What are the implications of deactivating a functional area?

• A. It stops the data pipeline process from getting new data from the source application when incremental jobs are run.
• B. It deletes historical data in the pipeline.
• C. It disables all real-time streaming.
• D. It triggers an automatic rollback of all jobs.

Answer: (A)

Deactivating a functional area halts the data ingestion logic tied to that area, so incremental jobs won’t pull new data from the source when they run. Incremental loads rely on the functional area being active to detect and fetch changes since the last run; with the area deactivated, that ingestion path is blocked and no new data enters the pipeline from that source. The historical data already present stays intact unless you take a separate delete or purge action. Deactivation doesn’t automatically disable real-time streaming or trigger a rollback of all jobs—those would require separate configurations or operations. So the key effect is stopping the flow of new data for incremental ingestion.