C1000-020 Online Practice Questions and Answers

In the event of logical corruption, a customer wants to have application-aware backups of a DB2 database that can be quickly restored.

Which solution should be recommended?

A. Global Mirror

B. Vdisk Mirroring

C. IBM Spectrum Control

D. IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot

A customer wants to implement a software-defined storage solution and has existing storage leases that they want to leverage as part of the solution.

Which IBM SAN Volume Controller license is required?

A. Encryption

B. Virtualization

C. Replication

D. Real-time Compression

A company has added a new IBM Storwize V7000 to its existing multi-vendor environment.

Which software is needed to allow the IBM Storwize V7000 to manage the different storage devices?

A. Security Key Life Cycle Manager

B. External Virtualization

C. Global Mirror

D. Real-time Compression

A VMware customer has a heterogeneous SAN storage environment including arrays from HDS and IBM. The customer needs to integrate and seamlessly manage, monitor, and report on the entire environment.

Which storage offering meets this customer's needs?

A. IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management

B. IBM Virtual Storage Center

C. IBM Spectrum Control

D. IBM Spectrum Virtualize

Which feature of the IBM storage portfolio can make the cost of IBM FlashSystem V9000 competitive with the cost per TB of spinning disk?

A. Data Reduction Pools

B. High IOPS

C. Ultra Low Latency

D. Easy Tier

How can a sales specialist verify that a proposed storage solution fits within the customer's current budget?

A. Verify useable space with Capacity Magic

B. Analyze output from STAT

C. Perform TCONow! for Disk analysis

D. Perform a Disk Magic study

Why would a client ask for an ROI calculation for a proposed IBM storage solution?

A. To measure the time until an investment id depreciated

B. To measure the overall OPEX and CAPEX

C. To determine how a lease is a better option than a purchase

D. To measure the financial benefit of an investment over a given period

A customer using IBM SVC hardware has had issues when its own storage team installed upgrades of the IBM Spectrum Virtualize code.

Which hardware option should the sales specialist propose to the customer?

A. Purchase nodes with Enterprise Class Support

B. Purchase a cold standby node

C. Engage IBM Global Technology Services

D. Install additional SV1 nodes to expand the cluster

A customer wants a cloud-based service that provides real-time analytics of its IBM Storwize infrastructure.

Which offering meets this requirement?

A. IBM Spectrum Control Advanced Edition

B. IBM Spectrum Scale

C. IBM Storage Insights Pro

D. IBM Cloud Object Storage

A customer who has just purchased an IBM FlashSystem A9000 wants to have IBM assistance with implementation and initial training.

Which IBM group should the sales specialist approach?

A. IBM A9000 Development

B. IBM Lab Services

C. IBM SSRs

D. IBM Technical Advisors

Which IBM storage product includes transparent cloud tiering?

A. IBM Spectrum Protect

B. IBM Spectrum NAS

C. IBM Spectrum Accelerate

D. IBM Spectrum Virtualize

What is the official IBM resource that is targeted at its business partners for information on storage?

A. IBM DeveloperWorks

B. Inside System Storage

C. IBM PartnerWorld

D. IBM Redbooks

A customer needs an additional 200 TB usable for video surveillance files. Which tool calculates the necessary storage for this environment?

A. Capacity Magic

B. E-config

C. Disk Magic

D. Comprestimator

A customer is looking at several competing storage proposals and asks the sales representative why Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is important.

Which response should be the sales specialist give based on IBM's definition of TCO?

A. It evaluates the complete cost of acquisition of the asset.

B. It provides for the evaluation of the ongoing OPEX costs.

C. It provides for the evaluation of the comparison acquisition costs of IBM with the competition.

D. It evaluates the complete cost of ownership of an asset.

Who is responsible for ensuring that a TDA is performed?

A. IBM Client Executive

B. Opportunity owner

C. Distributor D. IBM SSR