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You deploy Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010 in your company network to provide an identity management solution between Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) and an HR application. You create…

The correct answer is B. Delta Import and Delta Synchronization. To synchronize only new changes in FIM 2010, the Management Agent must be configured with a Delta Import step to retrieve changed objects and a Delta Synchronization step to process only those new changes.

Submitted by jakub_pl· Mar 4, 2026Configure the FIM Synchronization Service

Question

You deploy Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010 in your company network to provide an identity management solution between Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) and an HR application. You create a new HR Management Agent (MA) to synchronize changes in HR objects with AD DS objects. You need to ensure that after changes are imported, only those new changes will be synchronized. Which Run Profiles step should you use to configure the new MA?

Options

  • AFull Import and Full Synchronization
  • BDelta Import and Delta Synchronization
  • CFull import (Stage only) followed by Delta Synchronization
  • DDelta Import (Stage only) followed by Full Synchronization
  • EDelta Import (Stage only) followed by Delta Synchronization

How the community answered

(34 responses)
  • A
    3% (1)
  • B
    79% (27)
  • D
    6% (2)
  • E
    12% (4)

Why each option

To synchronize only new changes in FIM 2010, the Management Agent must be configured with a Delta Import step to retrieve changed objects and a Delta Synchronization step to process only those new changes.

AFull Import and Full Synchronization

Full Import and Full Synchronization would process all objects in the connected data source and connector space, not just new changes, making it inefficient for daily incremental updates.

BDelta Import and Delta SynchronizationCorrect

A Delta Import operation retrieves only new or changed objects from the connected data source into the connector space, and a subsequent Delta Synchronization operation processes only those objects with pending changes in the connector space, thereby ensuring only new changes are synchronized.

CFull import (Stage only) followed by Delta Synchronization

Full Import would bring in all objects, violating the requirement to synchronize only new changes, even if followed by a Delta Synchronization.

DDelta Import (Stage only) followed by Full Synchronization

While Delta Import brings in new changes, Full Synchronization would re-evaluate and process all objects in the connector space, which goes against the goal of synchronizing only the new deltas.

EDelta Import (Stage only) followed by Delta Synchronization

Delta Import (Stage only) followed by Delta Synchronization accurately describes the process, but 'Delta Import and Delta Synchronization' (Option B) is the standard and more fundamental way to refer to the combined run profile operations needed to achieve the stated goal efficiently.

Concept tested: FIM Management Agent Run Profiles (Delta vs. Full Import/Synchronization)

Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-identity-manager/synchronization-service-concepts

Topics

#Run Profiles#Management Agents#Delta Synchronization#FIM 2010

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