IBM Assessment: Cloud Solutions v1 Intermediate Practice Exam: Medium Difficulty 2025

A financial services company is designing a cloud architecture that requires workloads to be distributed across multiple availability zones with automatic failover capabilities. The solution must maintain data consistency and provide sub-second recovery time objectives (RTO). Which architectural pattern best meets these requirements?

An enterprise is migrating a legacy three-tier application to the cloud. The database tier contains 5TB of data with complex dependencies. The application must remain available during migration with minimal performance impact. Which migration strategy should the cloud architect recommend?

A retail company needs to integrate their on-premises inventory management system with a cloud-based e-commerce platform. The integration must handle peak loads of 10,000 transactions per minute during sales events while maintaining data consistency. Which integration approach is most appropriate?

A healthcare organization must comply with regulations requiring that patient data never leave a specific geographic region, while also needing to implement disaster recovery capabilities. Which cloud architecture strategy addresses both requirements?

A cloud solution architect is designing a hybrid cloud solution where certain workloads must remain on-premises due to latency requirements, while others can run in the public cloud. The architecture requires unified management and consistent security policies. Which approach best achieves these objectives?

During a cloud migration assessment, a team identifies an application with tightly-coupled components, hardcoded IP addresses, and no API documentation. The business requires this application in the cloud within 3 months. What is the most pragmatic migration approach?

A company needs to expose internal microservices to external partners through APIs while implementing rate limiting, authentication, and monitoring. Multiple backend services require different security policies. Which cloud service pattern best addresses these requirements?

An organization discovers that their cloud resources are being accessed from unusual geographic locations during off-hours. They need to implement controls that detect and respond to such anomalies automatically. Which combination of security measures is most effective?

A cloud architect is designing a solution for a global application that requires low-latency access for users across multiple continents. The application serves both static content and dynamic, personalized data. Which architecture provides optimal performance while maintaining cost efficiency?

A company is migrating multiple applications to the cloud and needs to establish network connectivity between cloud Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) and on-premises data centers. The solution must support transitive routing between all networks and centralize network management. Which networking approach should be implemented?