SailPoint IdentityIQ-Associate Practice Exam Questions & Answers

The statement is inaccurate. In SailPoint IdentityIQ, certifications are not modeled as having only two phases called ''active'' and ''inactive.'' A certification has a defined lifecycle that controls how review items are generated, reviewed, challenged, remediated, and closed. ''Active'' may describe a certification that is currently open for reviewer decisions, but ''inactive'' is not a corresponding certification phase that completes the lifecycle model.

A typical IdentityIQ certification process includes review activity where certifiers approve, revoke, delegate, or otherwise act on access items. Depending on configuration, the certification may also include challenge and remediation behavior, allowing affected users or responsible parties to respond to revocation decisions and enabling fulfillment of required access removals. After review and required processing are complete, the certification is signed off or closed.

Therefore, reducing certification behavior to only ''active'' and ''inactive'' misrepresents IdentityIQ's access review model. Certifications are governance workflows with multiple operational states and review phases, not a binary status flag. Reference topics: Governance, access reviews, certification lifecycle, certification phases, challenge period, remediation, revocation processing, and certification sign-off.

No. The statement is too restrictive. In SailPoint IdentityIQ, business roles do not have to be requested in order to become associated with identities. A business role can be associated through access-request processing when the role is configured as requestable, but request submission is not the only acquisition path.

In the default role model, role association is maintained through IdentityIQ role evaluation and identity refresh behavior. Business roles may be assigned directly, assigned through administrative action, or associated through configured assignment logic. IdentityIQ then evaluates role relationships and updates the IdentityCube accordingly during refresh processing. By contrast, detected roles are commonly inferred from the access an identity already has, based on role profiles and entitlement conditions.

The important distinction is between requestable access and role association. Requestability controls whether users can ask for a role through Lifecycle Manager and QuickLinks. It does not mean the role can only be associated through a request. Therefore, ''must be requested'' is inaccurate.

Reference topics: Access Modeling, business roles, role assignment, detected roles, requestable roles, Identity Refresh, IdentityCube role data, and User-Driven Requests.

The statement is true. In SailPoint IdentityIQ, account attributes are defined on the application's account schema. The application definition tells IdentityIQ how to represent accounts from a connected source, and the account schema specifies which attributes exist on those accounts. Examples may include account ID, display name, email, status, department, groups, roles, permissions, or other source-specific fields returned by the connector during aggregation.

This is distinct from identity attributes, which are stored on the IdentityCube and represent normalized identity-level data used across IdentityIQ. Account attributes belong to application account links, while identity attributes belong to the identity model. During aggregation, IdentityIQ reads account data according to the application schema and stores the discovered values as account/link attributes. Some account schema attributes may also be marked as managed when their values represent entitlement-like access that should be governed through the Entitlement Catalog.

Therefore, account attributes are correctly defined in the application account schema. Reference topics: Applications --- application definitions, account schema attributes, schema attribute properties; Identity Modeling --- identity attributes versus account attributes; Access Modeling --- managed attributes and entitlement catalog.

The statement is false. IdentityIQ does not apply a universal rule that removes uncorrelated IdentityCubes after 30 days. Uncorrelated accounts or uncorrelated identity records result from aggregation and correlation processing when IdentityIQ cannot confidently associate an account from an application with an existing IdentityCube. These records remain available for administrative review and remediation until they are resolved through correlation logic, manual correlation, re-aggregation, identity refresh activity, or configured cleanup processes.

The key point is that retention and removal behavior is configuration-driven, not controlled by a fixed 30-day product rule. Administrators may use tasks, aggregation settings, pruning behavior, or lifecycle processes to clean up stale identity or account data, but such actions depend on implementation choices and task configuration. IdentityIQ preserves uncorrelated data because it may represent a real account requiring governance, certification, policy evaluation, or investigation.

Therefore, the assertion that uncorrelated IdentityCubes are automatically removed after 30 days is incorrect. Reference topics: Applications, uncorrelated account resolution, correlation configuration, aggregation results, IdentityCube association, identity refresh, and administrative cleanup tasks.

The statement is not technically accurate. In SailPoint IdentityIQ, applications are defined to represent external systems, platforms, directories, databases, or resources from which account, group, entitlement, and attribute data are aggregated, and in some cases to which provisioning changes are written. IdentityIQ does not generally ''read identities'' directly from applications. Instead, it reads account records and associated attributes from applications, then uses identity correlation, authoritative-source logic, and identity refresh processing to construct or update IdentityCubes.

This distinction is fundamental. An application may be an authoritative source, such as an HR system, where account attributes contribute heavily to identity creation and lifecycle state. However, the object read from the source is still an account or source record, not an IdentityIQ identity object. The identity is modeled inside IdentityIQ after aggregation and correlation occur.

Therefore, the more precise statement is that applications represent systems from which IdentityIQ reads account and access data, not systems from which IdentityIQ simply reads identities. Reference topics: Applications, application definition, account aggregation, authoritative applications, correlation, IdentityCube creation, and Identity Modeling.

The statement is false. Preventive policy checking in SailPoint IdentityIQ is not limited only to self-service requests. Preventive policy evaluation is used to identify policy violations before access changes are completed. This can occur during access request processing, provisioning-related activity, or other configured request paths where IdentityIQ evaluates proposed changes against defined policies before allowing the transaction to proceed.

A self-service request is only one possible entry point. IdentityIQ access requests may be submitted by an end user, a manager, an administrator, or another authorized requester depending on QuickLink Population rules, request configuration, and access-request permissions. Preventive policy checking evaluates the requested access change itself, not merely the fact that the request was self-initiated. If the proposed access would violate a separation-of-duty, risk, or other governance policy, IdentityIQ can warn, require additional handling, or block the request depending on policy and workflow configuration.

Therefore, the word ''only'' makes the statement incorrect. Preventive policy checking is a governance control applied to configured access-change activity, not exclusively to self-service actions. Reference topics: Governance, policy detection, preventive policy checking, access request policy evaluation, User-Driven Requests, and provisioning request control.