C1000-142 IBM Cloud Advocate V2 Practice Questions
Prepare for C1000-142 with more than an answer.
- Exam fee
- $200 USD
- Level
- Entry
- Valid for
- 3 years
Domains covered on the exam 5
- Introduction to Cloud Computing14%
- Cloud Services and Deployment Models14%
- Fundamentals of IBM Cloud23%
- IBM Cloud Account Essentials17%
- Services Available on IBM Cloud32%
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A platform engineering team is building a standardized application environment for developers. They want to provide a fully managed, production-ready container platform that includes integrated CI/CD tooling, security scanning, and cluster lifecycle management out-of-the-box. The goal is to maximize developer productivity by abstracting away the underlying infrastructure complexity. Which IBM Cloud service is the best fit?
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Correct answer: C
Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud is an enterprise-grade application platform built on Kubernetes. It provides all the features of Kubernetes but adds a rich set of developer and operational tools, including integrated CI/CD pipelines (OpenShift Pipelines), source-to-image builds, and enhanced security features. This makes it a more opinionated, all-in-one PaaS solution that directly meets the goal of maximizing developer productivity and providing a ready-made environment, distinguishing it from the more foundational IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service.
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A healthcare organization is deploying an application on IBM Cloud that processes Protected Health Information (PHI). To meet regulatory requirements, they must be able to prove to auditors that their cloud environment adheres to HIPAA standards. Which IBM Cloud service is designed to help them continuously monitor their compliance posture and manage evidence for audits?
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Correct answer: B
The IBM Cloud Security and Compliance Center is the dedicated service for managing and monitoring security and compliance. It provides predefined profiles for various regulations, including HIPAA, and continuously scans the cloud environment for misconfigurations. It simplifies audit readiness by centralizing evidence collection and providing a real-time view of the compliance posture. Activity Tracker records API events but does not interpret them against compliance frameworks.
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A developer wants to run a small, event-driven piece of code that processes images uploaded to an IBM Cloud Object Storage bucket. The processing task is short-lived and should only consume resources when an image is uploaded. The developer wants to avoid managing servers or containers entirely. Which IBM Cloud compute service is the most appropriate and cost-effective choice?
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Correct answer: B
IBM Cloud Functions is a Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) offering, which is the epitome of event-driven, serverless computing. It allows developers to run code in response to triggers (like a file upload to Object Storage) without provisioning or managing any infrastructure. Billing is based on execution time and memory usage, making it extremely cost-effective for short-lived, intermittent tasks, as no resources are consumed when the code is not running.
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A new user wants to explore IBM Cloud services without providing a credit card. They need access to a limited set of 'always-free' services to build and test a small proof-of-concept application. Which IBM Cloud account type should they sign up for?
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Correct answer: D
The IBM Cloud Lite account is the free tier that does not require a credit card for signup. It provides access to a catalog of services with 'always-free' plans, allowing users to explore, learn, and build small applications without incurring any costs. This is the designated entry point for users who want to try the platform risk-free.
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A manufacturing company, 'Innovate Industrial', operates several factories with on-premises IT infrastructure. They want to modernize their operations by deploying containerized AI-powered quality control applications directly on the factory floor to minimize latency. However, they also want to manage these edge applications using the same familiar IBM Cloud tools and workflows their central IT team uses for their public cloud workloads.
The company requires a solution that extends the IBM Cloud management plane to their factory locations. This solution must allow them to deploy and manage Red Hat OpenShift clusters on their own hardware while maintaining a consistent operational model with their IBM Cloud public region deployments. The solution must also enable them to consume IBM Cloud services, like Watson Visual Recognition, as if they were running locally at the edge.
Which IBM Cloud offering is specifically designed to meet these hybrid and edge computing requirements?
