M2090-744 Online Practice Questions and Answers

Which are the best two entry points for BLU Acceleration?

A. Cognos BIcustomers

B. SAP BW customers

C. DB2 for z/OS customers

D. Oracle ERP customers

Which best describes the Oracle environments that we should prioritize for Oracle takeout opportunities?

A. All Oracle environments are equally simple to go after with our Oracle application compatibility layer

B. The ideal environments are those where the Oracle Application Suite is being used by the client

C. SAP, Cognos and environments with home grown applications will generally be the easiest to go after

D. We only target take-out with SAP environments

Which is the most accurate statement about why BLU is a better alternative solution to HANA?

A. BLU is less expensive than HANA. but is the same technology

B. BLU is the only solution in the industry which leverages both in-memory technology as well as deep hardware exploitation such as SIMD

C. BLU provides a less expensive solution which works with all SAP applications regardless of whether there are analytics or reporting running in the system

D. BLU provides a less expensive, mature and more flexible columnar implementation than HANA so that the client will not need to change their skills or hardware infrastructure

Which two examples show that Amazon RedShift lacks DB2 BLU's usability features?

A. Compression algorithms must be picked manually

B. Workload management divides resources manually and does not dynamically adjust memory allocation to meet workload requirements

C. Query execution plans must be specified manually

D. Data skipping must be specified manually

Managed Service offerings provide:

A. IBM management of comprehensive performance SLAs

B. User customization of the server and software stack

C. IBM management of provisioning, upgrades, backups, and availability

D. Free access to dedicated servers or clusters

Which of the following summarizes the BLU Acceleration value prop?

A. Fast, Inexpensive, Compatible

B. Fast, Simple. Agile

C. Simple. Reliable, Inexpensive

D. Agile, Inexpensive, Complete

When talking to a client, what is the Leading benefit of Hadoop/Big Insights?

A. To analyze unstructured and structured data

B. To store only structured data

C. Use it as landing zone for structured, unstructured, and semi structured data

D. To analyze external data

There is a customer currently running Cognos on top of SQL Server. Despite going to Cognos 10.2,the customer continues to experience performance challenges. Which is the best initial course of action?

A. Look for another entry point. DB2 does not have SQL Server compatibility

B. Propose BLU Acceleration as a Cognos accelerator to speed up existing reports using a BLU for Cloud

C. Propose an enterprise wide SQL Server takeout with an aggressive IULA

D. Propose PDOA since SQL Server can't run on Power