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1
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Which type of delivery enables the greatest amount of control for the developer?

A. IaaS
B. SaaS
C. PasS
D.Serverless

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A. IaaS

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Which account type provides discounted pricing?

A.PAYG
B.Lite
C. Advanced
D. Subscription

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D. Subscription

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What is one of the main features of the cost estimator?

a. Provides estimates based on local currency, if available
b. export the estimate as a word doc
c. supported by most IBM Cloud services
d. supported by IAM enabled services

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a. Provides estimates based on local currency, if available

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Which IBM Cloud feature gives you command line control of your cloud resources, applications and infrastructure, from any web browser?

A. IBM Cloud API
B. IBM Cloud SDKs
C. IBM Cloud Shell
D. IBM Cloud Catalog

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C. IBM Cloud Shell

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Compute, Storage and Network services can be grouped together as what?

a. SasS
b. PasS
c. DBaaS
d. IaaS

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d. IaaS

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IBM’s Cloud Object Storage is a highly scalable cloud storage service. What are some of the features of Cloud Object Storage?

A. SQL query support
B. Encryption
C. SDKs and API
D. All of the above

A

D. All of the above

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What does IBM Cloud Direct Link provide?

A. A service to distribute traffic among your virtual machines

B. Reliable and secure options for Internet facing applications by using Cloudflare

C. A highly distributed platform of servers that helps minimize delays

D. Secure dedicated connectivity to IBM Cloud infrastructure

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D. Secure dedicated connectivity to IBM Cloud infrastructure

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What service provides virtual servers and bare metal servers with a SAN-like iSCSI storage?

A. Cloud Backup
B. File Storage
C. Block Storage
D. Object Storage

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C. Block Storage

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Which third-party VMware integration assists with creating and managing disaster recovery?

A. Caveonix
B. Zerto
C. F5 BIG IP
D. Veeam

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B. Zerto

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Which compute service allows you to run virtual servers on IBM LinuxONE, getting you access to IBM Z technology?

A. Hyper Protect
B. Bare metal
C. Power Systems
D. Virtual Servers

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A. Hyper Protect

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OpenShift 4 brought in which new features?

A. Mesh Networking, Operators, CLI

B. Serverless, Integrated Container Registry, Operators

C. Pipelines, Mesh Networking, Admin Console

D. Serverless, Pipelines, Mesh Networking, Operators

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D. Serverless, Pipelines, Mesh Networking, Operators

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OpenShift 4 brought in which new features?

A. Mesh Networking, Operators, CLI

B. Serverless, Integrated Container Registry, Operators

C. Pipelines, Mesh Networking, Admin Console

D. Serverless, Pipelines, Mesh Networking, Operators

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D. Serverless, Pipelines, Mesh Networking, Operators

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What is the main benefit of OpenShift on IBM Cloud?

A. Free tier option

B. Available in only select regions

C. Automatic updates and patching

D. Support for old versions of OpenShift

A

C. Automatic updates and patching

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What IBM Cloud service is a PaaS implementation?

A. OpenShift

B. Kubernetes Service

C. Cloud Functions

D. Cloud Foundry

A

D. Cloud Foundry

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How does OpenShift extend Kubernetes?

A . Monitoring tools

B. Projects, virtual machine support

C. CLI, integrated console

D. Projects, integrated console, monitoring tools

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D. Projects, integrated console, monitoring tools

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Cloud Functions use the following concepts?

Actions, Hooks, Combinations

Triggers, Hooks, Sequences

Actions, Triggers, Sequences

Actions, Triggers, Combinations

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Actions, Triggers, Sequences

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Which IBM Cloud service lets you add end-to-end data visualization capabilities to your application so your users can easily drag and drop to quickly find valuable insight and create visualizations on their own?

A. Watson Studio

B. Cloudant

C. App Connect

D. Cognos Dashboard

A

D. Cognos Dashboard

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Which Cloud Pak solution offers low code tools to consume content, automate business workflow and the implementation of business policies?

A. Cloud Pak for Automation
B. Cloud Pak for Integration
C. Cloud Pak for Security
D. Cloud Pak for Data

A

A. Cloud Pak for Automation

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18
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Which AI lifecycle management tool is used to monitor AI models?

Watson OpenScale
Watson Machine Learning
Watson Knowledge Catalog
Watson Studio

A

Watson OpenScale

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Which Cloud Pak is a fully integrated data and AI platform that modernizes how businesses collect, organize and analyze data to infuse AI throughout their organizations?

Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management
Cloud Pak for Integration
Cloud Pak for Security
Cloud Pak for Data

A

Cloud Pak for Data

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20
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What is the enterprise grade messaging platform that is compatible with IBM and AWS?

App Connect
Messages for RabbitMQ
Event Streams
MQ

A

MQ

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21
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What are Resource Groups used for?

As a logical container for services, forming a key component of IAM

They secure network traffic around virtual servers in a VPC

Services running under Kubernetes are deployed into one or more of them

To mark out the classic infrastructure services which make up an application

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As a logical container for services, forming a key component of IAM

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What are the three account types in IBM Cloud?

A. Standard, Pay Per Use, and contract
B. Lite, Pay as You Go, and Subscription
C. Free, Monthly, and Annual
D. Basic, Advanced, and Premium

A

B. Lite, Pay as You Go, and Subscription

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23
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What are two ways to interact with IBM Cloud?

IBM Cloud SDK, SSH key
IBM Cloud Console, and IBM Cloud CLI
IBM Cloud Shell, API key
SSH key and API key

A

IBM Cloud SDK, SSH key

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Which healthcare related compliance programs does IBM Cloud Comply with?

FFIEC
FISC
ITAR
HIPAA

A

HIPAA

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Which compute service provides you the raw horsepower that you need for processor-intensive and disk I/O-intensive workloads?

Hyper Protect
Bare metal
Power Systems
Virtual Servers

A

Bare metal

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What kind of virtual server type is in single tenant environment?

Dedicated
Transient
Reserved
Public

A

Dedicated

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What is the VMware Solutions Shared service?

A collection of VMware based virtual machines on a Power server

A self-service on-demand VMware cloud computing platform with VMware vCloud Director

A secure, isolated private cloud hosted within a public cloud

A bare metal solution with vCenter and vSphere options

A

A self-service on-demand VMware cloud computing platform with VMware vCloud Director

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What is a Virtual Private Cloud?

Any vendors public cloud

An on-premises cloud that connects to a public cloud

A collection of virtual machines that are interconnected

A secure, isolated private cloud hosted within a public cloud

A

A secure, isolated private cloud hosted within a public cloud

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What is a Virtual Private Cloud?

Any vendors public cloud

An on-premises cloud that connects to a public cloud

A collection of virtual machines that are interconnected

A secure, isolated private cloud hosted within a public cloud

A

A secure, isolated private cloud hosted within a public cloud

30
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What tier of Object Storage class should be used where data is accessed only a few times per year?

Smart tier
Vault
Standard
Cold vault

A

Cold vault

31
Q

IBM’s Cloud Backup service is used to back up and restore data between servers in one or more data centers. Which is NOT a benefit of Cloud Backup?

Geo-redundancy
Management Portal
End-to-End Data Encryption
SDKs

A

SDKs

32
Q

IBM’s Cloud Object Storage is a highly scalable cloud storage service. What are some of the features of Cloud Object Storage?

SQL query support
Encryption
SDKs and APIs
All of the above

A

All of the above

33
Q

What do IBM’s Cloud Internet Services provide?

A service to distribute traffic among your virtual machines

Reliable and secure options for Internet facing applications by using Cloudflare

A highly distributed platform of servers that helps minimize delays

Secure dedicated connectivity to IBM Cloud infrastructure

A

Reliable and secure options for Internet facing applications by using Cloudflare

34
Q

What is the benefit of a Gen2 VPC?

Available in all data centers
Up to 80 Gbps networking
Always deployed to bare metal
Virtual machines on each node

A

Up to 80 Gbps networking

34
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What is the benefit of a Gen2 VPC?

Available in all data centers
Up to 80 Gbps networking
Always deployed to bare metal
Virtual machines on each node

A

Up to 80 Gbps networking

35
Q

What is the VMware Solutions Dedicated service?

A collection of VMware based virtual machines on a Power server

A self-service on-demand VMware cloud
computing platform with VMware vCloud Director

A secure, isolated private cloud hosted within a public cloud

A bare metal solution with vCenter and vSphere options

A

A bare metal solution with vCenter and vSphere options

36
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What are containers?

A shallow replica of an application
An implementation of the OCI specification
A single tenant virtual machine
Packaging up application code and any dependencies

A

Packaging up application code and any dependencies

37
Q

What is Kubernetes?

