IBM Cloud Advocate v1 Intermediate Practice Exam: Medium Difficulty 2025

A development team is deploying a microservices application on IBM Cloud and needs to ensure that services can discover and communicate with each other dynamically as they scale. They also require load balancing and SSL termination. Which combination of IBM Cloud services would best meet these requirements?

An enterprise is migrating their on-premises database to IBM Cloud and needs to maintain compliance with data residency regulations that require data to remain within a specific geographic region. The solution must also provide automated backups and high availability. What approach should the Cloud Advocate recommend?

A Cloud Advocate is presenting IBM Cloud's security model to a potential client who is concerned about shared responsibility. The client asks who is responsible for patching the operating system in different deployment scenarios. Which statement accurately describes the shared responsibility model?

A retail company experiences highly variable traffic patterns with significant spikes during holiday seasons. They want to optimize costs while maintaining performance during peak times. As a Cloud Advocate, which architectural pattern would you recommend for their web application hosted on IBM Cloud?

An organization wants to implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices for their IBM Cloud environment. They need to manage multiple environments (development, staging, production) with consistent configurations while maintaining version control and enabling team collaboration. Which approach best supports these requirements?

A financial services company is designing a hybrid cloud architecture where sensitive customer data must remain on-premises while leveraging IBM Cloud for analytics processing. The solution requires secure, low-latency connectivity and must support bidirectional data flow. Which IBM Cloud networking solution would best address these requirements?

A Cloud Advocate is working with a client who needs to implement comprehensive observability for their cloud-native application. The client requires distributed tracing, metrics collection, log aggregation, and dashboards. Which combination of IBM Cloud services would provide this complete observability solution?

A startup is building a new SaaS application and wants to adopt cloud-native development practices on IBM Cloud. They need to minimize operational overhead while maintaining the ability to use custom runtimes and automatic scaling. As a Cloud Advocate, which compute option would you recommend and why?

An organization is implementing a disaster recovery strategy for their critical applications on IBM Cloud. They have an RTO (Recovery Time Objective) of 4 hours and RPO (Recovery Point Objective) of 1 hour. Their current setup has all resources in a single availability zone. What architectural improvement would you recommend?

A Cloud Advocate is helping a client understand how to optimize their IBM Cloud costs. The client has workloads with predictable usage patterns and some experimental projects with uncertain resource needs. What cost optimization strategy would provide the best balance?