50 IBM Cloud Advocate v1 Practice Questions: Question Bank 2025

A startup wants to quickly host a static marketing website with global caching and automatic TLS, without managing servers. Which IBM Cloud approach best fits?

A team is new to IBM Cloud and wants a clear separation between billing/account ownership and day-to-day access control for developers. Which IBM Cloud concept primarily provides user access control?

A developer cannot access an IBM Cloud service instance even though they are part of the account. They receive an authorization error in the console. What is the MOST likely cause?

A client asks how IBM Cloud ensures that customers' workloads are logically separated in a multi-tenant environment. Which principle best describes this?

A team is designing a microservices application on IBM Cloud. They want service-to-service communication inside the cluster and controlled external access for only two services. Which Kubernetes pattern is MOST appropriate?

A company needs to store API keys used by an application running on IBM Cloud, rotate them regularly, and audit access to secrets. Which IBM Cloud service is best suited?

A team deployed an app to IBM Cloud and wants to detect performance regressions and troubleshoot latency issues across services. Which combination best addresses metrics and logs at scale?

A solution requires private, low-latency connectivity from on-premises data center to IBM Cloud without traversing the public internet. Which option is MOST appropriate?

A regulated customer requires that cryptographic key material is customer-controlled and that even cloud operators cannot access the plaintext keys. Which IBM Cloud offering MOST directly addresses this requirement?

An enterprise wants a multi-account IBM Cloud strategy: separate accounts for dev/test/prod, centralized governance, and least-privilege access using consistent role assignments. Which approach best aligns with IBM Cloud best practices?

A new team member is confused about the relationship between IBM Cloud regions and availability zones. Which statement best describes IBM Cloud high availability across locations?

A developer needs to keep an API key out of source control and rotate it periodically while allowing an app to retrieve it at runtime. Which IBM Cloud service is the best fit?

A customer wants guidance on how to reduce the likelihood of accidental public exposure of resources. Which practice is most appropriate to recommend on IBM Cloud?

A web application is deployed on IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service across multiple worker nodes. Users report intermittent failures when sessions are created. The app stores session state in memory on each pod. What is the best architectural fix?

A company needs centralized, queryable logs for troubleshooting across multiple IBM Cloud services and clusters, with the ability to set alerts on patterns (for example, repeated errors). Which tool is best aligned with this requirement?

A team wants to standardize infrastructure deployment using Terraform and ensure environments are repeatable across accounts. They also want to apply the same templates through IBM Cloud. Which IBM Cloud capability best supports this approach?

A SaaS provider needs to limit which IP ranges can access an internal API hosted on IBM Cloud, while still allowing public access to their website. Which solution best meets this requirement?

A team is migrating a workload to IBM Cloud and must demonstrate who changed IAM policies and when. Which IBM Cloud capability should they enable or use to provide this audit trail?

A regulated enterprise needs strict separation between development and production, including separate billing and isolation of IAM administration. Which approach is most appropriate on IBM Cloud?

A company needs to encrypt data stored in multiple IBM Cloud services with customer-controlled keys and must be able to revoke access immediately if compromise is suspected. Which design best meets this requirement?

A developer accidentally deleted an IBM Cloud resource from a production account. The team wants to reduce the risk of similar incidents by requiring approvals before changes are applied. Which approach best addresses this goal?

A team is building a web app where users upload images and later download them. The images should be stored durably and served efficiently without requiring the application to hold all files on local disk. Which IBM Cloud service is the best fit?

A startup wants to deploy a simple API quickly without managing servers. The API has bursty traffic and should scale to zero when idle. Which compute option aligns best with this requirement?

A microservices application on IBM Cloud uses an internal service-to-service API that should not be exposed publicly. Which design choice best enforces this?

An application team needs to authenticate to IBM Cloud services from an automated CI/CD pipeline without using a personal user account. What is the recommended identity to use?

