IBM Cloud Pak for Integration v2021.2 Administration Intermediate Practice Exam: Medium Difficulty 2025

An administrator is deploying IBM Cloud Pak for Integration on an OpenShift cluster and needs to ensure high availability for the Platform Navigator. The organization requires automatic failover and load distribution. Which configuration approach should be implemented?

A Cloud Pak for Integration administrator notices that API Connect gateway services are experiencing intermittent connection issues. After reviewing the logs, they find DNS resolution errors. The cluster uses OpenShift SDN with default settings. What is the most likely cause and solution?

An organization needs to integrate their IBM App Connect Enterprise runtime with an external PostgreSQL database for operational data storage. The database credentials must be securely managed and rotated quarterly. What is the recommended approach for managing these credentials in Cloud Pak for Integration?

A Cloud Pak for Integration environment is configured with LDAP authentication. Users report they can log into the Platform Navigator but cannot access their deployed MQ Queue Managers. What configuration step is most likely missing?

An administrator needs to upgrade multiple App Connect Enterprise Integration Servers running different versions of message flows. Some flows are business-critical and require zero downtime. What is the best strategy to achieve this upgrade?

During installation of Cloud Pak for Integration, an administrator needs to configure persistent storage for multiple capabilities including MQ, Event Streams, and API Connect. The infrastructure team has provided both block and file storage classes. How should storage be allocated?

A company's Cloud Pak for Integration environment shows increasing memory pressure across worker nodes, with several pods being evicted. The monitoring dashboard indicates MQ Queue Managers and Event Streams brokers are the primary consumers. What should be the administrator's first troubleshooting approach?

An administrator needs to enable trace-level logging for a specific App Connect Enterprise Integration Server to debug a complex message transformation issue in production. What is the most appropriate approach that minimizes impact on other services?

A company wants to implement mutual TLS authentication between their API Connect gateway and backend App Connect Enterprise services. Both are deployed in the same Cloud Pak for Integration instance. What components and configuration steps are required?

An organization is planning capacity for their Cloud Pak for Integration deployment that will support 50 Integration Servers, 10 MQ Queue Managers, and an API Connect cluster. They need to determine the appropriate node sizing. Which factor should be the PRIMARY consideration for sizing calculations?