Your job consists of a DB2 Connector stage followed by a Sort stage followed by a Transformer stage followed by another DB2 Connector stage.
The following two Balanced Optimizer options have been selected:
Push processing to data sources
Push processing to data targets
The following two Balanced Optimizer options have NOT been selected:
Push data reduction processing to data targets
Push all processing into the (target) data server
Assuming the job design allows for maximum optimization, what does the optimized job design look like?

• A. DB2 Connector stage followed by a Sort stage followed by a Transformer stage followed by another DB2 Connector stage
• B. DB2 stage followed by a Transformer stage followed by a DB2 Connector stage
• C. DB2 Connector stage followed by a DB2 Connector stage
• D. Row Generator stage followed by a DB2 Connector stage

Which of the following statements about checkpoint/restart is TRUE?

• A. To perform checkpoint inside a parallel job, select the checkpoint option in each stage
• B. The parallel framework does not support checkpoints inside jobs
• C. You must set the environment variable $APT_DISABLE_COMBINATION to TRUE
• D. If the checkpoint/restart is turned on for a sequence job, all components of this sequence job must perform checkpoint recording

Archive files can contain assets from multiple exports of multiple tools. When importing into a project from an archive file with the istool command, which order of asset types below would yield the best performance?

• A. Common metadata,
  Users and groups,
  Custom attributes for InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog,
  InfoSphere Data Stage and QualityStage assets
• B. Users and groups,
  Common metadata,
  InfoSphere DataStage and QualityStage assets,
  Reports,
  Custom attributes for InfoSphere Information Covernance Catalog
• C. Common metadata,
  Users and groups,
  Custom attributes for InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog,
  InfoSphere DataStage and QualityStage assets,
  Reports
• D. Users and groups,
  Common metadata,
  InfoSphere DataStage and QualityStage assets,
  Custom attributes for InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog,
  Reports

Given this configuration file: Which of the following describes the resulting behavior for a job consisting of Row Generator -> data set?

• A. Conductor process and player processes are executed on the server is1. Section leader process is executed on the server is2.
• B. Conductor, section leader and player processes are executed on the server is1 and is2.
• C. Conductor and section leader processes are executed on the server is1. Player processes are executed on the server is2.
• D. Conductor process is executed on the server is1. Section leader and Player processes are executed on the server is2.