IBM C4090-959 Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

IBM C4090-959 Online Questions & Answers

• Question 31:

  A customer is looking at proposals from IBM, EMC, HP, and HDS, each of which have slightly different usable capacities.Each vendor has a different way of pricing disk drives as well as advanced function software.The customer needs to determine how much each solution will cost over the life of the solution. What is the best way to calculate that actual cost to make each vendor comparable?

  A. cost per TB
  B. price per IOPS
  C. total cost of ownership
  D. total cost of acquisition
  C. total cost of ownership

• Question 32:

  What is an advantage of IBM XIV System Storage over HP P10000 (3PAR) in a cloud environment?

  A. QoS integration
  B. Distributed node design
  C. Scales with performance
  D. Tier-less architecture design
  D. Tier-less architecture design

• Question 33:

  Which Technical and Delivery Assessment is conducted after solution design and before proposal to the customer?

  A. Pre-sale
  B. Post-sale
  C. Pre-install
  D. Post-install
  A. Pre-sale

• Question 34:

  What is the role of Cloud Agile within IBM Smarter Storage?

  A. It reduces storage capacity by 5%.
  B. It provides faster storage performance when it is Cloud Agile.
  C. It provides flexible storage and adapts easily to unpredictable demand.
  D. It provides storage performance greater than or equal to the other elements of IBM Smarter Storage.
  A. It reduces storage capacity by 5%.

• Question 35:

  The Real-time Compression Appliance can bring compression capabilities to which product?

  A. XIV
  B. HDS USP
  C. NetApp FAS3140
  D. Storwize V7000 Unified
  C. NetApp FAS3140

• Question 36:

  A POWER customer is looking for a tool to allow chargebacks for storage usage to various departments within their company. Which Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V4.2 module provides the functionality?

  A. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Data
  B. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk
  C. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Fabric
  D. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication
  A. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Data

• Question 37:

  A customer has a DS8870 system and wishes to add additional capacity.The customer states that most new data coming into the system will be reference data (i.e., not accessed very often). What would be an appropriate recommendation for the sales specialist to make?

  A. Add SSDs.which will create an Easy Tier pool, and then let Easy Tier migrate the reference data
  B. Add the biggest SAS drive available, and let pool rebalancing migrate the data to the least used disks
  C. Add NL-SAS drives and create an Easy Tier pool with or without SSDs.and then let Easy Tier migrate the reference data
  D. Add both SSDs and SAS or NL-SAS drives at the same time, as this is the only way to create an Easy Tier pool, and then let Easy Tier migrate the reference data
  C. Add NL-SAS drives and create an Easy Tier pool with or without SSDs.and then let Easy Tier migrate the reference data

• Question 38:

  A mainframe customer who utilizes 3490 tape is interested in reducing their need for tape and would like to compare offerings from IBM and Oracle. Which competitive product from Oracle should the specialist gather information on?

  A. VSM
  B. VSP
  C. VPLEX
  D. Bus-Tech
  A. VSM

• Question 39:

  The customer has a NAS infrastructure which grows by new acquisitions of separate nodes leading to cost inefficiency, complex administration, and underutilized storage resources.It is estimated there will be 30% of data growth per year, reaching 11 PB in the next 2 years. What should the sales specialist propose to the customer?

  A. One SONAS system
  B. Two SONAS systems
  C. Two N7900 systems
  D. Three N7900 systems
  A. One SONAS system

• Question 40:

  A customer has a large volume of data that needs to be stored within their data center.The customer has indicated that their data growth will be in the 25% per year range, if not higher. Which question must be asked to determine the proper IBM storage solution?

  A. What speed is your current SAN?
  B. What speed is your current LAN?
  C. How much power do you have available?
  D. How many terabytes do you have today?
  D. How many terabytes do you have today?