Module 1: Introduction to IBM Cloud IBM Cloud: High Level Overview

1. What are two ways to access IBM Cloud?

a. A. IBM Cloud SDK and SSH key
b. B. IBM Cloud Console and IBM Cloud CLI
c. C. IBM Cloud Shell and API key
d. D. SSH key and API key
2. What is a multi-zone cluster?
a. A region that achieves 99.9 availability for your apps and services.
b. A region that is comprised of two or more zones that are independent from each other to ensure that
single failure events affect only a single zone.
c. A region where you can host the power cooling, compute, network, and storage resources for services
and apps.
d. A region that is comprised of three or more zones that are independent from each other to ensure that
single failure events affect only a single zone
3. What are the three account types in IBM Cloud?
a. Standard, Pay-per-use, and Contract
b. Free, Monthly, and Annual
c. Lite, Pay-as-you-go, and Subscription
d. Basic, Advanced, and Premium
4. What account type never expires, does not require a credit card, and has access to over 40 services?
a. Lite
b. Enterprise
c. Pay-as-you-go
d. Subscription
5. Which support plan provides a technical account manager?
a. Basic
b. Advanced
c. Premium
d. AdvancedPlus
6. What severity level should be assigned to a support case in the event of a minimal function becoming
inoperable?
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4
7. What two ways can you view your billing information?
a. Daily summary
b. Monthly overview
c. Specific service
d. Weekly overview
8. When using the Cost Estimator tool, what three formats can be used to download the completed estimate?
a. CSV
b. DOC
c. PDF
d. PPT
e. XLSX
9. What is a resource?
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 a. A collection of services
b. An instance of a service
c. An entry in the Cloud Catalog
d. A service
10. Resource Groups are used __________________.
a. A. to provide access to multiple resources at once.
b. to secure network traffic around virtual servers in a VPC.
c. as services running under Kubernetes that are deployed to specific regions.
d. to mark out the classic infrastructure services which make up an application

Module 2: Infrastructure

1. Which compute option on IBM Cloud are the Citrix, VMware, and Cloud Linux images associated with?
a. Virtual Server Service
b. Bare Metal Service
c. Power System Service
d. Hyper Protect Service
2. Which compute option on IBM Cloud offers access to Z technology without requiring the purchase of Z hardware
or requiring Z technology specific skills?
a. Virtual Server Service
b. Bare Metal Service
c. Power System Service
d. Hyper Protect Service
3. Which virtual server instance is billed hourly and monthly?
a. Public virtual server
b. Dedicated virtual server
c. Transient virtual server
d. Reserved virtual server
4. Which IBM Cloud service provides virtual servers and bare metal servers with SAN-like iSCSI storage?
a. A. IBM File Storage
b. IBM Block Storage
c. IBM Object Storage
d. IBM Cloud Backup
5. What is the maximum storage volume supported for block or file storage on IBM Cloud virtual and bare metal
servers?
a. Up to 10 GB
b. Up to 10 TB
c. Up to 12 TB
d. Up to 20 GB
6. All these services are provided by IBM Cloud Internet Services EXCEPT:
a. DDoS Protection
b. Global Load Balancing
c. Rate Limiting
d. Auditing
7. Which network infrastructure service is used to distribute a workload between multiple servers?
a. Content Delivery Network
b. Load Balancer
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 c. Direct Link
d. Gateway Appliance
8. Which service can assist a client in connecting an application in IBM Cloud with their private network?
a. A. Gateway Appliance
b. VPN
c. VLAN
d. SSL
9. Private subnets and encrypted communication channels are used to:
a. Achieve isolation between workloads on VPCs on IBM Cloud.
b. Allocate storage on VCPs.
c. Provide an encrypted network tunnel between the VPC and on premises networks.
d. Filter traffic to network interfaces.
10. What enables communication to the internet for all virtual server instances on the attached subnet?
a. Public Gateway
b. Security Group
c. Firewall
d. Load Balancer
11. If an organization has a VMware shared environment, who is responsible for the management and operation of
that environment
a. IBM
b. VMware
c. Client
d. Veeam
12. Which service in the IBM Cloud platform is used to backup and replicate virtual machines on VMware
a. Zerto
b. F5 Big IP
c. Veeam
d. VM Backup

Module 3: Deploying Applications

1. Which of these is a characteristic of a container?

a. A package that contains public clouds, private clouds, on premise, and hybrid deployments
b. A package that contains application source code dependencies, like runtimes, binaries, libraries, and
data.
c. A package that contains underlying infrastructure, such as runtimes, operating systems, and servers.
d. A package where applications are bundled as one or more functions.
2. A ______ is configured to communicate with a specific Kubernetes cluster
a. Cluster
b. Pod
c. Container
d. Node
3. All of these are benefits of containers except
a. Can run uniformly inconsistent across any platform or cloud.
b. Share the host operating system kernel increasing speed and inefficiency.
c. Provide increased security and isolation.
d. Eliminate the need to provision servers and runtime.

