EMT Practice Test

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Question1: 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?

Question2: A customer has an IBM SAN Volume Controller cluster with two CF8 nodes that contain one four-port Fibre Channel card. The customer desires to replace these two nodes with two new SV1 nodes running compression. The customer requires that this upgrade occur without down time.
Which step is needed first to ensure success of this upgrade?

Question3: 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?

Question4: A customer is preparing for a storage upgrade and is trying to decide if hybrid or all flash is appropriate for them. Lifecycle cost is a primary concern.
Which tool should the technical specialist use to help the customer decide?

Question5: 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?

Question6: Which product enables a single point-of-control for multiple storage resources to help support improved business application availability and greater resource utilization?

Question7: What is the complete source of information for power, cooling, and floor space requirements for IBM tape products?

Question8: 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?

Question9: 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?

Question10: 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?

Question11: 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?

Question12: Which IBM FlashSystem A9000 function enables the division of storage system administration tasks into logical domains?

Question13: 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?

Question14: An IBM Power AI system based on AC922 equipped with NVIDIA GPU requires 40 GB/s throughput and a policy based storage system.
Which IBM Storage AI Infrastructure Reference Architecture fulfills these requirements?

Question15: Which IBM A9000R option addresses rapid data growth and financial concerns?

Question16: Which element of business continuity is employed by creating nightly flash copies at the primary data center?

Question17: 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?

Question18: After activating disk encryption on an existing IBM TS7700, which action does a client need to take for the existing virtual volumes to be encrypted?

Question19: 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?

Question20: 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?

Question21: A cloud service provider is looking to provide a scalable solution that provides quality of service capabilities, ease of management, deduplication, and integration with OpenStack and VMware while providing sub-millisecond response time.
Which solution should the technical specialist recommend?

Question22: Which IBM FlashSystem 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?

Question23: 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?

Question24: A customer has an existing IBM XIV Gen3 solution with 3 TB drives and nine modules. While performance is acceptable, the customer wants to increase the performance of small-block reads. The current nine modules are running at 60% of capacity.
Which solution should the technical specialist recommend?

Question25: A customer requires a mass scale-out storage solution to organize, store, manage and access unstructured dat a. 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?

Question26: 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?

Question27: Which OpenStack 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?

Question28: A customer with block storage from a competitor desires an OpenStack ready platform for storage management.
Which solution should the technical specialist recommend?

Question29: 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?

Question30: A customer has an IBM Spectrum Virtualize environment as part of the IBM Spectrum Storage Suite. Snapshot is frequently used for short term backups of databases. Increases in the database size have created the need for an additional storage footprint to store short-term backups, but capital expenses are on hold.
What should the technical specialist recommend?