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Question 1

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Which of the following statements does *NOT* describe IBM

Event Streams?

Publish and subscribe

Delivery of messages exactly once. 

Real-time data feeds.

High-throughput with low-latency.

Question 2

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A MQ Appliance has three main benefits over traditional MQ

software deployments. What are they?

Reduced TCO by consolidation, enhanced security with

Access Method Services (AMS), and low latency support.

Reduced TCO by consolidation, enhanced security, and 

business continuity with simple high availability disaster
recovery.

Reduced TCO by consolidation, enabled for multicloud, and

business continuity with high availability with disaster
recovery.

There are no additional benefits to using the IBM MQ

Appliance over traditional software deployments.
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A client tells you they want to 'bring data closer to a client’s

loyalty application, allowing the application to provide a more
responsive and interactive experience for customer' Which IBM
Event Streams usage pattern is applicable?

Maximize client interaction.

Provide Data to Application While Protecting your Backend.

Drive Interactive Applications. 

Take Advantage of Machine Learning.

Question 4

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Your client is interested in high availability and cloud native

messaging. However, the client does see value in single sign-on
and common logging. What do you recommend?

IBM Event Streams

IBM Cloud Pak for Integration 

MQ Advanced

IBM MQ on z/OS
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Which IBM Messaging product would you recommend for the

transfer of files between mission-critical systems that require
exactly-once delivery?

IBM Event Streams

IBM MQ 

IBM Aspera

IBM API Connect

Question 6

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IBM MQ has a versioning delivery model based on Long Term

Support (LTS), this delivery model is ideal for clients that are
interested in fixed function and stability, as well as a
Continuous Delivery (CD) model. What are the client
characteristics that would be lead you to recommend a CD
delivery model?

The client who continuously updates business process

workflows.

The client continuously integrates to take advantage of 

new function as it becomes available.

The client who refreshes software environments every

year.

The client who continuously integrates to take meet GDPR

requirements.
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You are working on a pricing estimate for a proposal. What are

the three value components of IBM Event Streams that are
used to price?

Kafka Broker Containers, Geo Replicator Containers, and

Kafka Schema Registry.

Kafka Broker Containers, Geo Replicator Containers, 

and Kafka Connects Containers.

Kafka Broker Containers, Global Replicator Containers, and

Kafka Connects Containers.

Kafka Broker Containers, Geo Replicator Containers, and

Appicurio Connect Containers.
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Your client states that Kafka is all they need for mission critical
messaging. How do you reply?

Ask the client if once-and-only once message delivery 

for communication, integration between systems and/or
applications is important. Highlight that IBM MQ is also
ideal with tasks that are long running, require
prioritization, and flexible routing amongst systems. It
also includes important capabilities for mission-critical
messaging.

IBM Event Streams, which is Kafka based, is ideal for

mission-critical messaging due to its bi-directional
messaging support. Highlight that IBM Event Streams
messaging is also ideal with tasks that are long running,
require prioritization, transactionality, and flexible routing
amongst systems.

Kafka focuses on real-time processing and data analysis

through synchronous messaging. Highlight that IBM MQ is
also ideal with tasks that are long running, require
prioritization, transactionality, and flexible routing amongst
systems and that Kafka's strength is streaming data.

IBM MQ is Kafka based so it is ideal for mission-critical

messaging due to its once-and-only-once messaging and
support. Highlight that IBM MQ messaging is also ideal for
tasks that are long running, require prioritization,
transactionality, and flexible routing amongst systems.
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Which statement best describes the difference between IBM

MQ Managed File Transfer (MFT) capabilities and IBM Aspera?

IBM MQ Managed File Transfer uses IBM Aspera under the

covers so there is no real difference between the two
solutions.

IBM MQ Managed File Transfer is for transferring files over

long distances at speed while IBM Aspera is best for short
distance transfer of very large volumes of data.

IBM MQ MFT is a better fit for regional transfer use 

cases while IBM Aspera focuses on moving very large

files quickly over longer distances.

IBM MQ Managed File Transfer is only to be used for files

up to 100KB and Aspera is for all message sizes including
image and video data.

Question 10

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Which of the following statements is NOT a characteristic

aligned with Asynchronous Messaging?

Delivery of messages exactly once

A safe place' for messages to live between applications

Simple HTTP connectivity without requiring service 

guarantees

Fire and forget

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Which of the following statements is *NOT* a benefit of

deploying the IBM Event Streams Operator versus open-source
Apache Kafka?

Highly skilled experts to monitor and manage 

deployment.

Container placement critical to ensure production-level

availability.

Secured network ingress traffic.

Apache Kafka has many distinct components to deploy,

configure, and coordinate for secure connectivity.

Question 12

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During a cloud messaging conversation with your client, they

mention how AWS is the company standard for public cloud.
Before the end of the meeting what do you want to ensure your
client knows?

IBM understands that clients need flexibility when

selecting public cloud solutions. While IBM supports
deploying IBM MQ through software deployment to Virtual
Machines or running in containers on public clouds such as
AWS, IBM Pubic Cloud is preferred.

Deploying messaging on AWS is a great solution. IBM

supports deployment of IBM MQ through software
deployment to Virtual Appliances on Public Clouds.

IBM supports deployment of IBM MQ to virtual Machines

and to containers running only on RedHat Public Cloud.

