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IBM C4090-959 EXAM QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

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IBM C4090-959 EXAM QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

Exam Name:Enterprise Storage Sales V3

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QUESTION 1A customer has several different storage systems from different vendors all connected on a storage areanetwork.All arrays are at least 80% utilized, and the customer needs additional capacity.Rack space and powerare very limited.Which SAN Volume Controller concept should a sales specialist emphasize to convince the customer topurchase a SAN Volume Controller?

A. CompressionB. DeduplicationC. VirtualizationD. Block and file I/O

Correct Answer: CSection: (none)Explanation

Explanation/Reference:Reference: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/software/virtualization/svc/index.html

QUESTION 2An existing EMC customer has a number of UNIX and Windows based applications that are hosted on an EMCVMAX 10K system and the storage is fully populated.As part of an acquisition, the customer now wants to adda small mainframe into the current environment. What is the best reason to recommend the DS8870 in thissituation?

A. DS8870 provides increased ease of use over the VMAX 10K.B. A DS8870 is capable of managing Count Key Data (CKD) volumes.C. The DS8870 is capable of providing system-wide encrypted volumes.D. A VMAX 10K would require an upgrade to support FICON protocol.

Correct Answer: BSection: (none)Explanation

Explanation/Reference:Reference: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssg1S7004088&aid=1 (page 26)

QUESTION 3Which architectural functionality of the XIV product almost completely eliminates hot spots?

A. RAID 10B. SSD cachingC. InfiniBand backplaneD. Data distribution algorithm

Correct Answer: DSection: (none)Explanation

Explanation/Reference:

QUESTION 4A customer plans to replace its storage infrastructure which supports Oracle databases and a server farm

based on VMware by a storage grid architecture.A Business Partner sales specialist proposes a two XIV gridsystem with 486 TB of usable capacity and implementation services. What approach may be used to migratethe applications' data?

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A. Configure the XIV with IBM Lab ServicesB. Use the XIV native migration facilityC. Develop scripts to automatically move the dataD. Use host resources to migrate the data using LVM

Correct Answer: ASection: (none)Explanation


QUESTION 5A new customer to the TS3500 wants to know if the TS3500 they recently purchased has a three-year 9x5warranty.What is the correct answer to give the customer?

A. One year, 7x24 is the standard warranty.B. Three years, 9x5 is the standard warranty.C. Three years, 7x24 is the standard warranty.D. One year, 9x5 is the standard warranty, with an option to provide three years 9x5.


Explanation/Reference:Reference: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/tape/ts3500/specifications.html (see warranty)

QUESTION 6A customer is considering adding Real-time Compression software to their currently installed SAN VolumeController.Which workload would benefit most from Real-time Compression software?


A. video filesB. databaseC. software developmentD. encrypted files

Correct Answer: B

Section: (none)Explanation

Explanation/Reference:Reference: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/network/rtc/stn6800/features.html

QUESTION 7A customer needs a new multiple-terabyte environment to accommodate a large DB2 database. Whichrequirements are most critical to obtain to create an appropriate solution?

A. number of IOPS and number of disk drivesB. number of IOPS and amount of physical capacityC. number of network adapters and number of disk drivesD. number of disk drives and amount of physical capacity



QUESTION 8Which Business Continuity capability provides a customer with access to applications regardless of localfailures, whether these failures are in the business processes, the physical facilities, or the IT hardware orsoftware?

A. High AvailabilityB. Disaster RecoveryC. Contingency PlanningD. Continuous Operations



QUESTION 9Which financial measurement is a company's CEO typically most concerned with?

A. P01B. TCOC. TCAD. NPV



QUESTION 10A customer's IT administrators require the ability to manage files efficiently across multiple data centers in

different geographic locations.Which storage technology can best manage these capabilities?

A. Easy TierB. Thin ProvisioningC. Active Cloud EngineD. Real-Time Compression



QUESTION 11A customer is looking for a small VTL that comes standard with deduplication as well as with atleast4

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TB of usable capacity which can grow to 20 TB.Which IBM solution should be proposed to this customer?

A. TS7610B. TS7680C. T37650D. TS7650G



QUESTION 12A customer is interested in the ability of XIV to take advantage of all storage capacity, all internal bandwidth,and all available processing power.Which system architecture feature of XIV enables full exploitation of all system components?

