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IBM
Exam C4090-970
Enterprise Storage Sales
Version: 6.0

[ Total Questions: 60 ]
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Question No : 1

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 2ndquarter of 2014 for Software Defined
Storage.
E. IBM has been a leader in storage virtualization for more than 12 years.

Answer: B,D
Reference:

http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/44771.wss

Question No : 2

A customer wants recommendations on storage for an onsite cloud implementation to

simplify management of company data.

Which solution should be recommended?

A. Platform as a Service (PaaS)

B. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
C. Software as a Service (SaaS)
D. Management as a Service (MaaS)

Answer: C

Question No : 3

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A customer desires to implement a VMware HA environment by combining a stretched IBM
Spectrum Virtualize cluster configuration with VMware vSphere.

How does this solution limit downtime in the VMware cluster?

A. VMware vCenter can then be integrated with the IBM Storage Integration Server.
B. Virtual machines can be nondisruptively migrated with vMotion between two separate
data centers.
C. The IBM Spectrum Virtualize Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) can be used to
automate disaster recovery testing.
D. Compressionallows more Virtual Machines to be stored within one VMware datastore.

Answer: A
Reference:

https://www-
304.ibm.com/partnerworld/wps/servlet/download/DownloadServlet?id=3Di0wiU_91BiPCA$
cnt&attachmentName=integrating_ibm_storage_integration_server_with_VMware_vCenter
_orchestrator.pdf&token=MTQ0MTA0NTE2NTgxNg==&locale=en_ALL_ZZ

Question No : 4

Which IBM solution will provide 400 TB of NFS storage?

A. DS8870
B. IBM Spectrum Scale
C. XIV
D. Storwize V7000

Answer: B
Reference:

https://www-
01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSFKCN/com.ibm.cluster.gpfs.doc/gpfs_faqs/gpfsclu
stersfaq.html?lang=en

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Question No : 5

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

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

Answer: C,E

Question No : 6

Which type of tape should an IBM sales specialist recommend to an enterprise customer?

A. SLC
B. DLT
C. 3480
D. LTO

Answer: D
Reference:

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/tape/ts3500/

Question No : 7

A customer wants to simplify the back-up and restore processes without increasing head
count.

How does IBM Spectrum Protect meet this customer’s requirements?

A. It provides multiple administrative roles, maximizing flexibility.

B. It participates in CAMSS with mobile servers.
C. It provides a single point of control, minimizing cost.
D. It exclusively uses IBM Smarter Storage, saving on complexity.

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Answer: D
Reference:

https://www-304.ibm.com/connections/blogs/tivolistorage/?lang=en_us

Question No : 8

While on the golf course, how should a sales person find information about power
requirements for the DS8870?

A. Redbook
B. IBM DSSeries Portal
C. Quick Reference for IBM System Storage
D. eConfig

Answer: B
Explanation:
Refrence:
http://www-03.ibm.com/software/businesscasestudies/no/no/corp

Question No : 9

A customer is considering adding Real-time Compression software to its installed IBM

Spectrum Virtualize.

Which workload benefits most from Real-time Compression software?

A. Software development
B. Encrypted files
C. Video files
D. Database

Answer: D

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Question No : 10

A customer is interested in a DS8870 feature that transfers frequently accessed blocks of

data between spinning disk and solid state disk to increase system performance.

Which feature provides this capability?

A. Easy Tier
B. Hierarchical Storage Management
C. Information Lifecycle Management
D. FlashCopy

Answer: B

Question No : 11

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

Answer: C
Reference:

http://www-05.ibm.com/ie/presentations/2011_pdf/4_XIV_Storage_Efficiency.pdf

Question No : 12

Which HP storage system offers similar features of efficiency to IBM XIV?

A. HP 3PAR
B. HP LeftHand
C. HP MSA
D. HP EVA

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Answer: C
Reference:

http://www-
01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ST3FR7_7.3.0/com.ibm.storwize.v7000.730.doc/svc
_configdiskcontrollersovr_22n9uf.html?lang=es

Question No : 13

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.