IBM understands that clients need flexibility when 

selecting public cloud solutions. IBM supports

deploying IBM MQ through software deployment to
Virtual Machines or running in containers on public
clouds such as AWS and Azure.
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Which of the following statements describes a benefit of IBM

MQ over a Kafka-based solution?

IBM MQ is designed to store event history. This is beneficial

to debugging and problem determination.

IBM MQ is a more lightweight solution that can be 

deployed into a container alongside the microservice on

a fraction of a core.

IBM MQ is less expensive regardless which form factor is

deployed.

IBM MQ is very lightweight and can be deployed on

appliances at a fraction of the cost.

Question 14

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You are having a messaging discussion with a client. The client

asks what deployment form factors are available for IBM MQ.
What form factors do you tell your client?

RedHat certified container, in containers, and Software-as-

a-Service.

Software for deployment to public and private clouds, a

dedicated physical Appliance, and public physical
appliance.

Traditional software deployment for mainframe, a

dedicated physical Appliance, and Software-as-a-Service.

Software deployment for VMs and containers on 

premises and public clouds, dedicated physical

appliance, and Software-as-a-Service.
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In a competitive streaming opportunity you need to highlight

why IBM is a better fit for your client. Which of the following
differentiators does NOT apply to IBM Event Streams?

IBM Event Streams supports geo-replication for Disaster

Recovery and integration with IBM MQ.

IBM Event Streams simplifies Kafka access control with

integrated security.

IBM Event Streams utilizes highly skilled experts to 

monitor and manage scalable implementations for

speedy problem determination.

IBM offers Event Streams on several form factors in both

Private and Public Clouds.
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How would you describe IBM MQ's guarantee once-and-only-

once delivery to a client?

With IBM MQ, clients can build integration flows in minutes

starting with a catalog of connectors. These connectors
have a MQ queue between them. The IBM MQ checks to
make sure the messages are sent and received once-and-
only-once.

IBM MQ allows clients to create, expose, manage, and

monetize APIs across clouds. This means businesses and
their customers can connect digital applications so that
messages are delivered only-and-only-once.

IBM MQ provides a gateway to help secure, control and log

messaging traffic and interactions, and supporting
containers while maintaining system performance. This is
what guarantees once only delivery.

Referred to as asynchronous messaging, IBM MQ is the 

"shock absorber" between applications. The sender
application does not need the receiving application to
be available at the same time, as IBM MQ provides
queue availability to support guaranteed once-and-
only-once.
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The requirement to 'stay open for business' yet current with

new capabilities is top of mind with most clients. How does IBM
Event Streams accomplish this differently than the
competition?

IBM Event Streams supports zero downtime upgrades

through a real-time update feature to back end systems.

IBM Event Streams supports zero downtime upgrades 

through utilizing a 'change later' capture feature.

IBM Event Streams supports this with a simple, 3-click-

deploy feature.

IBM Event Streams supports intuitively designed geo-

replication features for system updates and connectivity.

Question 18

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Today, many industries require an event-driven architecture.

What is a common characteristic across all industries that is
driving more and more clients to invest in event-driven
architectures?

Clients are seeing the need to transition from batch 

transactions to real-time access to data.

Clients are seeing the need to transition to edge computing

to keep up with the competition.

Clients are seeing the need to implement high volume

transaction speed capability to check inventory in real-
time.

Clients are seeing the need to implement a user experience

that is highly digitized given today's mobile devices.
Question 19

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A client needs to protect their Systems of Record while

streaming data in a multicloud environment. Which Usage
Pattern is this?

Drive interactive applications.

Provide data to applications while protecting the back- 

end.

Drive data to applications with machine learning.

Provide data to messaging queues while protecting the

back-end.

Question 20

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Your client agrees that IBM Event Streams is a great best fit for
their business. How is IBM Event Streams implemented?

IBM Event Streams is purchased and implemented with

App Connect as both styles of integration are required for
implementation.

IBM Event Streams is purchased and implemented as a

stand-alone offering.

IBM Event Streams is purchased and implemented with

IBM MQ as both have messaging components.

IBM Event Streams is purchased and implemented with 

Cloud Pak for Integration.
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You are discussing the following with your client. 'When a

source application has no knowledge of who is listening to the
events being emitted, or when a source application is normally
completely disconnected from the target application’ what
messaging pillar are you discussing?

Hight Speed Data Transfer

Event Driven Enterprise 

Business Critical Communication

Microservices and Cloud Native application development

Question 22

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Simple maintenance is characteristic of the MQ Appliance form

factor. Which form factor has the characteristics of reduced
complexity for debug and troubleshooting?

IBM MQ Software-as-a-Service

IBM MQ in containers

IBM MQ Appliance

IBM MQ on z/OS 
Question 23

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A client discusses the need to transfer large files over long

distances at high speed. Which IBM Messaging product would
you recommend?

IBM Aspera 

IBM App Connect

IBM MQ

IBM Event Streams

Question 24

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Which IBM Messaging product would you recommend for a

client that has the need to use streaming and storage of event
messages?

IBM DataPower

IBM Aspera

IBM Event Streams 

IBM MQ

Question 25

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A client is discussing how difficult it is to offer its customers a

more personalized experience. Which client persona are you
speaking with, and are they a Buyer or an Influencer?

The client is a Enterprise Architect persona and is a Buyer.

The client is Developer persona and is a Buyer.

The client is a Line of Business persona and is a Buyer. 

The client is a Line of Business persona and is a Influencer.