Knowledge Easy Which user or user group have full access to
Repository all folders in the repository?
Manager
75 Working with 1 Comprehension Average When you compare two folders which of the
Repository below information compare folder Wizard
Manager gives after comparison?
76 Working with 2 Knowledge Easy Which activities given below can be
Designer performed using Designer?

77 Working with 2 Knowledge Easy Under what condition you can edit the ports
Designer of a target defination in the mapping designer

78 Working with 2 Application Easy To preview the data of target table, which
Designer desginer tool is used?

79 Working with 2 Application Easy Data Preview can be done for

Designer ___________________.
80 Working with 2 Comprehension Average Which tasks can be performed on a port level
Designer (using one specific port)?

81 Working with 2 Analysis Average Which situation would always cause a

Designer mapping to be invalid?

82 Working with 2 Comprehension Average Which of the below given code page does not
Designer supported by PowerCenter for COBOL files?
83 Working with 2 Application Difficult When you import a COBOL source in the
Designer Source Analyzer, how does the Designer
interpret each REDEFINES clause?

84 Working with 2 Application Difficult When you import a COBOL source in the
Designer Source Analyzer, how does the Designer
interpret each OCCURS clause?

85 Working with 2 Comprehension Average Which of the below given target defination
Designer does PowerCenter 8 supports?

86 Working with 2 Application Easy You can connect diffferent designer objects in
Designer Mapping Designer using
_________________
87 Working with 2 Comprehension Average Which of the below objects cannot be
Designer included in a mapplet?
88 Working with 2 Analysis Average What is the difference between the built-in
Designer variables $$$SessStartTime and
SESSSTARTTIME?

89 Working with 2 Analysis Average For which type of source defination you can
Designer preview the data in source analyzer?
90 Working with 2 Analysis Average You have created a mapping variable in a
Designer mapping. But each time you run the session,
the value of the variable stays the same.
Which of the below cannot be the possible
explanation for this?

91 Working with 2 Comprehension Average What is the purpose of SETVARIABLE

Designer function?

92 Working with 2 Comprehension Average Which of the below statement is not true
Designer about Reusable transformations?

93 Working with 2 Analysis Average A numeric mapping variable is defined in a

Designer mapping. The initial value is 10. The mapping
variable is defined in the session parameter
file and given a value of 15. when the session
is run for first time, its value saved in
repository is 20. When the session is run for
next time, what will be the start value of the
variable?
94 Working with 3 Comprehension Average Which activities below can be performed by
Workflow workflow manager?
Manager

95 Working with 3 Comprehension Average In which of the below log files you will look for
Workflow a session failure when there no session log
Manager file
96 Working with 3 Comprehension Average Which of the below task cannot be created in
Workflow the task developer
Manager
97 Working with 3 Analysis Average A set of instructions that tells the Integration
Workflow Service how to run tasks is known as
Manager ______________.
98 Working with 3 Comprehension Average Which privileges are required to create a
Workflow workflow in workflow manager?
Manager

99 Working with 3 Analysis Average What will happen if you delete a workflow that
Workflow is running?
Manager
100 Working with 3 Analysis Average A ____________ is a set of instructions that
Workflow tells the Integration Service how and when to
Manager move data from sources to targets.
101 Working with 3 Application Easy You have created a lookup on target table in
Workflow your mapping. What should you specify in the
Manager Connection in session properties when you
create a session?
102 Working with 3 Comprehension Average In which of the below tasks you cannot use
Workflow the workflow variable?
Manager
103 Working with 3 Comprehension Average Where can u create a workflow task?
Workflow
Manager

104 Working with 3 Comprehension Average Where can u create a reusable task?
Workflow
Manager

105 Working with 3 Application Easy You can Schedule the workflow which is not
Workflow configured to run ____________________.
Manager
106 Working with 3 Application Difficult How do you make the Informatica Server stop
Workflow a workflow which has encountered an error
Manager while executing a session?

107 Working with 4 Comprehension Average Which of the below information is not
Workflow displayed in the workflow log about the
Monitor workflow run?
108 Working with 4 Comprehension Average Which of the below information is not
Workflow displayed in the session log about the
Monitor workflow run?

