🧪 IBM Cloud MCQ Quiz Hub

1. What are Resource Groups used for?
As a logical container for services, forming a key component of IA
They secure network traffic around virtual servers in a VPC
Services running under Kubernetes are deployed into one or more of them
To mark out the classic infrastructure services which make up an application

2. What are the three account types in IBM Cloud?
Standard, Pay Per Use, and contract
Lite, Pay as You Go, and Subscription
Free, Monthly, and Annual
Basic, Advanced, and Premium

3. What are two ways to interact with IBM Cloud?
IBM Cloud SDK, SSH key
IBM Cloud Console, and IBM Cloud CLI
IBM Cloud Shell, API key
SSH key and API key

4. Which healthcare related compliance programs does IBM Cloud Comply with?
FFIEC
FISC
ITAR
HIPAA

5. What is a multi-zone region?
A region achieves 99.9 availability for your apps and services.
A region that is comprised of 2 or more zones that are independent from each other to ensure that single failure events affect only a single zone.
A region where you can host the power cooling, compute, network, and storage resources for services and apps.
A region that is comprised of 3 or more zones that are independent from each other to ensure that single failure events affect only a single zone.

6. What is a cloud-based service where instead of downloading software your desktop PC or business network to run and update, you instead access an application via an internet browser?
IaaS SaaS
SaaS
DBaaS
PaaS

7. Which support level provides a technical account manager?
AdvancedPlus
Advanced
Premium
Basic

8. What is a resource?
A collection of services
A provisioned service
An entry in the Cloud Catalog
A service

9. What account type never expires, does not require a credit card and has access to over 40 services?
Enterprise
Pay-as-you-go
Subscription
Life

10. Which compute service provides you the raw horsepower that you need for processor-intensive and disk I/O-intensive workloads?
Hyper Protect
Bare metal
Power Systems
Virtual Servers

11. What kind of virtual server type is in single tenant environment?
Dedicated
Transient
Reserved
Public

12. What is the VMware Solutions Shared service?
A collection of VMware based virtual machines on a Power server
A self-service on-demand VMware cloud computing platform with VMware vCloud Director
A secure, isolated private cloud hosted within a public cloud
A bare metal solution with vCenter and vSphere options

13. What is a Virtual Private Cloud?
Any vendors public cloud
An on-premises cloud that connects to a public cloud
A collection of virtual machines that are interconnected
A secure, isolated private cloud hosted within a public cloud

14. What tier of Object Storage class should be used where data is accessed only a few times per year?
Smart tier
Vault
Standard
Cold vault

15. IBM’s Cloud Backup service is used to back up and restore data between servers in one or more data centers. Which is NOT a benefit of Cloud Backup?
Geo-redundancy
Management Portal
End-to-End Data Encryption
SDKs

16. IBM’s Cloud Object Storage is a highly scalable cloud storage service. What are some of the features of Cloud Object Storage?
SQL query support
Encryption
SDKs and APIs
All of the above

17. What do IBM’s Cloud Internet Services provide?
A service to distribute traffic among your virtual machines
Reliable and secure options for Internet facing applications by using Cloudflare
A highly distributed platform of servers that helps minimize delays
Secure dedicated connectivity to IBM Cloud infrastructure

18. What is the benefit of a Gen2 VPC?
Available in all data centers
Up to 80 Gbps networking
Always deployed to bare metal
Virtual machines on each node

19. What is the VMware Solutions Dedicated service?
A collection of VMware based virtual machines on a Power server
A self-service on-demand VMware cloud computing platform with VMware vCloud Director
A secure, isolated private cloud hosted within a public cloud
A bare metal solution with vCenter and vSphere options

20. What are containers?
A shallow replica of an application
An implementation of the OCI specification
A single tenant virtual machine
Packaging up application code and any dependencies

21. Which IBM Cloud service comes with automatic routing, health monitoring, and is free tier compatible?
Virtual Servers
Cloud Foundry
OpenShift
App Connect

22. OpenShift is available on:
GCP
Azure, On-premises
IBM Cloud
All of the above

23. Cloud Functions is based on which open source project?
OpenWhisk
OpenLambda
Knative
Fn project

24. How can the OpenShift service on IBM Cloud be deployed?
On a VMware Solution
Bare metal only
Virtual server only
Virtual server and Bare metal

25. What services relate to deploying applications to the IBM Cloud Kubernetes service?
Helm Catalog and Continuous Delivery
Cloud Container Registry and LogDNA
Sysdig and LogDNA
Cloud Container Registry and Helm Catalog

