You can increase workspace development speed by disabling feature types to prevent reading and writing data while you are testing other sections of the workspace.

You can increase workspace development speed by disabling feature types to prevent reading and writing data while you are testing other sections of the workspace.

• A. FALSE
• B. TRUE
• C. SOMETIMES
• D. NOT POSSIBLE

Answer: (B)

Disabling feature types in FME Workbench is a practical way to speed up workspace development. Feature types represent the data you read and write. When you disable a feature type, the workspace won’t read from that source and won’t produce output for it, which eliminates the associated I/O and processing overhead. This lets you test and iterate on other parts of the workspace more quickly, since you’re not waiting on large data reads or writes. You can disable a feature type by right‑clicking it in the Navigator or workspace and choosing Disable, and you can re-enable it later when you want to run the full workflow. A note: any downstream logic that depends on the disabled data won’t run, so you may need to re-enable as you validate end-to-end behavior. In practice, this is a common technique to accelerate development.

Disabling feature types in FME Workbench is a practical way to speed up workspace development. Feature types represent the data you read and write. When you disable a feature type, the workspace won’t read from that source and won’t produce output for it, which eliminates the associated I/O and processing overhead. This lets you test and iterate on other parts of the workspace more quickly, since you’re not waiting on large data reads or writes. You can disable a feature type by right‑clicking it in the Navigator or workspace and choosing Disable, and you can re-enable it later when you want to run the full workflow. A note: any downstream logic that depends on the disabled data won’t run, so you may need to re-enable as you validate end-to-end behavior. In practice, this is a common technique to accelerate development.