An open source cloud platform
An open source container orchestration platform
An open source container runtime
A proprietary container orchestration solution

A

An open source container orchestration platform

38
Q

Which IBM Cloud service comes with automatic routing, health monitoring, and is free tier compatible?

Virtual Servers
Cloud Foundry
OpenShift
App Connect

A

Cloud Foundry

39
Q

OpenShift is available on:

GCP
All of the above
Azure
On-premises
IBM Cloud
A

All of the above

40
Q

Cloud Functions is based on which open source project?

OpenWhisk
OpenLambda
Knative
Fn project

A

OpenWhisk

41
Q

How can the OpenShift service on IBM Cloud be deployed?

On a VMware Solution

Bare metal only

Virtual server only

Virtual server and Bare metal

A

Virtual server and Bare metal

42
Q

What services relate to deploying applications to the IBM Cloud Kubernetes service?

Helm Catalog and Continuous Delivery
Cloud Container Registry and LogDNA
Sysdig and LogDNA
Cloud Container Registry and Helm Catalog

A

Cloud Container Registry and Helm Catalog

43
Q

How can the IBM Cloud Kubernetes service be deployed?

On a VMware Solution
Bare metal only
Virtual server only
Virtual server and Bare metal

A

Virtual server and Bare metal

44
Q

To deploy a Cloud Foundry project, use which command?

cf start
cf deploy
cf run
cf push

A

cf push

45
Q

What IBM Cloud service is a FaaS implementation?

OpenShift
Kubernetes Service
Cloud Functions
Cloud Foundry

A

Cloud Functions

46
Q

Which IBM Cloud database service is a fully managed NoSQL document-based database?

Db2 Hosted
Db2
Db2 Warehouse
IBM Cloudant

A

IBM Cloudant

47
Q

Cloud Paks are built and based on which platform?

OKD
OpenShift
OpenStack
IBM Kubernetes Service

A

OpenShift

48
Q

What is data science?

Is a method for gleaning insights from structured and unstructured data using analytics to machine learning.

A statistical model to enable better predictions.

Using machine learning and AI to build models.

Gaining insights from structured data using analytics and machine learning.

A

Is a method for gleaning insights from structured and unstructured data using analytics to machine learning.

49
Q

What is the business value of blockchain?

Fast transaction processing speed.

A shared source of truth and the visibility into the history of an asset

Enabling cryptocurrency trading.

A distributed database to ensure fault tolerance for transactions.

A

A shared source of truth and the visibility into the history of an asset

50
Q

What is the main benefit of continuous integration?

Increased communication between business and development teams.

Delivering patches to customers as fast as possible.

Automatically building and testing changes pushed to a code repository.

Pushing code changes to production as fast as possible.

A

Automatically building and testing changes pushed to a code repository.

51
Q

What is DevOps?

Enabling better communication between development, IT operations, and business teams.

A set of practices that combine software development and IT operations to shorten the development lifecycle and provide high quality software

A set of practices that combine software development and business operations to shorten the development lifecycle and provide high quality software

Using continuous integration to deliver faster results.

A

A set of practices that combine software development and IT operations to shorten the development lifecycle and provide high quality software

52
Q

Which services does the Watson IoT Platform write to?

Cloud Pak for Data

MQ, Kubernetes, MongoDB

Db2 Hosted, Object Storage, MongoDB

Cloudant, Object Storage, Event Streams, Db2 Warehouse

A

Cloudant, Object Storage, Event Streams, Db2 Warehouse

53
Q

Analytics Engine is based on which two open-source analytics projects?

Apache Hadoop and TensorFlow

Apache Spark and Apache Kafka

Apache Spark and Apache Hadoop

Apache Kafka and Pytorch

A

Apache Spark and Apache Hadoop

54
Q

Which IBM Cloud service is all-in-one tool for easily connecting apps, integrating data, building APIs and acting on events?

MQ
App Connect
Information Server
API Connect

A

App Connect

55
Q

Which IBM Cloud service supports multiple messaging protocols as a broker that lets you route, track and queue messages with customizable persistence levels, delivery settings and publish confirmations?

Messages for RabbitMQ

Event Streams

Watson Assistant

MQ

A

Messages for RabbitMQ

56
Q

Which cloud deployment model lets users use multiple cloud models working together seamlessly?

