About the Exam

This exam covers designing, planning, and creating architectures with IBM Cloud Pak for Integration capabilities. It is aimed at solution architects working with integration solutions in hybrid cloud environments. Passing demonstrates that the candidate can design solutions for multi-style, modern integration requirements and support enterprise digital transformation.

Exam Topics

  • Cloud Pak for Integration Overview12%
  • Container Platform Architecture9%
  • Planning , Scaling, and Resiliency14%
  • Modernize Integrations13%
  • Product Capabilities and Use Cases22%
  • Storage Considerations8%
  • Foundational Services10%
  • Observability6%
  • DevOps6%

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QuestionQ1

Foundational Services

Which of the following is part of the Cloud Pak foundational services monitoring service?

  • A Exporters
  • B IBM Tivoli Monitoring
  • C AlertCentral
  • D Instana
Explanation

The Cloud Pak foundational services monitoring service installs a Prometheus stack that includes Exporters, along with Prometheus, Alertmanager, and Grafana. IBM Monitoring service documentation

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QuestionQ2

Product Capabilities and Use Cases

Which Cloud Pak for Integration feature uses AI-powered automation to speed up flow development?

  • A Mapping Assist
  • B Secure Gateway
  • C ACE Toolkit
  • D Aspera
Explanation

Mapping Assist uses AI-powered smart mapping suggestions to automatically populate fields in App Connect Designer actions, which reduces the work required to build integration flows.

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QuestionQ3

Storage Considerations

Which two methods can be used to supply multiple BAR files to an integration server?

Choose two
  • A Using the Content Server
  • B Creating custom images (containers)
  • C Leveraging the managed IBM Container Registry cp.icr.io
  • D Using an external HTTPS repository
  • E Storing BAR-files on an FTP Server
Explanation

A custom server runtime image can contain all required BAR files. An external HTTPS repository can supply multiple BAR files by specifying their URLs as a comma-separated list. The content server mechanism is limited to a single BAR file for an integration server.

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QuestionQ4

Planning , Scaling, and Resiliency

Which of the following is a component of the Vertical Pod Autoscaler?

  • A Pods-controller
  • B Scalability-controller
  • C Admission-controller
  • D Resources-controller
Explanation

Vertical Pod Autoscaler includes a recommender, an updater, and a VPA admission controller webhook. The admission controller applies recommended resource requests and limits when targeted Pods are created or recreated.

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QuestionQ5

Planning , Scaling, and Resiliency

Which statement is correct regarding DataPower pod autoscaling?

  • A The DataPower operator does not support pod autoscaling.
  • B The DataPower operator supports only horizontal pod autoscaling.
  • C The DataPower operator supports both horizontal and vertical pod autoscaling.
  • D The DataPower operator supports only vertical pod autoscaling.
Explanation

The DataPower Operator supports both horizontal pod autoscaling (HPA), which changes the number of pods, and vertical pod autoscaling (VPA), which adjusts resources assigned to existing pods. HPA and VPA must be configured as alternative scaling methods rather than used simultaneously.

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