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C9007800 IBM Certified Cloud Pak for Business Automation v24.0.0 Solution Architect – Professional Practice Exam
Exam Number: 4336 | Last updated April 17, 2026 | 395+ questions across 5 vendor-aligned objectives
Solution architects who design intelligent automation workloads on Cloud Pak for Business Automation v24.0.0 target the C9007800 credential. This professional-level exam validates your ability to translate business problems into deployable automation solutions using Business Automation Workflow, Automation Decision Services, Content Services, and the RPA and document-processing capabilities introduced or expanded in v24. Candidates should understand automation pattern selection and the OpenShift deployment fabric that hosts the platform.
Laying claim to 26% of the exam, Automation Pattern Design covers workflow, decision, document-processing, and RPA pattern selection for the problem at hand. At 22%, Deployment Topology covers operator patterns, multi-site architectures, and the v24 improvements in upgrade and rollback behavior. A further 20% targets Integration, covering IBM MQ, REST APIs, file connectors, and cross-capability data sharing.
Bringing in the closing domains, Governance and Quality accounts for 18% and spans testing practices, automation asset versioning, and CoE governance. Security and Compliance represents 14% and spans LDAP integration, role-based access, and audit logging. Architect-level questions often place two valid patterns against each other — decide based on who maintains the solution long-term.
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Question #1 - Automation Pattern Design
An architect at Brindlewood Insurance is designing a claims-intake automation that receives scanned PDFs and extracts structured fields.
Which CP4BA v24 automation pattern handles the scanned-PDF intake and field extraction?
A) Treat every PDF as opaque and archive it without extraction
B) Ask analysts to key in the data by hand
C) Use the Document Processing capability to classify documents and extract fields, then hand off structured data to Business Automation Workflow for the downstream flow
D) Use RPA to screen-scrape another vendor’s UI only
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Correct answers: C – Explanation:
Document Processing plus BAW handoff is v24’s reference for scanned-intake flows. Manual keying, opaque archive, and screen-scrape-only all miss the pattern. Source: Check Source
Question #2 - Automation Pattern Design
A rules-intensive pricing logic at Oakhurst Retail changes monthly and must be updated by business analysts rather than developers.
Which CP4BA v24 automation pattern lets business analysts author the monthly pricing logic?
A) Paste the logic into an Excel sheet and email it
B) Hard-code the logic in Java and redeploy monthly
C) Model the pricing logic in Automation Decision Services so business analysts can author and version decisions without code changes
D) Ignore the monthly changes
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Correct answers: C – Explanation:
ADS is CP4BA’s reference for business-authored decisions. Hard-coded logic, email spreadsheets, and ignoring changes all fail the requirement. Source: Check Source
Question #3 - Automation Pattern Design
A legacy-UI integration at Pennington Mutual requires automating clicks in a vendor app that has no API.
Which CP4BA v24 automation pattern bridges the vendor UI that has no API?
A) Ignore the legacy UI entirely
B) Use the RPA capability to automate the UI, pair it with BAW for orchestration, and plan to retire the RPA once the vendor publishes an API
C) Ask users to do every click by hand forever
D) Demand the vendor ship an API tomorrow
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Correct answers: B – Explanation:
RPA with BAW orchestration plus a retirement plan is CP4BA’s reference for no-API UIs. Ignoring, manual clicks, and vendor demands all fail the design. Source: Check Source
Question #4 - Deployment Topology
A CP4BA v24 deployment at Ashbourne Holdings must span two sites for DR.
Which CP4BA v24 multi-site deployment topology meets the cross-site DR requirement?
A) Rely on nightly tape backups as the only DR
B) Deploy in one site with no DR
C) Maintain two sites with no synchronization
D) Deploy CP4BA v24 on two OpenShift clusters in different sites, replicate persistent data per the v24 multi-site reference, and exercise failover drills
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Correct answers: D – Explanation:
Multi-site CP4BA v24 deployments with replication and drills is the documented reference. Single-site, unsynchronized multi-site, and tape-only DR all fail the requirement. Source: Check Source
Question #5 - Deployment Topology
An architect at Brookhampton Insurance must plan an upgrade from CP4BA v21.0.3 to v24.0.0.
Which v24 practice fits?
A) Delete v21.0.3 and reinstall v24 from scratch
B) Use the v24 upgrade path and rollback behavior improvements — take backups, follow the documented operator-based upgrade order, and use the v24 rollback option if issues arise
C) Upgrade production first without testing
D) Skip v24 and stay on v21.0.3 forever
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Correct answers: B – Explanation:
Operator upgrades plus v24 rollback behavior is the CP4BA v24 reference. Delete-and-reinstall, prod-first upgrades, and never-upgrading all fail safe-upgrade practice. Source: Check Source
Question #6 - Integration
A CP4BA v24 workflow at Creswell Bank must consume messages from an MQ queue populated by a mainframe.
Which CP4BA v24 integration pattern consumes the mainframe-published MQ messages transactionally?
