C1000-020 Online Practice Questions and Answers

How does IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management simplify copy data management?

A. By enabling automation and orchestration of snapshots

B. By creating daily backups on tape

C. By activating snapshot features in each storage system

D. By creating user-profiles to automate copy processes

In a customer briefing for IBM Flash System 900, the ability to reduce storage capacity using compression is presented as an option to lower hardware costs.

How should this capability be described?

A. It is a compression and deduplication feature.

B. It is a standard algorithm for all IBM disk and tape devices.

C. It is a licensed function.

D. It is primary storage data reduction by using a purpose-built technology.

A current IBM Spectrum Scale customer is concerned with the financial impact of a new regulatory requirement that drastically increases the volume and duration of data retention in the existing implementation.

Which additional IBM solution should the sales specialist discuss to pair with IBM Spectrum Scale?

A. IBM Spectrum Archive

B. IBM Spectrum NAS

C. IBM Spectrum Control

D. IBM InfoSphere DataStage

What is a key difference on the warranty between IBM FlashSystem and many of its competitors?

A. IBM replaces the flash modules if the IOPS are within IBM specification.

B. IBM provides full coverage for flash modules under a maintenance contract.

C. IBM provides on-site coverage for flash modules replacement.

D. IBM provides coverage for flash modules for five years.

A customer is spending considerable effort managing its mixed-vendor storage environment. Storage issues include lack of data migration, inability to analyze storage environment or mitigate hot spots and bottlenecks, and no consistent data protection capabilities.

Which IBM storage solution should the sale specialist recommend to enhance the existing environment?

A. IBM Spectrum Virtualize

B. IBM Spectrum Accelerate

C. IBM Virtual Storage Center

D. IBM Spectrum Control

Which product should a sales specialist recommend for a customer who needs to monitor the historical performance of their Oracle database running on a IBM Storwize V7000?

A. IBM Virtual Storage Center

B. IBM Spectrum Connect

C. IBM Spectrum Protect

D. IBM Spectrum Control Base Edition

A customer wants to have a disk storage system that provides recommendations on capacity growth that will optimize performance.

Which solution should the sales specialist recommend?

A. ESS with intra-tier rebalancing

B. IBM TS4500 with Disk Optimizer

C. IBM DCS3860 with Capacity Magic

D. IBM Storwize V7000 with IBM Storage Insights Pro

A customer needs to create clones of a production database environment to refresh its test and development environments. The production database contains sensitive data, and automated data masking is required.

Which solution should the sales specialist recommend?

A. IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management

B. IBM Spectrum Virtualize

C. IBM Spectrum Control

D. IBM Spectrum Project Snapshot

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

A. Hyperswap

B. rPerf

C. RTO

D. TCA

Which resource includes information to help move IBM storage opportunities forward?

A. IBM SSIC

B. Deal Accelerator Kit

C. IBM Announcement Letters

D. Know Your IBM