Practice Free S2000-023 Exam Online Questions
A bank wants to modernize its "Core Banking" mainframe applications but cannot move the data off-premises due to latency and data gravity.
What is the specific value of IBM Cloud Satellite in this modernization scenario?
- A . Cost Increase: It guarantees higher costs than public cloud.
- B . Data Migration: It acts as a truck to move hard drives.
- C . Consistent Operations Anywhere: It allows the bank to deploy managed IBM Cloud services (like OpenShift) directly onto their on-premises infrastructure (Satellite Location). This brings the cloud operating model to the data, enabling low-latency modernization without the risk and complexity of migrating the mainframe storage to the public cloud.
- D . Mainframe Emulation: It turns x86 servers into mainframes.
Which market segment of the banking industry is primarily characterized by high-volume, low-value transactions, a strong focus on customer experience (mobile/web), and the need to modernize legacy core banking systems?
- A . Investment Banking / Capital Markets
- B . Retail Banking
- C . Corporate / Commercial Banking
- D . Wealth Management
A bank requires a consistent container orchestration platform that runs identically on their on-premises mainframe infrastructure and on the IBM Cloud for Financial Services.
Which technology serves as the foundational hybrid cloud platform to meet this requirement?
- A . Red Hat OpenShift
- B . IBM Cloud Code Engine
- C . Apache Mesos
- D . IBM Cloud Foundry
Which industry standard serves as the primary foundational baseline for the technical security controls within the IBM Cloud Framework for Financial Services?
- A . COBIT 5
- B . NIST 800-53
- C . ISO 9001
- D . PCI DSS
A security administrator wants to ensure that a specific "Audit Team" has Read-Only access to every current and future account created within the "Retail Banking" account group.
Which Enterprise Account feature enables this dynamic access assignment without manual intervention for each new account?
- A . Access Groups: Creating an access group in the child account.
- B . Root Key Rotation: Rotating keys every day.
- C . Enterprise IAM Templates: Creating a template at the Enterprise or Account Group level that automatically assigns the "Auditor" access policy to any account that exists in or is added to that group.
- D . Manual Invitation: Emailing the auditors whenever a new account is created.
An application requires "Session Persistence" (Sticky Sessions) but is being migrated to a stateless microservices architecture on OpenShift.
To adhere to the "Stateless Design" principle, how should the architect refactor the session management?
- A . Local File Storage: Write session files to the container’s local filesystem.
- B . Increase Memory: Give the pod more RAM to hold sessions forever.
- C . Enable Sticky Sessions: Configure the Load Balancer to always route the user to the exact same pod IP.
- D . Externalize State: Move session data out of the application memory (which is lost when pods restart) and into a high-performance external data store like IBM Cloud Databases for Redis, allowing any microservice instance to handle any user request.
A compliance officer needs to ensure that a specific set of configuration rules (e.g., "Block Exec into Pods") is enforced on every Kubernetes cluster in the bank, whether it is in the IBM Cloud Dallas region, the Frankfurt region, or the on-premises data center.
Which hybrid cloud capability enables this "Single Policy, Multi-Cloud Enforcement"?
- A . Configuring a firewall rule at the network edge.
- B . Logging into each cluster manually and running kubectl apply.
- C . Using IBM Cloud Satellite Config (or Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management) to define the policy once and automatically propagate/enforce it across all registered clusters in the hybrid fleet.
- D . Emailing a PDF of the policy to all cluster administrators.
What is the distinct advantage of using Code Risk Analyzer (CRA) compared to a generic static analysis tool when deploying to IBM Cloud?
- A . CRA runs on the mainframe.
- B . CRA is the only tool that can read Python code.
- C . CRA generates random compliance scores.
- D . CRA has built-in knowledge of the specific IBM Cloud Framework for Financial Services controls and maps its findings directly to these Reference Architecture requirements (e.g., checking for specific IBM Cloud configurations like VPE or HPCS integration).
A bank requires a "Disaster Recovery" (DR) strategy with a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of near-zero for their transactional database.
Which architectural design supports this strict data consistency requirement across regions?
- A . Asynchronous Replication: Allowing the secondary region to lag behind by a few seconds.
- B . Active-Passive with Daily Backups: Taking a backup at midnight and restoring it in the DR region.
- C . Manual File Copy: Copying files once a week.
- D . Active-Active with Synchronous Replication: While extremely expensive and latency-sensitive, synchronous replication ensures that a write is not committed until it is persisted in both the primary and secondary regions, guaranteeing zero data loss if the primary region fails.
A "Universal Bank" is adopting a hybrid cloud strategy. They plan to use IBM Cloud Satellite to run regulated workloads in a country where IBM does not have a native data center presence.
Regarding the "Control Plane" dependency, what is a critical architectural consideration for this deployment?
- A . Satellite Locations use a peer-to-peer mesh and do not have a centralized control plane.
- B . The Satellite Location can function indefinitely without any connection to IBM Cloud.
- C . The control plane must be installed on a laptop at the branch office.
- D . The Satellite Location (on-prem) must maintain a persistent, outbound-initiated connection (Satellite Link) to the IBM Cloud managed control plane in a supported home region (e.g., London or Frankfurt) to receive configuration updates, patches, and monitoring.