50 IBM Cloud Satellite Specialty v1 Practice Questions: Question Bank 2025

An enterprise wants to run IBM Cloud services on infrastructure in its own data center while still managing them from IBM Cloud. Which IBM Cloud Satellite concept represents the customer-managed environment where services are deployed?

You are planning a Satellite location in a factory with intermittent connectivity to IBM Cloud. Which design choice best supports continued workload operation during temporary disconnections from IBM Cloud?

A team is preparing to attach hosts to a new Satellite location. Which prerequisite is most critical to ensure the hosts can successfully register and communicate with IBM Cloud services required for Satellite management?

You need to isolate Satellite resources for a specific application team so they can manage only their own Satellite location resources. What is the recommended IBM Cloud access control approach?

A company wants to deploy a Satellite-enabled managed database service to an on-prem Satellite location. They require predictable capacity and high availability for the service. What is the best practice when planning the location's hosts?

After attaching several hosts to a Satellite location, a service deployment fails because the scheduler cannot place required components. Monitoring shows CPU and memory are available, but local storage is insufficient on multiple hosts. What is the most likely root cause?

A security team requires that workloads deployed to a Satellite location can access internal on-prem systems without exposing those systems to the public internet. Which network approach best aligns with this requirement?

A platform engineer needs to roll out configuration changes across multiple workloads running in a Satellite location and wants consistent, repeatable deployments. Which approach is most appropriate?

During a host attach operation, the host shows as "unhealthy" shortly after registration. DNS resolution works, but the host cannot reach required IBM Cloud endpoints due to a corporate proxy that performs TLS interception. What is the best corrective action?

You are designing a highly available Satellite location for critical workloads across two on-premises data halls with independent power and networking. Which architecture choice best improves resiliency at the location level?

An architect is explaining IBM Cloud Satellite to a team that is new to the product. Which statement best describes what a Satellite location is?

A team is preparing hosts for a new IBM Cloud Satellite location. Which requirement is most critical to validate before attempting to attach hosts?

A developer wants to run an IBM-managed service in a Satellite location so the control plane is managed by IBM while the data plane runs on the customer’s infrastructure. Which Satellite capability enables this?

A Satellite location is running production workloads. To improve resiliency, the team wants to reduce the chance that a single hardware failure impacts the entire location. What is the best practice for host placement and sizing?

A company must ensure that only approved container images are deployed to a Satellite cluster in an edge location. Which approach best supports this requirement?

A Satellite location uses customer-managed networking with strict firewall rules. After attaching hosts, the location shows intermittent host disconnects and service instability. Which action is the most appropriate next step?

A team wants to deploy a Satellite-enabled database service into a location but needs to keep application access private within the customer network. What is the best design approach?

A Satellite location is attached successfully, but a newly deployed service reports it cannot resolve IBM Cloud service endpoints during initialization. Host network connectivity appears healthy. What is the most likely root cause?

A regulated enterprise needs to prove separation of duties for Satellite operations: platform engineers manage the location infrastructure, while application teams deploy workloads. Which approach best meets this requirement?

A company runs latency-sensitive workloads at multiple edge sites. They want a consistent way to deploy the same Satellite-enabled service across all sites while minimizing configuration drift. What is the best strategy?

A team is explaining IBM Cloud Satellite to a new stakeholder. Which statement best describes the purpose of a Satellite location?

You are preparing a new Satellite location in an on-prem data center with a strict change-control process. Which approach is a best practice to reduce operational risk during the initial setup?

A developer wants to deploy an application to a Satellite location using Kubernetes without changing how they deploy to IBM Cloud. What is the most appropriate target to deploy to?

A Satellite location is deployed in a network with limited outbound internet access. During service enablement, the service reports it cannot pull container images. Which remediation is most appropriate?

A company operates multiple Satellite locations (factory, retail, and data center). They need a consistent way to enforce baseline cluster configurations (for example namespaces, network policies, and resource quotas) across all clusters attached to these locations. What is the best approach?