109 Working with 4 Analysis Average You can view log events for workflows with
Workflow the Log Events window in the
Monitor ____________________.
110 Working with 4 Application Difficult Which status name will be dispalyed in the
Workflow workflow monitor when Integration service
Monitor stops executing the failed task and continues
executing tasks in other paths.

111 Working with 4 Application Difficult Which status name will be dispalyed in the
Workflow workflow monitor when Integration service
Monitor initializes the workflow or task
112 Working with 4 Application Difficult Suppose you have set the maximum number
Workflow of concurrent sessions to 10. If the Integration
Monitor Service is already running 10 concurrent
sessions, which status will be displayed for
the 11th session you are trying to run using
same Integration service.
113 Working with 4 Application Difficult In which view of the Workflow Monitor you
Workflow can see the node of the Integration service
Monitor that runs the task
114 Working with 4 Application Difficult Which are the different ways of filtering the
Workflow task in Workflow Monitor?
Monitor
115 Working with 4 Application Easy What happens when Integration service
Workflow aborts the running task in workflow monitor?
Monitor

116 Working with 4 Application Difficult Which of the below statement is correct about
Workflow recovering the workflow?
Monitor

117 Working with 4 Application Easy The workflow monitor displays the task that
Workflow have run __________________.
Monitor
118 Working with 4 Application Easy Which priviliges are required to monitor the
Workflow workflow that runs on integration service?
Monitor (choose 2 options)
119 Working with 4 Application Easy Which Inetegration services are visible in the
Workflow Workflow monitor?
Monitor

120 Working with 4 Application Easy What type of objects are visible in the
Workflow workflow monitor task view
Monitor
121 Lookup 4 Comprehension Difficult What type of Lookup sources are supported
Transformation for Lookup transformations?

122 Expression 5 Analysis Average Which among the following transformation is

not an Active transformation?
123 Union 13 Knowledge Difficult Which of the following statements is not true
Transformation of the Union transformation?

124 Source Qualifier 1 Knowledge Difficult What is the default join type in Source
transformation Qualifier transformation?
125 Expression 5 Knowledge Difficult Data passes into and out of transformations
through input and output _______.
126 Aggregator 6 Comprehension Difficult How one can increase the performance of an
transformation Aggregator?

127 Filter 7 Knowledge Difficult Rows discarded by Filter Transformation

transformation appear in the session log or reject files.
128 HTTP 15 Comprehension Difficult The HTTP transformation uses the following
Transformation forms of authentication
129 HTTP 15 Knowledge Difficult We cannot add ports to an output group in a
Transformation HTTP Transformation.
130 Java 16 Comprehension Difficult Which is the default tracing level in a JAVA
Transformation Transformation
131 Joiner 3 Knowledge Difficult Which join keeps all rows of data from the
transformation detail source and the matching rows from the
master source.
132 Source Qualifier 1 Application Easy Source Qualifier can be used for joining data
transformation from _________________.
133 Source Qualifier 1 Knowledge Difficult The Integration Service runs pre-session SQL
transformation commands in a Source Qualifier against the
source database before it reads the source.
134 Source Qualifier 1 Application Easy Source Qualifier Transformation cannot
transformation __________

135 Source Qualifier 1 Comprehension Average The columns in the default Source Qualifier
transformation join must have ____________________.

136 Source Qualifier 1 Knowledge Difficult When you specify the number of Sorted
transformation Ports, the Integration Service adds the ports
to the ___________________________.

137 Source Qualifier 1 Analysis Average The default sort order in a Source Qualifier
transformation depends on the _________________.
138 Source Qualifier 1 Knowledge Easy The source qualifier lets you filter rows from
transformation _____________
139 Source Qualifier 1 Analysis Average Can data be sorted from a Flat File source by
transformation Source Qualifier ?

140 Source Qualifier 1 Comprehension Difficult When you use an outer join in a Source
transformation Qualifier transformation instead of the master
outer or detail outer join in the Joiner
transformation, you _____________.

