EMT Practice Test

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Question1: 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 IBM XIV.
What is needed to deliver the system to the customer?

Question2: 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?

Question3: 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?

Question4: 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?

Question5: How does an IBM XIV System provide a guarantee of consistent performance even under the most dynamically changing elastic cloud workload environments?

Question6: When upgrading an existing IBM TS4500 Tape Library, which solution provides high availability (HA) functionality?

Question7: An existing IBM San Volume Controller DH8 cluster consists of two I/O groups with DH8 nodes running IBM Spectrum Virtualize 7.6. Performance analysis shows the cluster requires significant additional memory for the I/O workload.
What is the first step the technical specialist should recommend?

Question8: A customer has deployed multiple IBM FlashSystem A9000R systems in its environment and has asked for a graphical report to periodically show capacity growth, utilization, and trends for the systems, pools, and domains.
Which tool generates this report?

Question9: 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?

Question10: 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?

Question11: A scientific customer is evaluating the IBM TS4500 against the Spectra Logic or Quantum Scalar i6000 and suggests that there is no difference since these vendors use IBM manufactured drives in their libraries.
What is a key advantage of the IBM TS4500?

Question12: 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?

Question13: A customer needs to implement a block storage solution to achieve performance advantages using a hybrid disk configuration of flash cards, 15K drives, and 7.2K drives.
Which product should the technical specialist propose?

Question14: Which feature of IBM XIV is important to a customer with a lights-out, remotely located data center, who is very concerned about data availability?

Question15: 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?

Question16: A customer has a 2-frame disk-only IBM TS7760 and is running out of capacity. There is a requirement to store an additional 2.4 PB of compliance data in the near future.
What is the lowest cost option to accommodate this new data?

Question17: 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?

Question18: 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?

Question19: Which resource informs a storage specialist if a Technical and Delivery Assessment (TDA) has to be done?

Question20: Which statement correctly applies to RPO and Copy Data Services?

Question21: How does the integration of IBM FlashSystem with IBM Spectrum Scale improve analytic environments?

Question22: 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?

Question23: 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?

Question24: 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?

Question25: A customer has asked about the difference between standard RAID and declustered RAID architecture of IBM Spectrum Scale.
Which advantage of declustered RAID should the technical specialist highlight to the customer?

Question26: Which IBM product should the technical specialist propose to a customer with multiple PBs of unstructured data that require a single namespace?

Question27: A scientific customer is implementing a large archive solution and plans to use IBM Spectrum Scale and IBM Spectrum Archive to store the data. The customer wants to take advantage of the IBM solution for media verification.
What does the customer need to understand about the IBM TS4500 media verification function?

Question28: A customer needs to control the rapid growth of its database environment while providing the highest performance and lowest latency.
Which solution satisfies the customer's requirements while providing the best total cost of ownership?

Question29: 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?

Question30: A potential customer wants to implement a 65 TB repository solution for its open systems backup 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?

Question31: A customer has an IBM SAN Volume Controller cluster with two CF8 nodes that contain one four-port Fibre Channel card. The customer desires to replace these two nodes with two new SV1 nodes running compression. The customer requires that this upgrade occurs without downtime.
Which step is needed first to ensure success of this upgrade?

Question32: A customer is running synchronous replication on IBM Storwize V7000.
What are the requirements for link bandwidth between data centers?

Question33: Which non-concurrent capacity upgrade is possible for a customer with an IBM FlashSystem 900?

Question34: An IBM Spectrum Protect customer is considering purchase of IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments for its large VMware implementation. The customer also needs to archive data to tape. The customer desires to consolidate its diverse software portfolio of multi-vendor solutions to handle storage monitoring and provisioning.
Which solution should the technician discuss with the customer?

Question35: 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?

Question36: What is the function of Copy Export within an IBM TS7760?

Question37: Which component of IBM Spectrum Scale enables data to be imported from several servers at the same time?

Question38: 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?

Question39: 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?

Question40: 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?

Question41: 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?

Question42: 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?

Question43: 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?

Question44: A customer has an existing IBM XIV Gen3 solution with 3 TB drives and nine modules. While performance is acceptable, the customer wants to increase the performance of small-block reads. The current nine modules are running at 60% of capacity.
Which solution should the technical specialist recommend?

Question45: 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?

Question46: A client has a large Intel server farm and is using IBM Spectrum Virtualize to present volumes to the servers. The existing backend storage is Dell EMC VNX5800. The client is adding a new VNX5800 storage system and wants to enable volume mirroring.
What can the client do to improve availability utilizing the new storage?

Question47: A customer currently owns a Scalar LTO-5 SAS single drive autoloader. Planned future growth requires a tape library with capacity of four LTO-7 drives and 40 data cartridges.
Which IBM product meets the requirement while minimizing impact on the budget?

Question48: A customer with a block storage from a competitor desires an OpenStack ready platform for storage management.
Which solution should the technical specialist recommend?

Question49: Which IBM storage solution provides the least latency?

Question50: 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?

Question51: 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?

Question52: Which product must be used to access data on the IBM Cloud Object Storage to provide transparent cloud tiering?

Question53: A customer wants to storage system solution with proactive system health management. The customer has asked about advantages that the IBM FlashSystem A9000R offers.
Which feature should the technical specialist discuss?

Question54: What should a technical specialist request to provide latency analysis for an Oracle DB system and help predict performance impact of IBM Flash Systems?

Question55: 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?

Question56: A customer has acquired a variety of multi-vendor storage systems. The customer would like to implement a comprehensive solution that can significantly improve monitoring, automation and analytics capabilities for this environment.
Which IBM solution provides these capabilities?

Question57: What does IBM require to verify a customer's environment before installation of an enterprise tape library?

Question58: Which term describes the maximum amount of data that could acceptably be lost following a disaster?

Question59: 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?

Question60: A customer needs to bridge two Fibre Channel SANs that are 100 miles (161 km) apart.
Which device is needed at both sites?

Question61: A customer has a VMware environment with host resource utilization concerns. The customer wants to overcome this issue when purchasing the next storage device.
Which IBM XIV storage hardware integration capability does this customer require?

Question62: Which IBM FlashSystem A9000 function enables the division of storage system administration tasks into logical domains?

Question63: Which simple, non-intrusive process should a technical specialist recommend to obtain an overview of the storage environment?

Question64: 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?

Question65: 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?

Question66: A customer needs to import and export volumes between IBM Spectrum Virtualize clusters that are geographically separated.
How can this be accomplished?

Question67: 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?

Question68: Which solution allows the greatest density per unit of rack space?

Question69: 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?