C1000-176 Exam Information and Outline
IBM Certified Advanced Architect - Cloud v2 (C9006300)
C1000-176 Exam Syllabus & Study Guide
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Exam Code: C1000-176
Exam Name: IBM Certified Advanced Architect - Cloud v2
Number of questions: 60
Number of questions to pass: 37
Time allowed: 90 minutes
Section 1: Design Secure Solutions from the ground up (17%)
Section 2: Strategies for maintaining response time- throughput- and cost targets on IBM Cloud (12%)
Section 3: Designing solutions for ease of operations and automation (15%)
Section 4: Design solutions that survive outages and can perform auto-healing (18%)
Section 5: Design solutions using IBM Cloud services that apply various architectural patterns to satisfy requirements (10%)
Section 6: Design hybrid multicloud platform architectures (13%)
Section 7: Cloud migration and modernization (15%)
- Design Secure Solutions from the ground up
- Apply the IBM Cloud security best practices
- Apply the IBM Cloud shared responsibility model
- Use IBM Cloud security services
- Build and design solutions that take advantage of multiple security service
- Strategies for maintaining response time- throughput- and cost targets on IBM Cloud
- Utilize logging and monitoring to trigger auto-scaling and deployment of services
- Build and design solutions that scale elastically for performance and cost efficiency or take advantage of reserved instances
- Optimize solution performance using geolocation
- Designing solutions for ease of operations and automation
- Describe security and compliance goals
- Design solutions for observability
- Design solutions that take advantage of immutable cloud infrastructure software defined environments
- Centralized logging and monitoring for hybrid multicloud environments
- Design solutions that survive outages and can perform auto-healing
- Design resilient solutions using availability zones and regions
- Design per Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) requirements
- Design resilient solutions using technologies with inherent resiliency
- Design solutions that can survive the outage of a node- region- zone- metro- or cloud provider
- Design solutions using IBM Cloud services that apply various architectural patterns to satisfy requirements
- Design application architecture
- Select the right compute options per the functional requirements on IBM Cloud
- Design solutions for storing and analyzing data
- Design hybrid multicloud platform architectures
- Design solutions for portability
- Apply network design considerations
- Design solutions for data residency
- Design environments for multicloud deployments
- Cloud migration and modernization
- Matching customer requirements with migration use cases to IBM cloud
- Design migration solution to migrate complex workloads to VMs/VSIs on IBM cloud
- Design migration solution to transform and migrate complex workloads to containers on IBM cloud
- Design migration solution to migrate data to DBaaS on IBM cloud