50 IBM Cloud Pak for Integration v2021.2 Administration Practice Questions: Question Bank 2025

An administrator wants to provide Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I) to application teams without granting cluster-admin access. Which approach is most appropriate?

You need to install CP4I operators in an air-gapped (disconnected) OpenShift cluster. What is the recommended prerequisite to make operator installation possible without internet access?

A team reports they cannot access the CP4I web console using the route URL, but pods are running. Which OpenShift resource should an administrator check first to verify external access is properly configured?

An administrator wants to isolate two integration environments (dev and prod) on the same OpenShift cluster while using CP4I. Which design is most aligned with best practices?

A CP4I capability installation remains in a pending state. The Operator pod is running, but the custom resource status shows reconciliation errors related to missing permissions. What is the most likely cause?

A security team requires that all integration endpoints use TLS with certificates managed centrally and rotated regularly. What is the best-practice approach for CP4I deployments on OpenShift?

A platform admin wants to enable teams to deploy integration instances (e.g., MQ, ACE, Event Streams) through a self-service experience while keeping control of cluster resources and governance. Which CP4I component primarily provides this capability?

A team needs to expose an integration API securely to external consumers and apply policies such as rate limiting and authentication. Which CP4I capability is the best fit?

During troubleshooting, you find that a CP4I capability pod is repeatedly restarting due to being OOMKilled. What is the most appropriate first action?

A regulated enterprise requires that integration workloads run only on a dedicated node pool and that non-integration workloads never schedule there. Which configuration best satisfies this requirement for CP4I on OpenShift?

An administrator needs to allow the IBM Cloud Pak for Integration Platform UI to authenticate users using the company’s corporate LDAP directory. Which configuration approach is recommended?

A new cluster admin wants to confirm that the CatalogSources and Operator subscriptions required for IBM Cloud Pak for Integration are available and healthy before creating any instances. Where should they validate this most directly?

A team is deploying multiple integration capabilities and wants consistent access control based on job function (e.g., operations, developers, auditors). What is the best-practice approach?

After a planned OpenShift node maintenance, an App Connect dashboard reports that its integration server pods are stuck in Pending with events indicating 'persistentvolumeclaim is not bound'. What is the most likely cause?

A platform administrator must rotate the container registry credentials used by Cloud Pak for Integration to pull images from an internal registry. What is the safest way to apply this change without editing every deployment?

A company wants to ensure encryption-in-transit for traffic between external clients and the API endpoints of multiple integration capabilities. Which design is most appropriate on OpenShift?

An administrator needs to delegate management of only the API management capability to a specific team without granting broader permissions to other capabilities or cluster resources. What is the best approach?

A messaging team is asked to support multiple business units using a shared Event Streams cluster while ensuring each unit cannot read or write to the other unit’s topics. Which capability should they primarily use to enforce this?

After enabling strict network policies, API Connect components can no longer reach the internal datastore services, and pods show readiness failures due to connection timeouts. What should the administrator do FIRST to restore service while maintaining least privilege?

A platform team needs a repeatable way to deploy the Platform Navigator and multiple capabilities across three clusters (dev/test/prod) with consistent configuration while minimizing manual console actions. Which approach best meets this requirement?

An administrator needs to allow developers to access the Cloud Pak for Integration Platform Navigator, but must ensure they cannot install operators or modify cluster-wide resources. What is the best approach?

After a successful Cloud Pak for Integration installation, users report they cannot reach the Platform Navigator URL. The pods appear Running, but the route returns 503. What is the most likely cause to check first?

A team wants to enforce consistent TLS certificates for external access to multiple Cloud Pak for Integration capabilities (for example, Platform Navigator and capability UIs). What OpenShift resource is typically used to provide the certificate to routes across namespaces?

An organization wants to separate duties so that the platform team manages the Cloud Pak for Integration operators, while product teams manage only their own integration instances (ACE, MQ, etc.) in separate namespaces. Which design best supports this?

A developer reports that an App Connect Enterprise integration server is not picking up a new BAR file after it was applied through the GitOps pipeline. The IntegrationServer custom resource shows the expected spec, but runtime behavior has not changed. What should the administrator check next?

