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You are running a whiteboard session with a client and start talking about IBM
Safeguarded Copy. Which of the following would you highlight as a key feature of
Safeguarded Copy?

Immutable point-in time copies of production data, logical air-gap, and fast restore
from copies on primary storage

Tremendous scalability, extreme workload support, and protection management

Snapshot management, application / crash consistency, and automation / orchestration

Data reuse, container support, and protection management

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Which offering can keep copies of information to develop a report against or to do a
deeper level of analytics without impacting production workloads?

Safeguarded Copy

Copy Services Manager

Spectrum Control
Spectrum Copy Data Management
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A client believes that they have a resilient infrastructure when it comes to the data
protection components. However, they complain about a lack of cyber resiliency
capabilities. What is the IBM function that can provide them with the protection they
need for their primary storage?

Safeguarded Copy

Spectrum Protect

Spectrum Protect Plus

Spectrum Copy Data Management

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Compared to other vendors, what percentage of cost savings can IBM Storage
optimization capabilities such as incremental forever backups, deduplication, and
compression deliver?

78%
32%

53%

40%
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What data protection task do many organizations mistakenly neglect to perform?

Creating copies of revenue-producing data in both virtual and container environments

Air-gapping their backup data

Backing up their Software as a Service (SaaS) data

Writing data to cyber-resilient data repositories such as IBM Tape and IBM Cloud
Object Storage
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During an upcoming meeting, a client wants to discuss backups in virtual and
container environments. Which of the following is an essential talking point?
Talk about how Spectrum Protect Plus simplifies data resilience for containers.

Describe how Spectrum Copy Data Management’s in-place snapshot solution enables
instant data access for multiple use cases.

Discuss the benefits of Safeguarded Copy’s capability of creating immutable point-in-

time copies of production data to protect against cyber attack.

Explain that Spectrum Protect offers the greatest number of application and OS
support for both physical and virtual systems.
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The new capabilities and enhancements for which environments are focused on
helping prepare for the next frontier in data creation and protection?

Containerized environments

DevOps, Test and Development environments

Virtualized environments

Hybrid cloud environments

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Which of the following is a competitive differentiation statement about Spectrum
Copy Data Management?

Companies such as Delphix, Cohesity, and Rubrik do not require users to pay again
for added storage services such as snapshots and replication.

Spectrum Copy Data Management uses its own appliance, eliminating the need for 
competitive appliances.

Spectrum Copy Data Management base services are free, but users are required to pay
for added storage services such as snapshots and replication.

Spectrum Copy Data Management is a software-only solution that utilizes client

platforms and storage services already in place.
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The data resilience offerings from IBM are centered around cyber, cloud, containers,
and convergence. Which of these four traits ensures that data is highly secure and
highly recoverable?

Cyber

Cloud

Convergence

Containers
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Which of the following is a benefit of Spectrum Protect Blueprints?

Their container storage pools enable external cloud and object storage without
additional hardware or gateways on popular cloud environments.

They define flexible policy rules that leverage existing operational recovery data to
satisfy long-term retention requirements.

They provide a roadmap for integration with Spectrum Protect Plus.

They eliminate guesswork by providing tested and proven best practices and guidance
that help organizations meet service level agreements (SLAs) and achieve greater
performance.
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Which of the following statements about Software as a Service (SaaS) is FALSE?

Organizations have often sent critical data contained in their SaaS applications to their
SaaS providers without any plan for ensuring data resiliency.

SaaS vendors delegate responsibility for backing up SaaS data to their customers.

Backing up email, calendar, contact, document, and shared folders in Microsoft 365
applications to the cloud is the SaaS vendor’s responsibility.
Organizations have often mistakenly relied on SaaS vendors to protect their data for
them.
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While talking with your client, they mention that they need the capabiity to manage
snapshots of their data. The perfect offering to meet their needs is:

Spectrum Protect Plus

Spectrum Copy Data Management

Spectrum Protect

Safeguarded Copy
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Which IBM data resilience solution should be recommended to a client who needs
comprehensive data resilience for physical file servers, virtual environments, and a
wide range of applications?

