Quick Fire Questions Flashcards
A customer has deployed a multi-zone IBM Cloud database. What happens if there is a networking failure in one zone of a multi-zone region, such as in case of a natural disaster?
Traffic is automatically redirected to a failover zone.
For industry standard regulations, such as Payment Card Industry (PCI) or Service Organization Control (SOC), how does IBM Cloud meet the regulations?
Compliance reports
What support plans are available on IBM?
Basic, Advanced, and Premium
What IBM Cloud role can assist a client with the build of a modern network operations center?
IBM Cloud Site Reliability Engineer
Which support plan is the default plan for a Pay-As-You-Go account type?
Basic
____________ computing is a distributed computing model that brings computation and data storage closer to the sources of data.
Edge
In the IBM Cloud Console what menu option would you need to access to inspect past invoices?
Manage
What deployment model can IT adopt to avoid Shadow IT?
Multicloud
Why would a distributed and edge computing model be a good choice for a company to improve their efficiency by bringing computation and data storage closer to the sources of data?
To provide low latency to its applications
Which two types of resources are always the client’s responsibility in the IBM Cloud shared responsibility model?
Data and Applications
Which option in IBM Cloud Console can an administrator invite a new team member to be part of an IBM Cloud access group?
Manage
What is the purpose of Configuration Governance in the Security and Compliance Center?
Guards against resource misconfiguration
To allow clients to buy guaranteed resources for 1-3 years, which type of virtual cloud server would you use?
Reserved virtual server
What is the function of IBM Cloud Code Engine?
Runs containerised workloads on a full managed, serverless platform
What is Cloudant?
A fully managed DBaaS built on open-source Apache CouchDB
IBM Cloud Security and Compliance Center can help a client understand its security posture by continuously monitoring the client’s ____________.
Environment
What is a high-throughput, fault-tolerant, publish-subscribe technology based on the open-source Apache Kafka project?
Event Streams
Which IBM Cloud support plan allows a user to assign case severity and provides 24/7 access to the IBM Cloud technical support team through cases, phone, and chat?
Advanced
What is Zerto?
An optional service to help manage disaster recovery
To enable internet access, what service is added to subnets and is part of the VPC?
Public Gateway
What is a private cloud on a shared infrastructure, which is owned and managed by a cloud service provider called?
Virtual Private Cloud
What is automatically created when an instance of IBM Cloud Monitoring is provisioned?
Access Key
What is Kubernetes?
Open-source container orchestration software
What are considered the three components of the Security and Compliance Center?
Posture Management, Configuration Governance, and Security Insights
What IBM Cloud role recommends and designs cloud solutions?
IBM Cloud Architect
Which IBM Cloud solution is designed to provide a cost-effective, self-service entry to the cloud, leveraging VMware vCloud Director to help enable customers to extend their data centers?
VMware Shared
What is Red Hat OpenShift?
An Enterprise-grade container management platform
Which feature in Identity and Access Management requires additional methods to prove identity and increase security?
Multi-factor Authentication (MFA)
Why do users create templates in the Security and Compliance Center?
To define property values for supported resources
When thinking about migrating workloads to IBM Cloud, what is a common key driver?
Agility
What is Hyper Protect Crypto Services?
A dedicated key management and cloud hardware security module (HSM)
Which IBM Cloud Console option helps architects to determine their monthly expenses for a new service?
Cost Estimator
In IBM Cloud locations, what is the correct order of hierarchy?
Geography, Country, Metro, Zone
Which type of storage is best for performance intensive workloads?
Block
Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, ______ to a shared pool of configurable _______ that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.
1) on-demand network access
2) computing resources