EMT Practice Test

1. Question Content...

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Question1: What is the role of the technical specialist in the Technical and Delivery Assessment (TDA) review?

Question2: A customer is experiencing insufficient performance of its 15 TB production database. The bottleneck has been identified as disk I/O performance. The database volumes are distributed optimally across 300 GB/15k rpm SAS disks on its existing IBM Storwize V7000.
What is the least expensive solution that is best suited to solve the database performance problem?

Question3: A current IBM customer has a PMR open and is having difficulty getting a response from IBM.
What is the first step to assist this customer?

Question4: A retail client starts to notice a degradation in its hybrid cloud performance when it has seasonal sales. The volumes allocated to cloud storage is not the issue. Capacity is fine. The client requires a solution to improve performance on the back end.
Which tool should be used to model IBM storage solutions for performance enhancements?

Question5: How should a sales specialist determine if a Technical and Delivery Assessment (TDA) is mandatory for system storage?

Question6: A customer has an IBM Storwize V5020 and Microsoft Exchange wants to perform instant copies with the ability to restore individual data records.
Which items are needed to perform this save and restore?

Question7: A client wants to speed up its core block-based database applications using flash-based storage.
Which software feature provides the functionality to the client environment?

Question8: How does a salesperson know when a Technical and Delivery Assessment (TDA) is required?

Question9: A customer needs to replace an older system containing 16 TB capacity. There is a critical business application running on Oracle that is experiencing I/O performance issues.
Which IBM storage solution should the sales specialist propose to this cost-sensitive customer?

Question10: A customer with an IBM Power system is interested in moving from server internal disk to an IBM Storwize V7000 and wants to implement POWER HA and replication.
Which feature on the IBM Storwize V7000 is a requirement?

Question11: The customer has an IBM Storwize V7000 storage system in place and wants to add additional workload.
The customer used IBM Spectrum Control to generate a performance information file and requested that you analyze the information and report your findings.
Which tool should be used to analyze the file?

Question12: A customer has an EMC VNX storage system installed with 40 TB dedicated to SQL databases and needs to clone it for DEV & QA servers use. The customer has requested an IBM solution to meet its needs for an additional 40 TB.
Which solution is appropriate for this customer?

Question13: A customer has a cluster of file servers running IBM Spectrum Protect as the backup application. The client wants to reduce backup and recovery time while eliminating physical tape handling.
Which IBM storage solution meets the requirement to work like a tape library and is based on disk storage?

Question14: Which benefit of IBM Spectrum Accelerate is enabled by the division of a storage system into several administrative domains in a secure and isolated manner?

Question15: A customer has a high demand for automated data movement between storage tiers.
Which IBM solution is simple and easy to implement for this customer?

Question16: An IBM Storwize V7000 customer is beginning to experience performance issues with volumes from a storage pool comprised of 10 K disk drives. The customer does not need additional capacity.
What should the IBM Storage Sales Specialist suggest to determine that can be done to improve performance?

Question17: A customer currently relies on tapes for backup purposes and wants an alternative solution to improve the restore performance for critical data.
Which IBM solution should be suggested?

Question18: A medium-sized SMB customer with an HP EVA 6350 needs new features that the HP system cannot provide. The general business customer asks for a solution with easy migration and the ability to virtualize the old storage.
Which cost-sensitive IBM system should seller recommend?

Question19: IBM Spectrum Accelerate runs as a virtual machine under which hypervisor?

Question20: A customer has a requirement for a storage system that supports concurrent 12 Gb SAS and 16 Gb Fibre Channel host port connections.
Which storage system should be recommended?

Question21: A customer's application is characterized by a large amount of data that is normally transferred with large I/ O sizes.
Which workload description best fits the application profile?

Question22: Which two storage attributes are critical to provide the fastest time to insight as data volume and value continue to grow? (Choose two.)

Question23: A customer needs a high availability solution for its file service infrastructure on an existing IBM Storwize V7000 storage system.
Which solution should you recommend?

Question24: What is the business benefit of an IBM SAN Volume Controller system using IBM Spectrum Virtualize software in comparison to a software-based storage virtualization running on servers?

Question25: A small business customer needs a storage solution for archiving a closed circuit television (CCTV) workload. Six security cameras are currently in operation. IBM Storwize V5020 has been suggested.
Which configuration balances cost and performance for this customer?

Question26: A sales specialist has analyzed a customer's environment and determined that the customer needs to add about 8 TB of Tier 0 storage to an existing IBM Storwize V7000
Which option offers the lowest latency?

Question27: A customer running a scientific research application based on Hadoop found that its current disk-based storage system and Linux-based file server is demonstrating excessive latency under an extreme number of file access events.
What will provide the optimum file-based solution to the customer's problem?

Question28: Which resource should a customer review when documentation on best practices for a proposed IBM Storwize V7000 for an SAP environment is needed?

Question29: Which IBM resource maintains a web site to assist with sales strategies against EMC?

Question30: How can a sales representative get answers about IBM Real-time Compression?

