IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation v21.1 Advanced Practice Exam: Hard Questions 2025

A CP4BA deployment hosts Business Automation Workflow (BAW), FileNet Content Manager (FNCM), and Operational Decision Manager (ODM). During a planned node maintenance window, the platform team notices that several pods restart and BAW processing continues, but users intermittently receive authorization errors in both BAW and FNCM UIs for 3–5 minutes after failover. No data loss occurs. Which architectural change most directly improves authentication/authorization continuity during pod restarts and node failover?

A regulated enterprise must segregate duties between process authors and platform operators. They want operators to manage OpenShift resources and CP4BA operators, while process authors deploy workflow applications and decision services without cluster-admin privileges. Which approach best satisfies least-privilege and operational separation while still enabling controlled deployments?

An organization runs multiple workflow apps with strict RPO/RTO requirements. They plan a disaster recovery (DR) strategy for CP4BA on OpenShift. They can restore cluster state from GitOps and container images, but they need to ensure process state and content are recoverable with minimal data loss. Which set of assets is most critical to include in DR backups/replication to meet this requirement?

A BAW process calls an external REST service and experiences intermittent slowness. The process uses a synchronous integration and occasionally exceeds SLA, causing thread pool exhaustion and delayed human task creation. The team wants to improve resilience without losing visibility into failures and without changing the external service. Which redesign is most appropriate?

A BAW team observes that task completion sometimes triggers duplicate downstream actions (e.g., double creation of a case folder) after transient network interruptions. Logs indicate the service flow step was retried. They need to make the integration robust and prevent duplicates without sacrificing automatic retry on transient errors. What is the best approach?

A BAW solution uses a shared toolkit that is imported by multiple process apps. After a toolkit update, only some running instances fail at a coach load step, while new instances work. The team suspects a breaking change in a shared resource used by in-flight instances. What is the most appropriate strategy to prevent this class of issue in future releases?

A FileNet deployment in CP4BA is ingesting high volumes of documents. Search queries are slow, and users complain that newly ingested documents are not immediately discoverable. The platform team wants to balance indexing overhead with near-real-time search expectations. Which action best addresses the trade-off?

A customer uses capture to ingest documents and automatically classify them, extract key fields, and file them into FileNet with the correct security. They have an edge case: two document classes share similar layouts, and misclassification leads to incorrect access controls. They need to reduce risk by ensuring uncertain classifications do not auto-file with restrictive or overly permissive security. What is the best design?

A FileNet application requires an auditable retention policy: documents must be declared as records at a specific workflow milestone, then held for a retention period and defensibly disposed. The team also needs to prevent end users from deleting records prematurely, even if they have high privileges in the application. Which approach best meets these requirements?

An ODM decision service is used by multiple channels (web, batch, and BAW). After a rules update, the web channel works, but the batch channel starts producing inconsistent outcomes for the same inputs. Investigation shows batch jobs are routed through a different runtime endpoint and some nodes appear to run an older ruleset. What is the most likely root cause and best corrective action?