HPE2-E72 Online Practice Questions and Answers

Which correctly describes how customers are using public cloud today?

A. Just under half of customers run any workloads in the public cloud, and they are primarily SMBs.

B. A majority of customers now run the majority of their workloads in the public cloud.

C. Most customers are using public cloud services, but only a small minority of workloads actually run in the public cloud.

D. Only about ten percent of customers run any workloads in the public cloud, but they are the largest enterprises.

What is one productive way for companies to address exploding amounts of data?

A. Archive the data on flash until needed for regulatory audits.

B. Use intelligent storage to reduce the amount of data that the business collects.

C. Delete the oldest data so that they can focus on the freshest data.

D. Use AI to analyze the data and extract value from it

Which statement indicates that the customer could be a good candidate for HPE's composable and software-defined solutions?

A. "We spend a lot of money and time provisioning infrastructure and correcting errors caused by manual processes."

B. "We want to upgrade our rack servers as simply as possible. We're not expanding quickly."

C. "IoT is presenting a lot of security threats that we are not prepared to address."

D. "We can't seem to drive our growth up past 5% year-over-year, no matter what functionality we offer to customers."

What is one challenge of implementing machine learning?

A. Biased or inaccurate data can teach the algorithm to behave in undesirable ways.

B. Developers struggle to make decision makers see the value of machine learning.

C. Few models for artificial intelligence and machine learning exist yet.

D. Companies do not have enough data to implement machine learning.

What is a use case for Microsoft Azure Private Cloud?

A. A company wants to apply pay-as-you-go funding to all their IT services.

B. A company has implemented DevOps and wants to deploy apps to both a private and public cloud.

C. A company wants to use Anthos to orchestrate migrating workloads across their private and public cloud.

D. A company wants to find a service provider that can offer private cloud as-a-service.

What is one characteristic that indicates that you could have a good opportunity to sell HPE Nimble?

A. The customer is looking for storage nodes for an object storage solution.

B. The customer needs an easier way to migrate data between on-prem and the public cloud.

C. The customer has a VMware environment and wants to migrate that to a hyperconverged solution.

D. The customer is primarily concerned about avoiding and disruption to mission critical services.

Why is a Unified API a critical component of composability?

A. It is exposes the Artificial Intelligence (AI) features that are embedded in HPE InfoSight.

B. It provides a container run-time environment for DevOps, which speeds up application development.

C. It enables customers to use the tools they prefer to further orchestrate their environment.

D. It helps customers establish silos for different workloads, making it easier to manage the infrastructure.

What is one benefit of HPE Synergy for customers who want to start containerizing their applications?

A. HPE Synergy helps customers to reduce deployment time for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform from days to hours.

B. HPE Synergy is specifically designed to run containerized workloads rather than traditional or virtualized workloads.

C. HPE Synergy includes a self-service catalog that enables developers to provision container platforms without help from IT.

D. HPE Synergy helps customers replace their existing continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/ CD) tools with end-to-end HPE Synergy automation tools.

A customer tells you that their costs for public cloud services fluctuate more than they would like from month to month. What can you tell the customer about HPE GreenLake?

A. With HPE GreenLake, the costs will be the same every month, so customers can better plan their OpEx spending.

B. HPE GreenLake provides sophisticated metering, which gives customers complete transparency into costs.

C. HPE GreenLake provides a significant cost savings over public cloud services so even if the cost fluctuates, it is lower than what the customer is paying now.

D. With HPE GreenLake, customers are notified if their costs increase more than 5% month over month.

What is one drawback of traditional private cloud solutions as compared to public cloud?

A. Traditional private cloud solutions have a CAPEX model, rather than pay-as-you-go like public cloud.

B. Traditional private cloud solutions lead to more unexpected costs than public cloud.

C. Traditional private cloud solutions make it harder for the company to audit regulatory compliance than with public cloud.

D. Traditional private cloud solutions almost always have a higher TCO than public cloud.

You are proposing an HPE Intelligent Data Platform solution to a customer. The customer says: "I'm actually strongly considering cloud storage instead. On-prem storage solutions are too slow to deploy and too expensive to scale." What is one way that can you overcome this objection?

A. "Sure, your public cloud solution is convenient. But what about orchestrating your infrastructure? In the cloud, it's all siloed."

B. "Public cloud providers are offering outdated tools to develop apps. Only private cloud environments allow you to containerize your apps."

C. "HPE GreenLake offers the same scalability and pay-as-you-go economics of the public cloud but in the safety of an on-prem environment."

D. "Public cloud is the right choice, but with HPE's public cloud, you'll have greater performance and reliability. There's no oversubscription and no downtime."

For which customers does the HPE 100% Availability Guarantee apply?

A. For all customers with any HPE storage array

B. For all customers with HPE Nimble and HPE RMC

C. For all customers with any HPE storage array and HPE Datacenter support or higher

D. For all customers with HPE Primera and HPE Proactive Care or higher support

What is one benefit of the HPE acquisition of MapR for HPE customers?

A. HPE has added MapR's Al-based algorithms for deduplication and compression to make HPE storage solutions more efficient.

B. Customers can obtain the MapR software platform, designed to simplify the deployment of artificial intelligence (AI), on density-optimized HPE Apollo servers.

C. HPE can give customers the benefits of the MapR expertise in artificial intelligence and machine learning.

D. With the addition of MapR, a leading hardware provider for supercomputing, HPE can offer customers a more extensive HPC portfolio.

What is one distinguishing feature of HPE Pointnext?

A. It is the research lab where HPE develops the disruptive technologies of tomorrow.

B. It delivers services that help customers transform their culture, modernize processes, and enhance IT skills.

C. It provides a wide array of software as a service (SaaS) solutions for customer consumption.

D. It provides customers with compute, storage, and networking products that are not yet generally available.

What is one way that HPE helps customers overcome their economic barriers to growth?

A. by offering special discounts to public cloud services that are financed by HPEFS

B. by helping customers to liberate capital by replacing investments in under-utilized infrastructure with pay-as-you-go services

C. by helping companies transition to a more cost effective waterfall application development cycle

D. by providing advanced AI operations that can replace most of a customer's IT staff