EMT Practice Test

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Question1: A customer is looking for a storage solution to backup data in the environment.
What is the recommended solution from a price and performance standpoint?

Question2: Which IBM software allows a customer to utilize containers with IBM Flash System storage?

Question3: Which product enables a single point-of-control for multiple storage resources to help support improved business application availability and greater resource utilization?

Question4: Which feature in the XIV allows data on a set of related volumes to enable correctly ordered writes?

Question5: What should a storage specialist do to verify that a heterogeneous solution is supported by IBM?

Question6: Whch storage solution should the technical specialist propose to a customer with a large VMware environment and an IBM System z?

Question7: A manager is evaluating XIV as a new storage solution because of an extensive utilization of snapshots in the production environment. The storage administration team is a mobile workforce and the manager is concerned about running out of snapshot capacity before an administrator can respond.
How can the solution architect respond to the manager's concern?

Question8: IBM has proposed IBM Spectrum Control for a customer who is currently using multiple vendor tools to manage a complex heterogeneous storage environment
How does IBM Spectrum Control do this?

Question9: A customer currently owns a Scalar LTO-5 SAS single drive autoloader. Planned future growth requires a tape library with capacity of four LTO-7 drives and 40 data cartridges.
Which IBM product meets the requirement while minimizing impact on the budget?

Question10: A customer wants to order a full rack XIV system. The customer is on the 5th floor of the building and the elevator cannot handle the weight of a fully loaded XIV.
What is needed to deliver the system to the customer?

Question11: A scientific customer is evaluating the IBM TS4500 against the Spectra Logic and Quantum Scalar i6000 and suggests that there is no difference since these vendors use IBM manufactured drives in their libraries.
What is a key advantage of the IBM TS4500?

Question12: A solution architect has determined the amount of spindles needed to satisfy performance and RAID level requirements for an IBM DS8886.
Which tool provides information on the number of spare drives included in the system?

Question13: A customer wants a storage solution with no spinning drives and wants to replace an existing HDS system that is currently connected to an IBM mainframe.
Which storage solution should the technical specialist recommend?

Question14: An IBM TS4500 has experienced I/O errors that have prevented moving the library into production. IBM has verified that the configuration is valid and performed the replacement of multiple parts.
What is the next step the technical specialist should perform?

Question15: How many ports from a full 15 module XIV Storage System are recommended initially to connect to an IBM Spectrum Virtualize Controller?

Question16: Which document is required by IBM to verify a customer's environment before shipment of an enterprise tape library?

Question17: A customer has a VMware environment and is limited in the number of hosts that can access a given LUN. This is causing a problem for the storage administrator. The customer wants to overcome this issue when purchasing the next storage device.
Which function within the storage hardware does this customer require?

Question18: What is the complete source of information for power, cooling, and floor space requirements for IBM tape products?

Question19: A customer desires to view and forecast capacity in an XIV Hyper-Scale environment.
Which tool provides this functionality at the lowest cost?

Question20: A customer with a highly virtualized VMware environment and several bare-metal Oracle servers is interested in data protection and replication between its on-site and IBM cloud environments.
Which technology should be discussed?

Question21: A customer has deployed multiple IBM Flash System A9000R systems in its environment and has asked for a graphical report to periodically show capacity growth, utilization, and trends for the systems, pools, and domains.
Which tool generates this report?

Question22: What is the default configuration of a RAID protection level in an IBM DS8886 HPFE?

Question23: 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?

Question24: A customer has existing fiber attached storage that has reached the end of life. The customer wants a scalable solution that is easy to manage and integrates with VMware. The customer has a preference for an XIV based solution, but is concerned about migrating the existing data and boot volumes.
Which explanation best addresses the customer's concern?

Question25: Which flash core modules in an IBM Flash System A9000 provide the greatest capacity utilizing inline compression?

Question26: A customer wants to improve overall workload performance and is considering adding either an IBM Storwize V7000F or an IBM FlashSystem A9000 to the environment
Which key performance characteristic differentiates these two products?

