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| Topic 1 | - Architect with Data Governance Services: This section evaluates skills of a Data Governance Specialist, covering the architecture of knowledge catalogs to enable data discovery and management. Data Privacy architectures ensure compliance with regulatory requirements around data protection. Knowledge Accelerators involve designing solutions that speed up data governance processes through predefined policies and templates.
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| Topic 2 | - Architect with AI Series: This section measures the skills of an AI Solution Architect and includes designing architectures for solutions involving various IBM Watson AI services. Architecting with Watson Assistant involves creating conversational AI interfaces. Watson Discovery solutions focus on building cognitive search and content analytics applications. Watson Pipelines solutions involve orchestrating data science workflows. Watson OpenScale architectures enable AI model monitoring and governance. Architecting with Match 360 supports personalized engagement by integrating multi-channel customer insights.
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| Topic 3 | - Security Requirements: This domain targets a Security Architect and focuses on planning security for a Cloud Pak for Data deployment. It includes managing certificates that secure communications, identity management systems, and access and authorization controls to enforce secure and compliant user and service interactions. The auditing features and their integration with enterprise audit systems are crucial to ensure traceability and accountability. Asset interchange security involves safeguarding data movement between services.
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| Topic 4 | - Architect with Data Source Services: This domain measures expertise of a Data Integration Architect and includes architecting solutions with data replication technologies to synchronize data across systems. IBM Data Virtualization architecture enables access to and querying of disparate data sources without data movement. Architecting with watsonx.data focuses on building intelligent data lakes and query engines. Architecting with Db2-related services involves designing scalable data management and processing architectures using IBM's Db2 platforms.
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| Topic 5 | - Plan for a Cloud Pak for Data Implementation: This section of the exam measures the skills of an Implementation Consultant and covers determining which Cloud Pak for Data services to deploy based on organizational needs. It involves sizing the Kubernetes
- OpenShift cluster appropriately for workload demands and planning backup and restore strategies to ensure data protection. Planning for high availability and disaster recovery is essential to maintain uninterrupted service. Multi-tenancy requirements must be understood to support multiple user groups securely on shared infrastructure. Migration requirements need assessment to transition existing data and workloads smoothly.
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