IBM C9020-970 Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

IBM C9020-970 Online Questions & Answers

• Question 11:

  What is a customer with storage management constraints likely to inquire about?

  A. IBM Spectrum Control
  B. IBM Spectrum Protect
  C. IBM Spectrum Archive
  D. IBM Spectrum Accelerate
  D. IBM Spectrum Accelerate

• Question 12:

  A customer plans to replace its storage infrastructure which supports Oracle databases and a server farm based on VMware by a storage grid architecture. A business partner sales specialist proposes two XIV Storage Systems with 486 TB of usable capacity and implementation services.

  Which IBM storage approach should be used to migrate the applications' data at lowest cost?

  A. Migrate the data using IBM Lab Services
  B. Use the native migration facility
  C. Utilize SVC as a migration tool
  D. Use host resources to migrate the data using LVM
  B. Use the native migration facility

• Question 13:

  Which two IBM storage offerings support OpenStack? (Choose two.)

  A. ProtecTIER
  B. Storwize family
  C. TS3500
  D. FlashSystem 840
  E. XIV
  C. TS3500
  E. XIV

• Question 14:

  What is an advantage of IBM XIV compared to EMC VMAX?

  A. Professional migration services
  B. Ease of management
  C. Software priced by capacity
  D. Fully automated software tiering
  C. Software priced by capacity

• Question 15:

  A customer has heard that there could be issues with Easy Tier that will cause hot spots to occur with a given tier of disk. The customer already has hot spot concerns and desires a solution that will minimize those concerns. Which new feature in Release 7.3 will minimize this concern?

  A. Balancing
  B. Three tier support
  C. Limiting
  D. External virtualization
  C. Limiting

• Question 16:

  In the event of logical corruption, a customer wishes to have application-aware backups of an Oracle database that could be quickly restored. Which solution should be recommended?

  A. IBM Spectrum Control for Oracle Integration Feature
  B. Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager for backups and restores
  C. DS8870 Global Mirror for incremental point in time copies
  D. XIV Snapshot for VAAI integration
  B. Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager for backups and restores

• Question 17:

  Which tool should a sales specialist use to verify that a proposed XIV solution will deliver the performance required by a customer's high transactional database applications?

  A. STAT Tool
  B. Batch Magic
  C. Disk Magic
  D. Capacity Magic
  C. Disk Magic

• Question 18:

  What is the virtualization driver for block storage that enables OpenStack integration for IBM Storage?

  A. Glance
  B. Cinder
  C. Nova
  D. Quantum
  C. Nova

• Question 19:

  A sales person is presenting IBM Spectrum Scale to a prospect. The prospect has never heard of IBM Spectrum Scale and raises the concern that this is a new product. Which two responses can a sales person use to alleviate the prospect's concern? (Choose two.)

  A. IBM Spectrum Scale is inexpensive using only non-intelligent SAS disk arrays configured in a highly redundant manner.
  B. IBM Spectrum Scale has been used for many years for high-performance computing environments.
  C. IBM Spectrum Scale is a fixed configuration optimized for the customer's environment.
  D. IBM is ranked number 1 by IDC from the 2nd quarter of 2014 for Software Defined Storage.
  E. IBM has been a leader in storage virtualization for more than 12 years.
  B. IBM Spectrum Scale has been used for many years for high-performance computing environments.
  D. IBM is ranked number 1 by IDC from the 2nd quarter of 2014 for Software Defined Storage.

• Question 20:

  What is a key difference on the warranty between IBM FlashSystem and many of its competitors?

  A. IBM provides on-site coverage for flash module replacement.
  B. IBM provides full coverage for flash modules during the length of the warranty.
  C. IBM provides coverage for flash modules for only one year.
  D. IBM replaces the flash module if the IOPS are within IBM specification.
  D. IBM replaces the flash module if the IOPS are within IBM specification.