IBM Assessment: Cloud and Smarter Infrastructure Intermediate Practice Exam: Medium Difficulty 2025

A retail company is migrating its e-commerce platform to the cloud and needs to ensure the application can handle traffic spikes during holiday seasons while minimizing costs during off-peak periods. Which cloud characteristic and deployment strategy best addresses this requirement?

An enterprise is evaluating cloud deployment models for different workloads. Their financial system requires strict regulatory compliance and data sovereignty, while their development and testing environments need flexibility and cost efficiency. What hybrid cloud approach would be most appropriate?

A company using IBM Cloud Infrastructure needs to design a highly available three-tier web application architecture. The application consists of web servers, application servers, and a database. Which design approach best ensures resilience and availability?

An organization is implementing IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for their workloads. They need to separate production, staging, and development environments while maintaining network connectivity between them for CI/CD pipelines. What networking approach should they implement?

A company is experiencing performance issues with their cloud-based application during peak hours. Monitoring shows high CPU utilization on application servers and increased database response times. What combination of actions would most effectively address these issues?

An organization is implementing a smarter infrastructure initiative to optimize their data center operations. They want to reduce energy consumption while maintaining performance. Which combination of technologies would be most effective?

A manufacturing company wants to implement IoT sensors across their production line to monitor equipment health and predict maintenance needs. What smarter infrastructure components are essential for processing and acting on this data?

An enterprise is designing a disaster recovery strategy for their critical applications hosted on IBM Cloud. They have an RTO (Recovery Time Objective) of 4 hours and RPO (Recovery Point Objective) of 1 hour. Which disaster recovery approach meets these requirements most cost-effectively?

A development team is implementing a CI/CD pipeline for deploying applications to IBM Cloud. They need to ensure consistent environments across development, staging, and production. What approach best achieves this goal?

A company has migrated several applications to IBM Cloud and is now experiencing higher than expected costs. Analysis shows resources are running 24/7 even though some workloads only need to run during business hours. What combination of strategies would most effectively optimize costs?