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Questions 1. A customer is considering the purchase of an XIV system and

wants the standard warranty.
What is the standard hardware warranty for this purchase?
A. One year warranty with 9x5 same business day.
B. Five year warranty with 24x7 response (dependent upon machine type).
C. Two year warranty with 9x5 next business day response.
D. One or three year warranty with 24x7 response (dependent upon machine
type).

Questions 2. A customer is having difficulty with managing the heterogeneous

storage infrastructure and tracking the performance of SAN-attached devices.
Which IBM product will resolve the customer's immediate concern?
A. IBM Spectrum Virtualize
B. IBM Spectrum Control
C. IBM Director
D. Fabric Manager
Questions 3. A customer has a single frame TS3500 with a L23 frame. There
are five TS1150 drives and 100 tapes in this frame. The customer wants to add
five LTO-6 drives to this TS3500.
What is the most cost effective solution for this customer?
A. Add LTO-6 drives to a new D53 frame and add LTO media to the L23 frame.
B. Add LTO-6 drives to the existing L23 frame and add the LTO media to a D53
frame.
C. Add a D53 frame with LTO-6 drives and add the LTO media to a D53 frame.

D. Add a L53 frame with LTO-6 drives and add the LTO media to a L53 frame.
Questions 4. A customer wants a new tape library. The customer currently
uses LTO-4 tapes but has some older archive tapes on LTO-3.
What is the highest level tape drive the customer can install and still read the
older archive tapes and write to current tapes?
A. LTO-5
B. LTO-6
C. LTO-4
D. LTO-3

Questions 5. A customer has asked about the RAID architecture of IBM

Spectrum Scale. Which two advantages of declustered RAID should you
highlight to the customer? (Choose two.)
A. Faster rebuild of data on failed drives
B. Uses a subset of drives to rebuild data
C. Load on drives is increased during array rebuild
D. Dedicated spare drives
E. More predictable performance
Questions 6. Which feature of the XIV system is a technical advantage over
competitive storage arrays?
A. SSD adaptive read caching
B. Deduplication
C. Encryption at any time
D. Software bundled with IBM Spectrum Control
Questions 7. A customer has asked an IBM technical specialist about growth in
I/O on its existing system. The specialist generated the following table:
Which tool was used to produce this table?
A. ProtecTIER Planner
B. Batch Magic
C. Disk Magic
D. Storage Tier Advisor Tool
Questions 8. Which upgrade is possible for a customer with IBM FlashSystem
840?
A. Systems purchased with eight 2 TB flash modules can be expanded to twelve
4 TB flash modules.
B. Systems purchased with eight 4 TB flash modules can be expanded to twelve
2 TB flash modules.
C. Systems purchased with eight 4 TB flash modules can be expanded to twelve
1 TB flash modules.
D. Systems purchased with eight 2 TB flash modules can be expanded to
twelve 2 TB flash modules.
Answer: B
Explanation:
Questions 9. Which drive type in the DS8870 should be selected for data that
has been identified as inactive?
A. Enterprise SAS

B. Flash
C. Nearline SAS
D. DRAM

Questions 10. During a Technical Delivery and Assessment (TDA) for a

DS8870, the solution architect was directed to use Disk Magic to size the
solution.
What will Disk Magic provide in this situation?
A. Modeling of a specific storage configuration
B. Determine effective capacity of specific storage configuration
C. Simulation of performance under varying conditions
D. Resolution(s) to a performance problem

Questions 11. A customer is considering the Cisco MDS 9148 and the IBM
SAN48B-5 SAN switches.
What are two key advantages for the IBM SAN48B-5 switch? (Choose two.)
A. 10Gbps port support
B. 1U of rack space
C. 1Gbps port support
D. Pay as you grow from 16 to 48 ports
E. 16Gbps port support
Questions 12. A customer is looking to improve performance in its storage
environment. The customer is considering adding SSD drives or a FlashSystem
product to the environment.
Which IBM tool will help the customer understand the benefit in performance
of these different technologies?
A. Capacity Magic
B. Disk Magic
C. Storage Tier Advisor Tool
D. TPC
Questions 13. A customer has installed IBM Spectrum Control and its
components.
Which IBM software product provides the core capabilities to manage the
underlying hardware?
A. OpenStack