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Correct answer: B
IBM Cloud Satellite is the correct solution as it is a distributed cloud offering designed to address this exact scenario. It allows customers to create an 'IBM Cloud location' on their own infrastructure, whether in their data center or at the edge. This extends the IBM Cloud control plane, enabling them to deploy and manage services like Red Hat OpenShift on their hardware with the same tools and APIs used in the public cloud. Satellite Locations also provide secure, low-latency access to IBM Cloud services, fulfilling all of the company's requirements.
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A development team is migrating a stateful, containerized application to IBM Cloud. The application requires persistent storage that can be shared across multiple pods simultaneously with read/write access. The team is using Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud. Which storage solution should be configured to meet these specific requirements?
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Correct answer: C
IBM Cloud File Storage is the correct choice because it provides network-attached storage (NAS) that supports the NFS protocol. This allows the storage volume to be mounted by multiple pods simultaneously with ReadWriteMany (RWX) access mode, which is a key requirement for sharing data across pods. Block Storage supports ReadWriteOnce (RWO), meaning it can only be attached to a single pod at a time. Object Storage is not suitable for filesystem-level read/write access required by many stateful applications. Host path volumes are tied to a specific worker node and are not suitable for distributed, persistent storage.
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A financial services company is using an IBM Cloud Enterprise Account to manage multiple teams and projects. They need to provide a new project team with access to create and manage their own VPC resources, but strictly prevent them from accessing or modifying resources belonging to other projects. The company also wants to track the new team's spending separately. What is the most effective way to achieve this using IBM Cloud's account structure?
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Correct answer: B
The most effective method within an IBM Cloud Enterprise Account for both isolating resources and tracking costs for a distinct project or business unit is to create a new child account. This provides a strong boundary for resource access and, critically, a separate billing and usage view, allowing for direct cost attribution to that project. While resource groups provide access control isolation, they do not offer separate billing invoices. An account group is for organizing accounts, not resources directly. Creating separate access groups alone does not solve the cost tracking requirement.
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An architect is designing a highly available application on IBM Cloud. To achieve the highest level of availability and fault tolerance within a single geographic area like
us-south, where should the application components be deployed?Show answer details
Correct answer: C
The fundamental design pattern for high availability within an IBM Cloud region is to distribute application components across multiple Availability Zones (AZs) within a Multi-Zone Region (MZR). Each AZ is a physically separate location with independent power, cooling, and networking. This design ensures that the failure of an entire AZ (e.g., due to a power outage or flood) will not take down the entire application. Deploying across data centers in one AZ or across nodes in one data center does not protect against a zone-level failure.
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A security architect is designing a data protection strategy for a new application that will use IBM Cloud Databases for PostgreSQL and IBM Cloud Object Storage. The company's policy requires that all encryption keys be managed internally and that IBM administrators have no possible access to the key material. Which TWO services or features must be used to meet this stringent requirement? (Select TWO)
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Correct answer: B, D
To meet the requirement that IBM administrators have no access to key material, the customer must use a 'Keep Your Own Key' (KYOK) solution. IBM Cloud Hyper Protect Crypto Services is the service that provides this capability, built on FIPS 140-2 Level 4 certified hardware, giving customers exclusive control over their keys.
After provisioning Hyper Protect Crypto Services, the data services (Databases for PostgreSQL and Object Storage) must be configured to integrate with it. This process, often referred to as Bring Your Own Key (BYOK), enables these services to use the customer-controlled keys for data encryption, fulfilling the policy requirement.
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A retail company is considering migrating its e-commerce platform to the cloud to handle unpredictable traffic spikes during holiday seasons. Their primary business driver is to avoid over-provisioning expensive hardware that sits idle most of the year, and to pay only for the compute resources they actually consume. Which essential characteristic of cloud computing directly addresses this business driver?
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Correct answer: B
Rapid elasticity is the cloud characteristic that allows resources to be provisioned and released, often automatically, to scale rapidly outward and inward commensurate with demand. This directly addresses the company's need to handle traffic spikes without paying for idle capacity during off-peak times. Measured service ensures they pay only for what they use, but elasticity is the mechanism that enables the scaling.