A. Self healingB. Thin provisioningC. Workload balancingD. Massive parallelism



QUESTION 13An IBM System x customer is implementing a VMware pool.The customer has one administrator to manage the

servers and storage, so deep integration with VMware is needed.The customer also desires a storage arraythat can scale to 299 TB.Which IBM storage product should be recommended to this customer?

A. DS8800B. DS5020C. XIV Gen5D. SAN Volume Controller with DS8800



QUESTION 14A customer is looking to provide an enterprise storage subsystem for their web and SQL server environment.Iffastest response time is a requirement, which IBM storage product should be recommended to this customer?

A. N7900B. DS8800C. XIV Gen3D. SAN Volume Controller


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QUESTION 15A customer who has an installed SAN Volume Controller is having latency Issues with their SAN network.Which function of Tivoli Storage Productivity Center would help diagnose those Issues?

A. Storage OptimizerB. SAN Storage PlannerC. Tiered Storage OptimizationD. Fabric Performance Management



QUESTION 16A customer has a rapidly expanding enterprise-level storage requirement and is considering purchasing an IBMDS3970 Storage System.The customer has been approached by an EMC representative.Who has proposed VMAX 10K solution. Whatis a potential reason for choosing the DS8870 over the VMAX 10K?

A. supports a larger System CacheB. capable of utilizing 2.5-inch disk drivesC. capable of system-based data encryptionD. keeps its performance when utilizing internal volume replicas


Explanation/Reference:Reference: http://public.dhe.ibm.com/common/ssi/ecm/en/tsl03134usen/TSL03134USEN.PDF

QUESTION 17A customer has a DS8870 system and wishes to add additional capacity.The customer states that most newdata coming into the system will be reference data (i.e., not accessed very often). What would be anappropriate recommendation for the sales specialist to make?

A. Add SSDs.which will create an Easy Tier pool, and then let Easy Tier migrate the reference dataB. Add the biggest SAS drive available, and let pool rebalancing migrate the data to the least used disksC. Add NL-SAS drives and create an Easy Tier pool with or without SSDs.and then let Easy Tier migrate the

reference dataD. Add both SSDs and SAS or NL-SAS drives at the same time, as this is the only way to create an Easy Tier

pool, and then let Easy Tier migrate the reference data



QUESTION 18The sales specialist is in a meeting with the Chief Architect, Operations Manager and the lead StorageAdministrator.The next step is to present a highly technical solution for enterprise storage.

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What information should the sales specialist gather during the meeting?

A. an order for the equipmentB. an introduction to the CFOC. an understanding of the decision criteriaD. a follow-up meeting with the lead Storage Administrator



QUESTION 19A public Request for Proposal is asking for a typical NAS solution, and one request is a WORM file system toprotect data from modification.Due to a high capacity configuration, the sales team configures a N7950T with

100 TB.Which feature is necessary to include in the configuration?

A. SnapLockB. SnapVaultC. SnapDriveD. SecureAdmin



QUESTION 20Which feature enhances IBM XIV Storage System Gen3 in relation to the previous generation IBM XIV StorageSystem?

A. SSD CachingB. Proactive self-healingC. Exceptional rebuild speedD. Active-active N+1 redundancy


Explanation/Reference:Reference:http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_sm/2/872/ENUS2810-_h0 2/index.html&lang=en&request_locale=en

QUESTION 21IBM Smarter Storage systems have which of these characteristics?

A. Efficient by Design, Big Data Ready, Self-OptimizingB. Efficient by Design, Self-Optimizing, Cloud AgileC. Big Data Ready, Self-Optimizing.Cloud AgileD. Efficient by Design, Big Data Ready, Cloud Agile


Explanation/Reference:Reference:http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/news/announcement/ibm-smarter-storage-20120604.html

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QUESTION 22A customer is looking to develop a single name-space solution that can handle 10 petabytes of data for theirx86 servers.

Which IBM solution is able to meet these requirements?

A. SONASB. N7950TC. DS8870D. XIVGen3



QUESTION 23Which vendor's directors and switches does IBM still resell with the vendor's logo still present?

A. QLogicB. JuniperC. CiscoD. Brocade



QUESTION 24A customer is concerned about data protection/redundancy since they have lost data in the past. Which storagesystem dynamically and fluidly restores redundancy and equilibrium across all disks in the system during rebuildafter a failed disk drive?

