Informatica Master Data Management Certification
The Informatica family of Master Data Management products improves operations and decisions with consolidated and reliable data. With Master Data Management Certification, you increase your value in configuring the MDM Hub.
There are three levels of Master Data Management Certification designed to define product competency by job role:
- The Informatica Certified Specialist exams measure your competency as a team member in an Informatica project implementation team. You must pass a proctored, written exam to become an Informatica Certified Specialist.
- The Informatica Certified Expert exam measures your ability to lead an Informatica project implementation team by evaluating your skill and knowledge in Informatica Velocity implementation methodology.
- The Informatica Certified Master exam measures your competency as an experienced team member of the Informatica project implementation team. To become an Informatica Certified Expert you must demonstrate field experience with Informatica products. You must also pass a performance-based exam in physical or virtual proctored environment in which you are presented with a customer business problem. You will be evaluated on your ability to solve this problem using the Informatica product within a virtual environment. exam measures your ability to lead an Informatica project implementation team by evaluating your skill and knowledge in Informatica Velocity implementation methodology.
Informatica Certified Specialist (ICS) Level Exams for Master Data Management
ICA Master Data Management Administrator
This exam assesses your skills and capabilities in the installation of Informatica MDM (in both test and user environments). You need to know where to find information, how to troubleshoot, and how to set and view log files. You also need to know about Informatica MDM upgrade processes and security.
ICA Master Data Management Developer
This exam measures your competency as a member of a project implementation team. You should be able to explain and identify the MDM product architecture, and to configure its main components including cleanse engine, match server, hierarchy manager, data governance tools and workflows.
In addition, you should be able configure the MDM Hub tools and workbenches to build an organization’s data model, configure and execute the MDM Hub data management processes such as the Landing, Staging, Trust, Load, Match and Merge. You should be able set up security, provide for external application access to MDM Hub services, and other customization tasks by using the Services Integration Framework (SIF) and User Exits. You should also be able to use the Metadata Manager tool to validate an organization’s metadata, promote changes between repositories, import objects into repositories, export repositories, and related tasks. Finally, you should be able to describe the MDM Hub Resource Kit.
Informatica Certified Expert (ICE) Level Exams for Master Data Management
The Informatica Certified Expert level exam measures your competency as an experienced team member of the Informatica project implementation team. To become an Informatica Certified Expert you must demonstrate field experience with Informatica products. You must also pass a performance-based exam in physical or virtual proctored environment in which you are presented with a customer business problem. You will be evaluated on your ability to solve this problem using the Informatica product within a virtual environment.
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