IBM Assessment: Automation for IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation v21.0.x Intermediate Practice Exam: Medium Difficulty 2025

A financial services organization is implementing IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation and needs to ensure high availability for their mission-critical workflow processes. They plan to deploy across multiple availability zones. Which architectural consideration is MOST important for maintaining state consistency across the distributed deployment?

An insurance company uses IBM Business Automation Workflow to process claims. A business requirement states that if a claim amount exceeds $50,000, it must be reviewed by both a senior adjuster AND a compliance officer in parallel, and both must approve before proceeding. Which implementation approach is MOST appropriate?

A manufacturing company needs to automate document retention policies in IBM FileNet Content Manager. Legal documents must be retained for 7 years, then undergo a review process before deletion, while standard invoices can be automatically deleted after 3 years. What combination of features should be configured?

A retail organization is implementing Operational Decision Manager (ODM) to automate pricing decisions. They need to update pricing rules weekly based on market conditions without redeploying the entire application. Business users should be able to modify rules with minimal IT involvement. Which approach BEST meets these requirements?

An organization's Business Automation Workflow process needs to integrate with an external REST API that occasionally experiences timeouts. The process should retry failed API calls up to 3 times with exponential backoff before routing to a manual exception handling task. Which implementation pattern provides the MOST robust solution?

A healthcare provider is designing their IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation deployment to handle sensitive patient data. They need to ensure compliance with data residency requirements and minimize latency for users in three different geographic regions. Which deployment strategy BEST addresses these requirements?

A document-intensive process requires that contracts be routed through workflow for approval, stored in FileNet with appropriate security, and made available for e-signature. During the approval workflow, reviewers need to annotate the documents. What integration approach MOST effectively supports this scenario?

A business process includes a decision point where loan applications are evaluated based on credit score, debt-to-income ratio, and employment history. The decision logic is complex with multiple interdependent rules that change quarterly. The business wants to test rule changes before production deployment. Which ODM feature combination provides the MOST appropriate solution?

An organization needs to expose their Business Automation Workflow processes to external partners through APIs while maintaining security and rate limiting. Internal users should access the same processes through the standard Process Portal interface. Which approach BEST implements this dual-access requirement?

A company implementing IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation needs to manage the complete lifecycle of business documents from creation through archival. Documents must move through active use, inactive storage, and eventual archival tiers based on age and access patterns. What FileNet capability should be configured to automate this lifecycle management?