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Question 1

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 Object storage systems are applicable across a wide range of

industries and market segments. Object storage opportunities
for the secondary storage use cases, including backup, cloud
data management, and active archives, exist in all industries.
However, the largest opportunities often can be found in which
3 industries?

Select one:
Aerospace, utilities, and transportation industries

Health care, finance and insurance, and manufacturing

industries

Advertising, telecommunications, and retail industries

Service providers, telecommunications, and media and 

entertainment industries

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IBM Cloud Object Storage has four main use cases, two of
which are classified as primary storage use cases, and the other
two as secondary storage use cases. What is the main
difference between primary and secondary storage in this
context?

Select one:
Primary data is used for structured data; whereas
secondary storage is used for storing unstructured data

Primary storage is for data that is used directly to create 

business value; whereas secondary storage is storage
for the purpose of preventing data loss

Primary storage is used for "hot data" (frequently accessed

data) only; whereas secondary storage is used to store
"cold data" (infrequently accessed data) using older
hardware

Primary storage is used for data that is managed by a

metadata cataloguing software such as Spectrum Discover;
whereas secondary is used for storing uncatalogued data

Question 3

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How is data stored in an IBM Cloud Object Storage system

protected against loss?

Select one:
Snapshots

Information Dispersal Algorithm (IDA) 

RAID

Backups
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IBM Cloud Object Storage (COS) is software defined storage.

Which of the following statement is correct in terms of the
supported hardware that IBM COS can run on?

Select one:
IBM COS is flexible to mix and match approved 

hardware from IBM and third-party vendors

 IBM provides a list of vendors that IBM COS supports.

Clients are free to choose any hardware from the vendors
listed

Clients are free to choose any hardware in the market

today, as long as it meets the minimum specification
requirements

IBM COS only supports IBM hardware, since IBM can add
value as a single vendor for the entire IBM COS system

Question 5

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IDC states that clients can achieve what ROI over 3 years using
object storage?

Select one:
255% 

100%

1000%

50%
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What is the key value of the unique support object storage

provides for custom metadata associated with objects?

Select one:
Ability to access objects using the NFS protocol

Fast metadata-based search

It gives application developers a powerful new way to 

work with attributes that are specific to their application

Increased performance

Question 7

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Security and data protection are paramount in organizational

awareness today. Which of the following is NOT one of the IBM
Cloud Object Storage features that bring recognized best-in-
class data protection to clients?

Select one:
FIPS 140-2 Level 1 Compliance with IBM COS hardware &
software

SecureSlice encryption of data at rest which guarantees

that no data exposure is possible via individual hard drives
or storage nodes

Data immutability (Write Once, Read Many WORM

functionality) with full policy management capabilities

Mobile App for monitoring and alerting of any non- 

recognized data access methods

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Which of the following options is NOT a purchasing option

offered by IBM Cloud Object Storage?

Select one:
Fully configured hardware and software appliance

A Storage Utility Offering (SUO) aligning payments and

consumption of capacity

Software only license with either perpetual or monthly

license, priced by raw terabytes

Software only license with either perpetual or monthly 

license, priced by number of nodes

Question 9

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Existing data is difficult to leverage and often trapped. What

percentage of mid-size and large enterprises state they have
data stored in too many different silos?

Select one:
25%

50% 

100%

75%
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Active archive is an important use case of IBM Cloud Object

Storage (COS). Which key characteristics makes IBM COS the
suitable solution for active archive?

Select one:
Scalability, custom metadata, and data stays accessible

Long term data reliability, cost effective, and data stays 

accessible

Higher performance than file storage, cost effective, and

data stays accessible

Higher performance than block storage, cost effective, and

global access to data

Question 11

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What is the general competitive advantage of IBM Cloud Object

Storage?

Select one:
Market reputation as a mature and reliable system that 
can scale to any level required

Most feature rich

Lowest Cost

Highest level of AWS S3 compatibility

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Clients may express concern or confusion around why IBM

Cloud Object Storage (COS) is a best-in-class Object Storage
solution. Which of the following reason is NOT an accurate
response towards such a concern or inquiry.

Select one or more:

IBM COS, as of today, boasts the largest single-namespace
object storage installations in the world across all on-prem
object vendors installations in the world across all on-prem
object vendors

IBM COS provides a unique geo-dispersal capability when

three or more data centers are envisioned for deployment

IBM COS was purpose built and refined from day one to
never experience downtime, slowdowns or product impact,
even with multiple disks or nodes unavailable

IBM COS is often the lowest cost solution across all on- 
premises object storage vendors globally

Question 13

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Which of the following solutions is currently NOT considered a

top competitor to IBM Cloud Object Storage by IBM?