Spectrum Archive and Spectrum Scale

Spectrum Protect and Spectrum Protect Plus

Spectrum Copy Data Management and Safeguarded Copy

Safeguarded Copy with FlashSystem Cyber Vault

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Which of the following is NOT a reason for clients to modernize their data protection
platform?.

To prevent data loss due to file corruption

To enable data retention for regulatory compliance

To prevent data loss due to natural disasters

To prevent cyber attacks

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The data resilience portfolio’s container capabilities and enhancements are focusing
on helping clients do which of the following?
Unify all the components of the IBM Spectrum Protect portfolio components into a
single solution

Prepare for the next frontier in data creation and protection

Ensure that their data is highly secure and highly recoverable

Seamlessly manage data in hybrid cloud environments

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The elimination of the vSnap requirement from recent releases of Spectrum Protect
Plus provides many benefits for clients. Which of the following statements is false
about this enhancement to Spectrum Protect?

The elimination of vSnap enables a production Kubernetes deployment that does not
have any dependencies on non-containerized infrastructure.

The elimination of vSnap removes the requirement to create and manage separate
backup repositories.

The elimination of vSnap enables backup directly to object storage.

The elimination of vSnap removes the requirement to use in-place container storage
interface (CSI) direct backups to object storage.
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Which of the following statements is TRUE about IBM Cyber Vault?

Cyber Vault is a standalone, licensed application that attaches to your primary storage
array.

Cyber Vault is an IBM Blueprint for operationalizing the Safeguarded Copy

technology.

Cyber Vault is the last line of defense against a cyber attack.

Cyber Vault software is integrated with IBM FlashSystem and IBM Spectrum
Virtualize.
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A client already has an entitlement to use Spectrum Copy Data Management. Which
of the following use cases can be solved with this existing software?

Data reuse, container support, and protection management

Snapshot management, application / crash consistency, and automation / orchestration

Tremendous scalability, extreme workload support, and protection management

Immutable point-in time copies of production data, logical air-gap, and fast restore
from copies on primary storage
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A client describes that they need an efficient way to back up at scale. Which data
resilience portfolio offering would address this need?

Spectrum Protect

Safeguarded Copy

Spectrum Protect Plus

Spectrum Copy Data Management

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Which of the following statements about IBM’s single unified vision of its Data
Resilience Portfolio is FALSE?

Data will flow through multiple data planes for storage on multiple devices.

Physical systems will continue to be protected with agents.

Virtual Machines (VMs) and containers will have agentless protection capabilities.

Everything will be managed from a common control plane.

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In which kind of environment is flexibility and the enablement of seamless data
management important?

High risk

Containerized

Unified

Hybrid cloud
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A client describes the following four pain points. Which of these is addressed
specifically by the Spectrum Protect component of the overall solution?

Data reuse through block storage and virtual machine (VM) snapshot management

Virtual environment protection for self-service environments

Long-term storage and archival

Instant restores of container backups

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A client asks about what Spectrum Protect Plus is specifically used for. Which of the
following is a key feature that should be highlighted?

Immutable point-in time copies of production data, logical air-gap, and fast restore
from copies on primary storage

Data reuse, container support, and protection management

Snapshot management, application / crash consistency, and automation / orchestration

Tremendous scalability, extreme workload support, and protection management

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“The next frontier in data protection and creation” is all about which of the following?

Tremendous scalability, extreme workload support, and protection management

Snapshot management, application / crash consistency, and automation / orchestration

Immutable point-in time copies of production data, logical air-gap, and fast restore
from copies on primary storage

Data reuse, container support, and protection management

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On the highest end, how many objects can be handled by a single Spectrum Protect
server?

Billions of objects

Millions of objects

Thousands of objects

Hundreds of objects