EMT Practice Test

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Question1: What is a key difference on the warranty between IBM Storage with flash and many of its competitors?

Question2: A customer has requested an additional 100 TB of capacity for new database applications.
Which IBM tool should be used to predict response times for the additional storage?

Question3: A customer has four data centers located at distances of 100 to 500 miles (161 to 805 kilometers) from each other. The customer is concerned about latency while replicating.
When should a sales specialist recommend a Global Mirror solution?

Question4: A z/OS customer wants to replace its existing storage with new IBM storage.
Which solution should the sales specialist recommend?

Question5: Which IBM solution offers long-term, low-cost storage for private cloud to customers?

Question6: A customer wants to extend the Technical Advisor coverage for an IBM FlashSystem V9000.
What can the customer use to extend the Technical Advisor service?

Question7: For which two purposes is a TCO calculation used? (Choose two.)

Question8: During a meeting with a customer, an IBM sales specialist discovered that the reason for replacing existing storage is because of long rebuild times and multiple drive failures that have caused data loss and lengthy restores.
Which drive protection method should the sales specialist highlight as a solution with IBM Storwize?

Question9: A customer is looking to add copy services to provide disaster recovery between sites with heterogeneous storage.
Which product should the sales specialist recommend?

Question10: How is the IBM FlashSystem more efficient than competitor products?

Question11: A business partner uses the IBM TCOnow! tool to produce a TCO report for a customer.
Which statement is true regarding a business partner accessing the IBM TCOnow! tool?

Question12: A customer plans to replace its storage infrastructure with an IBM XIV. The environment has Oracle databases and VMware.
Which feature of IBM XIV will assist the customer in accomplishing this goal?

Question13: A customer is interested in using IBM Spectrum Scale, but is concerned about the cost of keeping the data on spinning disk.
How can IBM Spectrum Scale lower costs?

Question14: An IBM end user has two sites, each with an IBM Storwize V5030. Each system has only the base license.
Which additional IBM Storwize license can assist in disaster recovery in case of site failure?

Question15: Which tool should be used to verify that a proposed IBM XIV solution will deliver the performance required by a customer's high transactional database applications?

Question16: Which storage solution allows a customer to dramatically increase performance while protecting investment in legacy storage?

Question17: Which IBM solution provides simplified management for a heterogeneous block storage environment as compared to managing islands of storage?

Question18: An IBM i customer is interested in an all-flash solution to help with performance and latency.
Which advantage does the IBM FlashSystem 900 have over other vendors' flash solutions in this environment?

Question19: A customer is running a latency sensitive application on an IBM DS8884 and is considering adding NL- SAS drives.
Which concern should the sales specialist raise?

Question20: How does IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management simplify copy data management?

Question21: For which purpose is an ROI calculation used?

Question22: A customer has recently purchased an IBM V7000 2076-624 that will be installed in a multi- vendor environment. The customer wants application consistent restore capabilities.
What should you recommend to this customer?

Question23: A customer has an IBM TS3500 Tape Library with two expansion frames. The library has LTO-3 drives and has only 200 tape cartridge slots available and no space in the existing frames to add further drives. The customer has decided to move LTO-7, but won't be able to purchase an IBM TS4500 for 18 months.
Which statement demonstrates the investment protection the sales specialist should explain to the customer?

Question24: A customer has several different storage systems from different vendors all connected on a storage area network. All arrays are at least 80% utilized, and the customer needs additional capacity. Rack space and power are very limited.
The sales specialist proposes the IBM SAN Volume controller built with IBM Spectrum Virtualize software.
Which concept should the sales specialist emphasize to the customer?

Question25: A long-time IBM Tivoli Storage Manager customer wants to expand a backup solution to include all of the company's virtual server farms that are based on VMware.
Which IBM solution should the sales specialist recommend?

Question26: An IBM storage customer has considered IBM SVC in the past but has never been able to justify the cost over traditional storage because of its rapidly growing data.
Which advantage of IBM Spectrum Virtualize software helps justify the cost for the customer?

Question27: Which solution is appropriate for a customer with storage management constraints?

Question28: Which IBM PartnerWorld technical resource should a qualified IBM Business Partner use to obtain technical information and competitive comparisons to close a proposal?

Question29: Which virtual tape solution should a sales specialist recommend for a z/OS mainframe environment?

