EMT Practice Test

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Question1: A customer has asked about the RAID architecture of IBM Spectrum Scale. Which two advantages of declustered RAID should be highlighted to the customer? (Choose two.)

Question2: How many SSD's can be added to a minimum IBM XIV configuration?

Question3: A customer has an existing mainframe environment with an IBM DS8880 attached. This frame is only partially populated. The customer is attaching existing IBM POWER servers that require a three-tier storage solution including SSDs. Electrical power is not readily available. Price is also a key criteria in making the decision.
Which addition to the existing system should be proposed to this customer?

Question4: A customer is looking to leverage a multi-tier approach for its storage. The customer is concerned about the cost of high performance drives and correct sizing for future disk purchases. The IBM sales specialist suggests an IBM DS8880 and Easy Tier to handle the different tiers.
Which tool should be used to help the customer purchase the best tier of disk for future disk purchases on the IBM DS8880?

Question5: As part of a customer data management solution, it is necessary to store its unified 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?

Question6: Which IBM storage offering scales linearly without hotspots and delivers insights from analytics faster with tuning-free data distribution?

Question7: Which solution provides a customer with encryption-enabled, large-capacity drives that support VMware Virtual Volumes (VVOL)?

Question8: Which non-concurrent capacity upgrade is possible for a customer with IBM FlashSystem 900?

Question9: A customer needs an enterprise storage system with grid architecture to make storage management easier.
Which storage system meets the customer's requirements?

Question10: Which IBM Storage System can be directly attached to an IBM i partition on a POWER System?

Question11: A customer has a requirement for 250,000 IOPS and 200 TB of capacity. The customer requires IBM SSR maintained code upgrades as a standard term and condition.
Which solution should the technical specialist recommend to the customer?

Question12: A customer wants to order a full rack IBM 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?

Question13: A potential customer wants to implement a 65 TB repository solution for its open systems environment.
The customer's existing storage has 90 TB available. Scalability with future clustering and replication is a very important requirement.
Which model meets the customer's requirements?

Question14: 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?

Question15: What is the minimum number of FCP/FICON host adapter cards required for redundancy in an IBM System Storage DS8880?

Question16: A large law firm has a regulatory requirement to retain files for an extended period of time. However, when the appropriate retention period is met, the firm must remove the files in a timely fashion.
What needs to be in place to comply with these requirements?

Question17: A customer is having issues with enterprise-wide data and device management. The sales person plans to propose IBM Spectrum Control to enable a single-point of management of the underlying hardware.
Which IBM solution provides these core capabilities?

Question18: 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?

Question19: A customer wants to replace a physical tape environment with a virtual tape library in its open systems environment and is concerned about performance. The solution architect needs to validate performance requirements for a proposed solution.
Which tool is used to capture inputs for the IBM virtual tape library performance tool?

Question20: A customer is looking to replace its VMAX with an A9000. The customer is concerned about the capacity and remaining available space.
Which tool should be used to determine projected space efficiency of moving the data to the A9000?

Question21: A customer desires to view and forecast capacity in an IBM XIV Hyper-Scale environment.
Which tool provides this functionality at the lowest cost?

Question22: Which feature in the IBM XIV allows data on a set of related volumes to enable correctly ordered writes?

Question23: A customer is considering the Cisco MDS 9148S and the IBM SAN48B-5 SAN switches.
What is a key advantage of the IBM SAN48B-5 switch?

Question24: What is the next step for a failed installation of an IBM TS4500 where there have been I/O errors that prevent placing the library into production even after replacement of multiple parts and verification of configuration definitions?

Question25: 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?

Question26: A customer has experienced high drive failure and loss of data in its environment and is considering IBM XIV to replace the existing storage.
Which IBM XIV benefit should the technical specialist highlight to address this customer's concerns?

Question27: A customer has a single frame TS3500 with a L23 frame. There are five TS1150 drives and 100 tapes in this frame. The customer wants to add five LTO-6 drives to this TS3500.
What is the most cost effective solution for this customer?