Question31: A customer has asked for a solution that provides additional storage space, the ability to leverage its existing fibre channel attached storage solution, and single mail box recovery for its exchange environment.
Which solution should the IBM Business Partner recommend to the customer?

Question32: A customer is requesting a VMware-integrated system that allows control of IBM storage solutions through a unified Linux server platform.
Which solution should be recommended?

Question33: A client with many VMware based applications wants to introduce a new storage solution to optimize the usage of the server's internal disks. The client's IT administrators are experienced in VMWare, but have no specific storage skills.
Which solution fulfills the client's requirements?

Question34: A customer is interested in the IBM Storwize Family and its ability to externally virtualize and integrate additional functionality, utilizing non-IBM hardware. The customer also wants to know if IBM Storwize Virtualization supports its various non-IBM Storage systems.
Which IBM tool should be used to verify the customer's environment?

Question35: A customer is looking for a storage solution that offers functions like Metro and Global mirroring, point-in- time copy, automated multi-tiering, iSCSI, FCP, and direct SAS connectivity to the hosts.
Which product should the sales representative recommend?

Question36: Who is responsible to maintain the record of Technical and Delivery Assessment (TDA) completion when a TDA is completed for an IBM storage solution sold by a business partner?

Question37: A customer requires a storage solution that can be upgraded to a minimum of 500 drives with a minimum cache requirement of 16 GB.
Which storage solution aligns with this customer's needs?

Question38: A customer is looking for a storage solution that can leverage existing systems and provide for migration capabilities, storage efficiencies, and future growth.
Which IBM solution addresses the customer's requirements?

Question39: A customer has decided to create a virtualized infrastructure and is looking for an IBM storage product that can use its existing storage and offers compression to reduce its capacity required.
Which solution should be proposed?

Question40: A customer is looking to add storage capacity to an existing block infrastructure. The customer currently has an EMC disk system, which is still under a support contract for another year. The customer does not want to expand nor discard the existing EMC disk system until the support contract is finished.
The customer also expressed concern of the previous costs of migration when EMC disk systems have to be retired.
Which IBM solution addresses the customer's requirements?

Question41: Which resource should a sales person use to find other vendor products' feature, function, and performance information?

Question42: A customer struggles with a 24x7 business model and an ever-expanding virtual environment. It has a business commitment to back up everything.
Which solution should the customer implement?

Question43: A customer is implementing a data analytics application and is considering flash storage from IBM and Violin Memory.
Which resource can be used to show the financial benefit of IBM equipment over its competition?

Question44: A customer needs an online storage solution for its CCTV cameras. Lowest environmental impact and cost are major concerns for this customer.
Which solution should the sales representative recommend?

Question45: Which tool should a sales person use to find the CAPEX and OPEX cost of an IBM FlashSystem V9000 compared to other flash vendors?

Question46: A client has two locations, each with different storage infrastructures. The client has a two-vendor strategy which is causing some concern because it must replicate data and is being told by EMC that this is not possible. EMC is recommending replacing the IBM storage with one of its storage platforms.
What should the sales specialist recommend that the client use to replicate its data between EMC and IBM storage?

Question47: During a meeting with a customer, the sales specialist learns of the customer's need for block and file access to the storage to allow auto-tiering within the solution.
Which two IBM Storwize V7000 Unified features should be discussed with the customer? (Choose two.)

Question48: A customer has a requirement for a low cost tape library. The library must support reparation of library resources (tape drives and cartridge slots) for four different application servers.
Which tape library should the sales specialist recommend?

Question49: A client is required to archive and retain financial records for 10 years due to regulatory compliance reasons. Flexible retention times and expiration policies are mandatory. The client currently uses IBM Spectrum Protect for backup purposes.
Which additional IBM software product will solve this client's needs?

Question50: A midrange customer is considering a competitor's storage system. The customer has a limited budget and needs a system that supports data reduction.
Which IBM Storwize System should be offered to this customer?

Question51: A customer has a need for a purpose-built midrange storage system to support a high performance computing application.
Which IBM product is designed for this kind of application?

Question52: A customer wants to store CIFS data and requires a copy of the data at a disaster recovery site.
Which IBM solution should be suggested?

Question53: A storage representative needs to size a block disk solution. The representative has been given a file containing the target workload and I/O characteristics and has been told the response time requirement.
Which tool should be run to produce a configurable solution?

Question54: A customer is looking for a high level of protection for its key applications and databases. The customer needs application-aware, space-efficient backup and restore capabilities.
Which IBM product addresses these requirement?

Question55: How does the IBM Software Defined Storage (SDS) deliver a new generation of overall efficiency and analytics?

Question56: Which resource should an IBM Business Partner representative consult for current IBM storage sales programs and incentives?

Question57: A client complements a new security system. The CCTV cameras create 1 TB of data per day. This data needs to be stored online for 90 days and will only be accessed when a security violation is reported. The client's projected growth is 30% per year.
Which IBM storage solution delivers the lowest Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) over three years for this client?