IBM Cloud Satellite Specialty v1 Advanced Practice Exam: Hard Questions 2025

An enterprise plans to run IBM Cloud Satellite locations in two on-prem data centers and one public cloud VPC. They must ensure that (1) workloads continue running locally during temporary loss of connectivity to IBM Cloud, (2) platform management and service orchestration resume automatically when connectivity returns, and (3) the design avoids coupling critical application runtime to the control plane. Which architecture choice best satisfies these requirements?

A regulated customer wants a Satellite location to host workloads requiring strict data residency. They also need centralized governance and consistent IAM controls across multiple locations. Which approach best aligns with Satellite concepts while minimizing operational drift across locations?

During Satellite location creation, hosts attach successfully but the location never becomes healthy. The on-prem environment uses strict outbound firewall rules. Which troubleshooting sequence is MOST likely to isolate and fix the issue with the least disruption?

A team is deploying a Satellite location on VMware with a mix of small and large hosts. After enabling a service, some pods are stuck pending due to insufficient resources while other hosts are underutilized. They want predictable scheduling for service components and to reduce noisy-neighbor risk. What is the best design change?

A Satellite location spans two racks with redundant ToR switches. After adding new hosts, intermittent failures occur: some hosts attach but later show flapping connectivity, and service components restart unexpectedly. Packet captures show occasional fragmentation issues. What is the MOST likely underlying cause and best remediation?

A customer wants to deploy a database service to a Satellite location, but must ensure that data never leaves the on-prem network. They also want centralized lifecycle management from IBM Cloud. Which deployment approach best meets the requirement?

A team operates multiple Satellite locations and needs to roll out a new service configuration consistently. They want staged deployment (canary) to one location first, then a broader rollout, and a fast rollback if health checks fail. What is the best operational strategy?

After enabling a Satellite-hosted service, the service becomes degraded whenever the location experiences brief latency spikes to IBM Cloud, even though on-prem workloads remain otherwise stable. The team suspects the service is overly dependent on the management plane. What is the best mitigation that preserves centralized management but reduces runtime sensitivity to transient link issues?

A security team requires that Satellite hosts are treated as highly sensitive assets. They need least-privilege access for operators, strong separation of duties between platform admins and application deployers, and auditable change tracking for location operations. Which design best meets these requirements?

A Satellite location intermittently reports hosts as 'unreachable' after a certificate-rotating security appliance was introduced for outbound TLS inspection. The team notices failures primarily during certificate rotations on the appliance. Which action is MOST appropriate to restore stability while maintaining security best practices?