A security team requires that workloads for Cloud Pak for Integration capabilities run with restricted security contexts and that any noncompliant deployments be prevented. Which OpenShift feature best satisfies this requirement?

An administrator wants to standardize how multiple integration capabilities (for example, MQ and ACE) are monitored using Prometheus in OpenShift. What is the recommended integration point to enable Prometheus scraping for operator-managed workloads?

A platform team installed integration operators in a dedicated namespace. Product teams can create custom resources in their own namespaces, but the operator does not reconcile those resources. Pods are never created, and the custom resources remain in a Pending/Unknown state. What is the most likely configuration issue?

A company must ensure that container images used by Cloud Pak for Integration are only pulled from an internally approved registry mirror, and that deployments fail if an image comes from an unapproved registry. Which control best addresses this requirement on OpenShift?

A customer is designing high availability for multiple integration capabilities. They want to minimize the impact of a single worker node failure and also reduce the risk of a zone outage. Which Kubernetes/OpenShift scheduling strategy best supports this goal?

An administrator needs to expose the Cloud Pak for Integration Platform UI externally in an OpenShift cluster using the platform’s recommended method. Which resource should be used?

A platform administrator wants developers to be able to create integration instances (e.g., App Connect, API Connect, MQ) in their own namespaces, but not manage cluster-scoped resources. What is the best practice approach?

An integration instance is not coming up, and events show errors related to pulling images from the container registry. The cluster uses a private registry that requires authentication. What is the most likely fix?

A security team requires that all external access to integration endpoints uses HTTPS with a trusted certificate. What is the recommended place to configure the certificate for routes exposing CP4I endpoints on OpenShift?

A team deployed multiple integration instances across namespaces. The platform administrator wants a centralized view of all instances and their health without granting broad access to developers. Which approach best meets this requirement?

A message flow in an integration runtime requires access to a username/password stored securely in OpenShift. What is the preferred mechanism to provide these credentials to the runtime?

After applying a change to an integration custom resource (CR), the operator does not appear to reconcile the update and the runtime stays unchanged. Which is the best first step to troubleshoot?

An administrator needs to provide highly available messaging for an application using IBM MQ on Cloud Pak for Integration. Which design choice best aligns with OpenShift best practices for availability and data persistence?

A cluster administrator wants to enforce that only approved container images can be deployed for CP4I runtimes, while still allowing operators to function normally. Which OpenShift-native capability is most appropriate to implement this control?

An enterprise needs to design CP4I so that multiple teams can independently upgrade their integration instances while the platform team manages operators centrally. Which approach best supports this operational model?

An administrator needs to allow developers to create instances of integration capabilities (e.g., App Connect, MQ) without granting cluster-admin on OpenShift. Which approach is recommended?

A cluster already has an image registry configured, but CP4I pods fail to pull images from a private repository with "unauthorized: authentication required". What is the most likely fix?

An operator wants to prevent integration runtime pods from being scheduled on control-plane nodes and ensure they run only on worker nodes. What configuration is most appropriate?

A security team requires that all traffic from outside the cluster to CP4I endpoints be encrypted and centrally controlled. The admin also wants a single place to manage certificates. Which approach best meets this requirement?

After installing CP4I operators, an admin creates an instance of an integration capability, but the custom resource remains in a "Pending" state and no pods are created. Which is the best first troubleshooting step?

A team needs to isolate App Connect integrations so that only selected namespaces can consume them, and they want to avoid granting broad access to other projects. Which design is most appropriate?

An admin wants to standardize logging so that CP4I runtime logs can be correlated across capabilities and forwarded to an enterprise log system. What is the best practice approach on OpenShift?

A CP4I capability requires persistent storage, but the cluster has multiple StorageClasses. The admin wants to ensure newly created instances consistently use the same enterprise StorageClass without editing every custom resource. What should the admin do?

A production MQ deployment on CP4I must meet strict availability requirements. The admin wants to reduce the risk of a single node failure taking down all MQ pods. Which configuration is most appropriate?

A cluster uses strict network segmentation. After deploying an integration capability, the operator reports successful reconciliation, but the runtime pods cannot connect to an external database endpoint. DNS resolves correctly, and the database is reachable from other namespaces. What is the most likely cause and best next action?