MDM Stewardship and Workflows 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: In Informatica MDM, which workflow state indicates that a record has been submitted for review but no steward has acted on it yet?
- Approved
- Pending (Correct answer)
- Rejected
- Draft
Correct answer: Pending
The Pending state means a record has been submitted for stewardship review but is awaiting action from an assigned data steward.
Question 2: A data steward needs to merge two suspect records in the Hub. Which MDM tool is specifically designed to facilitate this manual merge decision?
- Data Director Merge Manager (Correct answer)
- Repository Manager
- Schema Manager
- Hierarchy Manager
Correct answer: Data Director Merge Manager
The Merge Manager in Informatica Data Director allows stewards to review match candidates and manually approve or reject proposed merges.
Question 3: When a workflow task is reassigned from one steward to another in Informatica MDM, what happens to the task's audit history?
- It is deleted and restarted
- It is preserved and updated with the reassignment event (Correct answer)
- Only the new steward's actions are recorded
- The task must be resubmitted to generate a new history
Correct answer: It is preserved and updated with the reassignment event
MDM preserves the full audit trail including reassignment events, so the complete history of who held and acted on a task is maintained.
Question 4: Which configuration in Informatica MDM determines the sequence of human and automated steps a record must pass through before being promoted to the Hub Store?
- Trust settings
- Workflow definition (Correct answer)
- Match rules
- Landing zone mappings
Correct answer: Workflow definition
The workflow definition specifies the ordered states, transitions, and participants (human or automated) a record traverses before final promotion.
Question 5: In Informatica Data Director, a steward opens a task and sees fields highlighted in different colors representing data from multiple source systems. What feature generates this display?
- Trust scoring overlay
- Cross-reference view
- Survivorship comparison panel (Correct answer)
- Lineage graph
Correct answer: Survivorship comparison panel
The survivorship comparison panel highlights contributed field values from each source system so stewards can see which system won for each attribute.
Question 6: A steward rejects a record in the workflow. Which of the following actions typically occurs next by default in Informatica MDM?
- The record is permanently deleted from MDM
- The record reverts to a prior workflow state or is routed back to the originating system (Correct answer)
- The record is automatically approved without changes
- The record is archived to the Hub Store with a Rejected flag
Correct answer: The record reverts to a prior workflow state or is routed back to the originating system
Rejection routes the record back to a previous step or notifies the source system, allowing correction and resubmission rather than deletion.
Question 7: Which Informatica MDM capability allows a business user to define stewardship assignment rules so that records from a specific country are always routed to the regional data steward team?
- Role-based task routing (Correct answer)
- Source system prioritization
- Trust decay scheduling
- Batch survivorship override
Correct answer: Role-based task routing
Role-based task routing uses configurable rules (such as country attribute values) to automatically assign workflow tasks to the appropriate steward role or queue.
