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Question.1 What are the components of Informatica? And what is the purpose of each?
Answer: Informatica Designer, Server Manager & Repository Manager. Designer for Creating Source &
Target definitions, Creating Mapplets and Mappings etc. Server Manager for creating sessions & batches,
Schedulingthesessions&batches,Monitoringthetrigjeredsessionsandbatches,givingpostandpresession
commands, creating database connections tc various instances etc. Repository Manage for Creating and
Addingrepositories,Creating&editingfolderswithinarepository,Establishingusers,groups.privileges&folder
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Question.3 Name at least 5 different types of transformations used in mapping design
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Answer: Source Qualifier Source Qualifier represents all data queries from the source, Expression =
Expressionperformssimplecalculations,FilterFilterservesasaconditionalfilter,LookupLookuplooksup
valuesandpassestootherobjects,AggregatorAggregatorperformsaggregatecalculations.
Question.4 How can a transformation be made reusable?
Answer:Intheeditpropertiesofanytransformationthereisacheckboxtomakeitreusable,bychecking
thatitbecomesreusable.YoucanevencreatereusabletransformationsinTransformationdeveloper.
Question. 5 How are the sources and targets definitions imported in informatica
designer? How to create Target definition for flat files?
Answer: When you are in source analyzer there is a option in main menu to Import the source from
Database, Flat File, Cobol File & XML file, by selecting any one of them you can import a source definition.
WhenyouareinWarehouseDesignerthereisarpoptioninmainmenutoimportthetargetfromDatabase,XML
fromFileandXMLfromsourcesyoucanselectanyoneofthese.

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ThereisnowaytotargetdefinitionasfileinInformaticadesigner.Sowhilecreatingthetargetdefinitionforafile
in the warehouse designer it is created considering it as a table, and then in the session properties of that
mappingitisspecifiedasfile.
Question.6 Explain what is sql override for a source taLle in a mapping?
Answer:TheSourceQualifierprovidestheSQLQueryoptiontooverridethedefaultquery.Youcanenterany
SQLstatementsupportedbyyoursourcedatabase.YoumightenteryourownSELECTstatement,orhavethe
database perform aggregate calculations, or call a stored procedure or stored function to read the data and
performsometasks.
Question.7 What is lookup override?
Answer: Ails: This feature is similar to entering a custom query in a Source Qualifier transformation. When
entering a Lookup SQL Override, you can enter the entire override, or generate and edit the default SQL
statement.
ThelookupqueryoverridecanincludeWHEREclause.
Question.8 What are mapplets? How is it different from a Reusable Transformation?

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Answer: A mapplet is a reusable object that represents a set of transformations. It allows you to reuse
transformationlogicandcancontainasmanytransformationsasyouneed.YoucreatemappletsintheMapplet
Designer.
Its different than a reusable transformation as it may contain a set of transformations, while a reusable
transformationisasingleone.
Question.9 How to use an oracle sequence generator in a mapping?
Answer:Wehavetowriteastoredprocedure,whichcantakethesequencenameasinputanddynamically
generates a nextval from that sequence. Then in the mapping we can use that stored procedure through a
proceduretransformation.
Question. 10 How to create the source and target database connections in server
manager?
Answer: InthemainmenuofservermanagerthereismenuServerConfiguration,inthatthereisthemenu
Databasesiconnections.FromhereyoucancreatetheSourceandTargetdatabaseconnections.
Question. 11 Where are the source flat files kept before running the session?
Answer: The source flat files can be kept in some folder on the Informatica server or any ether machine,
whichisinitsdomain.
Question. 12 What are the oracle DML commands possible through an update strategy?
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Question. 14 What is option by which we can run all the sessions in a batch
simultaneously?
Answer: Inthebatcheditboxthereisanopticncalledconcurrent.Bycheckingthatallthesessionsinthat
Batchwillrunconcurrently.
Question. 15 Informatica settings are available in which file?
Answer: Informaticasettingsareavailableinafilepmdes!gn.iniinWindowsfolder.
Question. 16 How can we join the records from two heterogeneous sources in a mapping?
Answer: Byusingajoiner.
Question. 17. Difference between Connected & Unconnected lookup.
Answer: AnunconnectedLookuptransformationexistsseparatefromthepipelineinthemapping.Youwrite
anj expression using the :LKP reference qualifier to call the lookup within another transformation. While the
connectedlookupformsapartofthewholeflowofmapping.
Question. 18. Compare Router Vs Filter & Source Qualifier Vs Joiner.
Answer: ARoutertransformationhasinputportsandoutputports.Inputportsresideintheinputgroup,and
outputportsresideintheoutputgroups.Hereyoucantestdatabasedononeormoregroupfilterconditions.
Butinfilteryoucanfilterdatabasedononeormoreconditionsbeforewritingittotargets.
Question.19 What are Aggregator Transformation?
Answer:AggregatortransformationisanActiveandConnectedtransformation.Thistransformationisuseful
toperformcalculationssuchasaveragesandsums(mainlytoperformcalculationsonmultiplerowsorgroups).
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