IBM Assessment: Platform Associate Practice Exam 2025: Latest Questions

A team is new to the IBM platform and asks what the primary purpose of a "namespace" is within the platform architecture. Which answer best describes it?

A platform administrator wants to enforce least privilege for application deployment. What is the best practice approach?

A deployment succeeds, but users cannot reach the application from outside the cluster. Internally, the application responds when tested from a pod. Which component is MOST likely missing or misconfigured?

A team wants consistent application behavior across development, test, and production. Which practice best supports repeatable deployments?

A platform team needs to limit how much CPU and memory a project can consume to prevent one team from starving others. What capability should they use?

A company must ensure application secrets are not stored in source control and are only readable by the workloads that need them. Which approach is MOST appropriate?

A workload is intermittently failing due to traffic spikes. The application is stateless and supports horizontal scaling. What is the recommended platform design to handle demand changes with minimal manual intervention?

After enabling a new network policy, a microservice can no longer call a backend service in the same cluster. Both pods are running and healthy. What is the MOST likely cause?

A regulated enterprise requires that platform operators can audit "who changed what" across cluster configuration and application deployments, and correlate changes to incidents. Which solution best meets this requirement?

A multi-tenant platform hosts workloads for multiple teams. One team’s misconfigured deployment causes excessive API requests that degrade cluster responsiveness for everyone. What is the MOST appropriate architectural/operational control to mitigate this risk?

A new team member needs read-only access to view resources across several IBM Cloud services in an account, but must not be able to create, delete, or modify anything. Which access approach is most appropriate?

A platform operator wants to ensure that application logs from multiple components can be searched and correlated quickly during incident response. Which capability best supports centralized log analysis?

A developer is deploying a simple web service and wants credentials (API keys, passwords) to be injected at runtime without hardcoding them into the image or source code. What is the recommended approach?

A solution architect is designing a multi-tier application and wants to minimize the blast radius of failures while allowing independent scaling of components. Which architecture choice best supports this goal?

After deploying a new application version, users report intermittent timeouts. Monitoring shows CPU utilization is low, but request latency spikes coincide with a sharp increase in outbound calls to a downstream API. What is the most appropriate first mitigation to improve resilience?

A platform admin is asked to enforce consistent tagging across all deployed resources so that cost allocation and ownership reporting can be automated. What is the best approach?

A deployment pipeline frequently fails during infrastructure provisioning because the same resources already exist from previous runs. Which practice best addresses this problem in an infrastructure-as-code workflow?

A platform operator needs to reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR) for production incidents. Which combination is most effective for rapid diagnosis?

A regulated workload requires that only traffic from a private network segment can reach internal APIs, and that services can communicate without exposing endpoints to the public internet. Which design best meets this requirement?

A production incident occurs after a configuration change was applied. The team cannot determine what changed, who changed it, or when it happened. What should be implemented to prevent this situation in the future?

A platform team wants to standardize deployments across multiple environments (dev, test, prod) while minimizing configuration drift. Which approach best supports this goal?

A new application will run on the platform and must communicate with an internal database. Security policy requires that only the application can reach the database and all other traffic is denied by default. What is the recommended control to implement?

During onboarding, an administrator must ensure that a user can deploy resources but cannot modify billing, organization-wide security policies, or other teams’ projects. Which access design best meets this requirement?

A web service deployed on the platform is intermittently unreachable. Monitoring shows the service instances are healthy, but users report DNS failures from multiple locations. What is the most likely cause and best next step?

A platform uses stateless application instances behind a load balancer. The team must ensure rolling updates do not drop user traffic and that failed instances are removed quickly. Which configuration best supports this requirement?