141 Source Qualifier 1 Analysis Average If the Source Qualifier transformation is used
transformation to filter rows instead of the Filter
transformation, then _____________.

142 Source Qualifier 1 Application Difficult Under what circumstances is it desirable to

transformation alter the data types in the Source Qualifier?
143 Source Qualifier 1 Application Difficult A user finds that he/she is unable to generate
transformation a default query in the Source Qualifier SQL
Editor. What could be the possible reason?

144 Expression 5 Knowledge Easy What an Integration service do when it

encounters an Abort function

145 Update 12 Comprehension Difficult If the mapping contains a dynamic Lookup,

Strategy the Update Strategy transformations is used
transformation to define the row type for which of the
following rows?

146 Expression 5 Analysis Average What types of transformation ports are

supported?

147 Transaction 17 Application Easy What is an effective Transaction Control

control transformation?

148 Transaction 17 Application Easy Transaction Control transformation cannot be

control defined at which level?
149 Transaction 17 Application Easy If the transaction control expression
control evaluates to a value other than commit,
rollback, or continue

150 Transaction 17 Application Easy Which one of the following is not a built in
control variables in the Expression Editor when you
create a transaction control expression
151 Aggregator 6 Application Difficult Aggregator functions that cannot be used in
transformation incremental aggregation?
I) Percentage
II) Standard deviation
III)Variance
IV)Count

152 Aggregator 6 Comprehension Average By default, the Informatica Server treats null
transformation values in aggregate functions as
___________________.
153 Aggregator 6 Comprehension Difficult The expression to calculate the total
transformation commissions of employees who exceeded
their quarterly quota in an Aggregate
Transformation will be
__________________.
154 Aggregator 6 Analysis Average Which transformation(s) should be used to
transformation find the maximum stocks among the three
topmost selling retailers of a particular
region?
155 Aggregator 6 Knowledge Difficult What does the aggregate cache always
transformation consists of?

156 Aggregator 6 Knowledge Difficult An Aggregator transformation has two group-

transformation by ports: CUSTOMER_ID and
ORDER_DATE, in that order. The Sorted
Input property is set to true. The Order By
clause in the SQL for the Source Qualifier
contains this syntax: ORDER BY
CUSTOMER_ID, ORDER_DATE, MANF_ID.
Assuming that the sort order on the database
server matches the sort order of the session
and everything else is valid, what would
happen when this session started?

157 Aggregator 6 Analysis Average The Informatica Server performs aggregate

transformation calculations defined in an Aggregate
Transformation as it reads, and stores
necessary data group and row data in
__________________.
158 Filter 7 Comprehension Average If the filter condition evaluates to NULL, the
transformation row is assumed to be _____________.
159 Filter 7 Knowledge Difficult Following filter condition is used in a Filter
transformation transformation:
IIF(ISNULL(FIRST_NAME),TRUE,FALSE).
All the rows having Null as
FIRST_NAME______________________.

160 Filter 7 Knowledge Easy The records rejected by the filter

transformation transformation __________________.
161 Router 8 Comprehension Difficult You have a set of 100 records, where 50
transformation records have country_code = 'USA', 20
records have country_code = 'UK', 10 records
have country_code = 'GER' and 20 records
with country_code = 'FRA'
There are 3 output groups configured in the
mapping which processes the above set.
GroupA: country_code = 'USA' or
Country_code = 'UK'
GroupB: country_code = 'UK' or
country_code = 'GER'
Default: no condition
What is the total number of records through
put from the Router?

162 Router 8 Comprehension Difficult Which of the followings is/are true when you
transformation connect transformations to a Router
transformation in a mapping?
1. You can connect one output group to one
transformation or target.
2. You can connect multiple output ports in
one group to multiple transformations or
targets.
3. You can connect more than one group to
one transformation or target.
4. You can connect one output port in a group
to multiple transformations or targets.

163 Router 8 Application Difficult What happens in a Router transformation

transformation when the filter conditions for more than one
output groups evaluates to true?