26. How can the IBM Cloud Kubernetes service be deployed?
On a VMware Solution
Bare metal only
Virtual server only
Virtual server and Bare metal

27. To deploy a Cloud Foundry project, use which command?
cf start
cf deploy
cf run
cf push

28. What IBM Cloud service is a FaaS implementation?
OpenShift
Kubernetes Service
Cloud Functions
Cloud Foundry

29. Which IBM Cloud database service is a fully managed NoSQL document-based database?
Db2 Hosted
Db2
Db2 Warehouse
IBM Cloudant

30. loud Paks are built and based on which platform?
OKD
OpenShift
OpenStack
IBM Kubernetes Service

31. What is data science?
Is a method for gleaning insights from structured and unstructured data using analytics to machine learning.
A statistical model to enable better predictions.
Using machine learning and AI to build models.
Gaining insights from structured data using analytics and machine learning.

32. What is the business value of blockchain?
Fast transaction processing speed.
A shared source of truth and the visibility into the history of an asset
Enabling cryptocurrency trading.
A distributed database to ensure fault tolerance for transactions.

33. What is the main benefit of continuous integration?
Increased communication between business and development teams.
Delivering patches to customers as fast as possible.
Automatically building and testing changes pushed to a code repository.
Pushing code changes to production as fast as possible.

34. What is DevOps?
A set of practices that combine software development and IT operations to shorten the development lifecycle and provide high quality software
A set of practices that combine software development and business operations to shorten the development lifecycle and provide high quality software
Using continuous integration to deliver faster results.
None of the mentioned

35. Which services does the Watson IoT Platform write to?
Cloud Pak for Data
MQ, Kubernetes, MongoDB
Db2 Hosted, Object Storage, MongoDB
Cloudant, Object Storage, Event Streams, Db2 Warehouse

36. Analytics Engine is based on which two open-source analytics projects?
Apache Hadoop and TensorFlow
Apache Spark and Apache Kafka
Apache Spark and Apache Hadoop
Apache Kafka and Pytorch

37. Which IBM Cloud service is all-in-one tool for easily connecting apps, integrating data, building APIs and acting on events?
MQ
App Connect
Information Server
API Connect

38. Which IBM Cloud service supports multiple messaging protocols as a broker that lets you route, track and queue messages with customizable persistence levels, delivery settings and publish confirmations?
Messages for RabbitMQ
Event Streams
Watson Assistant
MQ

39. Which type of delivery enables the greatest amount of control for the developer?
SaaS
IaaS
PaaS
Serverless

40. Which account type provides discounted pricing?
Pay-as-you-go
Lite
Advanced
Subscription

41. What is one of the main features of the cost estimator?
Provides estimates based on local currency, if available
Export the estimate as a Word doc
Supported by most IBM Cloud services
Supported by IAM enabled services

42. Which IBM Cloud feature gives you command line control of your cloud resources, applications and infrastructure, from any web browser?
IBM Cloud API
IBM Cloud SDKs
IBM Cloud Shell
IBM Cloud Catalog

43. Compute, Storage and Network services can be grouped together as what?
SaaS
PaaS
DBaaS
IaaS

44. What does IBM Cloud Direct Link provide?
A service to distribute traffic among your virtual machines
Reliable and secure options for Internet facing applications by using Cloudflare
A highly distributed platform of servers that helps minimize delays
Secure dedicated connectivity to IBM Cloud infrastructure

45. What service provides virtual servers and bare metal servers with a SAN-like iSCSI storage?
Cloud Backup
File Storage
Block Storage
Object Storage

46. Which third-party VMware integration assists with creating and managing disaster recovery?
Caveonix
Zerto
F5 BIG IP
Veeam

47. Which compute service allows you to run virtual servers on IBM LinuxONE, getting you access to IBM Z technology?
Hyper Protect
Bare metal
Power Systems
Virtual Servers

48. OpenShift 4 brought in which new features?
Mesh Networking, Operators, CLI
Serverless, Integrated Container Registry, Operators
Pipelines, Mesh Networking, Admin Console
Serverless, Pipelines, Mesh Networking, Operators

49. What is the main benefit of OpenShift on IBM Cloud?Free tier option
Available in only select regions
Free tier option
Automatic updates and patching
Support for old versions of OpenShift

50. What IBM Cloud service is a PaaS implementation?
OpenShift
Kubernetes Service
Cloud Functions
Cloud Foundry

51. How does OpenShift extend Kubernetes?
Monitoring tools
Projects, virtual machine support
CLI, integrated console
Projects, integrated console, monitoring tools

