EMT Practice Test

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Question1: When implementing disk encryption on an existing IBM TS7700, which action does a client need to take for the existing virtual volumes to be encrypted after the encryption feature is enabled?

Question2: A customer wants to migrate from IBM DS5300 to an IBM FlashSystem V9000 and wants to determine reductions in physical storage requirements.
Which tool should the customer use?

Question3: Which OpenStack component allows management of IBM XIV and IBM DS8884 through a dashboard that gives administrators control while empowering users to provision resources through a web interface?

Question4: A customer is purchasing an IBM 3952 Tape Frame for an IBM TS3500 Tape Library.
In which resource can you find the customer's detailed worksheets to complete the installation?

Question5: A customer looking for an all-flash solution is evaluating IBM products. The primary concern for the customer is rapid growth of its database environment.
Which IBM flash solution should the specialist recommend to control capacity utilization?

Question6: A customer's compliance department requires that data is kept for ten years. The data must be available as needed, and the customer must ensure that the data cannot be modified.
Which technology should the specialist recommend?

Question7: 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?

Question8: 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 the competitors.
Which tool should the technical specialist use?

Question9: A customer with a minimum IBM XIV configuration is upgrading to a full rack and plans to add SSDs for performance.
How many SSDs would be added during this upgrade?

Question10: A customer needs to bridge two Fibre Channel SANs that are 100 miles (161 km) apart.
Which device is needed at both sites?

Question11: A mainframe customer us considering moving from a native tape environment to a virtualized environment across two sites. A study has shown that it needs more than one IBM TS7700 at each site for performance and capacity reasons.
What is the benefit of using IBM TS7700 hybrid grid?

Question12: What does IBM require to verify a customer's environment before installation of an enterprise tape library?

Question13: Which IBM FlashSystem A9000 function enables the division of storage system administration tasks into logical domains?

Question14: Which component of IBM Spectrum Scale enables data to be imported from several servers at the same time?

Question15: A customer has floor and rack space constraints.
Which model should be included with a single frame IBM TS4500 L25?

Question16: A customer needs to import and export volumes between IBM Spectrum Virtualize clusters that are geographically separated.
How can this be accomplished?

Question17: A security policy for a customer specifies a need for similar methods to manage encryption keys for disk and tape storage. A recent proposal includes the IBM TS4500 and IBM Storwize V5030.
What should the technical specialist highlight?

Question18: A customer has experienced a high rate of 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 hightlight to the customer?

Question19: A customer has locations in Singapore, London, and Denver and is considering IBM Spectrum Scale for its unstructured data.
How does IBM Spectrum Scale benefit this customer?

Question20: An IBM DS8886 customer wishes to replicate data from the primary data center to a new secondary data center 310 miles (500km) away while maintaining a low recovery point objective.
Which offering should the technical specialist recommend?

Question21: Which solution provides virtualization, consolidation, and automation for a cloud deployment?

Question22: A customer needs to exchange encrypted data cartridges with another company. A competitor offers a solution that encrypts the data with static keys loaded the tape drives. IBM proposes IBM TS1150 tape drives using the built-in encryption feature.
Which competitive advantage does the IBM TS1150 solution provide?

Question23: 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 FlashSystem A9000 include in the bid?

Question24: A customer has an older IBM storage subsystem and wants to know where to find the Service Discontinued data for the product.
What should the technical specialist tell the customer?

Question25: An IBM mainframe client has IBM DS8886 CKD storage installed. The customer has decided to use another new IBM DS8886 and use IBM 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?

Question26: 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?

Question27: How does an IBM XIV System provide a guarantee of consistent performance even under the most dynamically changing elastic cloud workload environments?

Question28: 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?

Question29: A customer is looking to take advantage of data reduction capabilities of the IBM SAN Volume Controller.
Which tool should the technical specialist use?

Question30: A customer has existing SAP HANA production nodes connected to an IBM Elastic Storage Server (ESS).
The customer needs to scale out additional ESS nodes to maintain the high I/O throughput requirement.
Which type of nodes should be proposed?

Question31: Which statement correctly applies to PRO and Copy Data Services?

Question32: A customer asks about the implication of replacing a current tape library with a single disk-only IBM TS7760.
Which key point should the technical specialist address?

Question33: 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?

Question34: Which feature of a base IBM XIV system is a technical advantage over competitive storage arrays?

Question35: 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?

Question36: What should the technical specialist explain when describing the addition of grid elements to an IBM FlashSystem A9000R?

Question37: What is the complete source of information for power, cooling, and floor space requirements for IBM tape products?

Question38: Which non-concurrent capacity upgrade is possible for a customer with an IBM FlashSystem 900?

Question39: How are key management services provided for the IBM DS8886 storage system?

Question40: 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?

Question41: Which function provides a high availability feature with dual-site, active-active access to a volume in IBM Spectrum Virtualize?

Question42: 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?

Question43: A customer wants to improve storage efficiency within a data center. The customer requires a low latency storage system that has a highly parallel architecture and comprehensive data reduction with pattern removal.
Which system should the technical specialist propose?

Question44: What should a technical specialist request to provide latency analysis for an Oracle DB system and help predict performance impact of IBM Flash Systems?

Question45: Which offering provides scale-out parallel processing and dynamically accelerates performance of analytics clusters when integrated with the IBM FlashSystem?

Question46: 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?

Question47: A customer is interested in purchasing an IBM TS7650G ProtecTIER Gateway for its production site and one for replication at its DR site. The DR site is a target only site.
How is the cost of the solution affected by the replication?

Question48: Which tool can be used to model the service time of the storage workload for a customer considering a storage consolidation to a new IBM storage platform?

Question49: A customer wants to replace an existing HDS system connected to an IBM z/OS mainframe with a storage solution to reduce cooling requirements and potential of mechanical failure.
Which storage solution should the technical specialist recommend?

Question50: 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 prefers an IBM A9000R based solution, but is concerned about migrating the virtual machines and ESX boot volumes.
Which explanation addresses the customer's concern?

Question51: A cloud service provider is looking to provide a scalable solution that provides quality of service capabilities, ease of management, deduplication, and integration with OpenStack and VMware while providing sub-millisecond response time.
Which solution should the technical specialist recommend?

Question52: A customer is refreshing a 300 TB multi-vendor storage environment with an IBM Storwize V7000 and needs all the storage advanced functionality features such as remote mirroring, thin provisioning and Easy Tier. The customer also requires capability for storage provisioning, VMware vCenter APIs, and performance monitoring.
Which product should the technical specialist recommend?

Question53: Which solution meets a customer's requirements for 100,000 IOPS, lowest latency, and maximum of 30 TB of raw capacity for an Oracle database?

Question54: Which IBM products should the technical specialist propose to a customer who is using disk-based backups to meet regulatory requirements for low recovery time objectives?

Question55: A customer wants to replace its legacy block storage environment with a new IBM FlashSystem A9000R solution and is concerned about properly estimating consolidated storage capacity after deduplication and compression savings.
Which tool should be used?

Question56: 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?

Question57: A customer has released a RFP for a cloud solution to monitor and analyze storage usage on IBM Spectrum Virtualize and EMC disk. The proposed solution will replace on-site monitoring software.
Which product should the technical specialist recommend?