B. Tivoli Flashcopy Manager

C. SmartCloud Orchestrator
D. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center
Questions 14. A manager is evaluating XIV as a new storage solution because
of an extensive utilization of snapshots in the production environment. The
storage administration team is a mobile workforce and the manager is
concerned about running out of snapshot capacity before an administrator can
respond.
How can the solution architect respond to the manager's concern?
A. Demonstrate the ability of the XIV to automatically convert LUNs to
thin-provisioned within a storage pool to free up space for snapshots.
B. Show how the storage administrator can remotely increase the size of the
available snapshot space in a pool by using the mobile dashboard.
C. Provide details on IBM Custom Technical Support, which automatically
includes remote administration of an XIV system.
D. Explain how custom alerting can be configured in the GUI and push
notifications can be sent from IBM support to an Apple or Google service.
* Questions 15. Which solution meets a customer's requirements for 100,000
IOPS and 30TB of raw capacity?
A. XIV with 2TB drives base without any features
B. SONAS with SATA drives
C. FlashSystem 840
D. DS8870 with ranks of 1.2TB drives
Answer: D
Explanation:
Questions 16. Which IBM storage offering enables the analytics engine with
MicroLatency to more rapidly process data for insight?
A. IBM Spectrum Scale
B. Flexible Storage
C. Real-time Compression
D. IBM FlashSystem

Questions 17. Which IBM backup product should you propose to a customer
who wants to meet the disk-based business continuity needs of the enterprise
data center?
A. IBM Spectrum Archive

B. IBM Spectrum Control

C. IBM Spectrum Protect
D. IBM Spectrum Accelerate
Questions 18. How is RTO defined?
A. The time it takes to restore the backup tapes at a remote site.
B. The amount of data loss that's deemed acceptable, defined by
application, in the event of a disaster-failover scenario.
C. The amount of times it takes, from initial disaster declaration, to having
critical business processes available to users.
D. The time it takes to complete the nighty backup process.

Questions 19. How many ports from a full 15 module XIV Storage System are
recommended initially to connect to an IBM Spectrum Virtualize Controller?
A. 12
B. 8
C. 16
D. 24
Questions 20. What is the minimum number of redundant key servers needed
by multiple DS8870s when using disk encryption?
A. 6
B. 1
C. 4
D. 2
Questions 21. What is the most common initial benefit to data center
economics of implementing an IBM FlashSystem?
A. More servers
B. More disk drives
C. More power consumption
D. More performance
Questions 22. What should a storage specialist do to verify that a
heterogeneous solution is supported by IBM?
A. Verify the solution using IBM Red Books
B. Check Systems Storage Interoperation Center
C. Consult the installation guide

D. Perform a proof-of-concept
Questions 23. A customer has experienced high drive failure and loss of data in
its environment and is considering XIV to replace the existing storage.
Which XIV benefit should the technical specialist highlight to address this
customer's concerns?
A. IBM Advanced System Placement program
B. Exception rebuild speed
C. IBM Hyper-Scale
D. Distributed cache
Questions 24. Which data type will have the best compression ration with Realtime Compression?
A. Databases
B. File and print
C. JPEG images
D. Encrypted data
Questions 25. Which XIV option addresses rapid data growth and financial
concerns?
A. Advanced System Placement
B. IBM Global Financing
C. Growth on Demand
D. Distributed Data
Questions 26. What is needed to upgrade a TS7620 ProtecTIER Appliance from
5.4TB to 11TB physical capacity?
A. The upgrade is a license key only.
B. Power off the TS7620, add new drives, power on and assign capacity.
C. Add disk drives to the TS7620 without powering off; the system will
assign capacity automatically.
D. There is no upgrade from 5.4TB to 11TB within one system.
Questions 27. A customer has requested an IBM Spectrum Virtualize solution
with capability to make it easy for users to create relevant and meaningful
custom reports.
What should the solution architect propose to satisfy this requirement?
A. Native IBM Spectrum Virtualize performance tool(s)
B. Excel macros linked to storage API
C. Svcmon with daily data collection