A. EMC VNXB. IBM XIV Gen3C. HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000D. IBM Storwize V7000


Explanation/Reference:Reference: http://people.cs.clemson.edu/~westall/851/cluster/ibmxiv.pdf (page 36)

QUESTION 25A customer is looking at proposals from IBM, EMC, HP, and HDS, each of which have slightly different usablecapacities.Each vendor has a different way of pricing disk drives as well as advanced function software.Thecustomer needs to determine how much each solution will cost over the life of the solution. What is the bestway to calculate that actual cost to make each vendor comparable?

A. cost per TBB. price per IOPSC. total cost of ownership

D. total cost of acquisition



QUESTION 26A customer is looking to move to a cloud environment and wants a solution that can manage servers andstorage from a single console.Which IBM solution should be discussed with the client?

A. IBM System Storage Interoperation CenterB. IBM Systems Director Storage ControlC. IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity CenterD. IBM System Storage Productivity Center

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QUESTION 27A customer uses Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) with a large DS5000 disk pool and a TS3500 Library with a fewLTO-4 drives for their backup.All tape drives and disk pools are fully utilized.The backups of their big SAN-based database servers are critical and exceed the customer's backup window. What should the salesspecialist recommend to speed up database backup for the most significant impact?

A. Move the databases to a faster FC storage (e.g.Storwize V7000)B. Replace the disk pool with a Storwize V7000 for higher performanceC. Add additional LTO-6 drives to the TS3500 and offer LAN free clients for TSMD. Enlarge the current disk pool with EXP5000 and offer LAN free clients for TSM



QUESTION 28A customer plans to migrate data between two DS8870 at two different sites. Which type of volumes willpotentially consume less link bandwidth?

A. Logical volumesB. standard volumesC. Parallel access volumesD. Thin provisioned volumes

Correct Answer: C



QUESTION 29A customer currently has a DS8870 that has no SSDs installed and is using Easy Tier.They are complainingthat important applications are running slowly and impacting the business but they cannot add storage at thistime.What should the sales specialist suggest?

A. Employ encryption to boost write performanceB. Activate compression features to increase capacityC. Implement I/O Priority Manager to limit less important workloadsD. Switch off Easy Tier and add SSDs then move all critical applications to the Solid State Disk



QUESTION 30Which Technical and Delivery Assessment is conducted in cases where a new design or new product is goingto be installed at the customer site?

A. Pre-saleB. Post-saleC. Pre-installD. Post-install


Explanation/Reference:Reference: http://joehertvik.com/?p=2552

QUESTION 31During a meeting, a customer tells the sales specialist that their company is planning a 12C-Windows andLinux server consolidation protect and is interested in storage virtualization.The sales specialist also learns thatEMC CLARION, which houses the company's enterprise business data, has no room for disk expansion.

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Which SAN Volume Controller value applies to this scenario?

A. SAN Volume Controller is licensed per server.B. SAN Volume Controller enables additional RAID levels.C. SAN Volume Controller improves overall workload performanceD. SAN Volume Controller adds a second level data protection on CLARION



QUESTION 32A customer is interested in a DS8870 feature that transfers frequently accessed blocks of data betweenspinning disk and solid state disk to increase system performance.Which feature provides that capability?

A. Easy TierB. Thin ProvisioningC. Hierarchical Storage ManagementD. FlashCopy


Explanation/Reference:Reference:http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/1/877/ENUSZG12-029 1/index.html&lang=en&request_locale=en

QUESTION 33The CTO says he/she has a number of existing storage units from different vendors, end wishes to bind themtogether under a common management point, pooling their resources to increase utilization and avoidperformance bottlenecks.What is this CTO talking about?

A. Automatic storage tieringB. Storage poolingC. Storage load balancingD. Storage virtualization



QUESTION 34Which statement about Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V5 is correct?

A. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V5 is licensed per storage enclosure.B. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V5 for Disk, Replication, and fabric management are provided as modular

options.C. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Select V5 offers attractive entry-level pricing and is licensed per storage

enclosure.D. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Select V5 provides visibility, control, and automation to managing

heterogeneous storage infrastructures.

