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Question 1
You are talking with someone at a small
networking event. The topic of event
automation comes up and they want to
know what makes IBM Event
Automation different. How do you
respond?
 It’s a complete streaming
platform with low code
stream processing to allow
business users to work with
real time data, and it's all
based on open-source
software.

It offers operational
efficiencies by automating
a hybrid environment. It
allows technical users to
work with no-code data
river processing, while
being extremely cost
effective.

It offers event sharing and

self-service discovery
along with event
management tools. It
enables users to use real-
time event triggers, and it's
all based on Pulsar.

It offers event sharing and

self-service discovery
along with event
management tools. It
enables users to use real-
time event triggers, and it's
all based on Pulsar.

Question 3
You are currently working with a client
that is ready to purchase IBM Event
Automation. From talks with that client
they are interested in starting off with
maybe one or two production projects.
Knowing this, how many VPCs (Virtual
Processor Cores) should they get
licenses for?

87 VPCs

53 VPCs
 28 VPCs

9 VPCs

Question 4
Given the minimal deployment example,
how many Virtual Processor Cores
(VPCs) of Kafka and Flink are there in
total?

5 VPCs

7 VPCs

14 VPCs

4 VPCs

Question 5
What does Event Endpoint management
do?

Build a self-service catalog

of event sources for users
to securely browse and
utilize.

Collect raw streams of

real-time business events
with enterprise-grade
Apache Kafka.

Build a collection of private

event sources for users to
securely browse and
utilize.

Define business scenarios

in an intuitive, easy-to-use
authoring canvas.
Question 6
What benefits can be gained by applying
event-driven architecture to banking and
financial services?

Optimize supplies coming

to the bank, proactive re-
allocation of funds, and
timely reactions to market
conditions

Prevent churn, analyze

spending behavior,
optimize portfolios, and
personalize investment
advice

Prevent bad spending

behaviors, analyze churn,
optimize investment
advice, and personalize
portfolios

Process sensitive
transactions, coordinate
banking staff better, and
avoid significant
investment delays

Question 8
Event Streams connects to and works
with multiple systems, and data can be
sent between producer and consumer
very easily. What enables this
composability?

Kafka Connect-based
connectors

Kafka event-based
adapters

Kafka adapt-based
adapters
 Kafka streaming-based
connectors

Question 9
You are talking with a client that is
thinking of using Solace as their event-
driven architecture solution. What can
you say to change their mind?

Solace provides a strong

order guarantee due to
their message-by-message
communication, but does
not have dynamic message
translation.

Solace is very inexpensive,

but they have an inactive
community and support is
often delayed.

Solace has enterprise

support on AWS S3 along
with secret provider
connectors, but they lack
proper documentation and
set up is complicated.

Solace's event mesh

facilitates sharing
messages from any
location, but has a
complicated setup and
operation.

Question 10
You are in an engagement with a client
where the client is complaining that IBM
is missing event distribution capabilities
in their offering. How do you respond?
Competitors may point to
Event Streams being
restricted to RedHat
OpenShift deployment
only. IBM’s roadmap
includes expanding
platform support to deploy
RedHat UBI containers to
other Kubernetes
implementations. Some
competitors support bare
metal deployment, but this
has not emerged as an
important requirement
expressed by the market.

IBM’s roadmap includes

investments to expand the
Event Integration portfolio
to include stream
processing capabilities.
This will be delivered using
well established open
technologies in line with
IBM’s overall approach.
IBM will also provide a low
code user experience to
broaden the range of users
that can take advantage of
this.

IBM Event Streams

includes Kafka Connect,
opening a vast set of
community connectors.
IBM directly supports a
subset of commonly used
connectors, and they can
add to this quickly based
on demand. Customers
with access to IBM App
Connect can also take
advantage of its large array
of industry and technology
connectors.
 Competitors will point to
some proprietary
capabilities that IBM Event
Streams does not provide,
such as stretch clusters
and tiered storage. IBM will
continue to work in the
community to add
important features in the
open. IBM has found that
most clients do not require
the more niche features
being highlighted.

Question 11
You are sitting down with a prospective
client over coffee at a local café. You are
trying to determine if they would be a
good candidate for Event Automation.
Which of the following questions would
you ask based on what you have learned
in this course?

How do you currently

combine messages to
identify important
situations?

Do you want to make your

infrastructure more
efficient?

How do you currently

discover, locate, and access
relevant business events?

How do you handle

application and event
manager maintenance?

Question 12
During the client meeting, you learn that
the prospective company lacks skills in
the development team. How might you
promote Event Endpoint Management to
this client?
 Event Endpoint
Management produces a
valid AsyncAPI document
for a Kafka cluster without
clients needing to have in
depth AsyncAPI
knowledge.

Event Endpoint
Management describes
events in a non-
standardized way that is
easy for developers to
understand.

Event Endpoint
Management produces a
valid docker image for an
OpenShift cluster without
clients needing to have in
depth Kubernetes
knowledge.

Event Endpoint
Management describes
events in a standardized
way by using API Connect.

Question 13
In a client meeting, you are presenting
the components of IBM Event
Automation to the Chief Technology
Officer (CTO) of the organization: Event
Processing, Event Endpoint
Management, and Event Streams. The
CTO is interested in this IBM offering,
but asks you if they need to purchase all
the components. How would you
respond?