D. IBM Spectrum Control

Questions 28. A customer has a single frame TS3500 tape library with 6 3592-E07 drives. A new open systems server was recently purchased and,
because of budget constraints, the customer is considering less expensive LTO6 drives while protecting investment in existing tape cartridges.
What is the most economical way to achieve this goal?
A. Replace 3592 drives with LTO-6 drives in the existing frame as is.
B. Add 6 LTO-6 drives in the existing frame.
C. Replace the frame and add LTO-6 drives.
D. Add 6 LTO-6 drives in a new frame.
Questions 29. A customer has several legacy storage arrays containing many
hot spare disks. The customer has heard that the IBM XIV does not have any
hot spares.
What should the technical specialist explain to the customer about the way the
IBM XIV works?
A. The IBM XIV has four hot spares per module to allow for multiple hot spare
failures at one time.
B. Legacy storage arrays with hot spares take hours to rebuild extending the
failure window.
C. The IBM XIV has two hot spare drives per module to handle failures.
D. Each drive has spare capacity and spreads the data across the spare
capacity of each drive.
Questions 30. A customer currently owns a Scalar LTO-5 SAS single drive
autoloader. Planned future growth requires a tape library with capacity of four
LTO-6drives and 40 data cartridges.
Which IBM product meets the requirement while minimizing impact on the
budget?
A. TS2900
B. TS3200
C. TS3310
D. TS3100
Questions 31. A customer's current storage environment includes both a 12
module XIV Gen3 and a DS5300 with 12 expansion drawers. The customer
wants to migrate all workload from the DS5300 to the XIV.
Which two actions should the solution architect perform first? (Choose two.)
A. Collect DS5300 and XIV performance data and model the cumulative

workload.
B. Migrate the DS5300 workload to the XIV using XIV migration
capability.
C. Gather and analyze capacity requirements and usage using the DS5300 and
GUI.
D. Collect DS5300 performance data and model the workload on a 12 module
XIV.
E. Migrate the DS5300 to the XIV using an IBM SAN Volume Controller
with IBM Spectrum Virtualize software.
Questions 32. A customer wants to order a full rack XIV system. The customer
is on the 5th floor of the building and the elevator cannot handle the weight of
a fully loaded XIV.
What is needed to deliver the system to the customer?
A. Place the order with only 6 modules then perform a MES upgrade.
B. Place the order, then have the installer take apart and reassemble the XIV.
C. Place the order with just 1 TB drives.
D. Place the order with height and weight reduction delivery.
Questions 33. A customer needs to implement Easy Tier in its data center for
better and faster performance.
Which IBM product should the technical specialist propose?
A. SONAS
B. XIV
C. DS8870
D. ProtecTIER TS7650G
Questions 34. A solution architect has determined the amount of spindles
needed to satisfy performance and RAID level requirements for a DS8870.
Which tool provides information on the number of spare drives included in the
system?
A. eConfig
B. Disk Magic
C. Capacity Magic
D. STAT
Questions 35. A customer has a VMware environment and is limited in the
number of hosts that can access a given LUN. This is causing a problem for the
storage administrator. The customer wants to overcome this issue when

purchasing the next storage device.