Correct Answer: C


Explanation/Reference:Reference:http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=ca&infotype=an&appname=iSource&supplier=877&letternum=ENUSZP12-0243

QUESTION 35A customer has a growing database environment that is up to 20 TB of useable capacity today.The customer isnoticing that there are some hot spots in the existing DS6870 array.

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What should be recommended to this customer to reduce the hot spots and increase performance?

A. Add a 15k SAS drive set with thin-provisioningB. Add a NL-SAS drive set with Easy TierC. Add a SSD drive set with Easy TierD. Add additional host adapters with multipathing to reduce hotspots



QUESTION 36Which of the following objectives address how long a customer can afford to be without access to theirsystems, and how much data they can afford to recreate once the systems are recovered?

A. Recovery Time Objective (RTO), Degraded Operations Objective (DOO)B. Recovery Point Objective (RPO), Network Recovery Objective (NRO)C. Recovery Time Objective (RTO), Recovery Point Objective (RPO)D. Degraded Operations Objective (DOO), Recovery Point Objective (RPO)



QUESTION 37Which architectural component is a unique part of the XIV system?

A. Monitors health from a dedicated system management consoleB. Utilizes all installed drives with no need for spare drivesC. Deduplicates data in the background during light workloadsD. Converts thick volumes to thin volumes when capacity thresholds are met

Correct Answer: DSection: (none)

Explanation


QUESTION 38A customer needs to store video files for a minimum of 20 years. Which characteristic of Linear Tape FileSystem (LTFS) will the customer most benefit form?

A. Improves performance so fewer drives are requiredB. Eliminates the need for maintaining backup softwareC. Provides higher storage capacities through compressionD. Reduces the amount of cartridges needed via deduplication



QUESTION 39A sales specialist is unsure about the features of a product. Which source should the sales specialist consult tofind out everything about the product?

A. Product RedbooksB. Product Announcement LetterC. Product Planning and Installation GuideD. IBM Sales Manual (IBM Offering Information)



QUESTION 40A NetApp and IBM storage customer is discussing Tivoli Storage Productivity Center and OnCommand Insightwith a sales specialist, who points out a major advantage of IBM over NetApp.What is this advantage?

A. discoveryB. product pricingC. replication management


D. virtual server integration



QUESTION 41A customer is looking for a new enterprise storage solution with Power servers and want a virtualized storagepool that uses only SAS drives In a RAID 10 array that can meal* to 600 TB Which IBM solution can berecommended to this customer?

A. A non-cluatarad Storwize V7000B. SAN Voluma Controllar with N7960TC. SAN Voluma Controllar with DS8870D. SAN Voluma Controllar with XIV Gan3



QUESTION 42A large university requires a highly scalable NAS solution and would prefer to have one solution that will handlemultiple protocols.What protocols does SONAS support?

A. CIFS, NFS, SMTP, HTTPB. CIFS, NFS, SNMP, HTTPC. CIFS, NFS, RSYNC, HTTPSD. CIFS, NFS, FTP HTTPS


Explanation/Reference:Reference:http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/sonasic/sonas1ic/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.sonas.doc%2Fusgr_cnnctng_2_clstr.html

QUESTION 43How does Tivoli Productivity Center make management of replication easier?

A. Designed to make it easy to keep data on multiple related volumes consistent across storage subsystemsB. Designed to make it easy to control network bandwidth across providers such as TCP/IP and Fibre ChannelC. Designed to make it easy to enable cross system replication such as EMC SRDF to IBM Global MirrorD. Designed to make it easy to transfer data between fixed block and Extended Count Key Data systems


Explanation/Reference:Reference: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/be/storage/software/center/features.html

QUESTION 44A customer has a number of small NAS appliances that are used by a large pool of servers on a 10 GbpsEthernet network.The customer is having difficulty managing the storage, especially as new NAS appliancesare added to handle capacity growth.Which IBM solution can be proposed that will scale this customer to at least 400 TBs at the lowest cost?

A. DS8870B. SONASC. XIVD. Storwize V7000



QUESTION 45Tomorrow will be the sales specialist's first time delivering an XIV proposal, so the specialist is busy

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searching the PartnerWorld site for helpful documents.Which IBM pre-sale resource can the sales specialist use to quickly deliver a high-quality white paper on theXIV?