Select one:
NetApp Storage Grid

Dell/EMC Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS)

Pure Cloud Block Store

Cloudian Hyperstore 
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One of the use cases using IBM Cloud Object Storage (COS) is
storage for internet applications, such as video streaming,
cloud digital video recording (DVR), social media, cloud storage
for mobile devices, public cloud object storage as a service, and
internet of things (IoT) workflows, which need to consolidate all
of the data from a large number of devices in a single repository
for analysis. Which of the following use cases is being
described?

Select one:
Secondary Storage: Data protection / Data management

Primary Storage: Remote file access / collaboration

Secondary Storage: Active archive

Primary Storage: Internet / IOT / Cloud Storage / Big 

Data

Question 15

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 IBM Cloud Object Storage (COS) supports various site

deployment choices, such as a single site, across two sites or
across three or more sites. If the client requires resiliency
against drive, server AND site level failures, which site
deployment option provides the best cost per usable terabyte
(TB)?

Select one:
Two sites deployment with vault mirroring 

 A single site deployment with a single copy of data

 Three or more sites deployment with a single copy of data

 Three or more sites with two copies of data

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Which of the following is the most likely reasons for a client to

purchase Object Storage?

Select one:
It offers lower storage cost than NAS

They have so much unstructured data that only an object

storage system can scale to meet their requirements

Performance advantages over block and file storage

Relevance to their "Journey to Cloud" via increasing use 

of Cloud Native architecture, Hybrid Cloud, and Cloud or
Mobile applications for their clients

Question 17

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Which storage protocols does IBM Cloud Object Storage

natively communicate with?

Select one:
File protocols (NFS, SMB, CIFS)

Object protocols (S3 compatible  REST API) 

Container Storage Interface (CSI)

Block protocols (SCSI, SAS)

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IBM Cloud Object Storage (COS) is software defined storage.

Which of the following statements is NOT a benefit of this
software-defined architecture?

Select one:
Upgrading IBM COS is a seamless software upgrade
process that ensures production operations are not
disrupted regardless of what hardware IBM COS is
installed on

The same IBM COS software provided to IBM Storage

clients is used by IBM Cloud to deliver the COS service,
ensuring unmatched commitment to the ongoing stability
and improvement of the software

IBM COS software can be deployed on either IBM COS

hardware or third-party hardware from  Cisco, Dell, HPE,
Seagate and others

 A complete IBM COS system can be deployed as 

VMWare virtual machines

Question 19

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Data management products, such as Spectrum Protect Plus,

Actifo, Rubrik, and Cohesity were designed to take advantage of
object storage today, typically complimenting higher
performance block or file storage. These products are examples
of which use case for IBM Cloud Object Storage?

Select one:
Secondary Storage: Data protection / data management 

Primary Storage: Remote file access / collaboration

Primary Storage: Internet / IOT / Cloud Storage / Big Data

Secondary Storage: Active archive

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Customers are modernizing applications and accelerating cloud

adoption. Roughly what percentage of enterprises are
expecting to modernize existing applications over the next
three years?

Select one:
100%

30%

75% 

50%

Question 21

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Which of the following use cases is the best fit for Object
Storage, leveraging its support cloud storage?

Select one:
Data center backup

Satellite image repository

Lowest cost storage for long term data archive

AWS-like private cloud supporting Cloud Native 

applications in the corporate data center

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Object storage is a good fit for receiving most large data sets,
including log file repositories, sometimes requiring years of
availability. Which #1 rated Security and Incident Event
Management (SIEM) software is certified with IBM COS to
ensure reliable, economical log file storage?

Select one:
 NetApp

IBM Qradar

Tableau

Splunk 

Question 23

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All IBM Cloud Object Storage (COS) systems consist of a

number of nodes, where each node has one of three functions.
What are the three functions?

Select one:
Manager node, Accesser node, or Slicestor node 

Manager node, Access node, or Storage node

Mirroring node, Accesser node, or Slicestor node

Management node, Compute node, or System node

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What deployment architecture allows IBM Cloud Object Storage

to be used in smaller capacities (less than ~500TB)?

Select one:
Consolidated Dispersal Mode

Concentrated Disposal Mode

Concentrated Dispersal Mode 

Configured Dispersal Mode

Question 25

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Object storage gained its popularity because of its unique

characteristics. Which of the following is NOT an object storage
characteristic?

Select one:
Support for custom metadata defined by creators of an
application

The ability to scale up in terms of storage capacity and

number of data elements that can be stored in a single
namespace

High performance for transactional data workloads

Remotely accessible through Wide Area Network (WAN) 