IBM C4090-959 Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

IBM C4090-959 Online Questions & Answers

• Question 111:

  A sales specialist closes a customer meeting with an opportunity to offer a DSS800 for a critical SAP database application workload which runs on AIX and an EMC DMX system.The customer is concerned with performance and asks for a

  performance analysis before the DS8800 proposal.

  Which IBM tool should be used for planning the configuration?

  A. RMF Magic
  B. SAP Magic
  C. Disk Magic
  D. Capacity Magic
  C. Disk Magic

• Question 112:

  A customer is considering adding Real-time Compression software to their currently installed SAN Volume Controller. Which workload would benefit most from Real-time Compression software?

  A. video files
  B. database
  C. software development
  D. encrypted files
  B. database

• Question 113:

  A customer with storage arrays from a number of vendors is looking at EMC and IBM storage management tools.What should the sales specialist discuss with this customer?

  A. EMC Unisphere manages IBM and EMC storage arrays
  B. EMC can deploy a single solution to manage HDS and EMC
  C. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center can only manage the IBM storage arrays
  D. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center can manage SMI-S compliant storage from a single management console
  D. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center can manage SMI-S compliant storage from a single management console

• Question 114:

  A customer is looking for a new enterprise storage system.In visiting the customer to meet with the storage administrator, the visitors log book reveals that EMC has recently visited. To be successful with this opportunity, at what level must the sales specialist be calling to be at the same level as EMC?

  A. Chief Security Officer
  B. Chief Financial Officer
  C. Chief Technology Officer
  D. Chief Information Officer
  B. Chief Financial Officer

• Question 115:

  A customer plans to migrate data between two DS8870 at two different sites. Which type of volumes will potentially consume less link bandwidth?

  A. Logical volumes
  B. standard volumes
  C. Parallel access volumes
  D. Thin provisioned volumes
  C. Parallel access volumes

• Question 116:

  A customer is considering a move to a virtualized server environment. Which benefit would be achieved by the implementation of the Real4ime Compression Appliance?

  A. Reduction in time to backup
  B. Reduction in VMware snapshot times
  C. Increase in the Recovery Time Objective
  D. Increase in the Recovery Point Objective
  A. Reduction in time to backup

• Question 117:

  A customer has a number of non-IBM storage arrays, which are capable of provisioning using only traditional RAID volumes.Over-allocation of storage is an issue on some arrays and not on others.In order to balance storage use across the arrays, the customer wishes to virtualize the environment. Which advantage would IBM SAN Volume Controller provide over EMC VPLEX?

  A. SAN Volume Controller can provide thin provisioned volumes to reduce capacity regardless of array capability.
  B. SAN Volume Controller can provide Real-time Compression to reduce capacity if the array supports compression.
  C. SAN Volume Controller can provide block-level deduplication to reduce capacity regardless of array capability.
  D. SAN Volume Controller can provide thin provisioned volumes to reduce capacity if the array supports thin provisioning.
  A. SAN Volume Controller can provide thin provisioned volumes to reduce capacity regardless of array capability.

• Question 118:

  Which architectural functionality of the XIV product almost completely eliminates hot spots?

  A. RAID 10
  B. SSD caching
  C. InfiniBand backplane
  D. Data distribution algorithm
  D. Data distribution algorithm

• Question 119:

  A customer is looking for a small VTL that comes standard with deduplication as well as with atleast4 TB of usable capacity which can grow to 20 TB. Which IBM solution should be proposed to this customer?

  A. TS7610
  B. TS7680
  C. T37650
  D. TS7650G
  C. T37650

• Question 120:

  A customer wants a proposal for storage that includes three years, 7x24 coverage for their DS8800 storage array.How should a sales specialist respond?

  A. Three years, 9x5 is the standard with an option to provide 7x24.
  B. By choosing the correct machine type, three years, 7x24 will be included.
  C. One year, 9x5 is the standard, with an option to provide three years, 7x24.
  D. One year, 7x24 is the standard, with an option to provide three years, 7x24.
  B. By choosing the correct machine type, three years, 7x24 will be included.