A team is designing a Satellite location for high availability. They want to minimize the risk of losing scheduling capability if a host fails. Which design choice best supports this goal?

A Satellite location is configured, but application pods intermittently fail with DNS resolution errors. Cluster-level DNS pods appear healthy. What is the most likely underlying issue to investigate first?

An organization must ensure that only approved IBM Cloud services can be enabled and used in any Satellite location, and this must be enforced centrally. Which control most directly supports this requirement?

A regulated enterprise requires that workload-to-service traffic in a Satellite location stays on private networks and does not traverse the public internet. Which architecture choice best aligns with this requirement?

After a planned network maintenance window, a Satellite location shows hosts as "unhealthy" and managed services report degraded status. You confirm power is stable and hosts are running. What is the most effective next troubleshooting step?

A team is explaining IBM Cloud Satellite to new stakeholders. Which statement best describes what a Satellite location is?

A company wants to create a new Satellite location and is asked to meet the minimum requirement for location management. What must be present before the location can be considered operational for managing services?

Your organization has multiple Satellite locations (on-prem and in another cloud). They want to standardize service deployment so the same configuration is used everywhere. Which Satellite capability best addresses this requirement?

A Satellite operator wants to reduce the risk of a compromised host being used to manage the location. Which practice is most aligned with Satellite security best practices?

A Satellite location is configured correctly, but several hosts show as "unhealthy" shortly after onboarding. The team suspects network restrictions. Which connectivity issue is the most likely cause?

A regulated enterprise needs to run a managed database service in a Satellite location while ensuring the data stays within their on-premises environment. Which approach best meets the requirement?

A platform team wants to allow application teams to deploy workloads to Satellite locations but not to create or delete locations or manage hosts. Which IBM Cloud mechanism should be used to implement this separation of duties?

A company has two Satellite locations and wants to minimize downtime during planned maintenance of one location’s hosts. Which design choice best improves service resilience?

A Satellite location intermittently loses connectivity to IBM Cloud, causing management operations to fail. The on-prem network team proposes using a single NAT gateway for all host egress to simplify rules. What is the most important risk with this approach, and how should it be mitigated?

After deploying a Satellite-enabled service to a location, the service remains in a "pending" state. Logs indicate that the scheduler cannot place pods due to node constraints. Which action is the most appropriate first step to resolve the issue?

An architect is explaining IBM Cloud Satellite to a team that is new to the platform. Which statement best describes the purpose of a Satellite location?

A platform engineer is preparing hosts for a new Satellite location. Which host characteristic is most important to validate to avoid service scheduling failures later?

A team runs workloads in a Satellite location and wants to centralize platform logs for audits. Which approach best aligns with Satellite operations?

A company needs to deploy an IBM managed database into a Satellite location but must ensure data stays within the customer data center. Which design choice best supports this requirement?

A location is configured with multiple worker pools. A new Satellite-enabled service is deployed, but the team wants to ensure it only runs on hosts in a specific network segment. What is the best way to influence placement?

During location setup, host registration succeeds for some hosts but fails intermittently for others. All hosts are in the same subnet. Which initial troubleshooting step is most appropriate?

A security team requires that only a specific group can deploy managed services into a Satellite location, while a broader group can view location health and inventory. What is the best approach?

A Satellite location hosts latency-sensitive applications. The team wants to reduce the risk of downtime during host maintenance by ensuring adequate capacity for rescheduling. Which practice is most appropriate?

A company must allow Satellite-enabled services to run in two different countries, each with strict data residency. They also need independent failure domains so an outage in one country does not impact the other. Which architecture best meets these requirements?

After a network change, applications running in a Satellite location can no longer reach an IBM managed service deployed in the same location. The service shows as healthy in IBM Cloud, and host CPU/memory are normal. Which cause is most plausible and should be checked first?