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IBM Event Automation is a
fully composable solution,
so clients can purchase
one, two, or all three of its
components.
 Event streaming is the
foundation of IBM Event
Automation, so this is the
component that client
must purchase. The other
two components are
optional.

IBM Event Automation is a

fully managed solution, so
clients can only buy the
whole package with all
three components
included.

Event Endpoint
Management is optional,
but Event Processing and
Event Streams are required
to purchase IBM Event
Automation.

Question 15
Which element in Event Endpoint
Management is responsible for
decoupling, routing, traffic management,
and security?

Event Gateway

Event Manager

Event Connector

Event Broker

Question 16
You are working with a client that has an
existing Cloud Pak for Integration
(CP4I) deployment and they are looking
to add Event Automation to their
deployment. What two ways can they do
this?
 CP4I clients can
temporarily shift
entitlements for Event
Automation licenses or
they can purchase
additional entitlements.

Buy additional capacity for

CP4I or Event Automation
as a separate product.

CP4I clients can rent to

own a perpetual Event
Automation license
through additional monthly
payments or purchase
additional entitlements.

CP4I as a Service clients

can subscribe to Event
Automation and on-
premises clients can
purchase additional
entitlements.

Question 17
Which of the following is NOT a
competitor of Event Automation?

Azure Event Hubs

Amazon Aurora

Amazon MSK

Amazon Kinesis

Question 18
Which of the following is NOT a
challenge of event-driven architecture?
 The need to access events
quickly while they are still
actionable.

A lack of events being

generated in the business
environment.

There are different data

sources, applications, and
systems.

There is a huge volume of

new events that take place
across an organization in
many different contexts.

Question 19
You are talking with a client that has
Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I) and
they want to know what is the difference
in event capabilities between CP4I and
Event Automation. Which one of the
following is the correct answer?

Event Processing

Event Endpoint Streams

Event Endpoint
Management

Event Streams

Question 20
You are speaking with an IBM MQ client,
and you are showing them the benefits
of IBM Event Automation. They ask why
they need Event Automation if they
already have IBM MQ. How can you
respond?
Event Automation captures
a continuous stream of
events across the business
environment and makes
them persistently available.
Using both Event
Automation and MQ
enables communications
flowing over MQ to be
captured as events and
shared across the
enterprise.

Using IBM MQ lets you

capture a continuous
stream of data persistently.
With Event Automation
applications have a
platform to request and
coordinate processing
tasks. Together they give
the business an overall
picture of what is
happening through
messages and events.

Event Automation delivers

snapshots of your systems
and business and makes
them temporarily available
to live consumers. Using
both Event Automation and
MQ enables
communications flowing
over MQ to be shared
across the enterprise
unlike with stand-alone
MQ.

Using IBM MQ lets you

capture data persistently.
With Event Automation
applications can run
processing tasks. Together
they are what is necessary
to achieve fully mature
event-driven architecture
that businesses need to be
adaptable and innovative in
the modern market.
Question 21
After presenting IBM Event Automation
to a retail client, the CEO of the company
says, "I understand Event Streams is the
core of an event-driven enterprise, but
what does Event Processing do?" How
would you respond?

Event Processing takes

pre-processed events and
makes them relevant to a
business context, so users
can be empowered to work
with events to identify and
act on situations in the
moment.

Event Processing takes

pre-processed events and
makes them irrelevant to a
business context, so users
can be empowered to work
with events to identify and
act on situations in the
moment.

Event Processing takes raw

events and makes them
relevant to a business
context, so users can be
empowered to work with
relevant business events to
identify and act on
situations in the moment.

Event Processing takes raw

events and makes them
irrelevant to a business
context, so users can be
empowered to work with
business events to identify
and act on situations in the
moment.

Question 22
What percentage of organizations have
not identified the right tool or vendors to
meet their event-driven architectural
needs?
 59%

75%

20%

69%

Question 23
You understand resilience is very
important for the banking client you are
going to meet tomorrow. How would you
describe the enhanced resilience of
Event Streams to your client?

Event Streams has

enhanced resilience with
clusters across 2 zones
and cannot tolerate failure
of a zone with no service
degradation.

Event Streams has

enhanced resilience with
clusters across two zones
and works in a similar
manner as if brokers are
deployed within single
zone.

Event Streams has

enhanced resilience with
clusters across multiple
zones that must have at
least 3 zones and works in
different manners so that
risks can be diversified.
 Event Streams has
enhanced resilience with
clusters across multiple
zones that must have at
least 3 zones and can
tolerate failure of a zone
with no service
degradation.

Question 24
Your client is interested in Event
Streams, but is concerned about having
a simple disaster recovery (DR) solution.
How would you respond?

The geo-replication feature

in Event Streams makes DR
simple, as it is based on
IBM project Mirror Maker 3
with a more seamless user
experience.

The geo-replication feature

in Event Streams makes DR
simple, as it synchronizes
data between clients'
clusters typically located in
different geographical
locations.

The region-mirroring
feature in Event Streams
makes DR simple, as it
creates copies of all topics
automatically that clients
don't even need to select.

The region-mirroring
feature in Event Streams
makes DR simple, as it is
not based on any open-
source project but an IBM
innovation.

Question 25
Event Streams can easily tap into an
entire ecosystem for connectors,
 analytics, processing, and more. Which
is one of the open-source technologies
that Event Streams are built on?

Apache Kafka

Red Panda

Akka

Stream Sets

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