A. XIV Sales LibraryB. IBM Quick Proposal ServicesC. Technical Sales Library (Techdocs)D. DeveloperWorks Sales Proposal Libra


Explanation/Reference:Reference: http://www-304.ibm.com/partnerworld/wps/pub/benefit/B8S0A/SELPW

QUESTION 46In order to improve performance, which type of disk technology can be added to a SAN Volume Controllernode?

A. SSDB. SASC. SCSD. SATA



QUESTION 47A customer has a large amount of storage being utilized.However, the customer believes that much of thestorage is being used by duplicate copies and inappropriate content. Which IBM product can be recommendedto this customer in order to identify duplicate copies and inappropriate content?

A. ProtecTIER GatewayB. SAN Volume ControllerC. Tivoli Storage Productivity CenterD. Tivoli Storage Manager Enterprise Edition


Explanation/Reference:Reference: http://webobjects.cdw.com/webobjects/media/PDF/IBM-TSM-advantages.pdf

QUESTION 48A customer asks if Tivoli Productivity Center will help manage their Hitachi storage system, and says if so theycan save costs by standardizing on IBM Tivoli Productivity Center as a storage resource management system.How should the sales specialist respond?

A. Yes, as long as the Hitachi supports SMI-SB. Yes, as long as the Hitachi supports SMTPC. No, since only IBM storage supports HTTPSD. No, since only IBM storage supports SNMP



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In the exhibit the blue bold FICL text on the last row refers to what?

A. Pre-sale and pre-installation TDAs are required for all DS8000 sales that are first in customer location.B. Pre-sale and pre-installation TDAs are required for all DS8000 sales containing listed feature codes sold

through Business Partners.



QUESTION 50An AIX customer who has a TS3500 with eight D23 frames and 32 TS1140 drives is running out of space in thedata center at a time when more storage is needed.What should the sales specialist recommend?

A. Reduce the number of drives and free up slot capacityB. Add an additional eight TS1140 drives to increase capacityC. Add LTO high capacity drives and reduce the need for as many slotsD. Replace some of the D23 frames with S24 frames to provide additional capacity




QUESTION 51A customer who has a corporate standard that all projects must have a positive cash flow within twelve monthsis reviewing a proposal that the sales specialist submitted.Which financial metric does the customer need?

A. T C OB. NPVC. ROID. TCA



QUESTION 52A sales specialist is on location with a customer and is leaving for lunch with the CFO when a technician asksabout the power requirements for the DS8870 that will soon be installed.

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What is the fastest way to find the answer?

A. eConfigB. RedbookC. IBM DSSeries PortalD. IBM Storage quick reference Mobile Application


Explanation/Reference:Reference: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/x/resources/mobileapp/

QUESTION 53A Windows customer is looking for a storage solution that can handle block-based storage needs as well asprovide a comprehensive backup solution.Which key question must a sales specialist ask to determine the proper Tivoli Storage Manager solution?

A. Do you need to use tape drives?B. Is there sufficient network bandwidth?C. Is your largest file greater than 1 TB?

D. Do you need to replicate data to a remote site?



QUESTION 54Which product is the Real-time Compression Appliance technology designed to work with?

A. 3PARB. IsilonC. NetAppD. Compellent



QUESTION 55Which Technical and Delivery Assessment is conducted after solution design and before proposal to thecustomer?

A. Pre-saleB. Post-saleC. Pre-installD. Post-install



QUESTION 56A customer wants to design a new storage infrastructure that will have a common pool of storage.There is amix of POWER and x86 servers, and the high performance servers will use Fibre Channel adapters.Both highavailability and disaster recovery over a long distance are necessary. Which piece of information is mostimportant in order to connect a SAN to the network?

A. Which protocols must be supportedB. Number of hops between different serversC. Number of Fibre Channel and network attached devicesD. Speed of the Fibre Channel and network attached devices



QUESTION 57A customer is looking to start with a 100 TB storage solution.Over the next three years, they expect to

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double their storage capacity and performance requirements. Which IBM storage solution will scale bothperformance and capacity proportionately for this customer?

A. N6420B. DS8800C. XIVGen3D. SAN Volume Controller with D55100



QUESTION 58A customer is very interested in taking advantage of cloud storage.In which order should the customerimplement these three key steps before deploying private cloud storage?

A.B.C.D.

Correct Answer: Section: (none)Explanation


QUESTION 59Automate storage management, including key operational processes such as backup, recovery, metering, andbilling

A.B.C.D.