Question28: Which IBM tool can be utilized to determine if Real-time Compression can help in an IBM SAN Volume Controller or IBM Storwize V7000 environment to reduce storage acquisition costs?

Question29: What should a storage specialist do to verify that a heterogeneous solution is supported by IBM?

Question30: A customer is thinking about purchasing IBM storage for the very first time and asks for IBM's help to evaluate life cycle cost comparisons between vendors.
How can this customer's question be answered?

Question31: Which IBM product should you propose to a customer with multiple PB of unstructured data that require a single name space?

Question32: Which IBM storage solution provides the least latency?

Question33: What is the most common initial benefit to data center economics of implementing an IBM FlashSystem?

Question34: 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 IBM XIV based solution, but is concerned about migrating the existing data and boots volumes.
Which explanation best addresses the customer's concern?

Question35: Which type of business continuity does a customer utilize who makes nighty flash copies at the primary data center?

Question36: Which open source cloud-computing platform that is supported by IBM enterprise storage allows for inclusion in an existing environment?

Question37: A solution architect has determined the amount of spindles needed to satisfy performance and RAID level requirements for an IBM DS8880.
Which tool provides information on the number of spare drives included in the system?

Question38: A customer experienced high growth of archive data (> 1PB). Its data centers are located in Houston, London, and Berlin. The main goal is to connect geographically separated regions with more efficient data protection schemes.
Which solution fulfils customer requirements?

Question39: Which IBM storage platform offers scalable grid architecture, sophisticated data distribution, unparalleled disk rebuild times, zero tuning, and simple, easy-to-use interface for Analytics?

Question40: Which data type has the best compression ratio with Real-time Compression?

Question41: Which resource informs a storage specialist if a Technical and Delivery Assessment (TDA)

Question42: A customer is interested in controlling the rapid growth of its database environment while providing the highest performance and lowest latency.
Which solution satisfies the customer's requirements and provides the best Total Cost of Ownership?

Question43: Which option in the IBM TS7650G ProtecTIER Gateway is a supported host attachment configuration?

Question44: A customer has a single frame IBM TS3500 Tape Library with six 3592-E07 drives. A new open systems server has 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?

Question45: How many ports from a full 15 module IBM XIV Storage System are recommended initially to connect to an IBM Spectrum Virtualize Controller?

Question46: What is the recommended number of key servers for multiple IBM DS8886s when using disk encryption?

Question47: A customer needs to centralize call home capability for multiple IBM TS3500 Tape Libraries.
Which solution can be implemented to solve this need?

Question48: A customer has multiple tiers of storage, is experiencing high growth, and has issues with managing a complex environment. Simplification, ease of management, and storage efficiencies are key requirements.
Which product meets the customer's requirements?

Question49: 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?

Question50: How does the IBM Storage Driver for OpenStack enable the IBM DS8880 to become part of an OpenStack infrastructure?

Question51: A storage administrator needs to set storage alerts for the IBM DS8886, IBM Spectrum Virtualize, and EMC DMX.
Which product enables this ability?

Question52: Which feature of IBM XIV is important to a customer with a lights-out, remotely located data center and that is very concerned about data integrity?

Question53: A customer is having difficulty with managing the heterogeneous storage infrastructure and tracking the performance of SAN-attached devices.
Which IBM product addresses the customer's immediate concern?

Question54: A customer wants to improve performance in its storage environment. The customer is considering adding SSD drives or an IBM FlashSystem product to the environment.
Which IBM tool helps the customer understand the benefit in performance of these different technologies?

Question55: A customer is looking at IBM Software Defined Storage as a means to improve storage efficiency within a data center.
Which service does IBM Software Defined Storage Data Plane offer?

Question56: Which storage solution should be proposed to a customer with a large VMware environment and one IBM System z?

Question57: How does an IBM XIV provide a guarantee of consistent performance even under the most dynamically changing elastic cloud workload environments?