EMT Practice Test

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Question1: Which financial value does the TCOnow! tool determine?

Question2: Which two options supply the master encryption key for an IBM Storwize V7000 at power on? (Choose two.)

Question3: A customer has two IBM Storwize V7000 I/O groups. As part of its business continuity plan, one unit is located within its primary site and the other at a DR site. The customer synchronously replicates between each IBM Storwize V7000 using Metro Mirror.
What should the customer configure to provide fast non-disruptive failover in case of an outage?

Question4: A customer has an Oracle environment with 11 TB of storage and has concerns about query response times.
Which feature should the technical specialist highlight about the IBM FlashSystem V9000?

Question5: Which IBM software integrates an IBM Storwize V7000 into the VMware vCenter GUI?

Question6: A customer wants to understand how to best determine the benefits of combining SSDs with spinning drives in an existing IBM Storewize V7000 that is licensed with the base software only.
How should the customer proceed?

Question7: A customer wants an IBM virtualized storage solution that is capable of providing 50 TB of flash capacity and 32x 16Gb Fibre Channel ports.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question8: An IBM technical specialist has positioned a single storage enclosure IBM FlashSystem V9000 storage solution to meet a customer's requirement for a storage solution to host high IOPs with low latency workloads.
Which technology is used?

Question9: A customer wants to create a hybrid, high-availability storage environment with automated cross-site failover/recovery at metro distance.
Which solution should the technical specialist discuss?

Question10: A technical specialist has been asked to install a new IBM Storwize V7000F for the customer. Which one- time operation is required to access to the on-board management GUI interface?

Question11: A customer has acquired a new business and wants to bring its systems and storage under corporate systems. The company has an IBM SVC in the environment to manage all storage.
What must the customer do with the volumes from the new businesses storage to bring them under IBM Spectrum Virtualize management?

Question12: An IBM I customer has a performance requirements and is considering flash-based storage using an IBM FlashSystem V9000. The customer plans to move all data to the IBM FlashSystem V9000 with native IBM i attachment.
Which connection protocol is required for this environment?

Question13: A customer wants to enable encryption on its IBM Storwize V7000. The customer has an IBM Storwize V7000 Gen1 control enclosure and three Gen1 expansion enclosures.
Which solution should the technical specialist propose?

Question14: Which administrative capability does the IBM FlashSystem A9000R provide to support secure isolation of resources like storage pools for multi-tenancy solutions?

Question15: Which tool is used to create a hardware and software bill of materials that can be used to order IBM Storwize products from IBM?

Question16: A mandatory requirement in a customer RFI is to provide protection against a single drive failure and that data and one stripe of parity are striped across all array members. The customer wants the fastest possible rebuilt.
Which RAID level on the IBM Storwize V7000 meets these requirements?

Question17: A customer is migrating to an IBM Storwize V5020 using SAS.
Which hardware component is required to do this SAS migration?

Question18: What is the compression guarantee that IBM will support for VMware if the customer does not wish to run the Comprestimator tool for the IBM Storwize V7000?

Question19: A customer has outgrown its IBM System Storage DS3524 and asks for a recommendation on an IBM storage system that can virtualize and continue to use the existing storage system.
Which solution should the technical specialist recommend?

Question20: What is used to measure IBM Spectrum Suite license usage?

Question21: A company needs to configure an IBM SVC Enhanced Stretch Cluster. The two nodes are located in different buildings on the campus which contain isolated SAN fabrics.
Which option can be used to configure the interconnect?

Question22: A customer wants to know the advantage of DRAID over traditional RAID.
What should the technical specialist explain about DRAID?

Question23: An IBM SVC customer currently uses older nodes and wants to upgrade to take advantage of Real-time Compression (RtC) software.
Which feature needs to be ordered with the new SV1 nodes to take advantage of RtC?

Question24: A customer wants to implement Transparent Cloud Tiering on an installed IBM Storwize V7000 to solve a business requirement to protect and transport data using the cloud infrastructure.
Which IBM function does Transparent Cloud Tiering use?

Question25: What must be configured and installed to use VMware Virtual Volumes (VVols) with IBM Storwize solutions?

Question26: Which IBM resource allow the technical specialist to model a configuration to include disk drives, RAID types, array layouts, and feature codes?

Question27: Which IBM Storwize Family product offers 10 GB iSCSI connectivity as standard?

Question28: Which product should be included as part of an IBM Storwize family solution for a customer who desires application-aware snapshots?

Question29: Which IBM website provides the most current support matrix information for the IBM Storwize product line?

Question30: Which tool is used to provide a report for the customer showing the RAID configuration and usable capacity of the IBM Storwize V7000?

Question31: A customer is implementing encryption using SKLM on IBM Spectrum Virtualize 7.8.
Which protocol is required to communicate between the storage device and the key management server (s)?