Answer: D
Reference:

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/flash/840/specifications.html

Question No : 14

Which information is most useful to an IBM sales representative when narrowing choices of
storage solutions?

A. Throughput
B. Capacity
C. Transactions
D. Budget

Answer: D
Reference:

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/spectrum/scale/

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Question No : 15

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

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

Answer: C

Question No : 16

Which IBM product is web-based self-service storage provisioning?

A. IBM SmartCloud Storage Access

B. IBM CAMSS Storage Access Manager
C. IBM Elastic Storage Access
D. IBM Fast Cloud Storage Access

Answer: A
Reference:

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/software/smartcloud-storage-access/

Question No : 17

What simplifies customer training requirements for storage management across multiple
IBM enterprise offerings?

A. Redbooks
B. Storage GUIs
C. DS Storage Manager

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D. Directed Maintenance Package

Answer: D
Reference:

http://www-05.ibm.com/services/europe/maintenance/

Question No : 18

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

Answer: B
Reference:

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=tss1wp101923&aid=1

Question No : 19

A customer wants to implement a software defined storage solution but has existing leases
in competitive storage.

Which advantage does IBM Spectrum Control have to help the customer move forward
with implementation?

A. Virtualization

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B. Replication
C. Encryption
D. Compression

Answer: C

Question No : 20

For which two purposes is a TCO calculation used? (Choose two.)

A. To compare the warranty cost with the maintenance cost

B. To compare an IBM solution with a competitive solution
C. To calculate the projected downtime cost for the proposed solution
D. To differentiate between OPEX and CAPEX for the proposed solution
E. To compare an IBM solution versus an alternative IBM solution

Answer: B,D
Reference:

http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-
bin/ssialias?infotype=SA&subtype=WH&htmlfid=XSW03127USEN

Question No : 21

A bank customer has two sites in Italy and France. One site uses IBM storage and the
other uses a competitor.

Which IBM solution is required for block storage whenunifying the sites for
disasterrecovery?

A. ESS
B. XIV
C. IBM Spectrum Control
D. DS8000

Answer: D

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Question No : 22

A customer has asked about software defined storage. It has a heterogeneous storage
environment.

Which IBM solution helps the customer implement software defined storage and leverage
its investment in existing storage?

A. IBM Spectrum Control

B. ProtecTIER
C. DS8870
D. XIV

Answer: A

Question No : 23

A customer currently has a XIV Gen2 system and is complaining about the performance for
its business analytics.

Which feature of the Gen3 XIV should improve this workload?

A. Self-encryptingdrives
B. Flash cache
C. Hyper-Scale Mobility
D. 4 TB drives

Answer: D

Question No : 24

Which IBM Spectrum Virtualize concept should a sales specialist emphasize to a customer
with resource constraints and 80% average storage utilization?

A. Block and file I/O

B. Compression
C. Deduplication
D. Virtualization

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Answer: D
Reference:

https://www-304.ibm.com/connections/blogs/tivolistorage/?lang=en_us

Question No : 25

A SONAS customer is looking for a solution to manage active and inactive data based on
policies for different tiers.

What should the IBM sales specialist suggest?

A. IBM Spectrum Control

B. IBM Spectrum Virtualize
C. Active Cloud Engine
D. DB2 Content Manager

Answer: C

Question No : 26

An IBM i customer is interested in an all-flash solution to help with performance and latency
in its environment.

Whichadvantagedoes the FlashSystem V840 have overtheother flash solutions in this

environment?

A. Deduplication
B. Compression
C. Support for VIOS
D. Native i support

Answer: D

Question No : 27

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Which key metric drives a customer’s disaster recovery strategy?

A. TCA
B. TCO
C. ROI
D. RTO

Answer: C

Question No : 28

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 concept should a sales specialist emphasize to convince the customer to purchase
IBM Spectrum Virtualize?

A. Block and file I/O

B. Virtualization
C. Compression
D. Deduplication

Answer: B

Question No : 29

Which EMC product is comparable to IBM Spectrum Control?