Question27: 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?

Question28: What is the minimum role level needed to download support log files to troubleshoot the IBM Spectrum Virtualize software?

Question29: A customer has requested an IBM Spectrum Virtualize solution with capability to make it easy for users to create relevant and meaningful custom reports.
What should the solution architect propose to satisfy this requirement?

Question30: A customer has several legacy storage arrays containing many hot spare disks. The customer has heard that the IBM XIV does not have any hot spares.
What should the technical specialist explain to the customer about the way the IBM XIV works?

Question31: How does the IBM Storage Driver for OpenStack enable the DS8870 to become part of an OpenStack infrastructure?

Question32: When upgrading an existing IBM TS4500 Tape Library, which solution provides high availability (HA) functionality?

Question33: How does the integration of IBM with IBM Flash System with IBM Spectrum Scale improve analytic environments?

Question34: Which IBM XIV 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?

Question35: IBM has proposed IBM Spectrum Control for a customer who is currently using multiple vendor tools to manage a complex heterogenous storage environment.
How does IBM Spectrum Control do this?

Question36: 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?

Question37: An IBM Spectrum Protect customer is considering purchase of IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments for its large VMware implementation. The customer also needs to archive data to tape. The customer desires to consolidate its diverse software portfolio of multi-vendor solutions to handle storage monitoring and provisioning.
What solution should the technician discuss with the customer?

Question38: A customer is purchasing an IBM 3952 Tape Frame for a TS3500 Tape Library.
In which resource can you find the customer's detailed worksheets to complete the installation?

Question39: 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?

Question40: As part of a customer data management solution, it is necessary to store its unused data on a low cost solution. A tape library will provide low cost, but the customer's access to write to tape directly is denied.
Which recommendation enables the customer's application to access the tape devices?

Question41: A customer has a two-frame IBM TS4500 Tape Library with 24 IBM TS1150 drives. The L frame is the left-most frame and the customer wants to add slots for 1100 cartridges. The available physical space in the data center is limited, so high density (HD) frames are needed. The customer has some existing IBM TS3500 storage frames that could be repurposed.
What does the customer need to understand about the upgrade?

Question42: Which offering provides scale-out parallel processing and dramatically accelerates performance of analytics when integrated with integrated with the IBM FlashSystem?

Question43: Which open source cloud-computing platform that is supported by IBM enterprise storage allows for inclusion in an existing environment?

Question44: A customer wants a new tape library. The customer currently uses LTO-4 tapes but has some older archive tapes on LTO-3.
What is the highest level tape drive the customer can install and still read the older archive tapes and write to current tapes?

Question45: How are key management services provided for the IBM DS8886 storage system?

Question46: Which statement is true regarding a customer who has existing LTO-3 Tapes and Drives looking to upgrade to LTO-6?

Question47: What is the minimum number of FCP/FICON host adapters required for redundancy in an IBM System Storage DS8870?

Question48: 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?

Question49: Which IBM storage solution provides for MicroLatency performance?

Question50: Which solution meets a customer's requirements for 100,000 IOPS and 30TB of raw capacity?

Question51: Which resource informs a storage specialist if a TDA is mandatory or optional?

Question52: A customer has an own Cloud file sync and sharing platform attached to an existing IBM Elastic Storage Server (ESS). Due to rapid data growth of this platform, the customer needs to add 300 TB usable storage capacity.
Which type of nodes should the technical specialist propose?

Question53: A customer with NAS and block storage is booking IBM Software-Defined Storage as a means to improve storage efficiency within a data center.
Which product from the IBM Software-Defined Storage Control will help the customer?

Question54: A customer wants a storage system solution with proactive system health management. The customer has asked about advantages that the IBM FlashSystem A9000R offers.
Which feature should the technical specialist discuss?

Question55: A customer is interested in purchasing a TS7620 ProtecTIER Appliance for its production site and one for replication at its DR site.
Which statement accurately describes replication licensing?

Question56: Which solution allows for the greatest effective capacity per EIA unit of rack space?

