IBM Assessment: Cloud Computing and Business Process Services v1 Practice Exam 2025: Latest Questions

A retail company wants to move a customer-facing web application to the cloud. The business asks for the ability to automatically scale during peak shopping periods and scale down afterward with minimal manual effort. Which cloud characteristic best matches this requirement?

A business process outsourcing (BPO) provider is onboarding a new client for claims processing. The client wants clear ownership of who performs each activity (client vs provider) and which deliverables are expected at each step. What is the BEST artifact to establish this clarity?

A solution architect is designing a hybrid environment where some workloads remain on-premises while new services run on IBM Cloud. The security team requires strong identity governance and centralized access control for IBM Cloud resources. Which IBM Cloud capability BEST addresses this requirement?

A team runs business-critical batch jobs and wants to be alerted when a job fails or exceeds a runtime threshold. Which approach is MOST appropriate in an integration and management context?

A bank is moving a process to a BPO provider. The bank requires evidence that the provider consistently meets processing accuracy and turnaround-time targets. Which measure BEST demonstrates ongoing performance against these targets?

A software team is refactoring a monolithic application into microservices. They want each service to be independently deployable and to scale without impacting other services. Which design choice BEST supports this goal?

An organization needs to store long-lived documents (e.g., invoices and contracts) in the cloud. The solution must be highly durable, accessed via APIs, and should separate data from compute. Which IBM Cloud storage option is MOST appropriate?

A company integrates an on-premises order system with a cloud-based fulfillment service. Orders are sometimes duplicated when network timeouts occur and the on-premises system retries requests. Which integration best practice MOST directly prevents duplicate processing in the fulfillment service?

A healthcare provider is selecting a cloud deployment model for a workload that processes regulated patient data. Policies require the organization to maintain strict isolation from other tenants and to meet specific compliance controls, while still benefiting from cloud automation. Which approach is MOST appropriate?

A BPO provider operates a customer service workflow that relies on multiple applications. The client demands evidence of end-to-end traceability for each case, including who changed what, when, and why, and the ability to reconstruct the case history during audits. Which control BEST satisfies this requirement?

A project team wants to quickly explain why moving an existing internal application to a public cloud could reduce time-to-market without changing the app’s code. Which cloud computing characteristic best supports this message?

A business process services (BPS) provider is onboarding a new client and must document what each party is responsible for (e.g., who approves changes, who handles incidents, who manages data quality). Which artifact is most appropriate?

A team needs a way to store and retrieve secrets (API keys and passwords) for applications running on IBM Cloud, with auditability and controlled access. Which IBM Cloud capability best fits?

A company is designing a cloud migration plan. They want to avoid vendor lock-in by ensuring workloads can run on multiple clouds and on-premises with minimal changes. Which approach best supports this goal?

A finance BPS process includes invoice approvals. Auditors require evidence of who approved each invoice and when, and the approval flow must be consistent across business units. What is the best practice to meet this requirement?

An application hosted on IBM Cloud must isolate environments (dev/test/prod) so that only approved users can reach production resources. Which design best aligns with least privilege and environment separation?

A microservices application running in the cloud experiences intermittent failures when calling a third-party API. The failures correlate with spikes in traffic. Which resilience pattern is most appropriate to protect the system and maintain overall availability?

A BPS provider integrates an order-entry system with a fulfillment system. The fulfillment system is occasionally offline, but orders must not be lost and should be processed once the system returns. Which integration approach best satisfies this requirement?

A regulated client requires that all access to a cloud-hosted BPS application be centrally authenticated and that user removal immediately revokes access across services. Which solution best meets this requirement?

An enterprise plans to modernize a legacy claims-processing platform. They need to keep sensitive data in a controlled environment while bursting compute to the public cloud during peak periods. Which architecture is the best fit?

A customer wants to move a multi-tier application to the cloud but must keep the database on-premises due to data residency requirements. The application tiers in the cloud need reliable, private connectivity to the on-premises database. What is the BEST approach?

A Business Process Services (BPS) engagement is experiencing frequent rework because stakeholders disagree on process steps and responsibilities. Which deliverable MOST directly reduces this risk by clarifying roles and handoffs?

A team wants to package a web application and all its dependencies in a consistent, portable unit that can run across development, test, and production with minimal differences. Which cloud computing concept BEST fits this requirement?

A company is implementing a BPS model for finance operations. Leadership wants to ensure the provider is measured on outcomes (e.g., invoice cycle time and accuracy), not just effort. Which KPI approach BEST aligns with this goal?

A regulated enterprise is adopting IBM Cloud and must ensure that application teams can deploy resources quickly while enforcing mandatory controls (network segmentation, logging, and identity standards). Which design is MOST appropriate?