A. EMC VSPEX
B. EMC ViPR
C. EMC SRDF
D. EMC VPLEX

Answer: B

Question No : 30

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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, 7x24 is the standard warranty.
C. Three years, 9x5 is the standard warranty.
D. One year, 9x5 is the standard warranty.

Answer: C

Question No : 31

How is the IBM FlashSystem more efficient than competitor products?

A. Millisecond response time

B. Deduplication
C. Use of SSDs
D. Lower latency

Answer: D
Reference:

http://ecs.arrow.com/ibmhardware/wp-content/uploads/sites/30/2014/02/Arrow-What-
Sellers-Need-to-Know-IBM-FlashSystem-V2.pdf

Question No : 32

Which technical resource should a business partner use in PartnerWorld to obtain technical
information and competitive comparisons to close a proposal?

A. Techdocs
B. Techline
C. BP Innovation Center
D. DeveloperWorks

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Answer: D
Reference:

https://m.ibm.com/https/www-
304.ibm.com/partnerworld/wps/servlet/ContentHandler/stg_ove_sys-ibm-systems?ca=idr-
isvhome

Question No : 33

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

Answer: D
Reference:

http://www-
01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/STZSWD_11.5.0/PDFs/IBM_Spectrum_Accelerate_
11.5.0.c_PO.pdf

Question No : 34

What are two important client requirements in reference to storage infrastructure regarding
Cloud, Analytics, Mobile, Social, and Security (CAMSS) workloads? (Choose two.)

A. Provide business insights

B. Data elasticity
C. Massive scale and rapid pace
D. Simplified infrastructure
E. Controlled data growth

Answer: A,C

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Question No : 35

A customer is concerned with the expense of its EMC ControlCenter solution and is looking
for an IBM solution to reduce costs.

Which IBM solution helps the customer manage a heterogeneous storage infrastructure
and track the performance of SAN attached devices?

A. IBM Spectrum Control

B. IBM Fabric Manager
C. IBM Systems Director
D. IBM Spectrum Virtualize

Answer: B

Question No : 36

A customer asks you if IBM has a self-service cloud provisioning solution.

Which solution should you recommend?

A. IBM SmartCloud Storage Access

B. OpenStack
C. Elastic Storage
D. IBM Spectrum Protect

Answer: A

Question No : 37

Which tool should be used to understand the benefit of adding different tiers of disks to an
existing Easy Tier storage pool on an existing DS8870?

A. RMF
B. IOStats
C. Perfmon
D. STAT

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Answer: D
Reference:

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpapers/pdfs/redp4667.pdf

Question No : 38

What are two key advantages of leasing storage equipment over buying storage
equipment? (Choose two.)

A. Leasing eliminates the risk of ownership for the client.

B. Leasing rates can be depreciated from tax debts.
C. Leasing provides the best discount for a Special Bid Offering.
D. Leasing improves the alignment of project cost with project benefits.
E. Leasing ensures Business Continuity for leased equipment.

Answer: B,D

Question No : 39

A customer is looking for a storage solution for its database. The sales specialist discovers
that the customer has a mainframe with CKD that will attach to the storage.

Which storage solution should be considered?

A. IBM Spectrum Virtualize

B. FlashSystem840
C. XIV
D. DS8870

Answer: B

Question No : 40

Which tool does a sales specialist use to address customer concerns about performance?

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A. Capacity Magic
B. ROINow!
C. Disk Magic
D. TCONow!

Answer: C
Reference:

https://www-
304.ibm.com/services/weblectures/dlv/Gate.wss?handler=Default&sequence=2&customer
=partnerworld&offering=cast&action=my_connect&embed=no&language=en

Question No : 41

A customer has a TS3500 tape library with two expansion frames. Today, the library has
ten (10) LTO-2 drives and only 100 tape cartridge slots available. With the LTO-2 drives, a
one week rotation would typically utilize 80 tape cartridges. The customer is adding 500
LTO-2 cartridges per year. The cost of maintenance on the LTO-2 drives is getting
expensive.

