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What is a reference architecture?
Answer A reference architecture is a predefined architectural pattern, or set of patterns, possibly partially or completely instantiated, designed, and proven for use in particular business and technical contexts, together with supporting artifacts to enable their use
Which secure network solution can be used for data migration, real time replication for business continuity and disaster recovery, and to backup or restore data from a data center to IBM Cloud?
Answer IBM Cloud Direct Link
What are resource groups?
Answer It is a way for you to organize your account resources in customizable groupings
What is Secure Gateway?
Answer Provides a quick, easy, and secure solution for connecting anything to anything and Both Gateways and Destinations can be marked as 'Active' or 'Inactive'. Inactive items are not billed.
A client has a large legacy application. While they are able to meet their traditional customer requirements, they are finding it challenging to keep up with innovative engagement channels that smaller competitors are providing. They need a solution that can let various components of the application scale and evolve at their own pace
Answer Select a couple of their use cases and develop a simple microservices solution to show scaling and DevOps
What protocols does secure gateway use?
Answer TCP, TLS, HTTP, HTTPS, UDP
What is delivered during the co-execute stage workflow of IBM Garage Method for Cloud?
Answer The MVP is defined, designed and built
Which is a reason for a customer to choose an IBM Cloud Subscription account?
Answer They receive a discount on their usage costs
What are the AI lifecycle management tools?
Answer Watson studio to build, machine learning to run, knowledge catalog to categorize and share data and models, openscale to monitor ai models
What is mongodb?
Answer a JSON document store with a rich query and aggregation framework.
What database if you need a highly scalable document store?
Answer cloudant
What is elasticsearch?
Answer combines the power of a full text search engine with the indexing strengths of a JSON document database to create a powerful tool for rich data analysis on large volumes of data. - TEST QUESTION!
How do you setup an event stream?
Answer create a topic and only 1 partition per topic is in the lite plan and only Dallas is available for the lite plan. Create credentials, clone repo, yu and a running consumer and a running producer and broker and api keys are needed.
What database if you need a cloud data warehouse service powered by IBM Blu accelerations?
Answer db2 warehouse on cloud .... Test question!!
What are the relational databases on ibm cloud?
Answer db2, db2 hosted and postgres
What is a relational database?
Answer founded by an ibmer r.f. codd where data is stored in fows and columns like access database. a sql database that online transaction processing. Use cases re e-commerce, erp, crm and examples are postresql and ibm db2
What database if you need a managed sql database for enterprise grade performance?
Answer ibm db2 on cloud
What are event streams?
Answer is simple event stream processing based on Apache Kafka. IBM Event Streams provides an event backbone in the Basic and Extended Event-driven Reference Architecture supporting publish/subscribe communication, and an event log.
Which Kubernetes component provides data persistence to containers?
Answer persistent volume
What database if you need a managed, open source relational database that is instantly deployable?
Answer postgresql
What is consultative selling?
Answer: focus on customers needs, preferences, emotions
What is a docker image (sap transport file)
answer A Docker image is the basis for every container that you create. An image is created from a Dockerfile, which is a file that contains instructions to build the image
What is a namespace
answer A namespace is a collection of repositories that store your container images in IBM Cloud Container Registry and Namespaces on IBM Cloud Container Registry are the main resource that you can grant IAM permissions on to manage access control.
What is a cloud region
answer A region is a geographically and physically separate group of one or more availability zone with independent electrical and network infrastructures isolated from other regions
What is Cloud Internet Service (CIS)
answer Cloud Internet Services (CIS) provides reliability, performance, and security for Internet facing applications, websites, and services using Cloudflare's 165+ Global Points of Presence
What is the difference between a gateway and a firewall
answer Gateway is a networking hardware or network node which connects the two disparate network to communicate with each other. A firewall is both hardware and software application which sets the rules as per which data packets are allowed to enter the network.
Types of data security
answer HSM and ibm key protect, multi-cloud data encryption, IBM Guardiam, icos, ibm cloud databases
A clients requires a high secure database service to store sensitive personal Information. They also need to transform their digital systems and move towards cloud native architecture using document-based databases Which database service address these requirements
answer Hyper Protect DBaaS for MongoDB
What are hyperprotect virtual servers
answer Hyper Protect Virtual Servers is an IBM Cloud™ service that provides highly secure Virtual Servers in a public cloud that can run Linux applications and containerized workloads.
