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Fragenkataloge 000-959Enterprise Storage Sales V3

Andr Peters

21.08.2014


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Which product is the Real-time Compression Appliance technolog

designed to work with?

A. 3PAR

B. Isilon

C. NetApp

D. Compellent

Answer: C


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Which Technical and Delivery Assessment is conducted afte

solution design and before proposal to the customer?

A. Pre-sale

B. Post-sale

C. Pre-install

D. Post-install

Answer: A


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A customer wants to design a new storage infrastructure that will have

pool of storage.

There is a mix of POWER and x86 servers, and the high performance

use Fibre

Channel adapters. Both high availability and disaster recovery over a

are necessary.

Which piece of information is most important in order to connect a SA

network?

A. Which protocols must be supported

B. Number of hops between different serversC. Number of Fibre Channel and network attached devices

D. Speed of the Fibre Channel and network attached devices

Answer: A


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A customer is looking to start with a 100 TB storage solution. Ov

next three years, they expect to double their storage capacity anperformance requirements.

Which IBM storage solution will scale both performance and cap

proportionately for this customer?

A. N6420

B. DS8800C. XIVGen3

D. SAN Volume Controller with D55100

Answer: C


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A customer is very interested in taking advantage of cloud storage. In which

should the customer implement these three key steps before deploying priva

storage?

1. Automate storage management, including key operational processes such

backup, recovery, metering, and billing2. Establish an efficient storage environment by leveraging virtualization,

deduplication, compression, and tiering

3. Optimize the storage environment by adding self service and pay-per-use

A. 1, 2, 3

B. 1, 3, 2C. 3, 2, 1

D. 2, 1, 3

Answer: D


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A sales specialist closes a customer meeting with an opportu

offer a DS8800 for a critical SAP database application worklo

which runs on AIX and an EMC DMX system. The customer i

concerned with performance and asks for a performance anabefore the DS8800 proposal.

Which IBM tool should be used for planning the configuration

A. RMF Magic

B. SAP Magic

C. DiskMagicD. Capacity Magic

Answer: C


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What is an advantage of IBM XIV System Storage over HP P10000 (

a cloud

environment?

A. QoS integration

B. Distributed node design

C. Scales with performance

D. Tier-less architecture design

Answer: D


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A POWER customer is looking for a tool to allow chargebacks for sto

usage to various departments within their company.

Which Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V4.2 module provides thefunctionality?

A. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Data

B. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk

C. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Fabric

D. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication

Answer: A


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An IBM Business Partner has sold a storage subsystem to an end-

customer.

Who is responsible for scheduling and ensuring completion of the ppre-installation Technical and Delivery Assessment?

A. IBM Distributor

B. IBM Business Partner

C. IBM Storage Representative

D. IBM Channel Technical Storage Specialist (CTSS)

Answer: B


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A customer is looking for a way to obtain the following storage ma

functions:

Single point of control for point-in time and remote volume replicat

services

Automated source-target matching Practice Volume support for D

Volume Protection.

Which IBM product should be recommended to this customer?

A. Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM)

B. System Storage Productivity CenterC. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center

D. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Select

Answer: C


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A customer tells the sales specialist that the cost for high performa

storage is too expensive, especially for data that is infrequently

accessed.

Which technology allows them to assign types of data to different t

of storage media in orderto reduce costs?

A. Data archival

B. Storage tiering

C. Thin provisioning

D. Storage virtualization

Answer: B


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What 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 dem

D. It provides storage performance greater than or equal to the other

of IBM SmarterStorage.

Answer: A !!!!! (->C)


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A customer is backing up their data every night using Symantec

Netbackup. The customer expresses their frustration with the eve

growing need for more storage just to handle the volume of data b

backed up.Which IBM product can be proposed that would more efficiently ha

this data volume?

A. ProtecTIER

B. SAN Volume Controller

C. Real-time Compression Appliance

D. Tivoli Storage Manager Enterprise Edition

Answer: A


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A customer is looking for a robust Storage Resource Manageme

(SRM) solution for their DSSeries that includes the following feat

Discovery, topology, monitoring, capacity management, alertingdevice performance management 2-site replication management


A. System Storage Productivity Center

B. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center

C. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center SelectD. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication

Answer: B


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During a customer visit, a sales specialist presents the IBM stora

portfolio and is asked how it helps reduce storage administration

due to manual tuning procedures today.Which offering answers the customers question?