What should you recommend to this customer?

A. Add two LTO-6 drives and 80 LTO-6 cartridges to start

B. Replace all LTO-2 drives with LTO-5 drives immediately
C. Add an expansion frame with six LTO-6 drives and 400 LTO-6 cartridges
D. Replace all LTO-2 drives with LTO-6 drives immediately

Answer: D

Question No : 42

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?

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

Answer: C

Question No : 43

Which storage solution allows a customer to dramatically increase performance while

protecting investment in legacy storage?

A. IBM DS8870
B. IBM FlashSystem V840
C. IBM XIV
D. IBM Spectrum Protect

Answer: B
Reference:

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/in/storage/flash/v840/overview.html

Question No : 44

As part of a large storage project, a customer is asking for an IBM business continuity
solution.

What is the most important pre-requisite(s) a sales specialist should ask for?

A. What kind of data will the customer store in an information lifecycle appliance?
B. Does storage virtualization use IBM Spectrum Virtualize?
C. What are the RPO and RTO objectives for each application?
D. Does storage management use IBM Spectrum Control?

Answer: D
Reference:

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/869bac74-5fc2-4b94-81a2-

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6153890e029a/entry/ibm_storage_insights_the_excitement_continues_to_grow_and_grow
?lang=en

Question No : 45

A customer wishesto have a disk storage system that provides recommendations on

moving data to optimize performance.

Which solution should you recommend to this customer?

A. IBM Spectrum Control with V7000

B. V5000 with Capacity Magic
C. TS3500 with Disk Optimizer
D. ESS with Intratier Rebalancing

Answer: C

Question No : 46

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

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

Answer: C

Question No : 47

In the event of logical corruption, a customer wishes to have application-aware backups of

an Oracle database that could be quickly restored.

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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

Answer: B
Reference:

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/spectrum/scale/

Question No : 48

Which concern should a sales specialist raise with a customer requesting 4TB drives to
support an SAP environment?

A. Higher maintenance costs

B. More capacity than needed
C. Higher power requirements
D. Less performance that needed

Answer: B

Question No : 49

Which resource should an IBM Storage seller use to protect disk performance for a
consolidation to a DS8870?

A. Capacity Magic
B. Disk Magic
C. Batch Magic
D. TCOnow!for Disk

Answer: C
Reference:

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/tips1181.html?Open

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Question No : 50

A customer asks how a DS8000 can make its z/OS DB2 environment use existing
mainframe channels more efficiently.

What is the appropriate response?

A. Easy Tier will optimize data transfer

B. Real-time Compression will optimize data transfer
C. DB2 offload to POWER will optimize data transfer
D. zHPF will optimize data transfer

Answer: D
Reference:

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/hardware/connectivity/ficon_performance.html

Question No : 51

A business partner uses the IBM TCOnow! tool to produce a Total Cost of Ownership
(TCO) report for a customer.

Which statement is true regarding a business partner accessing the IBM TCOnow! tool?

A. The tool has only limited content for business partners while the full tool is available to
IBM employees.
B. The tool is available to download for free from IBM.
C. The tool can only be run via a web browser on the Partner World site.
D. The tool must be purchased through CIOview.

Answer: A
Reference:

https://www-
304.ibm.com/partnerworld/wps/pub/!ut/p/b0/04_Sj9CPykssy0xPLMnMz0vMAfGjzOKdgp0M
gj1NjAwswjxdDIz8gowtnMyNjAxMDPSDU_PiQ4P1C7IdFQGKUP1n/?

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Question No : 52

In a customer briefing, you present the ability to reduce storage capacity using Real-time
Compression as an option to lower hardware costs.

How should you describe this capability?

A. It is an IBM Spectrum Protect based compression feature.

B. It is a compression and deduplication feature for ProtecTIER.
C. It is a premium option for Storwize V7000 and IBM Spectrum Virtualize.
D. It is a standard algorithm for IBM disk and tape devices.

