Consider the job flow diagram in the display. Which of these objects has parameters defined for it?

Question

Options

• AControl table
• BLoop transformation
• CInner Job
• DLoop End

• A
  2% (1)
• B
  6% (3)
• C
  88% (43)
• D
  4% (2)

Explanation

Inner Job is correct because, within a job flow diagram, an Inner Job is an actual job being invoked - and invoked jobs can have input parameters explicitly defined and passed to them at runtime from the parent sequence or loop. The parameter configuration is attached to the Inner Job object to control how it executes during each iteration.

Control table (A) is wrong because a control table is a data source used to drive looping logic; it holds data rows, not job parameters. Loop transformation (B) is wrong because the Loop object defines how to iterate (using the control table), not the parameters of the job being called inside the loop. Loop End (D) is wrong because it is simply a structural marker indicating where the loop concludes - it holds no job parameters.

Memory tip: Think of an Inner Job like a function call - just as a function has arguments you pass to it, an Inner Job has parameters you define on it. The loop mechanics (Loop, Loop End, Control table) are plumbing; the Inner Job is where the actual work - and its configuration - lives.

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