CA Test Data Manager 4.x Implementation Proven Professional Exam (CAT-681) Study Guide Version 1.0

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1 Implementation Proven Professional Study Guide Version 1.0

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5 Areas of Study Best Praties CA Test Data Manager 4.x: Installation and Configuration TDM hours OnDemand CA Test Data Manager 4.x: Overview TDM hours OnDemand CA Test Data Manager 4.x: Data Disovery TDM hours OnDemand CA Test Data Manager 4.x: Data Provisioning TDM hours OnDemand CA Test Data Manager 4.x: Data Transformation TDM hours OnDemand CA Test Data Manager 4.x: Data Generation TDM hours support.a.om Experiene Prior Knowledge OnDemand CA Test Data Manager 4.x: Tester Self-Servie TDM hours Green Books Green Papers OR CA Teh Insider ommunities.a.om Use Cases & Senarios Pratial Appliation of Course Conepts Additional Resoures: YouTube playlist - CA Test Data Manager Continuous Delivery Eosystem: Overview ADO hours CA Test Data Manager 4.x: Foundations 200 Bundle 88TDM2022F 5 days Searh the CA Eduation Portal for latest ourses, as they may not have been available at the time of this doument posting: Partners & Customers look here: Employees look here: For doumentation, Communities, and more visit: Register for the exam here:

6 Exam objetives as they map to related ourseware and the body of knowledge, inluding perentage of exam devoted to topis. Related Content Exam Fous Installing and Configuring CA TDM 88TDM20120 CA Test Data Manager 4.x: Installation and Configuration 200 CA TDM Arhiteture Installation Proess Doumentation at support.a.om, Field Experiene Upgrade Proess Ative Diretory Integration CA Servie Virtualization Integration Understanding CA TDM 88TDM10040 OnDemand CA Test Data Manager 4.x: Overview 100 CA Test Data Manager Component Introdution Test Data Manager Projet Tree Disovering Data 88TDM20140 OnDemand CA Test Data Manager 4.x: Data Disovery 200 Introdution to Profiling CA TDM Profiling Benefits Profiling Sensitive or Personally Identifiable Information (PII) Disovering Metadata Register Soure Data Types Define Orale and Mirosoft SQL Server Registration Register Data Types Using the CA TDM Portal Register.sv Files Refining Data Relationships Disovering Data Content Provisioning Data 88TDM20161 OnDemand CA Test Data Manager 4.x: Data Provisioning 200 About Data Provisioning Design Subset Shema Transforming Data 88TDM20180 OnDemand CA Test Data Manager 4.x: Data Transformation 200 Using Fast Data Masker Using Audit and Runtime Reports 14% 10% 22% 8% 8%

7 Related Content Exam Fous Generating Data 88TDM20170 OnDemand CA Test Data Manager 4.x: Data Generation 200 Using the CA TDM Portal Portal Administration About User and Group Management Create a Data Generator Create Data Generation Rules More Data Generation Funtions Publish Data Using the Portal Generating Non-Relational Data Understanding Mainframe Masking and Subsetting Jobs Understanding Test Data Find and Reserve REST APIs Doumentation at support.a.om, Field Experiene Understanding Mainframe Masking and Subsetting Jobs Doumentation at support.a.om, Field Experiene Test Data Find and Reserve APIs 28% 6% 4%

8 Sample Certifiation These sample questions are very similar to the questions in the atual exam. Some questions may inlude several orret options. Questions Options Question 1 The Test Data Repository is where users keep a registry of data soures and onnetion information. The Test Data Repository also: A. alulates the overage of sub-flows inside test ases. B. stores all data from any soure a user onnets to during a projet. C. aptures soure metadata and the native data attributes of a database. D. triggers the Data Generation tool to reate the data needed for a test ase. Question 2 Whih tasks an you perform in the CA TDM Portal? (Choose three) Question 3 Whih repository types does CA Test Data Manager support? Question 4 When you upgrade CA Test Data Manager produt omponents, you typially rename: Question 5 CA Test Data Manager provides several options suh as: Mathing tests to data riteria rather than to speifi keys Mathing multiple tests to single keys Whih other option is available to users? A. Create test math data pools. B. Publish test math data for reservation. C. Parse and shred request/response pair files. D. Create and manage database onnetion profiles. E. Import flat file definitions and generate flat file data. A. Orale and DB2 only B. Orale and SQL Server only C. SQL Server, Orale, and PostGreSQL only D. CA Dataom, SQL Server, and Orale only E. CA Dataom, SQL Server, Orale, DB2, and PostGreSQL A. the server.xml file for the portal upgrade. B. the rep.xml file for the repository upgrade. C. the appliation.properties file for the Datamaker upgrade. D. the projets.xml file for the Test Data on Demand (TDoD) upgrade. A. Assigning test reords to speifi individuals and/or test senarios B. Testing mathed data objets for performane under the protools of a seleted shema C. Creating data in a virtual servie image when reorded request and response values math D. Finding all related test ases automatially so that the number of test ase instanes an be minimized Question 6 You are asked to enable end users to exeute data generation using a web interfae. Whih omponent do you need to install and onfigure? A. GTEDI B. GTRallyBath C. GTHPALMServie D. CA TDM Portal

