HP Designing HP Enterprise Storage Solutions Sample Questions:

1. Scenario
Following the merger of two financial companies, management is considering combining the two distinct customer call centers into a single physical location. In addition to the overall call center headcount increasing by 30%, the support for two distinct customer bases presents the potential of having two different desktop PCs on the desk of each call center employee. Instead of correspondingly increasing IT support headcount to manage the single, larger call center and call center infrastructure, management believes they can reduce the required time to support call center operations by 40% if they employ virtual desktop technology.
An initial assessment has identified the need for a centralized storage solution that could support 500 virtual desktops running a variety of applications that can scale quickly to accommodate an expected increase in call center staff. The customer is already an HP Blade System customer using HP Virtual Connect Flex-10.
Some of the additional business criteria identified in customer planning interviews includes:
Use client virtualization for the desktops.
Achieve the highest possible density and performance for the virtual desktops,but
keep the virtual desktop storage traffic off the network due to a current, existing
limitation of only 1GbE.
Do not use standalone, network-attached storage.
Limit the impact of additional rack space.
Minimize the risk of additional help-desk tickets.
Present multiple solutions, prioritized with a recommendation.
Refer to the scenario.
How should you prepare your presentation to convince the customer that operational expenditures are reduced?

A) Mitigate risk by proposing an HP Converged Infrastructure solution.
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B) Emphasize repurposing the existing HP BladeSystem in the new solution design.
C) Point out reclaimed annual productivity time through client virtualization.
D) Focus on shared storage usage and availability of the proposed solution.

2. Which HP 3PAR InForm Operating System feature allows you to create point-in-time clones with independent service-level parameters?

A) Virtual Copy
B) Smart Copy
C) Full Copy
D) Remote Copy

3. The IT director for a packaged foods corporation is soliciting design concepts from vendors for a new call center infrastructure. The IT director's objectives are to use up to 16 state-ofthe-art virtualized blade servers and easy-to-implement Fibre Channel storage.
Backup architecture is already provided by the IT director's team. After reviewing the customer needs, you begin to develop asolution. You show the IT director an illustration of the design. (Refer to the exhibit.)

Which benefit of the Flat SAN feature matches the customer needs?

A) Scale with the pay-as-you-grow model and pay for only what is currently needed
B) Manage through a single pane of glass with Virtual Connect Manager Web-based and Command Line Interfaces
C) Use Virtual Connect Flex-10 to further improve interconnect efficiency
D) Simplify fabric management by connecting HP Virtual Connect FlexFabric Fibre Channel directly to HP 3PAR StoreServ Fibre Channel storage.

4. The CTO for a healthcare IT company just returned from HP Discover. They would like a presentation about the HP StoreServ family of arrays. The company has one data center with servers and storage. Government regulations require the company to have one copy of patient data in the data center and two additional copies.
The company utilizes Amazon Storage Services to retain the two additional copies due to their data center limitations. The current array also failed to recover from a controller failure three months ago. Which HP value proposition will increase data availability and efficiency for the customer?

A) HP Peer Motion
B) HP Autonomic storage provisioning and data tiering
C) HP Remote Copy software
D) HP 3PAR Mesh-Active clustering and persistent cache

5. A client asks you to demonstrate the capabilities of an HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000 Storage array. Which tool should you use?

A) Command View Simulator.
B) SAN Network Advisor.
C) SAN Connection Manager.
D) InForm Management Console.

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