QUESTION 60Establish an efficient storage environment by leveraging virtualization, deduplication, compression, and tiering

A.B.C.D.



QUESTION 61Optimize the storage environment by adding self service and pay-per-use capability

A. 1, 2, 3B. 1, 3, 2C. 3, 2, 1D. 2, 1, 3



QUESTION 62A sales specialist closes a customer meeting with an opportunity to offer a DSS800 for a critical SAP databaseapplication workload which runs on AIX and an EMC DMX system.The customer is concerned withperformance and asks for a performance analysis before the DS8800 proposal. Which IBM tool should be usedfor planning the configuration?

A. RMF MagicB. SAP MagicC. Disk MagicD. Capacity Magic



QUESTION 63A sales specialist is discussing FO SAN with a customer, who says that it is not the right solution for thecompany's needs.The customer has another solution in mind but has forgotten the exact name of it, saying onlythat it has something to do with the LAN.Which term is the customer most likely trying to articulate?

A. SASB. WAN

C. SATAD. SCSI



QUESTION 64In a meeting with the new Operations Director, it is mentioned that the storage administrator has been with thecustomer for as long as the current 010.The Operations Director states their team will make a recommendationto the 010.

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What should the sales specialist do next?

A. Schedule a meeting with the 010B. Meet with the storage administratorC. Prepare the proposal for the Operations DirectorD. Present the solution to the 010 and Operations Director



QUESTION 65What is an advantage of IBM XIV System Storage over HP P10000 (3PAR) in a cloud environment?

A. QoS integrationB. Distributed node designC. Scales with performanceD. Tier-less architecture design



QUESTION 66A POWER customer is looking for a tool to allow chargebacks for storage usage to various departments withintheir company.Which Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V4.2 module provides the functionality?

A. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for DataB. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for DiskC. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Fabric

D. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication



QUESTION 67An IBM Business Partner has sold a storage subsystem to an end-user customer. Who is responsible forscheduling and ensuring completion of the pre-sales or pre-installation Technical and Delivery Assessment?

A. IBM DistributorB. IBM Business PartnerC. IBM Storage RepresentativeD. IBM Channel Technical Storage Specialist (CTSS)



QUESTION 68A customer is looking for a way to obtain the following storage management functions:Single point of control for point-in4ime and remote volume replication services Automated source-targetmatchingPractice Volume support for DR PlanningVolume ProtectionWhich IBM product should be recommended to this customer?

A. Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM)B. System Storage Productivity CenterC. Tivoli Storage Productivity CenterD. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Select


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QUESTION 69A customer tells the sales specialist that the cost for high performance storage is too expensive, especially fordata that is infrequently accessed.Which technology allows them to assign types of data to different types of storage media in order to reducecosts?

A. Data archivalB. Storage tieringC. Thin provisioning

D. Storage virtualization



QUESTION 70What is the role of Cloud Agile within IBM Smarter Storage?

A. It reduces storage capacity by 5%.B. It provides faster storage performance when it is Cloud Agile.C. It provides flexible storage and adapts easily to unpredictable demand.D. It provides storage performance greater than or equal to the other elements of IBM Smarter Storage.



QUESTION 71A customer is backing up their data every night using Symantec Netbackup.The customer expresses theirfrustration with the ever-growing need for more storage just to handle the volume of data being backed up.Which IBM product can be proposed that would more efficiently handle this data volume?

A. ProtecTIERB. SAN Volume ControllerC. Real-time Compression ApplianceD. Tivoli Storage Manager Enterprise Edition



QUESTION 72A customer is looking for a robust Storage Resource Management (SRM) solution for their DSS000 thatincludes the following features:Discovery, topology, monitoring, capacity management, alerting device performance management 2-sitereplication managementWhich IBM product should be recommended to this customer?

A. System Storage Productivity CenterB. Tivoli Storage Productivity CenterC. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center SelectD. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication



QUESTION 73During a customer visit, a sales specialist presents the IBM storage portfolio and is asked how it helps reducestorage administration time due to manual tuning procedures today.Which offering answers the customer's question?

A. Easy TierB. Storage poolC. Cloud storage


D. Dynamic disk pool



QUESTION 74A customer is considering a new storage solution that would provide for a virtualized storage pool.Whichquestion should the sales specialist ask in order to identify the proper solution?