164 Joiner 3 Knowledge Easy Which of the following transformation can be

transformation placed between the sort origin and the Joiner
transformation.
165 Joiner 3 Knowledge Difficult Can the Joiner transformation perform a
transformation case-sensitive string comparison as part of
the join condition?
166 Lookup 4 Application Easy If the same lookup is used multiple times in
transformation the same mapping, then _______________

167 Lookup 4 Application Easy Lookup transformation can not be used to

transformation _______________________.

168 Lookup 4 Knowledge Easy The number of which port in an unconnected

transformation lookup is only one
169 Lookup 4 Knowledge Difficult If you include more than one lookup
transformation condition, which operator condition should be
used first to optimize the lookup performance
170 Lookup 4 Knowledge Difficult If you configure a Lookup transformation to
transformation use a dynamic cache, which is the only
operator you can use in the lookup condition
171 Lookup 4 Knowledge Easy You can use a dynamic cache for
transformation ______________.
172 Lookup 4 Application Easy A simple mapping reads records from source
transformation S, does a lookup on L and loads target T. If S
has 50 records in it, L has 500,000 records in
it and T is empty, how many rows will be
written to target T?
173 Lookup 4 Application Difficult A developer is attempting to set up a Lookup
transformation condition and finds that the New Condition
button is disabled, making it impossible to set
a condition. Assume that it is a connected
Lookup. What is a possible reason for this?

174 Lookup 4 Application Difficult If Informatica fails to insert a record into

transformation target because of database error, what
happens to the corresponding record inserted
into dynamic Lookup cache?

175 Lookup 4 Knowledge Easy Which value of NewLookupRow signifies that

transformation integration service updates the row in the
cache.
176 Normalizer 14 Application Difficult Which statement in a COBOL file nests
transformation multiple records of information in a single
record?
177 Lookup 4 Knowledge Difficult When you create a Normalizer for a COBOL
transformation source, which column the Designer creates
each REDEFINES statement?
178 Normalizer 14 Comprehension Difficult In my mapping, I use one Expression
transformation transformation and one Lookup
transformation to modify two output ports
from the Normalizer transformation. The
mapping concatenates them into one single
transformation. All the ports are under the
same level, which does not violate the Ni-or-1
rule. When I check the data loaded in the
target, it is incorrect. Why is that?

179 Normalizer 14 Knowledge Difficult If there are n occurs clauses in the

transformation normalizer, how many GCID columns will be
generated?
180 Normalizer 14 Knowledge Easy The Normalizer transformation using COBOL
transformation sources is called __________________.
181 Sequence 9 Application Difficult When the Sequence Generator
Generator transformation is configured by connecting
only the CURRVAL Port to a Target as
follows:
Current Value = 1, Increment By = 1.
On running the workflow, the Informatica
Server generates the following values for
CURRVAL:
182 Sequence 9 Application Difficult If we connect NextVal of a sequence
Generator generator to two ports, which are in different
expression editor and process for 10 input
records, passing through this pipeline, then at
the end of processing the value of sequence
generator will be ______________________.

183 Sequence 9 Comprehension Difficult If I connect the Sequence Generator

Generator Transformation to two target tables in the
same mapping, then _____________.

184 Sequence 9 Comprehension Difficult If you want the same generated value by
Generator Sequence Generator to go to more than one
target that receives data from a single
preceding transformation, then
_____________.

185 Sequence 9 Comprehension Average For Sequence Generator, you typically only
Generator connect the CURRVAL port when the
_________________________.

186 Rank 11 Comprehension Average In a Rank Transformation, if two rank values

transformation match, the transformation
____________________.
187 Rank 11 Knowledge Difficult During a workflow whose mapping has Rank
transformation Transformation, the _____________
188 Rank 11 Comprehension Difficult When the Integration Service runs in the
transformation ASCII data movement mode, which sort order
it will use to sort session data
189 Rank 11 Analysis Average Which transformation(s) should be used to
transformation find the maximum stocks among the three
topmost selling retailers of a particular
region?
190 Sorter 10 Comprehension Average What type of sources are supported for
transformation sorter transformations?

