01. A customer asks for a practical way to trace where data came from and how it changed as it moves through a pipeline. Which Pentaho Data Integration feature statement best fits?
a) Masking and redaction of personal data as it moves through the pipeline
b) End-to-end visibility into each source, destination and transformation step
c) Automatic deletion of unused datasets and tiering of cold data to cut cost
d) A centralized business glossary that defines terms consistently across teams
02. A sponsor wants business users to access and explore diverse data quickly while reducing dependency on IT for every change request. Which value statement best matches PBA?
a) Self-service analytics that lets non-technical staff reach insight on their own
b) Automated cleansing to remove duplicates and fix missing values
c) Metadata discovery that lets business users locate and govern sensitive data
d) Lifecycle automation that retires redundant data to reduce storage cost
03. A SaaS provider wants analytics embedded in its product and requires separation between tenant customers. Which Pentaho Business Analytics (PBA) capability best fits?
a) Data-quality profiling that measures completeness and accuracy
b) Multitenant deployment with security integration that walls off each customer's data
c) Catalog lineage that traces data across tenants and connected pipelines
d) Policy-based tiering to automate the lifecycle of stored data across tiers
04. A buyer says they must standardize customer records so downstream systems use consistent formats. Which PDQ capability best aligns?
a) Cleansing and conforming records to the required layout
b) Building dashboards that visualize how many records fail format standards
c) Scheduling and orchestrating ETL pipelines for nightly ingestion
d) Cataloging business glossary terms for data discovery
05. A prospect wants a practical way to profile data and measure whether it is accurate and complete. Which Pentaho Data Quality capability best matches?
a) Cataloging and profiling metadata to trace lineage across many connected sources
b) Tiering data by age, access frequency and retention policy to reduce storage cost
c) Creating interactive dashboards for self-service reporting
d) Inspecting datasets to judge how correct, complete and consistent they are
06. A customer's enterprise architecture team asks whether Pentaho Business Analytics can integrate cleanly into existing platforms and future deployments.
Which architectural characteristic best supports this?
a) Open web-based APIs and an extensible architecture for embedding and expansion
b) A closed, single-vendor stack that must rip out and replace the customer's existing tools
c) A desktop-only install with no server or web access
d) A set of locked dashboards that cannot be extended or embedded
07. A customer asks for an interactive analysis capability that goes beyond static KPIs and supports multidimensional exploration during investigations.
Which PBA capability best matches?
a) Automated lifecycle tiering and policy-based purging of stored data
b) Pipeline orchestration that feeds multidimensional data beyond static KPIs
c) Dimensional slice-and-dice exploration that digs past fixed metrics
d) Centralized metadata cataloging and glossary governance
08. A customer needs highly formatted operational reports for broad distribution while still supporting interactive analytics for analysts. Which Pentaho Business Analytics capability best supports this mix?
a) Data cleansing rules to standardize records and remove duplicates
b) Policy-based tiering of operational report data to optimize storage lifecycle cost
c) Pipeline scheduling that distributes operational data for interactive reports overnight
d) Scalable pixel-perfect reporting paired with self-service exploration for analysts
09. A customer needs operational teams to run parameter-driven reports against transactional systems, not just view dashboards. Which Pentaho Business Analytics capability best supports this?
a) No-code ETL pipelines for ingesting and blending source data
b) Automated classification of sensitive and dark assets through catalog fingerprinting and tagging
c) Report templates driven by user inputs and run live against production source systems
d) Policy-driven tiering that moves cold operational data off transactional systems to cheaper storage
10. A customer wants pipeline jobs to run on schedule and to be alerted when a step fails, without building custom monitoring scripts. Which Pentaho Data Integration capability best matches?
a) Scheduling and orchestration with built-in failure alerts
b) No-code dashboard building for self-service reporting
c) Rule-based cleansing, standardization and de-duplication of records
d) Business glossary management that keeps term definitions consistent across teams