A customer has a requirement for 250,000 IOPS and 200TB of capacity. The customer requires IBM SSR code upgrades at no additional charge.
Which solution should the technical specialist recommend to the customer?
- A . IBM DS8886 with 1.2TB drives and HPFE
- B . IBM Flash System A9000 with 3.6TB Micro Latency modules
- C . IBM Flash System V9000 with IBM Storwize V5010 with 1.2TB drives
- D . IBM Storwize V7000 with 1.2TB drives and 800 GB SSDs
Which IBM function provides a high availability feature with dual-site, active-active access to a volume in IBM Spectrum Virtualize?
- A . Hyper Swap
- B . Remote Mirror
- C . Flash Copy
- D . IBM Hyper-Scale Manager
What does IBM require to verify a customer’s environment before installation of an enterprise tape library?
- A . Technical and Delivery Assessment
- B . Techline Solution Review
- C . Butterfly Study
- D . Product Installation and Planning guide
A security policy for a customer specifies a need for similar methods to manage encryption keys for disk and tape storage. A recent proposal includes the IBM TS4500 and IBM Storwize V5030.
Which solution should the technical specialist highlight?
- A . IBM Enterprise Key Management Foundation
- B . IBM Security Key Lifecycle Manager will manage keys for both products
- C . Enterprise Secure Key Manager
- D . IBM Spectrum Control will manage encryption for both products.
A customer has a two-frame IBM TS4500 Tape Library with 24 IBM TS1150 drives. The L frame is the left most frame and the customer wants to add slots for 1100 cartridges. The available physical space in the data center is limited, so high density (HD) frames are needed. The customer has some existing IBM TS3500 storage frames that could be re-purposed.
What does the customer need to understand about the upgrade?
- A . A redeployed IBM TS3500 storage frame must be the last (right-most) frame.
- B . The IBM TS3500 storage frame must be upgraded with TS1030 tape drives before it can be redeployed.
- C . An IBM TS3500 storage frame must be upgraded to an IBM TS4500 frame before it can be redeployed.
- D . The IBM TS3500 storage frames must be installed to the right of the L frame.
An IBM customer has IBM DS8886 storage installed. The customer has decided to add another new IBM DS8886 and use Metro Mirror to provide a synchronous redundant copy of the data.
Which additional IBM software enables non-disruptive failover in the event of a storage hardware failure?
- A . IBM Remote Pair FlashCopy
- B . IBM Spectrum Connect
- C . IBM Hyper-Swap Manager
- D . IBM Global Mirror
A customer requires a mass scale-out storage solution to organize, store, manage and access unstructured data. The system must be highly secure, with no single point of failure, and unlimited scalability. The data must be stored economically across 4 sites with continuous access to data, even if one site is offline.
Which product should the technical specialist recommend?
- A . IBM High Performance Storage System
- B . IBM Virtual Tape Server Grid
- C . IBM Cloud Object storage
- D . IBM Spectrum Scale
Which flash core modules in an IBM FlashSystem A9000 Provide the greatest capacity utilizing inline compression?
- A . 3.6TB
- B . 1536TB
- C . 2.9TB
- D . 8.5TB
A cloud service provider is looking to provide a scalable solution that provides quality of service capabilities, ease of management, deduplication, and integration with Open Stack and VMware while providing sub-millisecond response time.
Which solution should the technical specialist recommend?
- A . IBM Spectrum Accelerate
- B . IBM Flash System 900
- C . IBM Spectrum Scale
- D . IBM Flash System A9000R
A customer is refreshing a 300 TB multi-vendor storage environment with an IBM Storwize V7000 and needs all the storage advanced functionality features such as remote mirroring, thin provisioning and Easy Tier. The customer also requires capability for storage provisioning, VMware vCenter APIs, and performance monitoring.
Which product should the technical specialist recommend?
- A . IBM Virtual Storage Center
- B . IBM Spectrum Connect
- C . IBM Storage Insights
- D . IBM Storwize v7000 full bundle
Which element of business continuity is employed by creating nightly flash copies at the primary data center?
- A . Backup strategy
- B . High availability
- C . IBM HyperSwap
- D . Continuous data protection
A customer issued an RFP to replace EMC Disks. Vendors are being asked to provide the best competitive advantage in their proposals.
What should the IBM proposal on an IBM Flash System A9000 include in the bid?
- A . All software features included in base price
- B . IBM HyperSwap migration
- C . Flash cache
- D . External storage virtualization
Which IBM product should the technical specialist propose to a customer who wants to store multiple PBs of unstructured data that requires a single namespace?
- A . IBM Spectrum Archive LE
- B . IBM Spectrum Insights
- C . IBM Clustered Storwize Array
- D . IBM Spectrum Scale
Which IBM FlashSystem A9000 function enables the division of storage system administration tasks into logical domains?
- A . Multi-tenant-based permissions
- B . Role-based permissions
- C . Storage-based permissions
- D . Access-based permissions
What is the minimum role level needed to download support log files to troubleshoot the IBM Spectrum Virtualize software?