191 Stored 18 Comprehension Average You might use stored procedures to complete
Procedure the following tasks
transformation

192 Stored 18 Knowledge Easy Whiuch is not a valid type of data that pass
Procedure between the Integration Service and the
transformation stored procedure
193 Stored 18 Analysis Average To pass parameters to the stored procedure
Procedure and receive a single output parameter, Which
transformation among the following mode of a Stored
Procedure transformation can be used?

194 Stored 18 Comprehension Difficult When you use $Target in a Stored Procedure
Procedure Transformation and the pipeline contains
transformation multiple relational targets
___________________.

195 Stored 18 Comprehension Difficult When you use $Target in a Stored Procedure
Procedure Transformation and the pipeline contains one
transformation relational target ______________________.

196 Stored 18 Comprehension Difficult When you use $Source in a Stored

Procedure Procedure Transformation and the pipeline
contains multiple relational sources joined by
a Joiner transformation
_____________________.
197 Update 12 Comprehension Difficult Which update strategy should be used in the
Strategy session when DD_DELETE is used in the
transformation Update strategy transformation?
198 Update 12 Comprehension Difficult The Informatica Server flags all rows for the
Strategy row type you specify in the Treat Source
transformation Rows As option and does not use the Update
Strategy transformations in the mapping to
flag the rows, if you _____________.
199 Update 12 Knowledge Difficult What will happen if rows are flagged for
Strategy rejection in update strategy and Forwarding
transformation Rejected Rows option is not selected?

200 SQL 2 Knowledge Difficult Which one of the following types of

transformation connections cannot be used to connect the
SQL transformation to a database
201 SQL 2 Comprehension Average The SQL transformation always returns one
transformation row for each input row in the following mode.
202 Union 13 Knowledge Easy Union transformation does not remove
transformation duplicate rows
203 Union 13 Comprehension Average Which transformation you cannot use
transformation upstream from a Union transformation
204 HTTP 15 Comprehension Average Which is not a valid group in a HTTP
transformation transformation
205 HTTP 15 Comprehension Difficult The Integration Service can establish a
transformation maximum of ___________ additional
connections to HTTP Servers.
206 Dynamic and 4 Application Difficult Select the Lookup transformation scenario
shared lookup below which is NOT supported.
caches Assume that the Lookup cache is persistent,
it is shared or named, and there is only one
Lookup transformation used in the mapping
or Mapplet.
207 Dynamic and 4 Knowledge Difficult Dynamic cache can
shared lookup _______________________.
caches

208 Dynamic and 4 Comprehension Difficult If the transformation uses a dynamic cache,
shared lookup the Informatica Server
caches _____________________________.

209 Transaction 17 Application Easy You cannot place a Transaction Control

control transformation in a pipeline branch that starts
with a ______________.
210 Joiner Analysis Average Joiner cache will be created
transformation 3 for__________________.
211 Session Task 1 Knowledge Easy How many tasks can be made reusuable?
212 Assignment 7 Knowledge Average Which task can assign value to workflow
Task variables?
213 Workflow 9 Knowledge Easy What is the default commit type for
informatica?
214 Session Task 1 Comprehension Average What should be the default 'treat source row
as' in session properties when we are using
update strategy in a mapping
215 Session Task 1 Comprehension Average When 3 sessions are running in parallel in a
workflow and suspension is enabled what will
be the status of the workflow when one of the
tasks fails and other two are still running

216 Workflow 9 Application Average What are the different types of shell
command that workflow manager provides?
217 Assignment 7 Knowledge Easy What is the purpose of assignment task?
Task
218 Session Task 1 Comprehension Average By evaluating performance details you can
determine ______________________.

219 Session Task 1 Comprehension Average Before using performance details to improve
session performance you must
______________________.

220 Session Task 1 Comprehension Difficult What is true regarding the order of
precedence of any message in session log
file?
221 Workflow 9 Knowledge Easy Workflow manager consist of how many
tools?
222 Workflow 9 Application Average What are the available windows in workflow
manager?
223 Session Task 1 Application Average How do you make the Integration Service
stop a workflow which has encountered an
error while executing a session?

