Top 50 IICS interview questions and answers with explanation including IICS scenario based questions

Explained below Top 50 IICS interview questions and answers with explanation including IICS scenario-based questions that help you to crack the IICS interview.
1. What is the difference between Informatica PowerCenter and Informatica Cloud?
2. Where does the metadata gets stored in Informatica Cloud (IICS)?
3. What is the difference between a Union transformation in Informatica Cloud vs Informatica PowerCenter?
4. Explain Dynamic Linking.
5. What system variables are available in IICS to perform Incremental Loading?
6. How to pass data from one mapping to other in Informatica Cloud Data Integration?
7. What is a Mapping Configuration Task or Mapping Task in IICS?
8. Explain About Taskflow in IICS?
9. What is the difference between a Taskflow and Linear Taskflow?
10. What is Rank Transformation in Informatica?
11. How the Informatica server sorts the string values in Rank transformation?
12. Can we run informatica Powercenter jobs in Informatica cloud?
13. Explain what is Pushdown Optimization in Informatica Cloud?
14. Explain Partitioning in Informatica Cloud Data Integration.
15. How to invoke Informatica Cloud tasks based on a file event?
16. To include all incoming fields from an upstream transformation except fields with dates, what should you do?
17. What is the difference between the Connected and Unconnected Sequence Generator transformation in IICS?
18. What is Informatica Cloud Debugger?
19. Explain about Informatica Cloud Runtime Environment?
20. What is Informatica Cloud Secure Agent?
21. What is a Synchronization task?
22. What is a Replication task?
23. What is the difference between a Synchronization task and a Replication task?
24. What is the primary purpose of the Informatica Cloud?
25. What is data Assessment?
26. Explain discovery IQ?
27. What is data masking?
28. How does IICS handle large data volumes?
29. In Which scenario you have used Synchronization task?
30. How can you schedule the mapping?
31. If a workflow got failed in Prod environment, can we do the code change for that failed mapping in Production environment or in Dev environment? Mention the step-by-step approach
32. Have you Parameterized in IICS?
33. Difference between NVL and NVL2 in SQL.
34. when we go for a connected lookup and unconnected lookup?
35. Creating Dynamic Target Files using IICS Transaction Control transformation.
36 How to schedule the IICS taskflow in IICS? what is Blackout period in IICS or informatica cloud?
37. How to convert row to column in IICS.
38. IICS scenario based interview question to get previous employees list.
39. Indirect file loading in Informatica/IICS.
40. Loading alternate records into different targets through Informatica IICS
(OR)
Loading odd or even recordsinto different targets through Informatica IICS.
41.Load Top 5 Records of students based on marks without using RANK transformation in Informatica/IICS.
42.Load unique records in one table and duplicate records in another table.
43.Convert Single Row From Source To Three Rows in Target.
44.IICS Scenario: Create a mapping to load NULL records into one target & NOT NULL records into another.
45.Informatica IICS mapping to Load first and last row from flat file without using rank transformation.
46.How to handle JSON/XML data using hierarchy builder and hierachy parser transformation in IICS?
47.How to configure flow run order in IICS?
48.How to create dynamic/custom header in a Target Flat File in Informatica Cloud(IICS).
49.How to create dynamic file name in IICS and append date to target file in informatica cloud.
50.How to configure email notification in IICS for success and failure with stats? and how to create task flow in IICS?

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[SK-kgen]

I couldnt thank you more for the interview questions. This is so amazing and would love to get MORE real time scenarios with answers.

[Nalini]

Usefull Video & much Informative....Thanks for the Video...

[yazhinisnest]

Thanks for this video. It helps me to refresh before the interview.

[Sanvika_sonu]

Thank u very much ma'am.. Really very helpful for me ❤

[venkatanarayanarao]

Thanks for information and many Thanks for your good effort

[Ravvit-vlov]

30:06 Question Regading sequence generator: For not disabled incoming field you said it will generate same sequence numbers for each down steam. Can you elaborate? What is same sequence number ? I understand unique sequence but what is same sequence?

[rsntechnologies]

Hi Can you please make a video how to deploy iics mapping/task/taskflows in to higher environments .

[aravindkumar]

Hii mam....ur iics interview questions are very useful for us...and a small request from our side is many students does not know how to write a test cases for project..will u prepare a video for how to write a test case for a simple mapping..It will be helpful for us

[GaneshY-ll]

is this questions usefull for 3 years experience also?

[aravindkumar]

to trigger tommorow files automatically...for example
I have a file called 07-11-2024_orders.csv and run this today's file and scheduled for tommorow...and tommorow automatically triggered tommorows file like 08-11-2024_orders.csv...how to solve this..this was asked in an interview

[adityasahu]

After IICS, Is Informatica Administrator role is no more required in organizations ?

[srikanthsri]

If there asking questions in interviews for experience candidates informatica cloud tool asking questions easy or difficulty can you explain madan?

[atlanticoceanvoyagebird]

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[venkateshmangamolla]

It's too lengthy but content is very useful small request here kindly make a video on production issues dear...

[adityasahu]

What is the future of Informatica Powercenter ? Is IICS going to replace Powercenter ?