IBM Cloud Professional Developer

Introduction:

• Indicate the role of an IBM Cloud Developer

Using IBM Cloud:

• Identify IBM Cloud features and benefits for Cloud developers

Automated Development Tools:

• Identify fundamental concepts of Continuous Delivery Services
• Identify the features available when using Tekton pipelines on IBM Cloud
• Indicate the benefits when using DevOps Toolchains on IBM Cloud
• Identify the fundamental concepts of IBM Cloud Schematics

Deploying an Application:

• Indicate the purpose of IBM Cloud Container Registry
• Recognize the considerations when deploying an application using IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service on IBM Cloud
• Recognize the considerations when deploying an application using Red Hat® OpenShift® on IBM Cloud
• Recognize the considerations when deploying an application using Code Engine on IBM Cloud
• Distinguish between IBM Cloud Platform compute options
• Identify appropriate use cases for VSIs, Bare Metal Servers and VMware solutions in IBM Cloud Platform

Application Security

• Identify access controls when using IBM Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Indicate the reasons an IBM Cloud Developer would use App ID when developing an application
• Indicate the purpose of secure key management on IBM Cloud and the best practices when using Secrets Manager
• Identify the role of service accounts in container security
• Indicate the use of role-based access control (RBAC) in Kubernetes
• Identify the key security aspects of cloud-native applications

Integrating IBM Cloud Services

• Determine the IBM Cloud Object Storage elements that secure data at rest, data in motion, and data access
• Distinguish between the IBM Cloud Database services
• Understand the importance of IBM Log Analysis from a DevSecOps perspective
• Understand the importance of IBM Cloud Monitoring from a DevSecOps perspective
• Indicate the capabilities of the IBM Watson® Text to Speech and IBM Watson Speech to Text APIs
• Identify the use of Cloud Internet Services