A. Is SSD a requirement for you?B. Is thin provisioning a requirement?C. Are you going to require global mirror?D. Do you need to scale performance as you grow?



QUESTION 75The customer has a NAS infrastructure which grows by new acquisitions of separate nodes leading to costinefficiency, complex administration, and underutilized storage resources.It is estimated there will be 30% ofdata growth per year, reaching 11 PB in the next 2 years. What should the sales specialist propose to thecustomer?

A. One SONAS systemB. Two SONAS systemsC. Two N7900 systemsD. Three N7900 systems



QUESTION 76A customer is building the first public Cloud environment and plans to implement a virtualized storage platformin order to be flexible and adaptable to the unpredictable new demands. Which IBM Smarter Storage ability canhelp this customer with these requirements?

A. Cloud AgileB. Cloud Storage FastC. Cloud VirtualizationD. Cloud SAN Volume Controller



QUESTION 77A customer is looking for a new enterprise storage system.In visiting the customer to meet with the storageadministrator, the visitors log book reveals that EMC has recently visited. To be successful with this opportunity,at what level must the sales specialist be calling to be at the same level as EMC?

A. Chief Security OfficerB. Chief Financial OfficerC. Chief Technology OfficerD. Chief Information Officer



QUESTION 78The PRIMARY purpose of the SAN Volume Controller is to provide which function?

A. Increased performanceB. Storage virtualizationC. Merging multiple LANs and SANs into one


D. Replication within a single storage array (homogeneous)



QUESTION 79A customer is interested in an optional XIV Gen3 feature that provides superior performance and fasterresponse time.What is this XIV feature?

A. Easy TierB. SSD cachingC. Thin provisioningD. Capacity allocation



QUESTION 80A customer needs a way to over-allocate storage capacity to users to reduce administrative costs of manuallymanaging allocations.Which storage efficiency feature of XIV provides this capability?

A. Thin provisioningB. Flexible snapshotsC. Massive parallelismD. Instant space reclamation



QUESTION 81Which tool or resource can be used to verify the available feature codes for a DS8800?

A. IBM OnTargetB. IBM Sales ManualC. System Storage Interoperation CenterD. Standalone Solutions Configuration Tool



QUESTION 82A customer has a number of non-IBM storage arrays, which are capable of provisioning using only traditionalRAID volumes.Over-allocation of storage is an issue on some arrays and not on others.In order to balancestorage use across the arrays, the customer wishes to virtualize the environment. Which advantage would IBMSAN Volume Controller provide over EMC VPLEX?

A. SAN Volume Controller can provide thin provisioned volumes to reduce capacity regardless of arraycapability.

B. SAN Volume Controller can provide Real-time Compression to reduce capacity if the array supportscompression.

C. SAN Volume Controller can provide block-level deduplication to reduce capacity regardless of array

capability.D. SAN Volume Controller can provide thin provisioned volumes to reduce capacity if the array supports thin

provisioning.



QUESTION 83A POWER customer is looking for a backup solution that will handle all of their small files that use TivoliStorage Manager.Which solution should be recommended to this customer?

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A. N7900B. TS7650AC. TS3500 with LTO-5D. TS3500 with Jaguar



QUESTION 84A customer wants a proposal for storage that includes three years, 7x24 coverage for their DS8800 storagearray.How should a sales specialist respond?

A. Three years, 9x5 is the standard with an option to provide 7x24.B. By choosing the correct machine type, three years, 7x24 will be included.C. One year, 9x5 is the standard, with an option to provide three years, 7x24.D. One year, 7x24 is the standard, with an option to provide three years, 7x24.



QUESTION 85An IBM customer that provides cloud storage has issues with the management of large data volumes across anenvironment consisting of several different storage products.Some applications have insufficient storagecapacity or performance in their current locations.A possible resolution for this issue would be to consolidatethe applications onto D58 800.Why is this?

A. Easy Tier will provide automatic archiving of unused data to reduce capacity issues.

B. Active Cloud Engine will provide automatic rebalancing of the data across the tiers.C. Active Cloud Engine will move data to Solid State disk to increase performance levels.D. Easy Tier will automatically rebalance the data across tiers and provide better performance.



