IBM C1000-020 Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

IBM C1000-020 Online Questions & Answers

• Question 1:

  An IBM Spectrum Scale customer needs to increase data capacity, while reducing TCO for data storage for this cluster.

  Which IBM offering will lower TCO for IBM Spectrum Scale?

  A. IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management
  B. IBM Spectrum Archive
  C. IBM Spectrum Connect
  D. IBM Spectrum Control
  B. IBM Spectrum Archive

• Question 2:

  A customer running IBM Spectrum Virtualize is considering adding IBM FlashSystem.

  How should the sales specialist describe the IBM Spectrum Virtualize usage of the IBM FlashSystem?

  A. Performance improvements need larger cache.
  B. A separate storage pool is a requirement for Easy Tier.
  C. IBM FlashSystem can be utilized as Tier 0 for hot data.
  D. IBM FlashSystem requires the customer to define data placement policies.
  B. A separate storage pool is a requirement for Easy Tier.

• Question 3:

  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?

  A. Easy Tier
  B. Virtualization
  C. Compression
  D. Clustering
  C. Compression

• Question 4:

  A sales specialist is proposing a storage product to an existing IBM storage customer. The product is already installed at a different customer site.

  The Technical and Delivery Assessment (TDA) trigger table shows that a pre-install TDA is required for First in Customer Location (FICL).

  What is this sales specialist required to perform?

  A. A pre-install TDA is not required as long as power and cooling requirements are reviewed with the customer.
  B. Since a pre-install TDA was already completed on the previous sale, no further action is required.
  C. A pre-install TDA must be completed for this sale since the product is listed in the trigger table.
  D. A pre-sale and pre-install TDA must be completed for this sale since the product is listed in the trigger table.
  C. A pre-install TDA must be completed for this sale since the product is listed in the trigger table.

• Question 5:

  Which IBM solution provides simplified management for a heterogeneous block storage environment?

  A. IBM Spectrum Accelerate
  B. IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management
  C. IBM Spectrum Protect Suite
  D. IBM Virtual Storage Center
  A. IBM Spectrum Accelerate

• Question 6:

  A customer is looking at several competing storage proposals and asks the sales representative why Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is important. Which response should be the sales specialist give based on IBM's definition of TCO?

  A. It evaluates the complete cost of acquisition of the asset.
  B. It provides for the evaluation of the ongoing OPEX costs.
  C. It provides for the evaluation of the comparison acquisition costs of IBM with the competition.
  D. It evaluates the complete cost of ownership of an asset.
  A. It evaluates the complete cost of acquisition of the asset.

• Question 7:

  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?

  A. IBM Spectrum Virtualize
  B. IBM FlashSystem V9000
  C. IBM FlashSystem 900
  D. IBM FlashSystem A9000R
  A. IBM Spectrum Virtualize

• Question 8:

  Which feature of the IBM storage portfolio can make the cost of IBM FlashSystem V9000 competitive with the cost per TB of spinning disk?

  A. Data Reduction Pools
  B. High IOPS
  C. Ultra Low Latency
  D. Easy Tier
  B. High IOPS

• Question 9:

  A customer wishes to present natively 400 TB of NFS storage. Which IBM solution should the sales specialist recommend?

  A. IBM Storwize V7000
  B. IBM Spectrum Archive
  C. IBM Spectrum NAS
  D. IBM A9000
  C. IBM Spectrum NAS

• Question 10:

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

  A. IBM Spectrum Scale
  B. IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management
  C. IBM Spectrum Protect
  D. IBM Spectrum Archive
  B. IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management