Question30: An IBM Storwize client needs a cloud-based solution to show how to reclaim space, predictive capacity management, and recommend ways to optimize tiers. Cost is a concern.
What should the sales specialist recommend?

Question31: Which function does a pre-sales Technical and Delivery Assessment (TDA) perform?

Question32: What is the most cost efficient storage medium for large backup and archival data?

Question33: An IBM storage seller is in a competitive bid on an enterprise disk proposal.
What can the IBM seller use to help with budget constraints for the end user?

Question34: A customer wants to encrypt data at rest and centralize key management.
Which solution should be proposed?

Question35: Which IBM Spectrum Virtualize feature enables a customer to store snapshots in the cloud?

Question36: What aids a customer in reducing training for a small staff when deploying multiple IBM products?

Question37: Which IBM storage product should a sales specialist propose to a customer who wants to acquire an IBM z13 and storage for a z/OS 400 TB DB2 application?

Question38: A customer has block storage sites in China, Japan, and Singapore.
Which IBM product enables the customer to replicate data across all three sites for business continuity?

Question39: A customer is interested in an IBM DS8886 feature that transfers frequently accessed blocks of data between spinning disk and solid state disk to increase system performance.
Which feature provides this capability?

Question40: A customer wants to minimize floor space and consolidate multiple storage systems to a new IBM FlashSystem A9000R storage system.
Which feature of the IBM FlashSystem A9000R assists the customer with business requirement?

Question41: A customer is refreshing its storage environment and wants to procure a storage solution that supports VMware VVOLs.
Which IBM solution should the sales specialist recommend?

Question42: A customer with multiple petabytes of archive data has a requirement for data to be stored on a disk-based solution, to be highly available across at least three sites, and for hardware CAPEX to be minimized.
Which storage solution should the sales specialist recommend?

Question43: A customer is looking to boost performance of its applications. It has two years left on the lease of existing storage. The customer also has a significant amount of copy services and replication built into its environment.
Which IBM storage solution is able to boost performance without a major change to the customer's environment?

Question44: A customer using VMware is interested in performance and capacity utilization over time.
Which software should the IBM sales specialist direct the customer to install?

Question45: A sales specialist is presenting IBM Spectrum Scale to a prospect. The prospect has never heard of IBM Spectrum Scale and is concerned that it is a new product.
Which response should the sales specialist use to alleviate the prospect's concern?

Question46: A customer asks for a disk virtualization product that supports multiple protocols.
Which two block protocols for host access does IBM SAN Volume Controller with IBM Spectrum Virtualize software support? (Choose two.)

Question47: A bank customer has two sites in Italy and France. One site uses IBM storage and the other uses a competitor.
Which IBM solution is required for block storage when replicating data between the sites for disaster recovery?

Question48: An IBM Spectrum Scale customer is looking for a solution to manage active and inactive data based on policies for different tiers.
What should the IBM sales specialist suggest?

Question49: A customer needs to automate report generation and capacity planning of its storage environment.
Which product should the sales specialist discuss?

Question50: How would an IBM Spectrum Virtualize customer minimize onsite storage for snapshots?

Question51: How does a customer obtain updates and support for Spectrum Protect after the first year of installation?

Question52: What is an advantage of IBM XIV compared to Dell Technologies VMAX?

Question53: Which IBM Spectrum option provides for block storage provisioning in an OpenStack powered cloud?

Question54: A customer has floor space constraints and needs additional capacity for an application. The current environment is running at 80% utilization.
Which IBM Spectrum Virtualize concept should a sales specialist emphasize to the customer?

Question55: A customer with a fast growing environment wants to simplify its backup and restore processes without increasing head count as data volumes expand.
How does IBM Spectrum Protect meet this customer's requirements?

Question56: How does IBM define Solution Assurance or Technical Delivery Assessment (TDA)?

Question57: A customer is looking for a deep technical briefing on the IBM A9000R.
Where should the IBM Business Partner take the customer?

Question58: A customer is seeking an enterprise-class, business-critical hybrid data system with the highest reliability and availability characteristics.
Which solution meets all of these requirements?

Question59: An IBM Business Partner discovers that a client needs a data protection and retention strategy to complement an IBM Spectrum Scale server. The client needs a solution that incorporates long-term retention and tiered storage.
Which solution should the business partner propose?

Question60: Which offering provides file sharing and transparent cloud tiering?