QUESTION 86A mainframe customer who utilizes 3490 tape is interested in reducing their need for tape and would like tocompare offerings from IBM and Oracle.Which competitive product from Oracle should the specialist gather information on?

A. VSMB. VSPC. VPLEXD. Bus-Tech



QUESTION 87What is a key feature of the DS8800 compared to previous generations of the DS8000?

A. Commodity storage controllers that allow ease of upgradeB. C B.3.5 TB near line drives that provide market-leading capacityC. 2.5" drives that decrease storage footprint and allow denser storageD. InfiniBand back-end connections that provide the fastest available interconnect



QUESTION 88If a customer is looking to move to a cloud environment, which key attribute should the storage provide toensure the success of the cloud?

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B. Real time Data CompressionC. Homogeneous storage from one vendorD. Integration of solid-state drives with high speed SAS disks

Correct Answer: A



QUESTION 89A company wants additional storage for their database system and has been looking at HP competitive diskproposals as a solution.When discussing IBM's solutions with the company's 010, the sales specialist learnsthat the company is directly attaching the HP disk and is buying fewer, larger capacity drives. Based on thisinformation, which financial justification is this customer using?

A. Price/performanceB. Return on investmentC. Total cost of ownershipD. Total cost of acquisition



QUESTION 90An x86 customer is looking to deploy a cloud environment with a single administrator managing both theservers and storage.Which IBM product should be recommended to this customer?

A. System Storage Productivity CenterB. Tivoli Storage Productivity CenterC. IBM Systems Director Storage ControlD. IBM Systems Director Enterprise Edition



QUESTION 91The Technical and Delivery Assessment process provides which benefits to the customer and BusinessPartner?

A. Problem eliminationB. Customer relationship improvementC. Sales growth and price competitivenessD. Customer satisfaction and problem mitigation



QUESTION 92A customer has a large volume of data that needs to be stored within their data center.The customer hasindicated that their data growth will be in the 25% per year range, if not higher. Which question must be askedto determine the proper IBM storage solution?

A. What speed is your current SAN?B. What speed is your current LAN?C. How much power do you have available?D. How many terabytes do you have today?



QUESTION 93IBM's TS3500 Tape Library allows a customer to utilize both IBM LTO and IBM TS1 140 drive technology in thesame Library.Which other library vendor offers the same capability?

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A. OracleB. QuantumC. OverlandD. Spectra Logic



QUESTION 94A Request for Proposal asks for a high-end disk system with support for IOS and AIX and includes two featuresfor data at rest security and automatic data placement. In addition to Easy Tier1 which DS8800 version 6.3functionality supports these requirements?

A. TKLMB. TDMEC. NL-SASD. SSD FDE



QUESTION 95A customer with storage arrays from a number of vendors is looking at EMC and IBM storage managementtools.What should the sales specialist discuss with this customer?

A. EMC Unisphere manages IBM and EMC storage arraysB. EMC can deploy a single solution to manage HDS and EMCC. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center can only manage the IBM storage arraysD. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center can manage SMI-S compliant storage from a single management console



QUESTION 96A customer is interested in the differences between IBM ProtecTIER and Data Domain.Which feature is foundonly on ProtecTIER?

A. HA clusterB. NetBackup OST supportC. Bidirectional replicationD. File Systems interface support



QUESTION 97Which feature clearly differentiates XIV from an EMC VMAX in terms of lowering the total cost of ownership?

A. throughputB. thin provisioningC. graphical user Interface (GUI)D. ability to utilize multiple RAID types



QUESTION 98A sales specialist wants to recommend an XIV storage system with the lowest acquisition cost and therefore isrecommending a one-year warranty.What should the sales specialist know about XIV warranty offerings?

A. Three years 7x24 is the standard.B. Three years 9x5 is the standard, with an option to provide 7x24.C. One year 9x5 is the standard, with an option to provide three years 7x24.

D. By choosing the correct machine type, only one year 7x24 will be included.



QUESTION 99What is most important in the proof of concept process?

A. timingB. logisticsC. test planD. acceptance criteria



QUESTION 100A customer is purchasing a NAS solution with 1 PB of useable disk space for a private cloud project and isinterested in sharing resources while protecting unauthorized data access between departments. WhichNT950T feature must be configured for this solution?

A. NearStoreB. FlexShareC. FlexCacheD. MultiStore




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