Which registry provides automatic vulnerability scanning for container images for Red Hat Openshift on IBM Cloud
answer IBM Cloud Container Registry
Types of security monitoring and intelligence
answer IBM Cloud Foundry, IBM product security incident response team, ibm x-force exchange, ibm q-radar, ibm managed security services
Describe IBM's Cloud Paks and their advantages
answer IBM Cloud Paks run on a Red Hat Kubernetes-based OpenShift Container Platform base layer and are integrated by design, you can run anywhere, built on open standards like containers, kubers, helm, secure by default
What is IBM Watson OpenScale
answer IBM Watson OpenScale is an enterprise-grade environment for AI infused applications providing enterprises visibility into how AI is being built, used, and delivers ROI - at the scale of their business.
What is ibm Watson discovery
answer IBM Watson™ Discovery makes it possible to rapidly build cognitive, cloud-based exploration applications that unlock actionable insights hidden in unstructured data — including your own proprietary data, as well as public and third-party data.
Types of identity and access management
answer IBMid, sso, mfa, ldap, reporting, audit and compliance
Difference between MQ and Event Streams
answer MQ or message queueing represent the current or future processing for example request and response messages while Event streaming which handles immutable data and represents the state of the system like logging, measurements and notifications
Difference between microservices and containers
answer Microservices are considered an architecture, while a container is a way to build and run executable software code.
IBM Cloud PaK
answer Sadima-Security, application, data, integration, multicloud, automation
IBM Cloud Pak for Security
answer Security Threat Management Platform
What is an avail zone
answer Three or more data centers located in proximity to help ensure high availability and resiliency and An availability zone is a logically and physically isolated location within an IBM Cloud region with independent power, cooling, and network infrastructures
Describe the capabilities of the IBM Container Registry Service
answer Use IBM Cloud™ Container Registry to store and access private container images in a highly available and scalable architecture which is a multi-tenant, highly available, scalable, and encrypted private image registry that is hosted and managed by IBM®.
What is an advantage of using an Identity and Access Management (IAM) access group
answer Use an access group to assign a single policy to the group instead of assigning the same access multiple times per individual user or service ID
What is Watson Machine Learning
answer Watson Machine Learning provides a full range of tools and services so you can build, train, and deploy Machine Learning models
What is a document database
answer a non-sql database and can handle dynamic querying and use cases for document stores include customer data, user generated content, and order data. Json like and the types are mongodb, apache couchdb, firebase
What is ibm cloudant
answer a scalable json document database used for web, mobile, iot and serverless. Other types are types are mongodb, apache couchdb, firebase
What is a vmware solutions shared offering
answer a standardized and customizable deployment of vmware virtual data center environment
What is ipsec vpn
answer a suited of protocols designed to authenticate and encrypt all IP traffic between 2 locations and is NOT recommended for production workloads
4 key stages, or "themes" of the cloud transformation journey
answer advise, move, build, and manage
What would you use icos for
answer any dta which is static and where fast read and write speeds are not necessary
Types of application security and develops
answer application security on cloud, cloud app ID service, NOC, cloud vulnerability advisor, secure engineering framework
How are block and file storage different
answer block is isci, connects to one host, good for high intensity workloads while file storage is nfs, can attach to multiple hosts and is good for low intensity workloads
Types of physical security
answer building and personnel security
What is a standby query for resiliency
answer can service requested in a limited capacity like a secondary read only replica
Distinguish between client responsibilities and IBM responsibilities in IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
answer client responsible for app and data while everything else might be shared
IBM Cloud Pak for Data
answer connect to your data, govern it, and trust it CGT-connect, govern, trust
Different between vm's and containers
answer containers share an operating system on the node while vm's have their own isolated operating system
What is dikw
answer data, information, knowledge and wisdom with wisdom being at the top of the pyramid
IBM Cloud Pak for Integration
answer eases monitoring, maintenance and upgrades and creates and manages APIs
IBM Cloud Pak for Applications
answer for devops modernization and developing new cloud native apps
Forrester's financial analysis
answer found that the sample bank experiences incremental benefits of $252 million over five years versus incremental costs of $177million by modernizing with a hybrid multicloud platform using IBM and Red Hat, adding up to a net present value (NPV) of $75 million, a payback period of 29 months, and an ROI of 42%.
