IBM Cloud Pak for Data v4.x Solution Architect Intermediate Practice Exam: Medium Difficulty 2025

A financial services company is deploying Cloud Pak for Data on Red Hat OpenShift and needs to ensure high availability for their Watson Studio workloads. They have a three-node OpenShift cluster. What architectural consideration is MOST important for ensuring workload resilience?

An enterprise has multiple data sources including DB2, Oracle, and S3 buckets. They need to create a unified view of customer data for analytics. Which combination of Cloud Pak for Data components would be MOST appropriate?

A data science team needs to deploy a machine learning model trained in Watson Studio to a production environment where it will handle 10,000 prediction requests per day. The model needs to be monitored for drift and bias. What is the BEST deployment approach?

An organization needs to implement data governance policies that classify sensitive customer data and restrict access based on user roles. Data exists across multiple data sources. Which Cloud Pak for Data approach should be implemented?

A Cloud Pak for Data deployment requires integration with an existing LDAP directory for user authentication and needs to map LDAP groups to Cloud Pak for Data roles. What configuration approach is required?

A solution architect is planning resource allocation for a Cloud Pak for Data deployment that will support 50 data scientists running Watson Studio notebooks and 20 business analysts using Cognos Analytics. What is the BEST approach for resource management?

A company wants to use DataStage in Cloud Pak for Data to process 500GB of customer transaction data daily from multiple sources, perform transformations, and load it into Db2 Warehouse. The processing must complete within a 4-hour window. What architectural consideration is MOST critical?

A retail organization wants to build a recommendation system using AutoAI in Watson Studio. They have historical purchase data but it's imbalanced with only 5% of customers making repeat purchases. What should the solution architect recommend?

An enterprise needs to ensure compliance with GDPR requirements for personal data in Cloud Pak for Data. They need to track data lineage, identify personal data, and implement data masking. Which combination of capabilities should be implemented?

A solution architect needs to design a backup and disaster recovery strategy for Cloud Pak for Data running on OpenShift. The RTO is 4 hours and RPO is 1 hour. What approach should be recommended?