IBM C1000-021 Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

IBM C1000-021 Online Questions & Answers

• Question 71:

  What is assured by executing a Technical and Delivery Assessment (TDA)?

  A. The technical quality of a solution
  B. Best practices are reviewed
  C. The solution meets total cost of ownership requirements
  D. Support calls will be unnecessary during implementation
  A. The technical quality of a solution

• Question 72:

  Which resource informs a storage specialist if a TDA is mandatory or optional?

  A. Systems Assurance Product Review Guide
  B. TDA Discussion Guide
  C. IBM Trigger Criteria and Designated Product List
  D. IBM Pre-sale TDA Checklist
  C. IBM Trigger Criteria and Designated Product List

• Question 73:

  A technical specialist is conducting a disk technology briefing to position the IBM FlashSystem V9000 against flash drives in an IBM Storwize V7000. The customer asks, "Why is SSD latency greater than a flash module?" How should the technical specialist respond to the customer?

  A. Larger capacity SSDs use TLC technology which is slower than MLC
  B. The SSD is using a traditional drive style interface protocol, which can cause a performance overhead.
  C. SSDs use much slower internal SLC flash technology than the IBM FlashSystem, which uses eMLC/MLC.
  D. The cache memory in the IBM Storwize V7000 is less, which increases latency.
  A. Larger capacity SSDs use TLC technology which is slower than MLC

• Question 74:

  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?

  A. Full-feature license
  B. Remote Mirror license
  C. FlashCopy license
  D. Base license
  C. FlashCopy license

• Question 75:

  A customer has requested a proposal for 350 TB of NL-SAS disk storage for its new backup system. The customer requires data availability in case of dual drive failure, fast rebuild times, and minimum capacity loss to protection overhead.

  Which RAID configuration should the technical specialist recommend?

  A. RAID 0
  B. RAID 0+1
  C. RAID 6
  D. DRAID 6
  B. RAID 0+1

• Question 76:

  A customer needs to significantly increase the performance of an existing IBM Storwize V7000 Gen1 based on 15k RPM SAS disks with minimal investment. What is the most effective way to achieve this?

  A. Add five percent of flash storage to the pool
  B. Acquire an IBM Storwize V7000F
  C. Add compression cards and enable RtC
  D. Purchase Easy Tier
  A. Add five percent of flash storage to the pool

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• Question 77:

  A customer has multiple storage platforms including an EMC VNX and an IBM Storwize V7000.

  Which solution should the technical representative recommend to provide alerts and optimize volume placement for the storage platforms?

  A. IBM Virtual Storage Center
  B. IBM Spectrum Connect
  C. IBM Storage Reporter
  D. IBM Spectrum Virtualize
  A. IBM Virtual Storage Center

• Question 78:

  A customer needs to create a full copy of a production volume. Which option must be used creating a FlashCopy?

  A. Clone
  B. Duplicate
  C. Snapshot
  D. Volume Copy
  D. Volume Copy

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  Reference: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/STXN8P/com.ibm.storage.ssic.help.doc/f2c_fcprimarytask_2ep3uj.html

• Question 79:

  A customer is looking to replicate data to its disaster recovery location. The customer has gathered data about I/O and throughput to the storage. Which piece of information is needed to properly size the bandwidth needed between the two locations?

  A. Peak port busy
  B. Peak control unit busy
  C. Peak write IOPS
  D. Peak write MBps
  D. Peak write MBps

• Question 80:

  Which tool is used to model the performance of IBM Storwize disk subsystems?

  A. Internal GUI
  B. STAT
  C. Comprestimator
  D. Disk Magic
  D. Disk Magic