A 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?
A developer is building a Tekton pipeline on IBM Cloud to automate testing. The pipeline consists of two sequential `Tasks`: a `build-task` that creates a binary and a `test-task` that runs tests against that binary. The `build-task` successfully places the binary in its output directory. However, the `test-task` fails, reporting that the binary file cannot be found. What is the most likely cause of this issue in the Tekton pipeline definition?
A retail company wants to enhance its e-commerce application with a feature that analyzes customer product reviews in real-time to identify overall sentiment, key entities (like product names and brands), and categorizes the feedback (e.g., 'shipping', 'quality', 'price'). Which single IBM Watson service is best suited to provide all these text analysis capabilities through one API?
A development team needs to deploy a new microservice on IBM Cloud. The service experiences highly unpredictable traffic, ranging from zero requests for hours to thousands of requests per minute during peak events. The team wants a fully managed platform that automatically scales from zero to many instances and bills only for the actual execution time, without needing to manage underlying servers or Kubernetes clusters. Which TWO IBM Cloud services are designed to meet these serverless, scale-to-zero requirements? (Select TWO).
True or False: In IBM Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM), an Access Group is a collection of users and service IDs that can be assigned a single policy, simplifying permission management across multiple identities.
A DevOps team is using IBM Cloud Schematics to manage their infrastructure as code. They have a single Terraform configuration that deploys a development, staging, and production environment. To manage environment-specific variables like resource sizes and network ranges, they use separate `.tfvars` files. Which Schematics concept allows them to apply these different variable files to the same core Terraform code to provision the distinct environments?
A developer needs to store large, unstructured data files, such as video assets and application backups, in a highly durable and cost-effective manner. The data will be accessed infrequently but must be readily available when needed. Which IBM Cloud service is the most appropriate for this use case, and what feature should be used to minimize long-term storage costs?
A developer is configuring a web application fronted by IBM Cloud Internet Services (CIS). To enhance security, they want to prevent common web attacks like SQL injection and cross-site scripting (XSS) before traffic reaches their origin server. Which CIS feature should be enabled and configured to achieve this goal?
A development team is building a mobile application that requires users to log in using their social media accounts (e.g., Google, Facebook) as well as a traditional email and password. The team wants a managed service on IBM Cloud that handles the entire authentication flow, including social identity federation, user profile management, and the issuance of JWT tokens for securing backend APIs, without building the security infrastructure from scratch. Which service is designed for this purpose?
When deploying a containerized application to IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service (IKS), a developer must ensure the container image is stored in a private, secure, and geographically close location to the cluster for fast pulls. Additionally, the images must be scanned for known vulnerabilities. What is the primary purpose of the IBM Cloud Container Registry in this workflow?