A. EasyTier

B. Storage pool

C. Cloud storage

D. Dynamic disk pool

Answer: A


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A customer is considering a new storage solution that would prov

for a virtualized storage pool.

Which question should the sales specialist ask in order to identify

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?

Answer: D


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The customer has a NAS infrastructure which grows by new

acquisitions of separate nodes leading to cost inefficiency, comp

administration, and underutilized storage resources. It is estimatethere will be 30% of data growth per year, reaching 11 PB in the

2 years.

What should the sales specialist propose to the customer?

A. One SONAS system

B. Two SONAS systemsC. Two N7900 systems

D. Three N7900 systemsAnswer: A


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A customer is building the first public Cloud environment and p

implement a virtualized storage platform in order to be flexible

adaptable to the unpredictable new demands.

Which IBM Smarter Storage ability can help this customer withrequirements?

A. Cloud Agile

B. Cloud Storage Fast

C. Cloud Virtualization

D. Cloud SAN Volume Controller

Answer: A


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A customer is looking for a new enterprise storage system. In vis

the customer to meet with the storage administrator, the visitors

book reveals that EMC has recently visited.To be successful with this opportunity, at what level must the sale

specialist be calling to be at the same level as EMC?

A. Chief Security Officer

B. Chief Financial Officer

C. Chief Technology OfficerD. Chief Information Officer

Answer: B


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The PRIMARY purpose of the SAN Volume Controller is to provid

which function?

A. Increased performance

B. Storage virtualization

C. Merging multiple LANs and SANs into one

D. Replication within a single storage array (homogeneous)

Answer: B


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A customer is interested in an optional XIV Gen3 feature that

provides superior performance and faster response time. What is

XIV feature?

A. Easy Tier

B. SSD caching

C. Thin provisioning

D. Capacity allocation

Answer: B


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A customer needs a way to over-allocate storage capacity to use

reduce administrative costs of manually managing allocations.

Which storage efficiency feature of XIV provides this capability?

A. Thin provisioning

B. Flexible snapshots

C. Massive parallelism

D. Instant space reclamation

Answer: A


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Which tool or resource can be used to verify the available feature

codes for a DS8800?

A. IBM OnTarget

B. IBM Sales Manual

C. System Storage Interoperation Center

D. Standalone Solutions Configuration Tool

Answer: B


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A customer has a number of non-IBM storage arrays, which are capable of provisionin

only traditional RAID volumes. Over-allocation of storage is an issue on some arrays a

others.

In order to balance storage use across the arrays, the customer wishes to virtualize the

environment.

Which advantage would IBM SAN Volume Controller provide over EMC VPLEX?

A. SAN Volume Controller can provide thin provisioned volumes to reduce capacity reg

array capability.

B. SAN Volume Controller can provide Real-time Compression to reduce capacity if th

supports compression.

C. SAN Volume Controller can provide block-level deduplication to reduce capacity reg

array capability.

D. SAN Volume Controller can provide thin provisioned volumes to reduce capacity if tsupports thin provisioning.

Answer: A


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A POWER customer is looking for a backup solution that will han

all of their small files that use Tivoli Storage Manager.

Which solution should be recommended to this customer?

A. N7900

B. TS7650A

C. DS3500

D. TS3500 with Jaguar

Answer: B


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A customer wants a proposal for storage that includes three year

7x24 coverage for their DS8800 storage array. How should a sal

specialist respond?

A. Three years, 9x5 is the standard with an option to provide 7x2

B. By choosing the correct machine type, three years, 7x24 will b

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.

Answer: B


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An IBM customer that provides cloud storage has issues with the management of la

data volumes across an environment consisting of several different storage product

Some applications have insufficient storage capacity or performance in their curren

locations. A possibleresolution for this issue would be to consolidate the applications onto DS8800. Why

this?

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

B.Active Cloud Engine will provide automatic rebalancing of the data across the tie

C.Active Cloud Engine will move data to Solid State disk to increase performance

D. Easy Tier will automatically rebalance the data across tiers and provide better

performance.

Answer: D


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A mainframe customer who utilizes 3490 tape is interested in

reducing their need for tape and would like to compare offerings

IBM and Oracle.Which competitive product from Oracle should the specialist gath

information on?