52. Cloud Functions use the following concepts?
Actions, Hooks, Combinations
Triggers, Hooks, Sequences
Actions, Triggers, Sequences
Actions, Triggers, Combinations

53. Which IBM Cloud service lets you add end-to-end data visualization capabilities to your application so your users can easily drag and drop to quickly find valuable insight and create visualizations on their own?
Watson Studio
Cloudant
App Connect
Cognos Dashboard

54. Which Cloud Pak solution offers low code tools to consume content, automate business workflow and the implementation of business policies?
Cloud Pak for Automation
Cloud Pak for Integration
Cloud Pak for Security
Cloud Pak for Data

55. Which AI lifecycle management tool is used to monitor AI models?
Watson OpenScale
Watson Machine Learning
Watson Knowledge Catalog
Watson Studio

56. Which Cloud Pak is a fully integrated data and AI platform that modernizes how businesses collect, organize and analyze data to infuse AI throughout their organizations?
Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management
Cloud Pak for Integration
Cloud Pak for Security
Cloud Pak for Data

57. What is the enterprise grade messaging platform that is compatible with IBM and AWS?
App Connect
Messages for RabbitMQ
Event Streams
MQ

58. Which scenario describes a multi-cloud environment?
I have database services deployed on premises which are securely connected to public webservers in IBM Cloud
I’ve deployed an application in IBM Cloud which uses both IaaS and PaaS services
I use analytics services in IBM Cloud, though the data is generated by an application deployed in another vendor’s cloud
I’ve architected my application so that it uses OpenShift on IBM Cloud, as well as their MongoDB DBaaS

59. Which of the following is one of the building blocks for Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Bare Metal Servers running VMware
Multi-zone Regions
IBM Cloud Gateway Appliances
Security Access Lists

60. What type of storage in IBM Cloud can be used to create an ‘NFS Share’?
IBM Cloud Direct Attached Storage
IBM Cloud Object Storage
IBM Cloud Block Storage
IBM Cloud File Storage

61. Which TWO of the following are billing types for IBM Cloud Classic Infrastructure Virtual Servers?
Hourly
Monthly
both (a) and (b)
None of These

62. Which service available in IBM Cloud can help protect applications against DDoS attacks?
VPC Public Gateway
Direct Link Exchange
Cloud Internet Services
Zerto

63. How are permissions to work with Cloud Foundry services controlled in IBM Cloud?
Via IAM access rights
Via Organisations and Spaces
Via Service-IDs and Roles
Via Resource Groups and Access Groups

64. What type of configuration file is used by Kubernetes to tell it how to deploy a service?
KSML
CFML
HTML
YAML

65. Which of the following would you not expect an orchestration platform to deliver?
Service discovery
Operating System upgrades
Load balancing
Application scaling

66. Which of the following applies to IBM Cloud Paks
Run on top of Red Hat OpenShift
Can add to any VMWare virtual machine or container platform
Only available on the IBM Cloud
All of the above

67. What is a Red Hat OpenShift Project?
A GitHub repository containing all the resources needed to deploy an application to OpenShift
An abstraction based on Kubernetes namespaces with built in user management to group and isolate related objects
A DevOps pipeline to manage the life cycle of an application on OpenShift
An optional toolset which can be used to coordinate the development of different components of an application within and without the OpenShift platform

68. A user wants to use an analytics application on the cloud, but does not want to have to install or manage it themselves. What type of cloud deployment model suits their requirement?
PaaS
DBaaS
IaaS
SaaS

69. A customer has asked you to explain the benefits of a multicloud environment. Which of the following statements would you include in your reply?
It can provide added resilience to failure and high availability for critical applications by replicating workloads in different vendor’s clouds
It allows you to easily connect on-premises services to services running in a vendor’s public cloud using a gateway appliance
It enhances data security because you can place your data into services running in the vendor’s private cloud, while application servers run in their public cloud
It means that you are dealing with a single vendor’s Public and Private clouds and that make administration far simpler

70. A customer is getting frustrated because they have 30 developers and they need to provide them with the same IBM Cloud account privileges to work on a project. They are saying that it will take a long time for them to grant all the IAM rights individually. What can you suggest?
Create a Resource Group, grant the rights once to the Resource Group and then grant the Resource group to all the users
Create an Organization, grant the rights once to the Organization and then grant the Organization to all the users
Create an Access Group, grant the rights once to the Access Group and then grant the Access group to all the users
Create a Space, grant the rights once to the Space and then grant the Space to all the users