IBM Cloud Pak for Data V4.x Administrator Intermediate Practice Exam: Medium Difficulty 2025

An organization is deploying IBM Cloud Pak for Data on an air-gapped OpenShift cluster. During the installation, the administrator needs to ensure all required images are available. What is the correct sequence of steps to prepare for this installation?

A Cloud Pak for Data administrator needs to integrate with an existing enterprise LDAP directory for user authentication. The requirement is that users should be able to log in with their corporate credentials, but specific user groups should be mapped to different Cloud Pak for Data roles. What configuration approach should be implemented?

An administrator is deploying Watson Machine Learning service on Cloud Pak for Data. After deployment, data scientists report that they cannot create deployment spaces. Investigation shows the service is running, but certain custom resource definitions are in a pending state. What is the most likely cause and resolution?

During routine monitoring, an administrator notices that the Zen watchdog pods are continuously restarting in the Cloud Pak for Data control plane. Logs indicate connection timeouts to the PostgreSQL database. What troubleshooting steps should be performed in the correct order?

A company requires that all data connections created in Cloud Pak for Data must use encrypted credentials and that credentials should never be stored in plain text. An administrator needs to configure the platform to meet this security requirement. What approach should be implemented?

An administrator needs to upgrade Cloud Pak for Data from version 4.5 to 4.6 in a production environment. The cluster has Watson Studio, Watson Machine Learning, and Data Virtualization services installed. What is the recommended upgrade approach to minimize downtime and risk?

After deploying DataStage service in Cloud Pak for Data, users report that DataStage jobs fail with errors related to storage access. The administrator verifies that the storage class specified during deployment exists and has available capacity. What additional configuration is most likely missing?

An organization's Cloud Pak for Data environment is experiencing performance degradation. Monitoring shows high CPU usage on nodes running the platform operator pods, and the Prometheus metrics indicate increasing API server request latency. What is the most appropriate action to address this issue?

A Cloud Pak for Data administrator needs to configure role-based access control for a new project. The project requires that data engineers can create and run notebooks, data stewards can only view and govern assets, and project administrators can manage all project resources. How should this be configured?

During a Cloud Pak for Data installation on OpenShift, the installation fails during the service operator deployment phase. The logs show ImagePullBackOff errors for specific operator images. The cluster has internet access, and the global pull secret is configured. What is the most likely cause and solution?