224 Session Task 1 Comprehension Difficult How does Integration Service sort data if you
configure multiple partitions in a session
having Sorter transformation?

225 Workflow 9 Knowledge Easy You can copy repository objects between
_________________.

226 Workflow 9 Application Difficult Two sessions are created for same mapping,
one in Workflow Designer (Session A) and
another one in Task Developer (Session B).
All the properties for both the sessions are
same. What is the difference between two
sessions?
227 Workflow 9 Comprehension Difficult What should be done to copy a segment from
a workflow or worklet?

228 Workflow 9 Application Average What type of objects you can compare using
workflow manager?
229 Workflow 9 Comprehension Difficult Two sessions are created for same mapping,
one in Workflow Designer (Session A) and
another one in Task Developer (Session B).
All the properties for both the sessions are
same. What is the difference between two
sessions?
230 Workflow 9 Knowledge Average Workflow must contain
____________________.
231 Control Task 8 Analysis Difficult In workflow manager, the control task is
typically used for
________________________.

232 Workflow 9 Knowledge Average What type of variables can be used in link
condition?

233 Workflow 9 Knowledge Average What system variables can be used within a
workflow?

234 Workflow 9 Comprehension Difficult What is the difference between STATUS and
PREVTASKSTATUS workflow variables?

235 Workflow 9 Analysis Average The Integration service holds two different
values for a workflow variable,what are they?
236 Workflow 9 Application Average The Integration service looks for the value of
workflow variable first in
237 Workflow 9 Application Average What is the datatype default values for user-
defined string workflow variables
238 Workflow 9 Analysis Average Scheduled workflow does not run in case of

239 Workflow 9 Analysis Average Workflow scheduler can be

__________________________.

240 Session Task 1 Analysis Difficult What does run on server initilization
scheduler option means?

241 Workflow 9 Application Average How can we stop or abort a workflow?

242 Session Task 1 Comprehension Difficult If you edit reusuable task instance in
workflow designer
____________________________________.
243 Control Task 8 Comprehension Average What are the available control option in
control task?
244 Decision Task 6 Knowledge Average What task act similar to link condition?
245 Workflow 9 Application Average Workflow event can be
___________________.
246 Event Task 4 Analysis Average Where you can define an user defined event?

247 Event Task 4 Application Difficult Pre-defined event used in event wait task can
be ________________________________.
248 Event Task 4 Application Difficult what does enabling past event means?

249 Timer Task 5 Application Difficult What are the time settings available with
timer task?

250 Workflow 9 Application Average Worklet can be

__________________________.

251 Event Task 4 Analysis Average To use event wait and event raise task we
need to define event in
__________________.
252 Timer Task 5 Analysis Difficult While using the timer task, you have the
option to specify _____________________.

253 Workflow 9 Application Difficult To override initial value of worklet variable

254 Workflow 9 Analysis Average Which of the following statement is true?

255 Session Task 1 Application Average We can run session task

__________________.
256 Session Task 1 Analysis Difficult What are the threads that will be created
when you start a session for execution?

257 Session Task 1 Analysis Average For what reason a session can be invalid?
258 Session Task 1 Application Difficult When you edit session, what setting you can
configure for source?
259 Session Task 1 Comprehension Difficult It is desired to run a session where every row
that is processed by the session updates the
target table based on the primary key value.
Assume that the target table definition has a
primary key, and all other session and
mapping properties are left to their defaults.
Select the statement below that is TRUE.

260 Email Task 2 Analysis Average If you want to notify a remote user to start a
session only if your session runs
successfully, what should you do?
261 Session Task 1 Comprehension Difficult What does Repeat Null Character property
means in fixed width flat file source?

262 Session Task 1 Comprehension Difficult What does Treat Consecutive Delimiters as
One property mean in delimitted flat file
source?

263 Session Task 1 Application Difficult What does Constraint-based loading mean?

264 Workflow 9 Analysis Average Informatica PowerCenter uses which

extraction strategy for all source types?
265 Session Task 1 Comprehension Difficult What statement is not true about Enable Test
Load

266 Session Task 1 Analysis Difficult At what condition Integration Service may
encounter a deadlock?
267 Session Task 1 Application Difficult Which statement is not true about bulk
loading?