Public
Hybrid
Broad Network Access
Private

A

Hybrid

57
Q

Which of these are essential characteristics of the Cloud? Select two.

Single-tenant
On-demand self-service
Resource pooling
Fixed fee

A

On-demand self-service

Resource pooling

58
Q

What are some cloud computing benefits? Select two.

Purchasing off-the-shelf software and upgrades

Diversity of standardization in how the constantly evolving technologies integrate and interoperate.

Competitive advantage

Flexibility and efficiency

A

Competitive advantage

Flexibility and efficiency

59
Q

According to the International Data Corporation (IDC), what is that crucial ability that will make cloud computing essential for businesses to succeed, sustain, and compete in today’s markets?

Multi-cloud infrastructures
Applied exponential technologies such as AI, Automation, IoT, and Blockchain
Cognitively-enabled workflows
Data-driven decisions

A
60
Q

IoT, AI, Blockchain, and Analytics are emerging technologies enabled by the cloud. What are some of the attributes of cloud computing that enable these technologies? Select two.

Cloud resources are offered in a single-tenant model

The power and scale of cloud resources

Computing resources can be accessed via internet connection

Cloud offers on-demand computing

A

Cloud offers on-demand computing

The power and scale of cloud resources

61
Q

Which of these scenarios are good use cases for Public Cloud? Select two.

Reducing time-to-market for products and services
Managing business critical platforms and applications
Disaster recovery, data protection, and business continuity
Applications with stable capacity and resourcing needs

A

Reducing time-to-market for products and services

Disaster recovery, data protection, and business continuity

62
Q

Private cloud platforms can be implemented internally or externally. What is an example of external private cloud platform?

Cloud platform that runs on-premises

Platform that is owned, managed, and operated by the organization

Virtual Private Cloud or VPC

Controlled access and customized security measures

A
63
Q

The infrastructure layer is the foundation of the cloud and consists of physical resources. Where do these physical resources reside?

In a warehouse that houses a centralized mainframe server
Regions, Zones, and Data Centers
Compute, Storage, and Networking Resources
Virtual Servers, Bare Metal Servers, and Serverless computing resources

A

Regions, Zones, and Data Centers

64
Q

Why do bare metal servers take longer to provision than virtual servers?

GPUs for data analytics are hard to configure and provision
Customer configures the physical servers
They are physical servers that can be customized to specified capacity
They’re multi-tenant servers, and all tenants must help configure them

A

They are physical servers that can be customized to specified capacity

65
Q

Containers provide isolation of applications. What is one of the benefits this provides?

Help keep malicious code in one container from impacting other containers

Repackaged into containers or containerized microservices

Abstraction from the host operating system

Open sourced runtime engine

A

Help keep malicious code in one container from impacting other containers

66
Q

What makes File storage an ideal solution for scenarios where common storage (a landing zone for incoming files) is needed?

Mounted from remote storage appliances
File Storage is mounted to compute nodes via an ethernet network
Its consistently high speed
File storage can be mounted to multiple compute nodes at a time

A

File storage can be mounted to multiple compute nodes at a time

67
Q

Which of these scenarios are best suited for Block Storage? Select two.

Workloads that need low-latency storage

Workloads that need disk sharing between compute nodes

Low cost is a consideration

Applications that need consistent fast access to disk, such as databases

A

Workloads that need low-latency storage

Applications that need consistent fast access to disk, such as databases

68
Q

Which of the following is NOT a good fit for Object Storage?

Data that does not require fast read and write speeds
Storage needs are finite and can be pre-defined
Files or objects that are static
Operating systems or applications like databases

A

Operating systems or applications like databases

69
Q

What is a Content Delivery Network (CDN)?

A network link
A distributed server network
A network node
Network topology

A

A distributed server network

70
Q

What are some of the benefits of using microservices architecture? Select two.

Application components can be developed and updated independently of each other
Each microservice of an application needs to use the same stack and runtime environment
Components facing varied amounts of load can be scaled independently
Each line of code for a microservice needs to be written from scratch

A

Application components can be developed and updated independently of each other

Components facing varied amounts of load can be scaled independently

71
Q

What are the characteristics of a cloud native application?

Collection of microservices with tightly coupled UI, business logic layer, and data layer

Collection of microservices that need to be scaled and updated in relation to each other

Collection of microservices that are built as one huge piece of software

Collection of microservices working together as a whole to comprise an application

A

Collection of microservices working together as a whole to comprise an application