IBM Cloud Satellite Specialty v1 Intermediate Practice Exam: Medium Difficulty 2025

A retail organization wants to deploy IBM Cloud Satellite to manage workloads across their data centers in three different countries while maintaining centralized control from IBM Cloud. They need to ensure consistent Kubernetes cluster management across all locations. Which architectural component is responsible for maintaining the connection between the Satellite location and IBM Cloud for control plane communication?

An enterprise is setting up a new Satellite location in their on-premises data center. They have allocated 6 RHEL hosts with 16 vCPUs and 64 GB RAM each. What is the recommended approach for assigning these hosts during the initial location setup to ensure proper control plane redundancy?

A financial services company is deploying a Satellite location with strict network security requirements. Their security team requires that all communication between hosts within the Satellite location and communication back to IBM Cloud must be logged and auditable. Which combination of configurations best addresses this requirement?

A development team wants to deploy IBM Cloud Databases for PostgreSQL as a managed service in their Satellite location. The location has been set up with 6 hosts total: 3 assigned to the control plane and 3 remaining unassigned. What must be done before they can successfully deploy the database service?

An operations team notices that their Satellite location status shows 'Action Required' and several hosts are reporting as 'Unresponsive'. Network connectivity between hosts appears normal. Which troubleshooting approach should be taken first?

A manufacturing company has deployed IBM Cloud Satellite across three factory locations. They want to ensure that Kubernetes clusters in each location can access IBM Cloud services like Key Protect and Cloud Object Storage. Which Satellite component must be properly configured to enable this connectivity?

A company is planning a Satellite location deployment across three availability zones in their data center. Each zone will host different numbers of worker nodes based on capacity: Zone 1 (5 hosts), Zone 2 (3 hosts), Zone 3 (3 hosts). How should they distribute the 3 control plane hosts to ensure proper high availability?

An organization wants to deploy Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud in their Satellite location. They have successfully set up the location with control plane hosts and have 9 additional hosts available. What is the minimum number of worker nodes required to create a production-ready OpenShift cluster with high availability?

A Satellite location administrator needs to update the host labels for several worker nodes that are already assigned to a cluster. The labels are used for workload placement and zone identification. What is the correct approach to update these labels?

A company has deployed multiple managed services (Cloud Databases, Cloud Object Storage) to their Satellite location. They want to implement a backup strategy that stores backups in IBM Cloud rather than locally. Which architectural approach best accomplishes this while maintaining service availability in the Satellite location?