A) Use the MQ connector in CP4BA to consume messages transactionally and feed them into the workflow, preserving message semantics end-to-end
B) Poll the queue from a custom script and email results
C) Print messages and have an analyst re-key them
D) Skip MQ and ask the mainframe team to rewrite to REST
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Correct answers: A – Explanation:
MQ-connector-based transactional consumption is CP4BA’s integration reference for MQ sources. Custom polling, manual re-keying, and mainframe rewrites all miss the connector. Source: Check Source
Question #7 - Integration
A REST integration from CP4BA v24 to a partner API needs retries, timeouts, and audit trail.
Which CP4BA v24 REST-integration design covers retries, timeouts, and audit trail?
A) Call the API directly from BAW business logic with no retry or timeout
B) Use the REST integration capability with configured retry and timeout policies, and log every call through the CP4BA audit facilities
C) Skip integration and email the partner weekly
D) Hard-code the partner response and avoid calling
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Correct answers: B – Explanation:
Configured retry/timeout plus audit-logged calls is CP4BA’s REST-integration reference. No-retry, email workflows, and hard-coded responses all fail the requirement. Source: Check Source
Question #8 - Governance and Quality
A CP4BA CoE at Peterston Trust needs to prevent untested automations from reaching production.
Which CP4BA v24 governance practice prevents untested automations from reaching production?
A) Enforce automation asset versioning plus a test gate in the promotion pipeline so only tested versions progress to production
B) Let teams promote whatever they want to production
C) Promote only on Fridays without tests
D) Disable governance to speed delivery
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Correct answers: A – Explanation:
Versioning plus test-gated promotion is CP4BA’s governance-and-quality reference. Unrestricted promotion, day-based gating, and disabled governance all fail quality discipline. Source: Check Source
Question #9 - Governance and Quality
An automation CoE at Hazelcombe Financial needs a shared library of reusable decision logic across teams.
Which CP4BA v24 practice fits?
A) Publish reusable ADS decision services and BAW reusable components to a governed asset library, with versioning and CoE review before teams adopt them
B) Copy-paste logic between teams
C) Forbid reuse entirely
D) Publish code without review or versioning
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Correct answers: A – Explanation:
Governed reusable assets with versioning and CoE review is the CP4BA asset-library reference. Copy-paste, no-reuse, and ungoverned publishing all fail CoE practice. Source: Check Source
Question #10 - Security and Compliance
A CP4BA v24 deployment at Dunford Energy must integrate with the corporate LDAP for authentication.
Which CP4BA v24 security configuration integrates with the corporate LDAP for authentication?
A) Disable authentication on the CP4BA UIs
B) Create local accounts for every user
C) Share a single admin account for all users
D) Configure LDAP on the Cloud Pak foundational services identity provider and map LDAP groups to CP4BA capability roles
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Correct answers: D – Explanation:
LDAP-backed IAM with group-to-role mapping is CP4BA’s security reference. Local accounts, shared admin, and disabled auth all fail baseline controls. Source: Check Source
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What the C9007800 cloudpak business v24 architect exam measures
- Select and compose workflow, decision, document-processing, and RPA patterns to match automation capability to business problem without over-engineering the solution
- Deploy and upgrade operator patterns, multi-site architectures, and v24 upgrade/rollback flows to keep automation platforms current and recoverable across releases
- Integrate and share IBM MQ, REST APIs, file connectors, and cross-capability data fabric to connect automation with upstream systems of record and downstream consumers cleanly
- Govern and version testing practices, automation asset versioning, and CoE governance to scale automation from pilot into program without losing track of what is deployed where
- Secure and audit LDAP integration, role-based access, and audit logging to enforce least-privilege operation across diverse automation development teams
How to prepare for this exam
- Review the official exam guide to understand every objective and domain weight before you begin studying
- Work through the relevant IBM Training learning path — ibm certified cloud pak for business automation v24 0 0 solution architect professional C9007800 — to cover vendor-authored material end-to-end
- Get hands-on inside IBM TechZone or a comparable sandbox so you can practice the console tasks, CLI commands, and APIs the exam expects
- Tackle a real-world project at your workplace, a volunteer role, or an open-source repository where the technology under test is actually in use
- Drill one exam objective at a time, starting with the highest-weighted domain and only moving on once you can teach it to someone else
- Study by objective in PowerKram learn mode, where every explanation links back to authoritative IBM documentation
- Switch to PowerKram exam mode to rehearse under timed conditions and confirm you consistently score above the pass mark
Career paths and salary outlook
Automation solution architects sit at the intersection of business process and technology, commanding premium pay:
- Automation Solution Architect — $140,000–$185,000 per year, designing intelligent automation solutions end-to-end (Glassdoor salary data)
- Principal Automation Consultant — $150,000–$200,000 per year, leading automation programs for Fortune 1000 clients (Indeed salary data)
- Enterprise Automation Architect — $145,000–$195,000 per year, owning automation strategy across the enterprise (Glassdoor salary data)
Official resources
Work through the official IBM Training learning path for this certification, which bundles videos, labs, and skill tasks aligned to every objective. The official exam page lists the full objective breakdown, prerequisite knowledge, and scheduling details.