IBM Cloud Pak for Security v1.10 Administrator Advanced Practice Exam: Hard Questions 2025

A security team is installing IBM Cloud Pak for Security (CP4S) on Red Hat OpenShift in a restricted (air-gapped) environment. During pre-production validation, the deployment intermittently fails with image pull errors and long pod startup times, even though the team mirrored images once to an internal registry. The environment has multiple worker pools and uses proxy settings for egress only (no direct internet access). Which approach best addresses reliability and repeatability of installation in this scenario?

An organization must deploy CP4S in OpenShift across two data centers. Requirements: (1) tolerate loss of one data center without losing access to critical investigation data, (2) minimize RPO/RTO for cases and threat intelligence artifacts, and (3) avoid split-brain. Which architecture decision best meets these requirements?

After a CP4S installation, users report that the UI loads but integrated apps (including cases and threat intelligence views) show authorization errors only for SSO users; local admin works. The cluster uses an enterprise IdP via OIDC. Audit logs show successful authentication but denied API access with missing group claims. What is the most likely configuration issue to fix?

A CP4S administrator needs to delegate day-2 operations to a SOC engineering team. They must allow managing data sources and orchestrations but must prevent changing cluster-scoped settings or platform-wide authentication. Which is the best practice approach?

A team integrates multiple data sources into CP4S, then notices duplicate entities and inconsistent enrichment results in investigations. They suspect that similar observables (e.g., IPs/URLs) are being ingested with different normalization and causing separate graph nodes. Which corrective action is most appropriate to improve correlation quality without losing raw fidelity?

A SOC wants to automate containment using CP4S orchestrations. The design must ensure that actions (e.g., blocking an IP) are executed only when a case reaches a specific status and a manager approves, and it must produce an audit trail of who approved and what action was taken. What is the best solution pattern?

A threat intel analyst reports that a new external feed appears healthy but its indicators are not influencing risk scoring or matches in investigations. The feed ingestion job shows successful runs, but there are no hits when searching for known IOCs. Which is the most likely root cause to validate first?

During an active investigation, analysts cannot add artifacts to a case; the UI returns a generic error. Platform pods appear Running, but API calls to the case service return HTTP 500. OpenShift events show frequent restarts of a backing database pod due to failed liveness probes, and storage metrics show high latency spikes. What is the best next troubleshooting action that targets the most probable root cause?

After enabling additional data sources and enrichments, CP4S performance degrades: searches time out during peak hours and CPU throttling is observed on several pods. The OpenShift cluster has adequate total CPU, but monitoring shows many pods hitting CPU limits while nodes remain underutilized. What is the most effective remediation?

A maintenance window requires rotating internal certificates used by CP4S services. After rotation, some microservices fail with inter-service TLS errors, but external UI access still works. The administrator wants the safest recovery path with minimal disruption and correct long-term posture. What should be done?