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

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Running complex multi-step orchestration workflows

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Designing custom data transformations

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Building REST API endpoints for external consumers

Question 2

Which two types of Mass Ingestion tasks does IICS provide?

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Mass Ingestion Files and Mass Ingestion Databases

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Mass Ingestion Streaming and Mass Ingestion Batch

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Mass Ingestion REST and Mass Ingestion SOAP

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Mass Ingestion Cloud and Mass Ingestion On-Premise

Question 3

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

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

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Loading only the most recent 24 hours of data

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Loading schema metadata without actual row data

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The configuration step before task execution

Question 4

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

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Change Data Capture (CDC) using database transaction logs

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Periodic full table scans

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Scheduled diff queries using timestamps

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File-based change detection

Question 5

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

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

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Only on-premise file systems

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Only Salesforce objects

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Only relational databases

Question 6

In IICS Mass Ingestion, what does 'schema drift handling' allow?

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Automatically propagating source schema changes (new columns, type changes) to the target without manual intervention

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Encrypting sensitive columns before loading to the target

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Reverting schema changes made to the target

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Alerting administrators when source schema changes occur