IBM Cloud Certification Flashcards

Which IBM Cloud service provides a managed message queue for decoupling microservices?

Answer: IBM Event Streams

IBM Event Streams is a fully managed Apache Kafka service used to stream and queue messages between services.

What type of virtual machine does IBM Cloud Classic Infrastructure's 'Bare Metal Server' provide?

Answer: Single-tenant dedicated physical servers

Bare Metal Servers are single-tenant physical servers with no hypervisor overhead, dedicated entirely to one customer.

Which IBM Cloud feature allows you to automatically scale virtual server instances based on load?

Answer: IBM Cloud Auto Scale

IBM Cloud Auto Scale automatically adjusts the number of virtual server instances based on defined policies and metrics.

IBM Cloud Schematics is based on which open-source infrastructure-as-code tool?

Answer: Terraform

IBM Cloud Schematics is a managed Terraform service that automates infrastructure provisioning on IBM Cloud.

Which IBM Cloud security service scans container images for known vulnerabilities?

Answer: IBM Cloud Container Registry Vulnerability Advisor

Vulnerability Advisor within IBM Cloud Container Registry automatically scans images for security vulnerabilities.

What is the purpose of IBM Cloud Key Protect?

Answer: Providing managed encryption key lifecycle management using HSMs

IBM Cloud Key Protect manages encryption keys using FIPS 140-2 Level 3 hardware security modules (HSMs).

Which IBM Cloud service provides a fully managed Redis cache?

Answer: IBM Cloud Databases for Redis

IBM Cloud Databases for Redis is the fully managed Redis offering within the IBM Cloud Databases family.