IBM A1000-116 Intermediate Practice Exam: Medium Difficulty 2025

A financial services company is migrating their application to IBM Cloud and needs to ensure data residency compliance for European customer data. The application uses both compute resources and object storage. Which combination of IBM Cloud services and configurations best addresses this requirement?

An e-commerce company experiences predictable traffic spikes during holiday seasons and needs to design a cost-effective architecture on IBM Cloud. The application consists of a web tier, application tier, and database. Which architectural approach best balances cost optimization with performance requirements?

A development team is deploying a three-tier application on IBM Cloud and needs to implement network isolation between tiers while allowing controlled communication. The web tier must be internet-accessible, the application tier should only accept traffic from the web tier, and the database tier should only accept traffic from the application tier. Which IBM Cloud networking approach should be implemented?

A company has multiple development teams working on different microservices that will be deployed to IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service. They need to implement a strategy that allows teams to work independently while sharing the same cluster for cost efficiency. What is the most appropriate approach?

During a security audit, a company discovers they need to implement comprehensive logging and monitoring for their IBM Cloud resources to meet compliance requirements. They need to track user activities, resource changes, and security events. Which combination of IBM Cloud services should they implement?

A company is designing a disaster recovery strategy for their mission-critical application on IBM Cloud. The application requires an RTO of 4 hours and RPO of 1 hour. The application consists of Virtual Servers, databases, and object storage. Which DR strategy is most appropriate?

An organization needs to manage access to IBM Cloud resources for 500 employees across multiple departments. Each department should have different levels of access to specific resource groups. Some contractors also require temporary access. What is the most efficient and secure approach to implement this requirement?

A company's IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service cluster is experiencing performance issues during peak load. Analysis shows that pods are being evicted due to resource constraints. The cluster currently has 3 worker nodes. What combination of actions should be taken to address this issue?

A global application deployed on IBM Cloud needs to serve users across North America, Europe, and Asia with low latency. The application consists of static content, dynamic APIs, and user-uploaded media. Which architectural pattern best addresses these requirements?

A company needs to implement a CI/CD pipeline for their applications on IBM Cloud. The pipeline must build container images, scan for vulnerabilities, deploy to development and production Kubernetes clusters with approval gates, and maintain an audit trail. Which combination of IBM Cloud services and practices should be implemented?