What compute option is designed for developers and requires no system administrators to maintain the infrastructure?
- A . Serverless
- B . Bare metal servers
- C . Virtual servers
- D . Containers
D
Explanation:
Reference: https://www.redhat.com/en/resources/layered-approach-container-kubernetes-security-whitepaper
What are three support models supported by IBM Cloud?
- A . Silver. Advanced. Gold
- B . Silver. Gold, Premium
- C . Basic, Silver, Gold
- D . Basic. Advanced. Premium
D
Explanation:
Reference: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/support
An application is comprised of a set of core functions such as product catalog, client ratings, user forums, and each function must be developed and deployed independently of each other.
Which architecture supports this requirement?
- A . Microservices
- B . Platform-as-a-service
- C . Fowler
- D . Monolithic
A
Explanation:
Reference: https://medium.com/hashmapinc/the-what-why-and-how-of-a-microservices-architecture-4179579423a9
What is a benefit of Public Cloud?
- A . Offers the most significant economies of scale
- B . Offers control of internal IT resources
- C . Controls and automates deployments and updates
- D . Offers controlled access and greater security measures customized to specific organizational needs
A
Explanation:
Reference: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/learn/public-cloud
After selecting all items to be part of the total configuration in the IBM Cloud Cost Estimator, in which two file formats can the results be downloaded? (Choose two.)
- A . JSON
- B . PDF
- C . XML
- D . DOCX
A,C
Explanation:
Reference: https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/billing-usage?topic=billing-usage-cost
Which two public clouds provide Red Hat Managed OpenShift instances? (Choose two.)
- A . Microsoft Azure
- B . Corda Cloud
- C . Oracle Cloud
- D . Google Cloud
- E . EIAWS
A,D
Explanation:
Reference: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/architecture/articles/ibmaot-redhat-openshift/02-solutions-guide-public-cloud-self-managed-openshift
Which severity level should be assigned to a support case in the event of a business critical function becoming inoperable?
- A . 1
- B . 4
- C . 3
- D . 2
A
Explanation:
Reference: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-enterprise-support-and-preferred-care-severity-definitions
What are two use cases for Internet of Things devices? (Choose two.)
- A . Manufacturing Supply Chain
- B . Predictive Maintenance
- C . Asset Tracking
- D . Financial Services Reconciliation
- E . eCommerce Fulfillment
A,B
Explanation:
Reference: https://www.iotevolutionworld.com/iot/articles/446032-top-10-iot-use-cases.htm
What describes IBM Event Streams?
- A . It is used to connect different applications and have event trigger actions between applications
- B . It enables a fast message provisioning capability in the cloud
- C . It enables the extension of enterprise messaging to the cloud
- D . It is a high throughput message bus built with Apache Kafka
D
Explanation:
Reference: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-private/3.2.0?topic=paks-event-streams
Which type of storage is used in a database application that needs consistent fast access to disk?
- A . Block Storage
- B . Instance Storage
- C . Object Storage
- D . File Storage
A
Explanation:
Reference: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/learn/block-storage#:~:text=Block%20storage%2C%20sometimes%20referred%20to,efficient%2C%20 and%20reliable%20data%20transportation
What makes it possible to run multiple virtual machines on a bare metal server?
- A . Disk
- B . Cores
C Virtualization - C . Memory
C
Explanation:
Reference: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/learn/virtual-machines#:~:text=Virtualization%20makes%20it%20possible%20to,on%20a%20single%20 physical%20machine
What describes a Public Gateway?
- A . It is a service that distributes connections to VPC-hosted web sites evenly across zones
- B . It provides an encrypted network tunnel between the VPC and on-premises networks for management
- C . It enables communication to the internet for all virtual server instances on the attached subnet
- D . It is configured through rules to allow traffic to reach the network interface of attached VSIs
C
Explanation:
Reference: https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-about-networking-for-vpc
What is an example of a cloud native application?
- A . An application developed using an IBM Cloud hosted integrated development environment and deployed to production on a locally hosted virtual machine
- B . A software platform available exclusively on IBM Cloud
- C . A containerized application that is deployed on an orchestrated platform
- D . A Windows application designed to run both on IBM Cloud and on locally hosted environments
A
Explanation:
Reference: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/cloud-native
How can cloud computing make a real difference to a customer’s business?
- A . Cloud delivers predictable monthly CAPEX charges which allow many businesses to more easily manage their IT budgets based on known costs and their changing compute demand
- B . Cloud environments offer high availability by default meaning that migration to cloud will immediately solve any issues the business has had with application downtime
- C . Cloud makes it possible for businesses to greatly decrease the time from decision to value by enabling the ability to experiment, learn, and fail fast, without large amounts of upfront capital
- D . Cloud vendors sell annual hardware hosting contracts to tens of thousands of customers and can discount heavily due to economies of scale meaning cloud is inexpensive
A
Explanation:
Reference: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/learn/cloud-computing
What is a characteristic of an IBM Cloud Subscription account?
- A . Guaranteed zero cost
- B . Invoiced on hourly basis
- C . Available for enterprise account hierarchy
- D . No overages
C
Explanation:
Reference: https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/account?topic=account-accounts
Which type of database would be appropriate for a high transaction database?
- A . graph
- B . relational
- C . document
- D . key-value
A
Explanation:
Reference: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/learn/relational-databases
In IBM Cloud, what function does a public gateway in a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) provide?
- A . Name resolution to allow traffic to find the website
- B . Extension of on-premises resources to the cloud
- C . Internet connectivity to the web servers
- D . Load balancing to the app servers
C
Explanation:
Reference: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/architecture/content/course/advanced-networking-for-vpc/vpc-vs-classic-infrastructure/
Power Systems Virtual Servers on IBM Cloud offers the choice of which machine types when provisioning?
- A . Rockhopper
- B . z/15
- C . E880andS922
- D . FlashSystem 5200
C
Explanation:
Reference: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/power-systems-vs?topic=deploying-creating-power-systems-virtual-server
What is the common name used to refer to a virtual instance that runs on a hypervisor?
- A . Bare Metal Server
- B . Dynamic LPAR
- C . Pod
- D . Virtual Machine
D
Explanation:
Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervisor#:~:text=A%20computer%20on%20which%20a,is%20called%20a%20guest%20machine
Which types of storage can be used on IBM Cloud Storage?
- A . Shared Storage. Storage Service, and Encrypt Storage
- B . Temp File Storage. File System and Block Volume
- C . Physical Storage. Queue Storage, and Data Lake
- D . File Storage. Block Storage, and Object Storage
D
Explanation:
Reference: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/storage