FME Certified Professional Exam Questions and Correct Answers

FME Certified Professional Exam Questions
and Correct Answers
Question 1
(FME Form / Optimize Workspace Performance)
Why is using a WHERE clause on the reader faster than filtering data using the Tester?
1) It is not faster.
2) The Tester is particularly slow when working with PostGIS and geodatabase
formats.
3) With the WHERE clause you filter the data using a published parameter, while the
Tester uses a fixed value.
4) With the WHERE clause you don't read data only to immediately filter it out.
Correct Answer
4



Question 2
(FME Form / Document Workspaces)
Bookmarks can be placed or
n ested
inside one another.
True
False
Correct Answer
TRUE




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,Question 3
(FME Flow / Connect Automations with Job Orchestration)
If two workspaces are chained one after the other in an Automation, when will the
second workspace be triggered?
1) The second workspace will be triggered when the first workspace's first feature has
been written
2) The second workspace will be triggered when the first workspace finishes running
3) The second workspace will be triggered right away
4) The second workspace will not be triggered
Correct Answer
2



Question 4
(FME Form / Create and Modify Attributes)
There is a lot of overlap in the operations performed by attribute managing
transformers.
True
False
Correct Answer
TRUE



Question 5
(FME Flow / Build Versatile Automations)
Resource or Network Directory (updated) trigger will pass a message to the
workspace for every file uploaded.
True
False
Correct Answer
TRUE




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,Question 6
(FME Form / Connect To Data)
The 3D view in the Graphics View can be rotated using the:
Zoom Extents tool Zoom In tool Pan tool Orbit tool
Correct Answer
Orbit tool



Question 7
(FME Form / Read and Write Archive and Web Formats)
You can write data to a URL using a writer's Dataset parameter.
True
False
Correct Answer
FALSE



Question 8
(FME Form / Library of Custom Transformers)
When you open a versioned custom transformer, which of the following options are
not available to you?
1) Automatically create a new version with all transformers, readers, and writers
updated to their newest definition according to your FME version.
2) Continue making edits to the existing version.
3) Create a new version to edit.
4) Make edits to an older version (particularly useful when you can only use that
version with an older FME release).
Correct Answer
1




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, Question 9
(FME Form / Debug Workspaces)
In the exercise, at which transformer do the address features stop (or get blocked at)
when running with breakpoints?
AttributeSplitter
AttributeManager
StringReplacer
StringCaseChanger
AttributeManager_2
FeatureJoiner
Correct Answer
FeatureJoiner



Question 10
(FME Form / Read and Write Archive and Web Formats)
Which of these scenarios is not a valid use of a Connector transformer?
1) Downloading a file using a Connector and then reading it with a FeatureReader
using the _dataset parameter.
2) Retrieving a list of file URLs using a Connector and then reading them all directly
using a FeatureReader.
3) Using a Connector to manage the schema of a cloud database.
4) Writing data locally with a FeatureWriter and then uploading it to a web service
using a Connector transformer.
Correct Answer
3



Question 11
(FME Form / Document Workspaces)
All FME users must align the tops of objects on the canvas.
True
False
Correct Answer
FALSE




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