IBM Websphere Datastage V.8.0 - 000-418 Exam Questions [2026]

QUESTION NO: 1
You desire that no changes be made to your jobs in either QA or production environments. What are two ways to ensure this? (Choose two.)

A. Protect the QA and production projects. B. Export only executables from the development environment. C. Only give execute permissions to the QA and production users. D. Mark the project read-only in the Director.

Correct Answer: A,B

QUESTION NO: 2
What is the correct method to process a file containing multiple record types using the Complex Flat File stage?

A. Manually break the file into multiple files by record type. B. Use a Filter stage to pre-process the input to the Complex Flat File stage. C. Define record ID constraints on the Records ID tab of the Complex Flat File stage. D. Use a Modify stage to convert the output array from the Complex Flat File to a subrecord.

Correct Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 3
Which stage does not require sorted input?

A. Merge stage B. Lookup stage C. Remove Duplicates stage D. Join stage

Correct Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 4
Click the Exhibit button.
In the exhibit, a Funnel stage has two Input Links. Input 1(Seq_File) comes from a sequential file with set "Readers per Node" set to "2" , Input 2(Dataset) comes from a Data Set created in parallel (three-way parallel). Within the Funnel stage, the funnel type is set to "Sequence". The parallel configuration file contains three nodes. How many instances of the Funnel stage run in parallel?

A. 1 B. 6 C. 3 D. 2

Correct Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 5
What are two tasks that can create DataStage projects? (Choose two.)

A. Install the DataStage engine. B. Export and import a DataStage project from DataStage Director. C. Create a project in the IBM Information Server Console. D. Add new projects from DataStage Administrator.

Correct Answer: A,D

QUESTION NO: 6
You are assigned to write a job that reads in a Sequential File, applies some business logic, and writes the results to a database. However, the layout of the input file will change from run to run. All of the columns will remain the same, but the order of the columns will change. Which feature of the Sequential File stage would allow you to accomplish this task?

A. Schema File B. Filter C. First Line Is Column Names D. Reject Mode

Correct Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 7
Which three statements are true about File Sets? (Choose three.)

A. File sets are unpartitioned. B. File sets are stored as header file and data files. C. File sets are stored as a single file. D. File sets are partitioned. E. File sets are readable by external applications.

Correct Answer: B,D,E