C4090-454 Online Practice Questions and Answers

A customer wants to encrypt data written to tape drives. A competitor offers an encryption solution that encrypts the data before sending to the tape drives for compression. IBM wants to offer IBM TS1140 tape drives using the built-in encryption feature. Which competitive advantage does the IBM solution provide?

A. The TS1140 offers the most secure encryption method available on the market

B. The TS1140 encrypts and compresses data at the same time for best throughput

C. The TS1140 encrypts data before compressing in order to obtain best performance

D. The TS1140 compresses data before encrypting in order to obtain the best compression ratio

A customer has a TS3500 Tape Library with TS1140 Tape Drives, but does not have the High Availability' feature. If the accessory fails, which activity must be performed to resume operations?

A. Contact IBM support

B. Re-initialize the Library Manager

C. Cycle between Pause and Auto mode

D. Perform a re-inventory of the cartridges in the library

A newly installed TS7720 Virtualization Engine has recently been integrated into a three-way grid. The logical volumes created in the other two systems are not properly being replicated to the new system. All local IBM and customer support resources have been exhausted in trying to determine the cause with no resolution in sight. What should be the next step to try to resolve the issue via IBM?

A. Contact local PSR to escalate

B. Contact the local SSR to escalate

C. Contact the sales representative to escalate

D. Contact the local software provider to escalate

What is a key characteristic of a disaster recovery (DR) solution compared to a high availability (HA) solution?

A. DR always requires human intervention while HA always is automated

B. DR means doubling all equipment in 2 separate sites while HA means doubling all equipment in a single site

C. DR only protects from natural disasters (fire, flooding, earthquakes etc) while HA only protects from IT equipment outage

D. DR protects from outage of a complete site while HA protects from outage of one or several individual elements in the IT infrastructure

A customer has replaced an old virtual tape subsystem with a new TS7740 and would like to compare the batch run times before and after the change. What tool is available in IBM Tape tools to do this?

A. VEHSTATS

B. IOSTATS

C. TAPEWISE

D. Batch Magic

In a TS7700 R2.x system, how many logical paths are provided by the minimum FICON adapter configuration?

A. 256

B. 512

C. 1024

D. 2048

A customer has TS1120 tape drives used with an inventory of 200 JA cartridges and 200 JB cartridges, all currently written by the TS112O drives at the highest density format. The customer plans to install TS1140 drives and move the data to new JO cartridges. How many new JC cartridges are required? Assume all cartridges are full to capacity, and round up the answer to the nearest cartridge if required.

A. 50

B. 60

C. 75

D. 82

Which two are valid grid adapter configurations in a TS7700? (Select two)

A. Two 1 Gb adapters

B. One 10 Gb adapter

C. Two l0Gbadapters

D. Four 10 Gb adapters

E. One 1 Gb adapters and one 10 Gb adapters

What is the best location for a customer to check for any maintenance required for z/OS when installing a TS7700?

A. Fix Central

B. Bulk Volume Information Retrieval

C. System Storage Interoperation Center

D. Preventative Service Planning buckets

A customer wants to move a set of LPAR workloads from a TS7740 four-way grid in Location A to a new TS7740 three- way grid in Location B. The move must be staged for operational reasons. The customer has successfully moved the first LPAP's workload and established the new grid in Location B. What mechanism would be required to move the remaining workloads?

A. copy export

B. grid replication

C. copy export merge

D. TDME to copy the tape volumes