How is hyperprotect virtual server sold as tshirts
answer free, entry, small and medium
What are the hytrust products used with vmware
answer httc hytrust cloud control, htdc hytrust data control and htkc hytrust keycontrol
What load balancing features are used with the service mesh
answer http, grpc, websocket, tcp traffic
Order of vpc nested dolls
answer ibm cloud, region, vpc, zone, subnet - cr'e'vzs
A client's application requires an unstructured highly scalable cloud storage service, designed for high durability, resiliency and security Which IBM Storage offering provides these capabilities
answer icos
Which IBM Cloud storage offering has Smart Tier enabled
answer icos
What are two Enterprise Design Thinking techniques
answer ideation and to-be scenario mapping
How does openshift extend Kubernetes
answer integrated container registery, integrated console, access control and projects, easier dev flows with source to image and routes, built in monitoring tools
What is true of the container registery
answer is a collection of repositories in which you can store images, use api paths and control rules, can be hosted publicly and privately. It is NOT used to store related container images for setup and deployment
What is etcd
answer is distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system .. this is a test question!!!!!
What is the Vulnerablity Advisor
answer it checks for vulnerabilities in your docker image
What is the high availability for the ibm cloud container registery
answer it is a highly available regional service that is load balanced across multiple availability zones with zero points of failure and users can push images it multiple regional registries to protect against an entire region failure
What is direct attached storage
answer it is used to store a systems operating system, it is ephemeral (temporary), and it is NOT shared
For data migration
answer mdm or aspera
Key components of vpc
answer mzr, subnets, security groups, vsi, public and vpn gateway, block storage volumes
Object storage speed
answer no iops, slower than endurance, cold vault buckets can take hours for retrieval and this is a TEST QUESTION
What Kubernetes is NOT
answer paas, does not limit types of applications, does not deploy source code or build applications, does not prescribe logging, monitoring or alerting solutions, does not provide built in middleware, databases, or services
What is IBM API connect
answer provides API creation and management with security rich features and centralized governance
IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management
answer provides consistent visibility, governance, and automation from on premises to the edge. you can import existing clusters and create new clusters, Define and deploy an application across clusters, Move an application as needed amount clusters and cloud providers, Monitor application health.
What is MQ
answer provides enterprise grade messaging middleware solution and allows allows data to be moved securely and reliably between different application using either point-to-point or publish/subscribe messaging models.
IBM Cloud Pak for Automation
answer quickly scale up or down to meet fluctuating customer demand, rapidly create new products and services to gain competitive advantage and increase the productivity of remote and onsite worker
An in memory cache for web optimization
answer redis
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service on classic infrastructure has a control plane security owned by IBM, and data plane security owned by the customer. What is the responsibility model for this service
answer shared
Object storage types
answer standard tier most expensive-frequently accessed, vault archive tier object accessed once or twice per month, cold vault tier data that is accesses once or twice per year and automatic archive rules for data that is not accessed for long
Object storage
answer standard=frequent and vault=monthly access and cold vault=yearly access and autoarchive is data wont be around long
What is the Kubernetes persistent volume (PV)
answer storage provisioned by the admin
What is the Kubernetes persistent volume claim (PVC)
answer storage requested by the user
Where do you grant iam and retention policies for your images
answer the IBM Cloud Container Registry
What is a key value database
answer the most basic and examples re dynamodb, redis, etcd. a non sql database that stores data as a collection of key value pairs in which a key service as a unique identifier and used for leaderboards, caches, and shopping cart
What are configmaps
answer this is a file that provide one way to provide this configuration data to pods and deployments so that they are not hard coded inside the application code
What is IBM App Connect
answer tool for integrating cloud-based or on-premises applications to automate tedious and repetitive tasks.
What is IBM Watson™ Natural Language Classifier
answer uses machine learning algorithms to return the top matching predefined classes for short text inputs.
Types of ROKS
answer virtual shared, virtual dedicated, bare metal with billing hourly and monthly
Types of network security
answer vpn fortigate and vyatta, direct link and ibm cloud ddos protection tools
What is a service mesh
answer works with anything traffic related in the network of microservices and can include discovery, load balancing, failure recovery, metrics, monitoring.
What are benefits of vmware shared
answer, cost effective scalability, temporary migration and burst, disaster recovery
What is the AI ladder
answer: COAI which means collect, organize, analyze, infuse
What is blockchain
answer: is an immutable shared ledger that facilitates the process of recording transactions and tracking assets in a business network. You can track and trade anything of value. Blockchain is cost-effective and secure.
What is a rolling update in containers
answer: use replicaset and autoscaling to minimize downtime, rolling updates provide a way to rollout app changes in an automated and controlled way throughout your pods, they work with pod templates such as deployments, they allow for rollback in case something goes wrong
Which offering allows clients to monitor their IBM Cloud account and check unusual activity, while complying with audit and compliance requirements
answerIBM Cloud Activity Tracker with LogDNA