- A . Service
- B . Security Administrator
- C . Monitor
- D . Administrator
A scientific customer is evaluating the IBM TS4500 against the Spectra Logic and Quantum Scalar i6000 and suggests that there is no difference since these vendors use IBM manufactured drives in their libraries.
What is a key advantage of the IBM TS4500?
- A . Vendor agnostic media reporting
- B . Standard 19" rack form factor
- C . Faster move time for tape mounts
- D . Modular frames for expansion
A customer currently owns a Scalar LTO-5 SAS single drive autoloader. Planned future growth requires a tape library with capacity of four LTO-7 drives and 40 data cartridges.
Which IBM product meets the requirement while minimizing impact on the budget?
- A . IBM TS2900
- B . IBM TS4500
- C . IBM TS3500
- D . IBM TS4300
Which IBM software allows a customer to utilize containers with IBM Flash System storage?
- A . IBM HyperScale Mobility
- B . IBM Spectrum Connect
- C . IBM Spectrum Virtualize for Cloud
- D . IBM Cloud Object Storage
Which solution allows for the greatest effective capacity per EIA unit of rack space?
- A . IBM Storwize V5030F
- B . IBM Flash System 9100
- C . IBM Storwize V7000F
- D . IBM Flash System A9OOOR
A customer has existing SAP HANA production nodes connected to BM Spectrum Scale. The customer needs to scale out additional nodes to maintain the high bandwidth requirement.
Which type of nodes should be proposed?
- A . Storage nodes with SSD drives
- B . Storage nodes with NVMe drives
- C . Protocol nodes with SSD drives
- D . Storage nodes with SAS drives
IBM has proposed IBM Spectrum Control for a customer who is currently using multiple vendor tools to manage a complex heterogenous storage environment.
How does IBM Spectrum Control do this?
- A . Automatic data migration
- B . Simplified single-pane of glass management
- C . Enabled cloud-based management
D Single storage pool management
What is one advantage of IBM Storage Insights Pro over IBM Storage Insights?
- A . Upgrade recommendations
- B . Reclaim unused storage
- C . Unified Dashboard
- D . Simplified ticket workflows
After activating disk encryption on an existing BM TS7700, which action does a client need to take for the existing virtual volumes to be encrypted?
- A . The customer must assign existing virtual volumes with a new encryption policy
- B . No additional customer action is required once encryption is enabled
- C . Any existing volumes will have to expire and be reused before being encrypted.
- D . The copy refresh command must be issued for each of the existing volumes
Which exclusive feature of the BM FlashSystem 9100 is a technical advantage over competitive storage arrays?
- A . FlashCore modules
- B . NVMe SSD drives
- C . XL Flash modules
- D . 3D NAND SATA SSD drives
A customer wants to replace its legacy block storage environment with a new IBM Flash System A9000R solution and is concerned about properly estimating consolidated storage capacity after deduplication
and compression savings.
Which tool should be used?
- A . IBM Comprestimator
- B . IBM Storage Insights
- C . IBM Data Reduction Estimator Tool
- D . Capacity Magic
An IBM TS4500 has experienced I/O errors that have prevented moving the library into production. IBM has verified that the configuration is valid and performed the replacement of multiple parts.
What is the next step the technical specialist should perform?
- A . Facilitate a meeting with IBM and customer executives to discuss available options to resolve the Situation
- B . Escalate the issue through the complaint process (critsit) and explain this process and next steps to the customer
- C . Perform an in-depth problem analysis and follow up with appropriate actions to resolve the issue
- D . Conduct a workshop with customer system administrators and IBM technical field support representatives to jointly resolve the problem.
A customer is considering a storage consolidation project. The IBM technical specialist wants to show how the IBM solution will be more cost-effective than competitive solutions.
Which tool should the technical specialist use?
- A . IBM VSI Study
- B . IBM Storage Insights
- C . IBM Data Pattern Analytics
- D . IBM TCOnow!
A customer with a local IBM SVC cluster wants to use S3 protocol for archiving.
Which IBM SVC feature can be used to meet these requirements?
- A . Transparent Cloud Tiering
- B . HyperSwap
- C . Metro Mirror
- D . Global Mirror
A customer wants a storage system solution with proactive system health management. The customer has asked about advantages that the IBM Flash System A9000R offers.
Which feature should the technical specialist discuss?
- A . Grid architecture redundancy with hot standby
- B . Phase out and self-healing mechanisms
- C . IBM Assist On-site
- D . IBM Spectrum Connect
Which IBM A9000R option addresses rapid data growth and financial concerns?
- A . Distributed data
- B . IBM Global Financing
- C . Growth on Demand
- D . Advanced System Placement
A customer is looking for a storage solution to archive data in the environment. The customer needs to control the environment as much as possible.
What is the recommended technology from a price per TB standpoint?
- A . LTO/Enterprise tape
- B . Large-form factor disk drives
- C . Virtual tape library
- D . IBM Cloud object Storage
A customer wants to replace an existing HDS system connected to an IBM z/OS mainframe with a storage solution to reduce cooling requirements and potential of mechanical failure.
Which storage solution should the technical specialist recommend?
