IBM Midrange Storage Sales V1 Sample Questions:
1. A customer is looking at the TS3500 Tape Library with LTO-5 drives but is very concerned about obsolescence as this purchase will need to last for at least seven years. The sales specialist discussed the LTO roadmap with them.
How many more generations of LTO are included in the LTO consortium's published roadmap?
A) 3
B) 10
C) 5
D) 4
2. A customer requires 30 TB of relatively inexpensive block storage for a DB2 database in the midrange space. The customer also mentions the need for future performance increase as the project moves from test and development status to full production over the next year.
Which of the following would be an appropriate choice for this customer?
A) Relatively low cost N3220 or IM3240 with SAS drives today, and the addition of PAM (Flash Cache) when additional performance is needed.
B) A 15 module XIV System Gen3 with relatively inexpensive nearline SAS drives for capacity and low cost, with the option of adding SSD for speed in the future.
C) DS3500 with a small number of SSD and large nearline SAS drives to keep down the cost, with Easy Tier turned on when needed to optimize performance.
D) Storwize V7000 with small form factor drives, and a second disk control enclosure added laterfor additional performance.
3. A potential customer benefit of IBM LTO-5 is:
A) Provides faster SCSI connection
B) Features Fibre Channel at 4 Gbps
C) Offers the capability to Read/Write Ultrium 3 cartridges
D) Ability to utilize LTFS
4. What organization within IBM provides pre-sales Technical Support to both IBM and Business partners areas such as configuration support and technical Q&A.
A) Compete Center
B) Lab services
C) ATS
D) Techline
5. A customer is running out of floor space on their data center using an aging EMC DMX.
They are a loyal EMC customer but the CIO is willing to have a quick discussion with IBM.
What IBM storage efficiency technologies should be discussed to address their floor space issue?
A) Automated tiering and external virealization
B) Flash copy and replication
C) Storage virilization and thin provisioning
D) Tape automation and LTO tape
Solutions:
| Question # 1 Answer: A | Question # 2 Answer: D | Question # 3 Answer: D | Question # 4 Answer: D | Question # 5 Answer: C |
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