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4. Kubernetes is an open source container orchestration project that simplifies everything associated with
deploying and managing ______
a. DevOps
b. Containers
c. SysAdmin
d. Site Reliability
5. All of these are characteristics of Kubernetes
a. Uses automated rollouts and rollbacks to deploy and manage containers.
b. Scales services up or down automatically based on utilization
c. Enables a simpler, more cost-effective way to build and operate cloud-native applications.
d. Monitors the health of services to prevent bad rollouts.
6. OpenShift is based on which open source project
a. Terraform
b. Red Hat Linux
c. Apache OpenWhisk
d. OKD
7. Which of this a feature of openshift
a. Issues quarterly releases with the latest being 4.4 based on 1.17.
b. Issues minor releases quarterly with the latest being 1.19.
c. Has just the core framework.
d. Platform, or user, is responsible for integrating beyond the core framework.
8. What are the building blocks of serverless architecture
a. Triggers
b. Actions
c. Sequences
d. Containers
9. What type of platform is the IBM Cloud Functions offering
a. Pass
b. Saas
c. Faas
d. Iaas
10. All of these are characteristic of serverless computing EXCEPT
a. Refers to building and running applications that do not require server management.
b. Provides automatic upgrades, patching, and deployment.
c. Enables a simpler, more cost-effective way to build and operate cloud-native applications.
d. Describes a finer grade deployment model where applications are bundled as one or more functions.

Module 4: Services on IBM Cloud

1. Which type of database would be appropriate for shopping cart data?

a. Document
b. Relational
c. Key-Value
d. SQL
2. Which database is classified as a document-oriented database?
a. Db2
b. Db2 Hosted
c. MongoDB

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 d. Redis
3. Which statement best describes Event Streams?
a. Provides API creation and management with security-rich features and centralized governance.
b. Allows for connection of applications, automation of tasks with hundreds of built-in connectors.
c. Provides enterprise-grade messaging capabilities such as point-to-point and publish subscribe models to
facilitate the flow of information between applications.
d. Integrates with Watson Internet of Things (IoT) and IBM Cloud functions to leverage event streams
4. Which IBM Cloud service is used to run and deploy machine learning models anywhere across any cloud?
a. Watson Knowledge Services
b. Watson Machine Learning
c. Watson Open Scale
d. Watson Studio
5. Which statement best describes Watson Assistant?
a. Converts written text into natural-sounding audio
b. Delivers specific answers to questions while serving up an entire document for exploration.
c. Uses linguist analysis to identify tones and detect social propensities.
d. Builds conversational interfaces into any application device or channel.
6. Which statement best describes the Analytics Engine service?
a. A. Controls and monitors database activity.
b. Deploys and develops applications using Apache Spark and Apache Hadoop.
c. Provides end-to-end visualization to applications
d. Performs real-time analysis on data in motion
7. Which practice includes frequently committing code to prevent significant drift, competing changes, and merge
conflicts?
a. Continuous Development
b. Continuous Delivery
c. Continuous Integration
d. Continuous Testing
8. Which statement is true regarding Continuous Delivery pipelines?
a. Tekton pipelines are specified in XML
b. Tekton pipelines are specified in YAML
c. Tekton pipelines are specified in JSON.
d. Tekton pipelines are specified graphically.
9. Hyperledger fabric is the framework for building ________ applications
a. AI
b. Analytic
c. Blockchain
d. Internet of Things (IoT)
10. Which statement best describes the Internet of Things (IoT)
a. A system of interrelated computing devices that transfer data over a network without requiring human
interaction.
b. A flexible way to build, operate and grow blockchain solutions.
c. A dashboard to view devices connected to the internet
d. A type of continuous delivery pipeline.
11. Which IBM Cloud Pak provides tools to automate the implementation of business policies?
a. IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation
b. IBM Cloud Pak for Data

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 c. IBM Cloud Pak for Integration
d. IBM Cloud Pak for Security
12. IBM Cloud Paks can run on any platform because they are installed on top of ____________.
a. Blockchain
b. Docker
c. Kubernetes
d. OpenShift