- A . IBM FlashSystem 9100
- B . IBM DS8886 HPFE
- C . IBM DS8884 with SAS drives
- D . IBM FlashSystem V9000
What describes IBM maintenance remote support security features for the IBM TS4500?
- A . Customer data on tape or in memory is encrypted for transmission during remote support sessions
- B . Dial-in is restricted through the IMC, requiring separate logins for each attached system
- C . IBM TS4500 call-home support defaults to email notification rather than direct dial-in
- D . IBM TS4500 tape library supports password protected dial-in via telnet or ftp.
A customer has IBM and NetApp block and file storage. The customer is interested in reducing storage costs and optimizing its data center through intelligent capacity planning, storage reclamation, storage tiering, and performance metrics.
Which IBM SDS offering should the technical specialist discuss with the customer?
- A . IBM Spectrum Control
- B . IBM Spectrum Protect
- C . IBM Spectrum Insights Pro
- D . IBM Virtual Storage Center
An IBM TS4500 Tape Library customer has a requirement to add high availability to all systems in the data center.
What must be added to the library to meet the high availability requirement?
- A . Redundant Library Managers
- B . Dual grippers
- C . Dual accessors
- D . Redundant I/O stations
A customer with a highly virtualized VMware environment and several bare-metal Oracle servers is interested in data protection and replication between its on-site and IBM cloud environments.
Which technology should be discussed?
- A . IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments
- B . IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot
- C . IBM Spectrum Protect Plus
- D . IBM Spectrum Protect Extended Edition
Which simple, non-intrusive process should a technical specialist recommend to obtain an overview of the Storage environment?
- A . Visual Storage Intelligence study
- B . Disk Magic study
- C . IBM Spectrum Control Advanced
- D . IBM Spectrum Connect
A customer with block storage from a competitor desires an Open Stack ready platform for storage management.
Which solution should the technical specialist recommend?
- A . IBM Spectrum Accelerate
- B . IBM Spectrum Control
- C . IBM Storage Insights
- D . IBM Spectrum Scale
Which open Stack component allows management of IBM XIV and IBM DS8884 through a dashboard that gives administrators control while empowering users to provision resources through a web interface?
- A . Swift
- B . Horizon
- C . Nova
- D . Cinder
Which product enables a single point-of-control for multiple storage resources to help support improved business application availability and greater resource utilization?
- A . IBM Spectrum Connect
- B . IBM DS8886
- C . IBM Spectrum Virtualize
- D . IBM Spectrum Accelerate
What is the default configuration of a RAID protection level in an IBM DS8886 HPFE?
- A . RAID 10
- B . RAID 1
- C . RAID 5
- D . RAID 6
A customer wants to improve overall workload performance and is considering adding either an IBM A9000 to the environment.
Which key performance characteristic differentiates these two products?
- A . Variable Stripe Raid
- B . Latency
- C . Dynamic GZIP
- D . Cache hit rate
Which IBM software allows analytics developers to assign persistent storage to containers?
- A . IBM Spectrum scale
- B . IBM HyperScale Mobility
- C . IBM Spectrum Archive
- D . IBM Spectrum Connect
Which IBM storage solution provides the least latency?
- A . IBM Flash System V9000
- B . IBM Flash System 900
- C . IBM Flash System 9100
- D . IBM Flash System A9000
A customer plans to upgrade its LTO-4 tapes and drives to LTO-7 drives
Which solution should the technical specialist propose concerning existing media that needs to be retained for later recovery?
- A . Keep an existing drive to process existing LTO-4 media
- B . Reformat the LTO-4 media to be used by LTO-7 drives
- C . Use the LTO-4 drive to write to the new LTO- 7 media
- D . Existing media can be read using LTO-7 drives
A customer has experienced a high rate of drive failure and loss of data in its environment and is considering IBM Spectrum Accelerate to replace the existing storage.
Which IBM Spectrum Accelerate benefit should the technical specialist highlight to the customer?
- A . IBM Hyper-Scale Mobility
- B . Fast rebuild speed
- C . Distributed RAID
- D . IBM Hyper Swap
A customer has asked about the difference between standard RAID and declustered RAID architecture of IBM Spectrum Scale.
Which advantage of declustered RAID should the technical specialist highlight?
- A . One parity drive
- B . Load on drives is increased during array rebuild
- C . More predictable performance
- D . Uses a subset of drives in the declustered raid to rebuild data
Which IBM Flash System A9000 replication feature provides the ability for a remote target volume to be initialized without requiring the contents of the source volume to be re-replicated over an inter-site link?
- A . Offline initialization
- B . Synchronous replication
- C . Change volume replication
- D . Asynchronous replication
A customer wants to migrate from an IBM DS5300 to an IBM FlashSystem V9000 and wants to determine reductions in physical storage requirements.
Which tool should the customer use?
- A . IBM Comprestimator Utility
- B . Disk Magic
- C . Storage Consolidation Evaluation Tool
- D . Capacity Magic
Which offering provides scale-out parallel processing and dramatically accelerates performance of analytics clusters when integrated with the IBM Flash System?
- A . IBM Cloud Object Storage
- B . IBM Spectrum Accelerate
- C . IBM Spectrum Scale
- D . IBM Spectrum Connect