Answer: C
Reference:

http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-
bin/ssialias?infotype=AN&subtype=CA&htmlfid=897/ENUS215-171&appname=USN

Question No : 53

A customer is designing a disaster recovery solution including storage based replication.

The customer wants to implement a new IBM Spectrum Virtualize to handle the replication
but is concerned about WAN optimization.

Which advantage of IBM Spectrum Virtualize will help with concern?

A. Global Mirror
B. Replication Layer
C. Two active links
D. IBM SANSlide

Answer: D

Question No : 54

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Which IBM enterprise storage system supports NDMP backups?

A. DS8870
B. XIV
C. SONAS
D. IBM Spectrum Virtualize

Answer: C
Reference:

https://www-
304.ibm.com/partnerworld/wps/servlet/download/DownloadServlet?id=9Ses5ITpq2NiPCA$
cnt&attachmentName=Implementing_an_NDMP_backup_solution_using_IBM_Tivoli_Stora
ge_Manager_on_IBM_SONAS.pdf&token=MTQ0MTA0MzI2NDU4MA==&locale=en_ALL_
ZZ

Question No : 55

A customer is interested in using IBM Spectrum Scale, but is concerned about the cost of
keeping the data on spinning disk.

How can IBM Spectrum Scale lower costs?

A. By using OpenStack Cinder to migrate to lower tier storage

B. By using Easy Tier to migrate to NL-SAS
C. By using IBM Spectrum Archive to migrate to tape
D. By using DFSMS to migrate to a lower tier of storage

Answer: B
Reference:

https://www-
304.ibm.com/partnerworld/wps/servlet/download/DownloadServlet?id=JUhU1cUlAyeiPCA$
cnt&attachmentName=ibm_system_storage_svc_easy_tier_in_7_3.pdf&token=MTQ0MTA
0MjgyMzQ3OQ==&locale=en_ALL_ZZ

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Question No : 56

A customer wants to integrate error reporting from its storage into its Microsoft
environment.

Which software plug-in allows storage reporting into the Windows Server?

A. IBM Storage Management Console for VMware

B. IBM TotalStorage support for Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy and Virtual Disk Service
C. IBM Storage Management Pack for SCOM
D. IBM Storage Device Driver for VAAI

Answer: B
Reference:

http://www-
01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/HW213_7.2.0/com.ibm.storage.ssic.help.doc/f2c_es
svssproviderforwindowschapt_1ti1ht.html?lang=fr

Question No : 57

A customer is looking at several competing storage proposals. The customer asks the
sales representative why Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is important.

Which response should the sales person give based on IBM’s definition of TCO?

A. It evaluates the complete cost of ownership of an acquisition over the life of the asset.
B. It provides for the evaluation of the current cash flow of the asset.
C. It provides for the evaluation of the comparison acquisition costs of IBM with the
competition.
D. It evaluates the complete cost of acquisition of the asset.

Answer: C
Reference:

https://www.ibm.com/cloud/resourcecenter/content/82

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Question No : 58

A customer has discovered that EMC storage management tools are not adequate to
manage both EMC and IBM gear.

Which IBM hardware product enables IBM Spectrum Control to manage both a customer’s
EMC VMAX and IBM storage?

A. XIV
B. IBM Spectrum Virtualize
C. DS8870
D. Storwize V3700

Answer: B

Question No : 59

Which function does a pre-install Technical and Delivery Assessment (TDA)perform?

A. Providing a roadmap of questions to use when reviewing a proposal for IBM storage
products
B. Reviewing the customer’s knowledge of the IBM storage solution
C. Reviewing the technical configuration before ordering the storage solution
D. Providing a roadmap of questions to use when assessing site readiness

Answer: B
Reference:

http://www-03.ibm.com/certify/certs/23002403.shtml

Question No : 60

On which IBM server platforms is IBM Spectrum Scale available?

A. IBM i on POWER, and System z

B. AIX and IBMion POWER
C. AIX on POWER, and System z

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D. Linux and Windows on POWER

Answer: A
Reference:

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/in/storage/spectrum/scale/

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