Module 1: Overview of Cloud Computing

1. How does the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) define cloud computing
a. A model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of compute resources.
b. A model for delivering a dedicated pool of computing resources onpremises.
c. The capability to provide dedicated network access that can be provisioned in batch mode.
d. On-demand non-configurable computer resources that can be rapidly provisioned
2. In which decade did the practice of time sharing or resource pooling evolve to make more efficient use of
computing power via the mainframe?
a. 1950s
b. 1960s
c. 1970s
d. 1980s
3. Which of the following best describes a computing environment that connects an organization’s on-premises
private cloud and a third-party public cloud into a single flexible infrastructure for running applications and
workloads?
a. Public
b. Private
c. Hybrid
4. Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) are generally
known as which of the following?
a. Engagement models
b. Service models
c. Deployment models
d. Operation models
5. Which of the following separates virtual machines logically, assigning each its own slice of underlying computing
power, memory, and storage, thus preventing the virtual machines from interfering with each other?
a. Microservice
b. Full stack
c. Application
d. Hypervisor
6. Which of the following is another term used for the utility billing method?
a. Pay-in-advance
b. Pay-as-you-go
c. Flat rate payment
d. Billing invoice
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7. Access to infrastructure and physical computing resources such as servers, networking, storage, and data center
space best describes which of the following?
a. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
b. Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
c. Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
d. Function as a Service (FaaS)
8. Which of the following cloud service providers specializes in Softwareas-a-Service (SaaS) focused on customer
relationship management
a. SAP
b. Oracle Cloud
c. Salesforce
d. Google Cloud Services
9. Which one of the following is considered a perceived risk of cloud computing?
a. Infrastructure
b. Data security
c. Workloads
d. Managing assets
10. On-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity, and measured services are
considered which of the following?
a. Five essential characteristics of a service provider according to IBV.
b. Five essential characteristics of compute options according to Gartner
c. Five essential characteristics of deployment models according to ITG
d. Five essential characteristics of the cloud according to NIST.

Module 2: Cloud Adoption and Emerging Technologies

11. Which of the following provided the foundation for the transformation to the cloud?
a. The power, scalability, flexibility, and pay-as-you-go economics.
b. The need to provide compute resources for complex problems
c. Faster go-to-market strategies were needed by organizations
d. Enablement for growth, agility and innovation
12. According to an IBM Institute for Business Value study what percentage of enterprises today are using cloud
computing to expand into new industries?
a. 35 percent
b. 65 percent
c. 75 percent
d. 85 percent
13. As its client base grew, which of the following solutions did ActivTrades provision in order to cut latency,
accelerate execution, and streamline the delivery of new functions?
a. It migrated three major systems from on-premises infrastructure to IBM Cloud for VMware solutions,
backed by data storage, networking, and security offerings on the IBM Cloud.
b. It launched new initiatives in an IBM Cloud platform environment, including a virtual assistant that
incorporates IBM Watson technology to support its online application service.
c. It migrated to an IBM Cloud environment, establishing a scalable hosting platform for low-latency
delivery to enterprise customers around the world.
d. It recognized the opportunity to remove the constraints of their existing customer-facing applications
based on monolithic code into cloud-native based microservices architecture on the cloud.
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14. A secure, distributed and open technology with lower costs that builds transparency and traceability in
transactional applications describes which of the following?
a. Analytics
b. Blockchain
c. Internet of Things
d. Artificial intelligence
15. An IBM retail client wants help with gathering data on their customers’ buying habits relative to their five top
products. Which one of the following cloud services can be added to help support the client with this request?
a. Internet of Things
b. Blockchain
c. Artificial intelligence
d. Analytics
16. What type of relationship exists between IoT, AI, and the cloud?
a. Dependent
b. Independent
c. Synergistic
d. Symbiotic
17. Which of the following best describes the software application that continues to learn about user preferences
based on the frequency of use?
a. Smart tech
b. Small sensor
c. Smart assistant
d. Data stack
18. The IDC predicts by the year 2025, the total amount of digital data created worldwide will rise to how many
zettabytes?
a. 143
b. 153
c. 163
d. 173
19. In the use case examples which one of the following companies recognized the opportunity to remove the
constraints of their existing customer-facing applications based on monolithic code into cloud-native-based
microservices architecture on the cloud?
a. American Airlines
b. Bitly
c. UBank
d. ActivTrades