A. VSM

B. VSP

C. VPLEX

D. Bus-Tech

Answer: AOracle: The StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager Systemis the market-leading mainframe virtual tape solution. It im

mainframe tape drive operating efficiencies and lowers your total cost of ownership by maximizing the value of storage

and optimizing mainframe tape drive and library resources
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What is a key feature of the DS8800 compared to previous

generations of the DS8000?

A. Commodity storage controllers that allow ease of upgrade

B. Support of NAS Protocols (NFS, CIFS)

C. 2.5 drives that decrease storage footprint and allow denser

storage

D. InfiniBand back-end connections that provide the fastest avail

interconnect

Answer: C


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If a customer is looking to move to a cloud environment, which ke

attribute should the storage provide to ensure the success of the

cloud?

A. Storage virtualization

B. Realtime Data Compression

C. Homogeneous storage from one vendor

D. Integration of solid-state drives with high speed SAS disks

Answer: A


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A company wants additional storage for their database system a

has been looking at HP competitive disk proposals as a solution.

When discussing IBMs solutions with the companys CIO, the sa

specialist learns that the company is directly attaching the HP dis

and is buying fewer, larger capacity drives.Based on this information, which financial justification is this

customer using?

A. Price/performance

B. Return on investment

C. Total cost of ownershipD. Total cost of acquisition

Answer: D


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An x86 customer is looking to deploy a cloud environment with

single administrator managing both the servers and storage.


A. System Storage Productivity CenterB. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center

C. IBM Systems Director Storage Control

D. IBM Systems Director Enterprise Edition

Answer: C

IBM Systems Director Storage Controlermglicht das Management von Server- und Speichersystemen

von einem einzigen Bildschirm aus. IBM Systems Director mit Storage Control bietet eine zentrale

Managementkonsole und ein System fr das Management von Server- wie auch Speichersystemen. Storage

Control ist ein Plug-in fr IBM Systems Director auf Basis von IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center
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The Technical and Delivery Assessment process provides which be

the customer and Business Partner?

A. Problem elimination

B. Customer relationship improvement

C. Sales growth and price competitiveness

D. Customer satisfaction and problem mitigation

Answer: D

A customer identifies a need for a new tape library Millions of sm


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A customer identifies a need for a new tape library. Millions of sm

files across hundreds of servers need to be backed up, and there

also terabytes of data that are video files. Cost is a key factor to t

customer.

Which unique feature in the TS3500 should the seller focus on ov

smaller IBM tape libraries?

A. Robotics

B. 4 or 8Gbps SAN connectivity

C. Intermix of LTO and Jaguar drives

D. Intermix of different operating systems

Answer: C


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A customer has established a NAS infrastructure based on a

Windows-supporting new-application development and wants to

protect written programs and production-data backups in a single

platform.

Which IBM solution is applicable to this customers needs?

A. IBM TS7720

B. IBM TS7620 ProtecTIER

C. IBM TS7650 ProtecTIER

D. IBM Tivoli Storage Productively Center

Answer: B


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When comparing the IBM TS1140 to IBM LTO-5 tape drives, wha

a unique advantage of the TS1140?

A. Media reuseB. Speed matching

C. WORM capability

D. Fiber attachment

Answer: A


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A customer has a large volume of data that needs to be stored w

their data center. The customer has indicated that their data grow

will be in the 25% per year range, if not higher.Which question must be asked to determine the proper IBM stora

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?

Answer: D


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A customer is implementing a storage solution behind their Syste

servers. The customer has a unique application that requires sup

for RAID 4.Which IBM storage solution should be recommended to this

customer?

A. N7900

B. DS8800 and SVC

C. XIV Gen3D. StorwizeV7000

Answer: A


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IBMs TS3500 Tape Library allows a customer to utilize both IBM

and IBM TS1 140 drive technology in the same Library.

Which other library vendor offers the same capability?

A. Oracle

B. HP

C. Dell

D. Spectra Logic

Answer: D


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A customer has an application on System x that requires a storag

array without any mirroring or parity. Which IBM storage solution

meet the customers requirement?A. XIV

B. N7900

C. Storwize V7000

D. SAN Volume Controller

Answer: C


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A customer has a number of older storage arrays that are

approaching their end of lease. The customer has 100 TB in use

is looking for a solution to easily migrate the data to new storagearrays.

Which IBM solution can be proposed to meet these needs at the

lowest cost?

