IBM C4090-959 Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

IBM C4090-959 Online Questions & Answers

• Question 11:

  A customer has several different storage systems from different vendors all connected on a storage area network.All arrays are at least 80% utilized, and the customer needs additional capacity.Rack space and power are very limited. Which SAN Volume Controller concept should a sales specialist emphasize to convince the customer to purchase a SAN Volume Controller?

  A. Compression
  B. Deduplication
  C. Virtualization
  D. Block and file I/O
  A. Compression

• Question 12:

  The Technical and Delivery Assessment process provides which benefits to the customer and Business Partner?

  A. Problem elimination
  B. Customer relationship improvement
  C. Sales growth and price competitiveness
  D. Customer satisfaction and problem mitigation
  D. Customer satisfaction and problem mitigation

• Question 13:

  A customer is looking for a way to obtain the following storage management functions:

  Single point of control for point-in4ime and remote volume replication services Automated source-target matching Practice Volume support for DR Planning Volume Protection

  Which IBM product should be recommended to this customer?

  A. Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM)
  B. System Storage Productivity Center
  C. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center
  D. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Select
  C. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center

• Question 14:

  A customer is backing up their data every night using Symantec Netbackup.The customer expresses their frustration with the ever-growing need for more storage just to handle the volume of data being backed up. Which IBM product can be proposed that would more efficiently handle this data volume?

  A. ProtecTIER
  B. SAN Volume Controller
  C. Real-time Compression Appliance
  D. Tivoli Storage Manager Enterprise Edition
  A. ProtecTIER

• Question 15:

  A new customer to the TS3500 wants to know if the TS3500 they recently purchased has a three-year 9x5 warranty. What is the correct answer to give the customer?

  A. One year, 7x24 is the standard warranty.
  B. Three years, 9x5 is the standard warranty.
  C. Three years, 7x24 is the standard warranty.
  D. One year, 9x5 is the standard warranty, with an option to provide three years 9x5.
  A. One year, 7x24 is the standard warranty.

• Question 16:

  A customer wants to design a new storage infrastructure that will have a common pool of storage.There is a mix of POWER and x86 servers, and the high performance servers will use Fibre Channel adapters.Both high availability and disaster recovery over a long distance are necessary. Which piece of information is most important in order to connect a SAN to the network?

  A. Which protocols must be supported
  B. Number of hops between different servers
  C. Number of Fibre Channel and network attached devices
  D. Speed of the Fibre Channel and network attached devices
  A. Which protocols must be supported

• Question 17:

  IBM's TS3500 Tape Library allows a customer to utilize both IBM LTO and IBM TS1 140 drive technology in the same Library. Which other library vendor offers the same capability?

  A. Oracle
  B. Quantum
  C. Overland
  D. Spectra Logic
  D. Spectra Logic

• Question 18:

  A financial customer's main concern is data integrity in their data protection strategy. Which functionality within the ProtecTIER family should the sales specialist focus on?

  A. HyperFactor
  B. WORM capability
  C. 4 GB memory Index
  D. Dual Controllers with automatic failover
  A. HyperFactor

• Question 19:

  A customer asks if Tivoli Productivity Center will help manage their Hitachi storage system, and says if so they can save costs by standardizing on IBM Tivoli Productivity Center as a storage resource management system. How should the sales specialist respond?

  A. Yes, as long as the Hitachi supports SMI-S
  B. Yes, as long as the Hitachi supports SMTP
  C. No, since only IBM storage supports HTTPS
  D. No, since only IBM storage supports SNMP
  A. Yes, as long as the Hitachi supports SMI-S

• Question 20:

  A customer is interested in the ability of XIV to take advantage of all storage capacity, all internal bandwidth, and all available processing power. Which system architecture feature of XIV enables full exploitation of all system components?

  A. Self healing
  B. Thin provisioning
  C. Workload balancing
  D. Massive parallelism
  D. Massive parallelism