Module 3: Cloud Computing Service and Deployment Models

20. You have been working with a client to secure a business deal involving one of their infrastructure platforms;
subsequently, they have decided to implement IaaS for the wide range of services it provides. Who will be the
typical user for IaaS?
a. Site developer
b. System administrator
c. System engineer
d. Associate architect

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21. In which of the following service models does the cloud service provider take responsibility for the installation,
configuration, and operation of the application infrastructure?
a. IaaS
b. PaaS
c. SaaS
d. FaaS
22. Which of the following represents a use case for SaaS?
a. Leveraging it to avoid the need for ongoing upgrades, maintenance, and patching.
b. Organizations use it to develop, run, manage, and secure APIs and microservices.
c. Mine massive amounts of data sets to locate valuable patterns and trends.
d. To build, test, deploy, enhance, and scale applications rapidly and cost effectively
23. It may be owned, managed, and operated by the organization, a third party, or some combination of those
functions and may exist on or off premises identifies characteristics of which cloud deployment model?
a. Public Cloud
b. Private Cloud
c. Hybrid Cloud
24. Interoperability, scalability, and portability are key tenets of which one of the following cloud deployment
models?
a. Public
b. Private
c. Hybrid
25. Which of the following is a benefit of the hybrid cloud deployment model
a. It offers the most significant economies of scale.
b. It offers control of IT infrastructure.
c. It offers control access and security.
d. It offers resource optimization.
26. Which of the following describes a use case for the public cloud
a. Using the flexibility it offers to build applications anywhere and move them anywhere without having to
compromise security and compliance in the process.
b. Integrating data and application services from existing application.
c. Providing an opportunity to modernize and unify in-house and legacy applications.
d. Using it for computing resources to build secondary infrastructures for disaster recovery, data
protection, and business continuity.
27. Which of the following describes a use case for the private cloud?
a. Providing an opportunity to modernize and unify an organization’s in house and legacy applications
b. Lifting and shifting their on-premises virtualized workloads.
c. Taking advantage of the resilience and business continuity of the provider.
d. Creating richer and more personal experiences by combining new data sources.
28. A virtualized, multi-tenant architecture enabling tenants or users to share computing resources residing outside
their firewalls best describes a characteristic for which cloud type?
a. Private cloud
b. Public cloud
c. Hybrid cloud
29. Which of the following is considered a use case for a public cloud?
a. Using the flexibility to build applications anywhere and move them anywhere without having to
compromise security and compliance in the process.

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 b. Upgrading the user experience of the on-premises applications and deploying them globally to new
devices while incrementally modernizing core business systems
c. Increasingly opting to access cloud-based applications and platforms so an organization’s teams can
focus on building and testing applications and platforms, thus reducing time-to-market for their
products and services.
d. “Lifting and Shifting” an organization’s on-premises virtualized workloads without conversion or
modification to reduce their on-premises data center footprint and position themselves to scale without
added capital expense.

Module 4: Components of Cloud Computing

30. Which one of the following layers is considered the foundation of the cloud?
a. Control layer
b. Orchestration layer
c. Infrastructure layer
d. Application layer
31. Which of the following is known as distinct data centers with their own power, cooling, and networking
resources
a. Zones
b. Regions
c. Domains
d. Locals
32. Which of the following are characteristics of a region? Identify all that apply.
a. Has a name such as NA South or US East.
b. Is isolated from other regions, so if one was impacted by a natural disaster, the cloud operations in
others would continue to function.
c. The cloud’s overall fault tolerance decreases latency and avoids creating a single shared point of failure.
d. A geographic area or location where a cloud provider’s infrastructure is clustered.
33. Which one of the following is a characteristic of both a bare metal server and a virtual server?
a. Commonly used in traditional data centers, but often struggle with scale.
b. Provisioned with default storage in local drives.
c. Used to enhance the functionality and management of web pages.
d. Enable users to request information from applications.
34. What is the function of a hypervisor?
a. Used to connect availability zones and regions.
b. Distributes content to multiple points throughout the world so users can access
c. Pulls resources from the physical server and allocate them to a virtual environment.
d. An executable unit of software in which application code is packaged.
35. What is another name given to a Type 2 hypervisor?
a. Bare metal
b. Single tenant
c. Dynamic LPAR
d. Hosted
36. Virtual servers and virtual instances are two terms used synonymously in the IBM Cloud with which of the
following?
a. Virtual machines
b. Virtual service
c. Virtual platform

