C1000-172 Sample Questions & Answers

A manufacturing firm runs its core ERP system on an on-premises IBM Power System running AIX. They want to establish a disaster recovery site in IBM Cloud without refactoring the application. The primary requirement is to have a cloud environment that is binary-compatible with their on-premises AIX LPARs, allowing for rapid recovery using their existing backup and replication tools. Which IBM Cloud compute offering is specifically designed to run enterprise AIX and IBM i workloads, providing a seamless extension of on-premises Power environments to the cloud?

True or False: Deploying an application's components across multiple Availability Zones within a single IBM Cloud Multizone Region (MZR) automatically protects it from a complete regional failure (e.g., a natural disaster incapacitating the entire MZR).

A security administrator needs to analyze all IP traffic flowing in and out of a specific Virtual Server Instance (VSI) network interface within a VPC for security auditing and threat analysis. They require a native IBM Cloud solution to capture this network flow data without installing any agents on the VSI itself. The captured data should be stored in an IBM Cloud Object Storage bucket for long-term retention and analysis. Which IBM Cloud feature should the administrator configure to meet this requirement?

An architect is selecting a storage solution for a new cloud-native application. The primary requirement is to store petabytes of unstructured data, such as images, videos, and backups, in a highly durable and cost-effective manner. The data will be accessed infrequently but must be available with high resiliency. The solution must also support data archiving with automated lifecycle policies to move older data to cheaper storage tiers. Which IBM Cloud Storage service is the most appropriate choice?

A developer is building a serverless application and needs a platform that can run both container images and application code without managing underlying infrastructure. The application has components that are long-running batch jobs and others that are event-driven functions. The developer wants a single, unified experience for deploying and managing all these components. Which IBM Cloud service provides this unified serverless platform?

When designing a disaster recovery solution for a critical application running in an IBM Cloud VPC, an architect defines the Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO). What do RTO and RPO represent in the context of disaster recovery planning?

A financial services company is using IBM Cloud Schematics to manage their VPC infrastructure using Terraform. For compliance reasons, they need to prevent any configuration changes that deviate from their approved templates. They also need to detect and be alerted if the state of their live infrastructure no longer matches the configuration defined in their Terraform source code. Which TWO features of IBM Cloud Schematics address these requirements? (Select TWO)

An organization is migrating a large-scale data analytics platform to IBM Cloud. The platform uses Apache Spark and Hadoop for processing massive datasets stored in IBM Cloud Object Storage. The key architectural goal is to decouple compute and storage to allow each to scale independently, optimizing costs. They need a managed service that provides Spark and Hadoop clusters on-demand without the overhead of managing the underlying infrastructure. Which service is the best fit for this requirement?

An architect is designing a network connection between an on-premises data center and an IBM Cloud VPC. The connection requires a private, dedicated, and high-bandwidth link with predictable latency, bypassing the public internet entirely. The workload involves transferring large volumes of sensitive data daily. Which IBM Cloud connectivity service should be used to meet these requirements?

A solutions architect is designing the monitoring strategy for a complex microservices application deployed on IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service. The team needs to collect metrics, set up proactive alerting for performance degradation, and create custom dashboards to visualize application health. The solution must be the primary, integrated monitoring service for IBM Cloud. Which service should the architect choose?