HP Advanced Selling HP Helion Cloud Solutions and Services Sample Questions:
1. You are attempting to interest a customer in the CloudSystem PAA bundle. What is an appropriate qualifying question?
A) What role does unstructured data play in your business processes and applications?
B) How much time do you spend provisioning middleware and databases? Would you prefer an automated solution?
C) In the next three years, do you anticipate supporting traditional apps, cloud-native apps, or a mix?
D) Do you want an end-to-end solution that delivers your entire cloud solution in one rack?
2. Many customers are concerned about vendor lock-in. What is a key competitive advantage of HP CloudSystem solutions for these customers?
A) It features optimized solutions that integrate software and hardware.
B) It is built on open source technologies and supports customer choices.
C) It integrates Cloud Foundry and OpenStack technologies.
D) It offers Cloud Maps that prevent vendor lock-in.
3. Which statement correctly describes HP Helion CloudSystem on ConvergedSystem 700x?
A) It supports Citrix XenServer and Red Hat KVM.
B) It supports Microsoft Hyper-V only.
C) It supports Microsoft Hyper-V only, but can also support VMware with additional licensing.
D) It supports a variety of hypervisors, including VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Red Hat KVM.
4. As you qualify an HP Helion customer, you ask how the company plans to use cloud and what types of applications they plan to support.
How can this information help you?
A) It can help you qualify customers for the correct HP Helion solution. Customers are qualified for different solutions based on whether they need to support traditional apps, cloud-native apps, or both.
B) It can help you direct your discussion with the CEO. You should be prepared to discuss detailed application and workload requirements with the CEO.
C) It can help you avoid certain customers. Customers who are interested in certain use cases, such as disaster recovery and cloud services, are not qualified for HP Helion solutions.
D) It can help you avoid certain customers. Customers who plan to use a mixture of private, managed, and public cloud solutions are not good candidates for HP Helion solutions.
5. Which characteristic qualifies a customer for HP Helion OpenStack and HP Helion Development Platform solution, as opposed to an HP Helion CloudSystem solution?
A) The customer's primary goal is to find a platform to develop cloud-native applications.
B) The customer wants to speed the deployment of traditional applications for business groups.
C) The customer has a virtualized data center with traditional apps and needs to automate this data center.
D) The customer is skeptical of open source solutions and prefers vendor-developed ones.
Solutions:
Question # 1 Answer: A | Question # 2 Answer: A | Question # 3 Answer: D | Question # 4 Answer: A | Question # 5 Answer: B |