Question57: What should the technical specialist explain when describing the addition of grid elements to an IBM FlashSystem A9000R?

Question58: A customer has a requirement to add high availability to all systems in the data center. It has an IBM TS4500 Tape Library In use.
What must be added to the library to meet the high availability requirement?

Question59: 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?

Question60: Which upgrade is possible for a customer with IBM FlashSystem 840?

Question61: A customer has a fully licensed single frame IBM TS4500 with four 3592 drives installed, using about 200 storage slots, and a small IBM TS3310 library with two LTO-6 drives and 60 LTO-6 cartridges The customer wants to consolidate the two libraries and move the LTO cartridges into the IBM TS4500.
Which upgrade to the IBM TS4500 achieves this goal?

Question62: Which resource informs a storage specialist if a Technical and Delivery Assessment (TDA) has to be done?

Question63: A customer would like to use Analytics to drive business growth, reduce fraud, and increase efficiency. However, budgets are limited and the customer would like to use IBM Spectrum Scale to save money with the current storage infrastructure.
Which two IBM Spectrum Scale characteristics are applicable? (Choose two.)

Question64: 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?

Question65: A customer has multiple data types and is looking for space savings on the storage environment.
Which data type can benefit from Real-time Compression?

Question66: Which IBM Storage feature deployed by IBM Lab Services gives customers the Peace of Mind guarantee of 100% data availability?

Question67: 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?

Question68: How many SSD's can be added to a minimum XIV configuration?

Question69: A customer is looking to deploy a private cloud with replication across four data centers.
Which solution should the technical specialist recommend?

Question70: IBM has proposed IBM Spectrum Control for a customer who is currently using multiple vendor tools to manage a complex heterogenous storage environment.
How does IBM Spectrum Control do this?

Question71: A customer has a single frame TS3500 tape library with 6 - 3592-E07 drives. A new open systems server was recently purchased and, because of budget constraints, the customer is considering less expensive LTO-6 drives while protecting investment in existing tape cartridges.
What is the most economical way to achieve this goal?

Question72: Which IBM A9000R option addresses rapid data growth and financial concerns?

Question73: A customer issued an RFP to replace EMC Disks. Vendors are being asked to provide the best competitive advantage in their proposals.
What should the IBM proposal on an IBM Flash System A9000 include in the bid?

Question74: Which element of business continuity is employed by creating nightly flash copies at the primary data center?

Question75: What is the function of Copy Export within an IBM TS7760?

Question76: IBM has proposed Easy Tier as part of a storage solution to address less-active data on flash in a storage environment.
How does Easy Tier address this problem?

Question77: What is one advantage of IBM Storage Insights Pro over IBM Storage Insights?

Question78: A customer has existing SAP HANA production nodes connected to BM Spectrum Scale. The customer needs to scale out additional nodes to maintain the high bandwidth requirement.
Which type of nodes should be proposed?

Question79: Which solution provides virtualization, consolidation, and automation for a cloud deployment?

Question80: How does an BM XIV System provide a guarantee of consistent performance even under the most dynamically changing elastic cloud workload environments?

Question81: Which feature of a base IBM XIV system is a technical advantage over competitive storage arrays?

Question82: Which term describes how long a business can afford to have systems and applications down after a disaster?

Question83: A customer with multiple locations around the world is looking at IBM Spectrum Scale.
What is the major benefit of IBM Spectrum Scale to this environment?

Question84: A customer is considering a storage consolidation project. The IBM technical specialist wants to show how the IBM solution will be more cost-effective than competitive solutions.
Which tool should the technical specialist use?

Question85: Which data type will have the best compression ratio with Real-time Compression?

Question86: Which simple, non-intrusive process should a technical specialist recommend to obtain an overview of the storage environment?

Question87: A customer has large capacity growth requirements and is concerned about the ability to redistribute the data. The customer experiences long delays in deployment with its current storage vendor.
Which storage system meets the customer's requirements.

Question88: Which IBM storage solution provides the least latency?