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Cloud Paks Foundational Services

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Question 1

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Foundational Services can be organized into five pillars or

grouping of capabilities, services, and components. Which
pillar focuses on APIs and endpoint libraries?

Application Services 
Operational Services
Data and Event Services

User Experience Services

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Question 2

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Foundational Services can be organized into five pillars or

grouping of capabilities, services, and components. Which
pillar focuses on repositories and engines?

User Experience Services

Operational Services
Application Services

Data and Event Services 

Question 3

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What is the name of the service which has made it possible for
IBM to untangle the string of dependencies for current and
future releases of the common Foundational Services?

CRUD Operations
Red Hat Operators 

Red Hat OpenShift

Istio

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Question 4

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Red Hat OpenShift administrators set resource-access and

other permissions for pods running on the cluster using what?
Note: this technology applies to the Cloud Paks Foundational
Services that run on OpenShift, too!

Security Context Constraints (SCCs) 

Downstream Distribution of Security (DDoS)
Distributed Diagnostic Levers (DDLs)

Integrated Access Management (IAM)

Question 5

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What statement best describes the new generation of IBM

Cloud Paks?

A complete reboot

A logical evolution 
A return to the drawing board
Just another rebranding

Question 6

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The "Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Platform" consists of three main

parts. Which of the following is NOT a part of that trio?

Cloud Object Storage 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Ansible Automation Platform
OpenShift Container Platform

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Question 7

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Which core pillar does the "Data Fabric" play and use case
belong to?

Analyze
Modernize
Secure
Data-Driven Insights 

Question 8

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Why did IBM choose to re-organize the Cloud Paks and

Foundational Services architecture into 4 core pillars?

One pillar is for on-premises, a second for public cloud, a

third pillar is for hybrid multicloud, and a fourth pillar for
edge devices.

Going forward, there will only be 4 IBM Cloud Paks

offered to the market.
Conversations with customers should first focus on 

what are the use cases and who are the personas of
interest, then afterwards identify the relevant Cloud
Paks.

One pillar is targeted at "do it yourself" (DIY)

deployments, a second pillar at customer-managed
deployments, and a third pillar is for IBM-managed
deployments.

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Question 9

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Foundational Services interoperate and sit between which

layers of the Cloud Paks Platform architecture?

Between Infrastructure and Red Hat OpenShift.

Between Red Hat OpenShift and IBM Cloud Paks. 
Between individual IBM Cloud Paks only.

Foundational Services are only available on-premises

(private Infrastructure).

Question 10

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The notion of "write once, run anywhere" is key to IBM's

strategic vision of Cloud Paks, Foundational Services, and Red
Hat OpenShift. Which statement best summarizes our
approach to the hybrid multicloud market?

Cloud only makes sense for businesses that are cloud-

native and born-in-the-cloud.
Cloud investments need to be all-in on a single vendor in
order to be successful.

Cloud is not a place or destination, but a capability. 

Cloud is outdated.

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Question 11

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Foundational Services can be organized into five pillars or

grouping of capabilities, services, and components. Which
pillar focuses on metering and licensing?

Operational Services 
User Experience Services
Data and Event Services
Application Services

Question 12

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Why does IBM consider earlier iterations of the IBM Cloud

Paks architecture as too "vertical"?

Customers were getting too lost in the depth of

capabilities packed into every Cloud Pak.
The early Cloud Paks had such a steep learning curve that
few were able to get started.
The individual Cloud Paks were too siloed and not as 
tightly integrated as our customers desired.
Infrastructure requirements to run early versions of Cloud
Paks were too expensive.

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Question 13

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What is the best way to sell IBM Cloud Paks Foundational

Services?

Since the Foundational Services aren't something we 

sell directly, it's best to focus on their value to the IBM
Cloud Paks and improved customer experience they
offer.
Email your IBM sales representative for pricing
information.
Look up the cost per API call to Foundational Services on
Seismic.

Look up the SKU numbers in the IBM Catalog.

Question 14

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There are three core axioms in IBM and Red Hat's philosophy
towards the Cloud Paks Platform we are building towards. Of
the four statements below, which is NOT one of those core
values?

Run any workload

Run transparently 
Run in containers
Run anywhere

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Question 15

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When talking to customers and to the marketplace about the

common set of services that support IBM Cloud Paks, we must
always refer to them by their proper name: IBM Cloud Paks
Foundational Services (or "Foundational Services" for short).
However, internally at IBM you may come across old
documentation that references them by a different name. Of
the following, which one is another common— but outdated —
name for the Foundational Services?

Slate
Bedrock 
Summit
Alpine

Question 16

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Which one of the following statements is NOT a core "pillar" or

aggregate of Cloud Paks capabilities?

Secure
Automate
Analyze 
Modernize

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Question 17

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Which core pillar does the "Zero Trust" play and use case
belong to?

Secure 
Analyze

Modernize
Automate

Question 18

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Many of you will have worked with enterprise customers who

have apprehensions about modernizing their legacy
applications and services using containers. To demonstrate
the benefits of containers, we as sellers need to first identify
the sources of concern for our customers. What is a common
misconception to moving applications into containers that you
should be prepared to dispell?

The customer believes that virtual machines (VMs) will

always be superior to containers.
The customer has no desire to operate in the cloud.
The customer believes that non-fungable tokens (NFTs)
are a superior option to containers.
The customer has unique requirements for availability, 
resiliency, and security — and they are uncertain
whether containers are up to the task.

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Question 19

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The architecture of IBM Cloud Paks has changed from a series

of siloed "verticals" to...

Horizontally-integrated environments 
Discrete architectures
Disconnected environments
Always-online containers

Question 20

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Which of the following priorities helps to provide Cloud Paks

and Foundational Services with consistency in operations and
delivery?

Standards and certification. 

Blockchain provenance.
Metered API usage.
Community-sourced projects.

Question 21

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What is the name of the platform that IBM and Red Hat are
ultimately building towards?

Platform of Digital Transformation 

Foundational Services Pak
Private Foundational Services
Cloud Paks Private

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Question 22

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Foundational Services inherit enterprise-centric features like

metering, monitoring, and IAM from what earlier version of the
service?

ICP 
RHEL
NoSQL
PaaS

Question 23

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You're talking to an existing IBM customer who had previously

invested in IBM Cloud Paks. As you bring up the substantial
evolution of our Cloud Paks architecture, you see some
skeptical looks across the room — perhaps the customer is
concerned this might mean having to learn a whole new
interface or scrap everything they've learned about the
platform already? How would you describe the benefit of the
next generation of Cloud Paks and put your customer's mind
at ease?

Cloud Pak capabilities will be less siloed because 

Foundational Services will make it easier to integrate
and work across multiple Cloud Paks.

Cloud Paks can no longer be purchased individually and

will instead come bundled through a single purchase
order.
Every Cloud Pak will now run on a separate OpenShift
cluster.
Future iterations of Cloud Paks will all have identical
(uniform) pricing.

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Question 24

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What is a defining characteristic of FIPS compliant "ENABLED"

offerings? This type of compliance applies to many IBM Cloud
Paks and Cloud Paks Foundational Services.

These offerings support only FIPS connections for

outbound communications.

Inbound communications are *not* FIPS encrypted.

They support both FIPS and non-FIPS connections for 
outbound communications.

Outbound communications are prohibited.

Question 25

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Which core pillar does the "AIOps" play and use case belong
to?

Data-Driven Insights
Predict

Automate 
Analyze

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