268 Session Task 1 Application Difficult It is desired to run a session where every row
that is processed by the session updates the
target table based on the primary key value.
Assume that the target table definition has a
primary key, and all other session and
mapping properties are left to their defaults.
Select the statement below that is TRUE.

269 Session Task 1 Application Difficult A user sets the "Treat Rows As" session
property to "Update". What is the effect of
making this selection?

270 Workflow 9 Analysis Average In Workflow monitor we can view details

about a workflow or task in
_______________________.
271 Debugger 7 Knowledge Easy What are the session type that we can use in
debugger?
272 Debugger 7 Knowledge Easy What are the different breakpoint options
available in debugger
273 Debugger 7 Knowledge Easy What are the different states of debugger?

274 Debugger 7 Knowledge Easy What are the windows available with
degugger?
275 Debugger 7 Knowledge Average What are the tabs available in output window
of debugger?

276 Optimizing 5 Analysis Average Higher the busy percentage in thread

Session statistics means performance is
___________ .

277 Optimizing 2 Knowledge Average How can we identify source bottoleneck in

Source case of relational source?
278 Optimizing 1 Application Average Which option will decrease target bottleneck
Target in target tuning?

279 Optimizing 2 Analysis Average You can improve session performance for flat
Source file if ____________________.

280 Optimizing 4 Knowledge Easy If we use filter transformation is a mapping

Transformations where should the filter be placed?

281 Optimizing 4 Knowledge Average Which datatype can be use to get

Transformations performance benefit when performing
comparisons using Lookup and Filter
transformations
282 Optimizing 4 Comprehension Difficult How can we improve expression
Transformations performance?

283 Optimizing 4 Application Difficult When should we use incremental

Transformations aggregation?

284 Optimizing 4 Comprehension Difficult How can we improve aggregator

Transformations transformation performance

285 Optimizing 4 Analysis Average In joiner transformation to get performance

Transformations benefit unsorted master source should be
______________.
286 Optimizing 4 Application Average Which one is preferred for better
Transformations performance?

287 Optimizing 4 Application Average What can be done to get performance benefit
Transformations for lookup transformation?
288 Optimizing 4 Application Average What type of cache can give performance
Transformations benefit in lookup?
289 Optimizing 4 Application Difficult What can be done to get performance benefit
Transformations for source qualifier transformation?

290 Optimizing 4 Application Average What can be done to get performance benefit
Transformations for SQL transformation?

291 Optimizing 4 Application Difficult What happens when transformation error

Transformations occurs?

292 Optimizing 5 Knowledge Average Grid can improve performance by

Session ________________.

293 Pushdown 6 Application Difficult Why pushdown optimization perform better?

optimization

294 Optimizing 5 Analysis Average To improve session performance we should

Session put all the sessions ____________________.

295 Optimizing 5 Comprehension Difficult How can we increase the number of available
Session memory blocks to gain performance

296 Optimizing 5 Knowledge Average What can be done to optimize cache?

Session

297 Optimizing 5 Analysis Average How commit interval affects performance?

Session

298 Optimizing 5 Application Difficult What you can do to Improve session

Session performance?

299 Optimizing 5 Comprehension Difficult What can be done to improve PowerCenter

Session repository performance?
300 Optimizing 5 Comprehension Difficult What can be done to improve Integration
Session Service performance?

301 User Defined Knowledge Average I have created user-defined function called
Function RemoveSpaces, which includes a user-
defined function
TrimLeadingandTrailingSpaces containing
RemoveSpaces. My use-defined function is
valid
302 User Defined Knowledge Difficult What property option user does not see when
Function he/she import user defined function?

303 User Defined Analysis Difficult User defined function can not return NULL as
Function output
304 User Defined Analysis Average User calls UDF in the transformation output
Function port and validates the expression.

305 New features in Comprehension Average Which New pmcmd Command Option is/are
Informatica 8 introduced along with Informatica 8?