Question32: A customer is investigating replicating data between IBM Strowize V7000 for DR purposes and has made the following calculations to help determine the correct capacity for the intersite link.
Customer formula used
Amount of data written within 24 hours, multiplied by four (to allow for peaks and re-sync), translated into bit rate over the 24 hour period.
Customer calculations
? 2GB of data per day
? 2GB*4=8 GB of data
? 8GB*8 bits=64 GB/86400 seconds
? 68, 719, 476,736/86400= 795,364 bits/second bandwidth
The customer has advised that the period of change data is eight hours.
What is the status of the calculations?

Question33: Which tool analyzes a heat map file generated by Easy Tier?

Question34: A customer's fibre attached DELL EMC storage has reached its end of life and needs additional capacity.
The customer cannot afford to have its applications offline for an extended period of time during the storage refresh and is considering purchasing an IBM Storwize V5030 or IBM Storwize V7000 as a replacement.
Which IBM Storwize function helps this customer?

Question35: An online shopping website stores large amounts of product data and orders on a multi-tier IBM Storwize storage solution. All data is stored in a mixed pool including nearline, enterprise, and flash storage.
How will East Tier assist this organization with its data performance?

Question36: Which authentication protocol for remote authentication of users is supported by the IBM Storwize V7000?

Question37: A customer is installing a new business intelligence system, and its database requires multiple copies for testing.
What should the technical special discuss to address this requirement?

Question38: A customer has a requirement to encrypt all data.
What should be configured with a new IBM Storwize V5020?

Question39: A customer wants to do application testing in the DR site located ten kilometers over dark fiber and wants to use IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot to create the application-aware clones of the database volumes.
Which two additional features are needed to create these clones? (Choose two.)

Question40: A customer is looking for a storage solution that provides FC and SAS attachment without the need for SAN switches. This will help consolidate two separate storage solutions.
Which IBM disk system is appropriate to use?

Question41: A state government education agency is building an in-house application that designs, delivers, and scores standardized tests. The agency needs a scalable storage solution that initially provides SAS host connectivity during the proof-of-concept phase and can be seamlessly upgraded to more advanced features.
Which storage solution should a technical specialist recommend?

Question42: A company is experiencing high data growth of its mission critical VMware and database workloads that run on a competitive storage system.
How does the IBM FlashSystem V9000 help the company address space consumption?

Question43: A customer is considering the purchase of an IBM Storwize V5030, but data space is a challenge.
Which tool helps the customer to see how much data space can be saved when compared to the size of the current disk system?

Question44: A customer wants to provide a VMware administrator with storage capacity to manage the volume creation. The system only has one storage pool.
How should the customer configure the existing system to limit the capacity provided to the administrator?

Question45: A customer wants a better understanding of how storage is being used in the file systems of competitive storage systems.
Which IBM Spectrum Control tool gathers these details?

Question46: A customer is considering converged and hyper-converged options for its infrastructure refresh. As part pf the refresh, the customer will migrate its current ERP system to SAP HANA.
What should the technical specialist highlight?

Question47: Which IBM Storwize product has the capability to provide up to 12 SAS interface ports for host connectivity with optional adapter cards?

Question48: A customer wants to implement a HyperSwap solution using IBM Storwize V7000 and has asked what options are available for a third site quorum device.
Which options are available for the third site?

Question49: During the last 10 years, a company has refreshed its storage environment three times. This has caused extended outages.
Which functions or attributes of the IBM Spectrum Virtualize address these concerns?

Question50: A customer desires an in-depth storage monitoring tool that includes collecting performance statistics and historical data.
Which should be included as part of an IBM Storwize family solution?

Question51: A customer is running a mission-critical Oracle database on an IBM Storwize V7000 and is concerned about volume availability in the event of a RAID array failure. The customer requires that its RPO and RTO metrics be near zero.
Which feature meets these requirements?

Question52: A customer is considering IBM VersaStack as the new data center standard. The customer is attracted to the IBM Storewize V7000 storage system because of the flexibility, but the customer has legacy storage that must be retained.
What is the primary benefit of IBM VersaStack with IBM Storewize V7000 over competitive converged architectures?

Question53: A customer wants to replicate data between an IBM Storwize V7000 at its primary location and an IBM Storwize V5030 at its disaster recovery location. The customer wants to use the built-in 1 GbE ports for IP replication.
What is the maximum round trip latency supported for the intersite link?

Question54: A customer experienced an issue on a mission-critical application during overnight processing. The customer needs help understanding exactly when the problem happened and help with troubleshooting.
Which feature of IBM Spectrum Control aids in problem determination?

Question55: A customer using IBM Spectrum Virtualize on a single I/O group wants to maintain continuous access to data in the event of an MDisk failure.
Which license is required?

Question56: What is the minimum number of paths that an IBM Storwize node canister should have for each host according to best practices?

Question57: Which IBM solution and feature can provide a client with simplified virtual machine-level data recoverability when used with IBM Storwize?

Question58: A customer is concerned about hot spots occurring on the disk system.
What should the technical specialists explain about auto-storage pool balancing?

Question59: A customer has added a second control enclosure and expansion enclosures to its existing IBM Storwize V7000 for better performance and capacity.
What should the customer do next to balance the workloads?

Question60: Which member of the IBM Spectrum Storage family provides data protection to the IBM Storwize family?