50 IBM Cloud Advocate v1 Practice Questions: Question Bank 2025

A new IBM Cloud user wants a quick way to explore services, create resources, and view billing and usage from a single place. Which IBM Cloud component best fits this need?

A team wants to run containerized microservices with built-in orchestration, rolling updates, and self-healing. Which IBM Cloud service is the most appropriate?

An application needs to store large amounts of unstructured data (images, logs, backups) with high durability and access via APIs. Which IBM Cloud storage option best matches this requirement?

A customer wants to give an external auditor read-only access to view specific IBM Cloud resources without allowing any changes. What is the recommended approach?

A web application experiences unpredictable traffic spikes. The team wants to reduce operational overhead and automatically scale compute based on demand. Which IBM Cloud approach is most suitable?

A solution architect is designing an IBM Cloud deployment across multiple environments. They want consistent access management and a clear separation between teams and workloads. What structure is recommended?

A team deploys a public-facing application and wants to improve security and performance at the edge using capabilities like DDoS protection and web application firewall (WAF). Which IBM Cloud service is typically used for this purpose?

A customer reports that a new team member cannot create resources in a specific IBM Cloud resource group, even though they can log in successfully. What is the most likely cause?

A regulated enterprise must run IBM Cloud services in its own data centers and also across multiple public clouds while maintaining a consistent operating model (visibility, policy, and service delivery). Which IBM Cloud capability is designed for this scenario?

You are an IBM Cloud Advocate helping a prospect evaluate IBM Cloud. They are concerned about adopting cloud without understanding what 'shared responsibility' means. Which explanation is most accurate and helpful?

A small team is new to IBM Cloud and needs a quick way to experiment with services without managing users manually. Which IBM Cloud feature best supports this onboarding approach?

A developer needs to store application logs that may be searched frequently for troubleshooting and audit purposes. Which IBM Cloud service is the best fit?

A team wants to ensure they can quickly recover a database if a regional outage occurs. Which approach best supports high availability across locations on IBM Cloud?

A customer wants to run containerized microservices and prefers a managed Kubernetes control plane with built-in integration to IBM Cloud services. Which service should you recommend?

A regulated customer requires encryption keys to be controlled and managed in a way that supports separation of duties and auditing. Which IBM Cloud capability best addresses this requirement?

A team is troubleshooting intermittent application timeouts. Metrics look normal, but they suspect the issue is related to network latency between services. Which IBM Cloud capability is most appropriate to help investigate request paths and latency?

A customer wants to organize cloud resources by environment (dev/test/prod) and apply distinct access controls for each. What is the recommended way to structure this on IBM Cloud?

You are advising a customer who is unsure whether to use containers, serverless, or VMs for a new workload. They want minimal operational overhead, automatic scaling, and short-running event-driven execution. Which option best fits?

A financial services customer requires that cryptographic operations and key material be protected in a highly isolated environment designed to prevent cloud administrators from accessing sensitive keys. Which IBM Cloud solution is most aligned with this requirement?

During a discovery call, a customer says: "We had an outage last quarter. We need a cloud design that limits blast radius and supports graceful degradation." As an IBM Cloud advocate, what is the best next step to guide them toward an appropriate architecture?

A new IBM Cloud user wants a quick way to discover services and deploy a simple architecture without building everything from scratch. Which IBM Cloud capability best fits this need?

A team is building a public-facing web app. They want to store user-uploaded images as objects and serve them efficiently with high durability. Which IBM Cloud service is the best fit?

A customer asks what they gain by organizing resources in IBM Cloud resource groups. What is a primary benefit?

A microservices application on IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service needs to securely call an IBM Cloud-managed database without embedding credentials in container images. What is the recommended approach?

A company wants near real-time visibility into 'who did what' across IBM Cloud accounts for audit purposes. Which service best supports this requirement?

A solution architect must design a multi-zone deployment to improve availability. Which design choice most directly supports high availability for stateless application tiers?

A customer is concerned about adopting IBM Cloud because they fear vendor lock-in. As an IBM Cloud Advocate, which response best addresses the concern using a practical approach?

A regulated customer requires that encryption keys be controlled and rotated by their security team, with the cloud service only using the keys but not owning them. Which IBM Cloud capability best meets this requirement?

A team provisions infrastructure using Terraform locally. Different engineers get different outcomes because of inconsistent Terraform versions and missing provider plugins. What is the best IBM Cloud-native way to standardize and automate these deployments?

A customer wants to run sensitive workloads and needs strong isolation with customer-controlled encryption keys, including protection against certain privileged access risks. Which option most directly addresses this requirement on IBM Cloud?

A small team wants to deploy a static marketing website with minimal operational overhead and global delivery. Which IBM Cloud approach best fits?

A developer created an IBM Cloud API key and accidentally committed it to a public repository. What is the MOST appropriate immediate action?

A customer asks what IBM Cloud means by a "region" in the context of resource deployment. Which statement is correct?

A customer is evaluating IBM Cloud and asks for a secure, structured way to trial a solution while ensuring access is limited to a few users. What should an IBM Cloud Advocate recommend FIRST?

A team needs to allow an application running on IBM Cloud to read objects from IBM Cloud Object Storage without embedding long-lived credentials in the code. What is the recommended approach?

A microservices application experiences spikes in request volume. The team wants the platform to automatically adjust compute capacity while minimizing operational tasks. Which IBM Cloud compute option best aligns with this requirement?

A new workload requires private connectivity from IBM Cloud to an on-premises data center with consistent network performance and no traffic traversing the public internet. Which connectivity option is most appropriate?

An IBM Cloud Advocate is preparing a customer workshop. The customer has many stakeholders and unclear requirements. What is the BEST next step to ensure the workshop leads to an actionable cloud plan?

A regulated customer needs to ensure that only approved services can be created in their IBM Cloud accounts and that deployments align with internal policy. Which combination best supports this requirement?

A global application must remain available even if an entire data center becomes unavailable. The application is deployed in a single IBM Cloud location today. What architecture change best addresses this requirement?

A team wants to let developers create IBM Cloud resources in a repeatable way across dev/test/prod with minimal manual steps. Which approach best supports this goal?

A startup is adopting microservices and wants each service to be independently deployable with isolated dependencies. Which packaging method best aligns with this requirement on IBM Cloud?

A customer asks what IBM Cloud "regions" represent. Which explanation is most accurate at a foundational level?

A retailer runs a public-facing web app on IBM Cloud that periodically experiences sudden traffic spikes. The app becomes slow because a single instance cannot keep up. Which design change is most appropriate?

A customer is building an event-driven pipeline where multiple downstream services must react when a new object is uploaded. They need reliable delivery and the ability for different consumers to process events independently. Which IBM Cloud capability best matches this requirement?

A company wants developers to authenticate to IBM Cloud using their corporate identity provider and centrally manage access as employees join or leave. Which approach should you recommend?

A solution must store sensitive configuration values (e.g., database credentials, API tokens) and allow applications to retrieve them securely at runtime without embedding secrets in code or images. What is the best practice on IBM Cloud?

During a discovery call, a customer says: "We just need to lift-and-shift our VM workloads quickly, but we might modernize later." As an IBM Cloud Advocate, what is the most appropriate next step?

A regulated customer requires that encryption keys are controlled and managed by their organization, and they want the ability to rotate keys and audit usage. Which architectural choice best satisfies this requirement?

A multi-tier application is deployed across multiple subnets. Security policy requires that only the application tier can reach the database tier, while the database must not be directly accessible from the public internet. Which IBM Cloud networking design best enforces this?