What is the FME umbrella term for subdivisions such as tables, layers, sheets, or classes?

• A. Data Types
• B. Feature Types
• C. Object Types
• D. Record Types

Answer: (B)

In FME, a feature type is the collection that defines the structure shared by all features in a dataset—the geometry type and the attribute schema. Tables, layers, sheets, and classes are different names for data containers in various formats, but they all represent a set of features with a defined schema. Feature type is the umbrella term because it describes that shared structure across formats and is what you manipulate with transformers in a workspace.

Data types refer to the kinds of individual field values, not the container of features. Object types and record types are not the standard FME term used to describe these data groupings.