IBM Certification IBM Cloud Certification 4 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which IBM Cloud service provides a managed message queue for decoupling microservices?
- IBM Cloud Databases
- IBM Event Streams (Correct answer)
- IBM Cloud Functions
- IBM App Connect
Correct answer: IBM Event Streams
IBM Event Streams is a fully managed Apache Kafka service used to stream and queue messages between services.
Question 2: What type of virtual machine does IBM Cloud Classic Infrastructure's 'Bare Metal Server' provide?
- Shared multi-tenant virtual machines
- Single-tenant dedicated physical servers (Correct answer)
- Containerized instances
- Serverless compute units
Correct answer: Single-tenant dedicated physical servers
Bare Metal Servers are single-tenant physical servers with no hypervisor overhead, dedicated entirely to one customer.
Question 3: Which IBM Cloud feature allows you to automatically scale virtual server instances based on load?
- IBM Cloud Load Balancer
- IBM Cloud Auto Scale (Correct answer)
- IBM Cloud Kubernetes HPA
- IBM Cloud Schematics
Correct answer: IBM Cloud Auto Scale
IBM Cloud Auto Scale automatically adjusts the number of virtual server instances based on defined policies and metrics.
Question 4: IBM Cloud Schematics is based on which open-source infrastructure-as-code tool?
- Ansible
- Terraform (Correct answer)
- Puppet
- Chef
Correct answer: Terraform
IBM Cloud Schematics is a managed Terraform service that automates infrastructure provisioning on IBM Cloud.
Question 5: Which IBM Cloud security service scans container images for known vulnerabilities?
- IBM Cloud Security Advisor
- IBM Cloud Container Registry Vulnerability Advisor (Correct answer)
- IBM Cloud Key Protect
- IBM Cloud App ID
Correct answer: IBM Cloud Container Registry Vulnerability Advisor
Vulnerability Advisor within IBM Cloud Container Registry automatically scans images for security vulnerabilities.
Question 6: What is the purpose of IBM Cloud Key Protect?
- Managing SSH keys for virtual servers
- Providing managed encryption key lifecycle management using HSMs (Correct answer)
- Storing application secrets and passwords
- Rotating IAM access tokens
Correct 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).
Question 7: Which IBM Cloud service provides a fully managed Redis cache?
- IBM Cloud Databases for Redis (Correct answer)
- IBM Cloud Memcached Service
- IBM Cloud Cache Manager
- IBM Elastic Cache
Correct answer: IBM Cloud Databases for Redis
IBM Cloud Databases for Redis is the fully managed Redis offering within the IBM Cloud Databases family.
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Which IBM Cloud service provides a managed message queue for decoupling microservices?