A. N7900

B. XIV Gen3C. SAN Volume Controller with DS8800

D. SAN Volume Controller with XIV Gen3

Answer: B


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A sales specialist discusses system acquisition requirements wit

companys CFO, who states,

our final evaluation will be based on hard dollars, but l still want

see what kind of value Im getting with the solution we choose.

How is this customer performing the purchasing analysis?

A. TOA

B. TCO

C. NPV

D. ROIAnswer: D

A customer has planned a 500 Windows and Linux server


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p

consolidation project in order to use virtualization. The same

customer also has a D58800 installed in production and wants to

explore FCoE technology to reduce network administration and

complexity as part of a server and network

optimization strategy.Which product or feature enables DS88OO to be included in the

infrastructure?

A. SAN Volume Controller

B. IBM Converged Switch B32

C. FC0E DS8800 Host Adapters

D. System Storage Productivity Center

Answer: A

A customer with storage arrays from a number of vendors is look


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at EMC and IBM storage management tools. What should the sa

specialist discuss with this customer?

A. EMC Unisphere manages IBM and EMC storage arrays

B. EMC can deploy a single solution to manage HDS and EMC

C. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center can only manage the IBMstorage arrays

D. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center can manage SMI-S complia

storage from a singlemanagement console

Answer: DDie SMI-S(Storage Management Initiative - Specification) gilt allgemein als Standard-Basis f

zuknftige Management-Umgebungen bei Storage Area Networks
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What is one clear advantage of IBMs TS3500 Tape Library over Ora

8500 Library?

A. FCOE connectivity

B. Higher number of robots

C. Modularity of storage units

D. Capability for handling mixed media

Answer: C


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A customer is interested in the differences between IBM ProtecT

and Data Domain. Which feature is found only on ProtecTIER?

A. HA cluster

B. NetBackup OST support

C. Bidirectional replication

D. File Systems interface support

Answer: A


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A customer is considering a move to a virtualized server

environment.

Which benefit would be achieved by the implementation of the

Realtime Compression Appliance?

A. Reduction in time to backup

B. Reduction in VMware snapshot times

C. Increase in the Recovery Time Objective

D. Increase in the Recovery Point Objective

Answer: A


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Which Business Continuity capability provides a customer with

access to applications regardless of local failures, whether these

failures are in the business processes, the physical facilities, or t

hardware or software?

A. High Availability

B. Disaster Recovery

C. Contingency Planning

D. Continuous Operations

Answer: A


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A VMware customer wants to connect two data centers within 30

km of each other. The customer is looking for a two- site busines

continuity solution that supports VMware Site Recovery Manage

seamless storage failover.

Which IBM product should be proposed to this customer?

A. XIV with Metro Mirror

B. DS8000 with Global Mirror

C. Storwize V7000 with Global MirrorD. SAN Volume Controller stretch cluster

Answer: D


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A customers 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 Tier

B. Thin Provisioning

C.Active Cloud Engine

D. Real-Time Compression

Answer: C


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A customer is looking for a small VTL that comes standard with

deduplication as well as with at least 4 TB of usable capacity wh

can grow to 20 TB.

Which IBM solution should be proposed to this customer?

A. TS 7610

B. TS 7680

C. TS 7650

D. TS 7650G

Answer: C


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A customer is looking for a solution that will handle their long-term

data retention needs within the hardware. They need to avoid the

potential erasure or modification of that data.

Which IBM disk product provides the best solution for this custom

A. N7900

B. SONAS

C. DS3599

D. XIV Gen3

Answer: A


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A customer is interested in the ability of XIV to take advantage of

storage capacity, all internal bandwidth, and all available process

power.

Which system architecture feature of XIV enables full exploitation

all system components?

A. Self healing

B. Thin provisioning

C. Workload balancing

D. Massive parallelism

Answer: D

An IBM System x customer is implementing a VMware pool The


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An IBM System x customer is implementing a VMware pool. The

customer has one administrator to manage the servers and stora

so deep integration with VMware is needed. The customer also

desires a storage array that can scale to 299 TB.

Which IBM storage product should be recommended to thiscustomer?

A. DS8800

B. DS5020

C. XIV Gen 3

D. SAN Volume Controller with DS8800

Answer: C


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A customer is looking to provide an enterprise storage subsystem

their web and SQL server environment. If fastest response time i

requirement, which IBM storage product should be recommende

this customer?

A. N7900

B. DS8800

C. XIV Gen3

D. SAN Volume Controller

Answer: B


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