IBM Assessment: IBM AIOps v1 Intermediate Practice Exam: Medium Difficulty 2025

An organization is deploying IBM AIOps and needs to integrate multiple data sources including logs, metrics, and topology information. The architecture team is deciding between using a centralized data lake approach versus point-to-point integrations. Which architectural approach would best support AIOps capabilities for correlation and root cause analysis?

During an incident investigation, the AIOps platform has correlated 500 raw events into 12 event groups, but the operations team reports that several critical application alerts are not appearing in the incident view. What is the most likely cause and recommended action?

A retail company experiences periodic performance degradation during peak shopping hours. The AIOps platform has identified three potential root causes: database connection pool exhaustion, network latency spikes, and memory pressure on application servers. Which approach should the SRE team take to validate the actual root cause?

An enterprise has configured IBM AIOps to receive events from multiple monitoring tools including AppDynamics, Dynatrace, and Prometheus. Events are arriving but correlation is poor, with many false positive incident groupings. What configuration optimization should be prioritized first?

The AIOps platform's topology discovery has mapped infrastructure components but is missing application-level dependencies between microservices. Which combination of data sources would most effectively complete the application topology model?

After deploying IBM AIOps, the operations team notices that incident tickets are being created with varying levels of detail - some with comprehensive context and probable causes, while others lack sufficient information. What is the most effective way to ensure consistent, high-quality incident enrichment?

A financial services company is experiencing alert fatigue with over 10,000 events per hour. After implementing IBM AIOps event correlation, the volume reduced to 200 actionable incidents per day, but the IT team still misses some critical issues. What additional optimization should be implemented?

During a major incident, AIOps identified a probable root cause as a recent configuration change to a load balancer. However, the change was approved and tested in a staging environment without issues. What additional analysis capability would help understand why the change caused production issues?

An organization wants to measure the effectiveness of their IBM AIOps implementation after six months of operation. Which combination of metrics would best demonstrate AIOps value and identify areas for improvement?

A healthcare provider's AIOps platform is generating accurate correlations during business hours but produces numerous false positives during maintenance windows. The operations team wants to maintain correlation capabilities while accounting for planned maintenance activities. What is the most appropriate solution?