A team reports that they cannot create an API key for a service ID. They receive an authorization error even though they can log in to the account. Which is the most likely cause?

A regulated workload requires that encryption keys used for data-at-rest are controlled by the customer and that key usage is auditable. Which IBM Cloud capability best addresses this requirement?

A company wants to securely connect its on-premises data center to IBM Cloud with consistent, private network performance for hybrid applications. Which connectivity option is most appropriate?

An IBM Cloud account is organized into multiple resource groups for different environments (dev/test/prod). A developer can deploy resources in dev but cannot see or modify prod resources. Which IBM Cloud concept most directly enables this separation?

A team is troubleshooting intermittent latency spikes in a cloud-native application. They want to correlate application logs with infrastructure metrics and set alerts when latency exceeds a threshold. Which combination best supports this objective on IBM Cloud?

A new user is invited to an IBM Cloud account and can sign in, but they cannot create any resources in a specific resource group. The account owner wants to grant only the minimum access needed to create resources in that resource group. What is the best approach?

A development team is running a stateless web API and wants IBM Cloud to automatically scale the number of instances up and down based on load, without managing servers. Which IBM Cloud compute option best fits this requirement?

An architect wants a network design where application servers are not directly reachable from the public internet, but still need outbound access to reach external services. Which design best meets this requirement in IBM Cloud VPC?

A team wants to ensure that object storage data remains confidential and that access is controlled using fine-grained permissions rather than shared credentials. Which approach is recommended?

A developer is troubleshooting why their application cannot connect to an IBM Cloud Databases instance. The credentials are correct, but connections time out. Which is the most likely cause?

A company wants to standardize infrastructure provisioning with repeatable deployments across dev, test, and prod. They also want change tracking through pull requests. Which practice best aligns with this goal on IBM Cloud?

A solution must decouple a front-end web app from back-end processing so that spikes in user requests do not overload the back end. Which architecture pattern best addresses this requirement on IBM Cloud?

A team needs to provide auditors proof of 'who did what and when' for changes to IAM policies and resource lifecycle actions in an IBM Cloud account. Which capability should they use?

An application team wants to access multiple IBM Cloud services from a Kubernetes cluster without storing long-lived secrets in container images or Git repositories. Which approach is most secure and recommended?

A user reports they can see a Cloud Object Storage instance in the IBM Cloud console but cannot view any buckets within it. Which is the most likely explanation?

A new IBM Cloud user wants to let a teammate view resource details and usage, but not create, delete, or modify anything. Which access approach best meets this requirement?

A developer creates a service instance but cannot find it in the IBM Cloud console after switching projects. The instance definitely exists. Which IBM Cloud organizing concept most likely explains why it is not visible?

A team is deploying a microservice that must handle unpredictable traffic spikes without manual intervention. Which compute option best aligns with this requirement?

A regulated workload requires encryption in transit and automatic certificate rotation at the edge. The application runs behind a public endpoint on IBM Cloud. Which solution is the best fit?

A solution must allow an on-premises application to securely reach IBM Cloud services without traversing the public internet. Which connectivity option is most appropriate?

A team wants to apply the same set of security and compliance rules across multiple IBM Cloud accounts and ensure audits can prove consistent enforcement. Which approach is recommended?

After deploying an app, users report intermittent 502/504 errors. Logs show that the backend is healthy but sometimes responds slowly. Which IBM Cloud component is most relevant to check first for timeout and health check settings when traffic is routed through an IBM-managed front door?

A product owner asks for a design that minimizes blast radius when a single microservice fails, while keeping services independently deployable. Which architecture pattern best supports this goal?

A company is building a multi-account IBM Cloud environment. They want developers to have broad permissions in dev accounts, but tightly restricted permissions in production, with centralized governance and least privilege. What is the best practice approach?

A solution must store sensitive data so that the organization controls the encryption keys, can rotate them, and can prove that keys are not accessible to cloud administrators. Which IBM Cloud capability best satisfies this requirement?