9 Questions Question 7 When a test data mart is populated: (Choose two) Question 8 When you register data to a projet, it is the version of the projet that is targeted. Whih statement about registered data is TRUE? Question 9 During the Exel/CSV file registration proedure, whih step an you perform? Question 10 Views are reated and displayed in the shema tree of a CA Test Data Manager test data environment. You an reate views by writing and exeuting SQL statements in the SQL window. Whih other methods an you use? (Choose two) Question 11 What typially happens when you launh the Data Subset tool for the first time? Options A. a transformation map is automatially onstruted. B. an Exeute SQL Count funtion an be used to provide a row ount. C. the SEQLOV funtion an be used to iterate through reords in the soure. D. olumns that ontain personally identifiable information (PII) data are tagged. A. All database tables are opied and stored in the version. B. Tables an be re-registered and dupliated inside a version as many times as needed. C. As tables are registered, all data attributes and relationships are stored in the repository. D. With the exeption of opybook file definitions, any flat files that are registered, suh as.sv,.xlsx, or.xls files, will be provided with a primary key for the soure environment. A. Selet a pervasive file desriptor. B. Import worksheet data into a data pool. C. Selet worksheets from multiple workbooks. D. Selet to extrat diret attributes of the data for test ase use. A. Use the Create a Generi View right-lik option within the SQL window. B. Use a right-lik menu to opy and paste the olumns you need to build your view. C. Use the CA Test Data Manager data masking tool to transform a seleted table into a view. D. Copy a Create Table statement using the right-lik menu, and then paste and modify it to reate a view. A. A wizard appears where you are asked to selet a driving table to extrat rules. B. A Sampling Options dialog appears where you selet the options you will use for the subsetting. C. A dialog appears where you indiate if you will use HTML and XML files as soures for subsetting. D. A dialog appears where you omplete any onnetion profile details that have not been transferred from the soure and repository onnetion.

10 Questions Question 12 CA Test Data Manager data generation provides users with many data manipulation and data management tools. One example is the ability to import, manipulate, and re-reate spreadsheets. Whih statements about the data generation apabilities of CA Test Data Manager are TRUE? (Choose three) Question 13 After you exeute an SQL selet statement in Datamaker, whih tab displays the olumn data? Question 14 When you reate a projet in the CA TDM Portal, whih group or groups are automatially assigned to the projet? Question 15 Whih step must you perform before reating a data generator? Question 16 Whih ations an you perform when reating data generation rules? (Choose two) Question 17 When integrating Ative Diretory with the CA TDM Portal, if you have users spread aross different organizational units, whih onfigurations do you need to make? (Choose two) Options A. Users an build ustom sets of seed data based on existing data. B. Data an be reformatted as it is extrated from the soure database and written to the target database. C. Parameters and funtions an be ombined and/or embedded to onstrut sophistiated data. D. Maintenane tools are provided that enable you to update and merge virtual image data when live data is not available. A. GT Diagrammer B. SQL Target Data C. Shema Explorer D. Results, whih will renamed "Data in <table_name>" A. Admin only B. Admin and Tester C. Tester and Profiler D. Admin, PowerUser, and Auditor A. Register the tables or file objets you need to reate derived tables from. B. Use the searh funtion to find your speifi data generator name and desription. C. Clik the View Table Relationships feature to selet the appropriate tables you want to use for data generation rules. D. Go to the appliation.properties file and verify that the value of the following setting is "true": tdmweb.testerselfservie.usedatamakertopublish=true A. Unregister objets. B. View related tables. C. Delete data generators. D. Manage projet variables. A. Leave the ldap.ou_group value blank. B. Leave the ldap.ou_people value blank. C. Configure your LDAP server URL (ldap.ontextsoure.url) to point to "follow" instead of "ignore". D. Configure your LDAP server URL (ldap.ontextsoure.url) to point to the Global Catalog server instead of the LDAP server.

11 Questions Question 18 Where is the appliation.properties file loated by default? Question 19 Before you an register DB2 tables, what do you need to do? (Choose three) Question 20 When you need to update a field in a test data model, you perform the following steps: 1. Get the projet ID. 2. Get the version ID. 3. Get the seurity token. 4. Get the test data model ID. What is the orret sequene for these steps? Options A. TDM_HOME\ B. TDM_HOME\onf C. TDM_HOME\Grid-Tools D. TDM_HOME\Grid-Tools\TDoD\TDoD_Config Editor A. Create a onnetion profile to a valid DB2 database. B. Run the DB2 Shredder utility to generate syntheti data. C. Install and onfigure lienses for the DB2 Connet lient utility. D. Use the Dsedit utility to onfigure at least one transformation map. E. Obtain appropriate redentials for onneting to the database that you need to onnet to. A. 1, 2, 3, 4 B. 2, 4, 1, 3 C. 3, 1, 2, 4 D. 4, 1, 2, 3

12 Answers Question 1 = C Question 2 = C, D, and E Question 3 = B Question 4 = B Question 5 = A Question 6 = D Question 7 = B and C Question 8 = C Question 9 = B Question 10 = B and D Question 11 = D Question 12 = A, B, and C Question 13 = D Question 14 = B Question 15 = A Question 16 = B and D Question 17 = B and D Question 18 = B Question 19 = A, C, and E Question 20 = C