Question 1
Q1A financial services company is migrating a legacy, stateful application to IBM Cloud. The application requires direct, low-latency access to physical hardware for performance-sensitive calculations and has strict data residency requirements that prohibit multi-tenancy at the hypervisor level. The development team has minimal experience with containerization. Which IBM Cloud compute option is the most suitable choice to meet these specific constraints?
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Correct answer: C
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers are the optimal choice because they provide dedicated, single-tenant physical servers, which satisfies the requirements for direct hardware access, low-latency performance, and strict data residency without hypervisor-level multi-tenancy. VSIs are multi-tenant virtual machines. OpenShift and Code Engine are container/serverless platforms, which are not suitable given the team's lack of containerization experience and the application's nature.