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37. What type of server satisfies workload examples such as ERP, CRM, AI, deep learning and virtualization?
a. dBase
b. Bare metal
c. Virtual machine
d. LPAR
38. VMware, ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-v, and open-source KVM are some examples of which Type of hypervisor?
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4
39. Which of the following is added to the network to enable users’ access to the application in the internet tier?
a. IP address
b. Cloud network
c. Private gateway
d. Public gateway
40. What is the main difference between deploying a network in an on-premises data center and deploying a cloud
network?
a. Peripheral devices
b. Standard devices
c. Physical devices
d. Material devices
41. Portability, scalability, streamlined development and deployment of cloud native applications and architectures
are some of the advantages of which one of the following components
a. Networks
b. Containers
c. Servers
d. Storage

Module 5: Cloud Computing Storage and Content Delivery Networks

42. Direct attached, file, block, and object are considered which one of the following?
a. Types of containers
b. Types of networks
c. Types of tiers
d. Types of cloud storage
43. Which type of storage is also referred to network attached storage, network file storage, or simply NFS?
a. Direct attached
b. File
c. Block
d. Object
44. Poor performance when data needs to be shared is considered a disadvantage of which of the following types of
storage?
a. Direct attached
b. File
c. Block
d. Object

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45. Highly available and resilient and will often include data encryption at rest and in transit are characteristics
attached to what type of storage?
a. Direct attached
b. File
c. Block
d. Object
46. Which type of storage is accessed via an application program interface (API) and is not attached to a compute
node
a. Direct attached
b. File
c. Block
d. Object
47. Which one of the following describes a characteristic of object storage?
a. Provisioned in volumes which can then be mounted onto a compute node.
b. A great repository for all sorts of unstructured data types.
c. Storage is fast and normally used to store a server’s operating system
d. Involves less disk management and maintenance.
48. Which one of the following describes a characteristic of direct attached storage?
a. Offers infinite capacity as you can keep adding files to it.
b. Is typically provisioned in volumes.
c. Is mounted to compute nodes via an ethernet network.
d. The operating system only last as long as the compute resource is attached to it.
49. What is the purpose of a content delivery network (CDN)?
a. To accelerate read and write speeds.
b. To protect content delivered over a network.
c. To make websites faster and more responsive.
d. To safeguard backup and disaster recovery.
Module 6: Emergent Trends, Cloud-Native, DevOps, and Application Modernization Introduction and
Objectives
50. Which of the following describes the type of cloud that leverages the best of the cloud models and services
across different providers and where applications and workloads work seamlessly across multiple different cloud
types?
a. Private cloud
b. Hybrid cloud
c. Public cloud
d. Hybrid multicloud
51. Which of the following is described as an approach in which a single application is composed of many loosely
coupled and independently deployable smaller components or services?
a. Application modernization
b. Hybrid multicloud
c. Microservices architecture
d. Virtualization
52. IBM Cloud Functions is a Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) programming platform used for developing lightweight
code that scalably executes on demand. What open source serverless platform is it based on?
a. Microsoft Azure
b. AWS Lamb-da
c. Terraform

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53. Which of the following best describes serverless computing?
a. Serverless computing means there are no physical servers utilized.
b. Serverless computing is a cloud computing execution model that provisions computing resources on
demand and offloads all responsibility for common infrastructure management tasks to a cloud provider
c. Serverless is an approach to computing that offloads responsibility for common infrastructure
management tasks such as scaling, scheduling, patching, and provisioning to a company’s IT team.
d. Serverless computing is a model where the existence of servers becomes abstracted and without
function.
54. A cloud-native application consists of _____________ working together as a whole to comprise an application,
yet each can be independently scaled and iterated through automation and orchestration processes.
a. Microservices
b. Developers
c. Providers
d. Services
55. Which of the following best describes a single-tiered software application in which the user interface and data
access code are combined into a single program from a single platform?
a. Microservice
b. Container
c. Monolithic
d. Program
56. Which of the following is considered a collaborative approach where business owners and the development,
operations, and quality assurance teams collaborate to continuously deliver software.
a. Collaboration
b. DevOps
c. Modernization
d. Teamwork
57. Which of the following terms is often described as updating or improving legacy applications, their architecture,
and the methods for developing them by using new technologies and modern methods for implementing them?
a. Application modernization
b. Microservices architecture
c. Software-as-a-Service
d. Application infrastructure
58. Which of the following include the common goals of application modernization? Select all that apply.
a. Microservices architecture
b. DevOps
c. Cloud migration
d. Portability

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