Which function within the storage hardware does this customer require?
A. vStorage APIs for Storage Awareness
B. Pluggable Storage Architecture
C. Hardware Assisted Locking
D. Hardware Accelerated Move
Questions 36. Which resource informs a storage specialist if a TDA is
mandatory or optional?
A. IBM Pre-sale TDA Checklist
B. Systems Assurance Product Review Guide
C. TDA Discussion Guide
D. IBM Trigger Criteria / Designated Product List
Questions 37. A customer has existing fiber attached storage that has reached
the end of life. The customer wants a scalable solution that is easy to manage
and integrates with VMware. The customer has a preference for an XIV based
solution, but is concerned about migrating the existing data and boot volumes.
Which explanation best addresses the customer's concern?
A. XIV has a built in capability to copy the existing data.
B. XIV has both a vCenter and VAAI plug in.
C. An IBM Spectrum Control must be included so that the existing storage
can be virtualized and moved to the XIV.
D. Thin provisioning on the XIV will reduce the necessary capacity of the XIV.
Questions 38. A customer is considering a storage consolidation project.
Which tool should you use to help the customer understand that the IBM
solution will be more cost-effective than the competitors?
A. IBM Systems Consolidation Evaluation Tool
B. IBM System Storage Interoperation Center
C. IBM ATS Server Consolidation Monitor
D. IBM CompleteCenter
Questions 39. A customer is interested in controlling the rapid growth of its
database environment while providing the highest performance and lowest
latency.
Which solution satisfies the customer's requirements and provides the best
Total Cost of Ownership?
A. IBM FlashSystem 840
B. DS8870

C. XIV Gen3 with SSD

D. IBM FlashSystem V840
Questions 40. Which solution provides virtualization, consolidation, and
automation for a cloud deployment?
A. IBM SmartCloudVirual Storage Center
B. FlashSystem 840
C. Storwize V3700
D. XIV Gen3 with IBM Spectrum Protect
Questions 41. Which type of business continuity does a customer provide who
makes nightly flash copies at the primary data center?
A. Disaster Recovery
B. Continuous data protection
C. Backup Strategy
D. Global Mirror
Questions 42. A customer has an existing mainframe environment with a
DS8870 attached. This frame is only partially populated. The customer is
attaching existing IBM POWER servers that require a three- tier storage
solution including SSDs. Electrical power is not readily available. Price is also a
key criterion in making the decision.
Which addition to the existing system should be proposed to this customer?
A. Add a Storwize V7000 in a new rack.
B. Add IBM SAN Volume Controller along with IBM FlashSystem and Storwize
V7000.
C. Add disks to the DS8870.
D. Add IBM Spectrum Scale in front of the DS8870 along with additional disks
in the DS8870.
Answer: C
Explanation:
Questions 43. Which storage solution should you propose to a customer with a
large VMware environment and one IBM System z?
A. XIV
B. SONAS
C. DS88870
D. Storwize V7000 Unified
Answer: D
Explanation:

Questions 44. A customer wants to implement its database with IBM Cloud
Manager and OpenStack.
Which benefit will the customer realize?
A. Three-site mirroring
B. Exceptional performance for new work loads
C. Runs on Power Linux
D. Reduce capital expenditures and operational expenses
Questions 45. Which IBM Storage System can be directly attached to an IBM
partition on a POWER System?
A. IBM XIV
B. IBM FlashSystem 820
C. IBM FlashSystem 840
D. IBM DS8870
Questions 46. A customer's data center was constructed 15 years ago. Since
then its growth has exceeded expectations and necessitated the deployment of
a large number of servers, storage subsystems, and switches. The energy
company is currently providing the maximum amount of electricity to the data
center.
What should the IBM Technical Specialist do to enable the customer's
continued ability to expand its computer and storage growth?
A. Perform a consolidation study in order to reduce the energy used by
the equipment in the data center.
B. Determine how energy allocated to IT resources is used to produce business
results.
C. Help to relocate the existing equipment to a larger data center with
increased capacity from the electric company.
D. Replace the existing equipment with Energy Star compliant equipment to
reduce energy requirements.
Questions 47. Which IBM storage offering scales linearly without hot-spots and
delivers insights from analytics faster with tuning-free data distribution?
A. IBM FlashSystem
B. DS8870
C. LTFS
D. XIV

*Questions 48. Which feature in a DS8870 allows a customer to provide access

to production data in its training environment without impacting the integrity
of the production data?
A. Thin provisioning
B. IBM FlashCopy
C. Real-time Compression
D. IBM Easy Tier
Answer: C
Explanation:
Questions 49. Which XIV Gen3 replication feature provides the ability for a
remote target volume to be initialized without requiring the concepts of the
source volume to be re-replicated over an inter- site link?
A. Synchronous Replication
B. Asynchronous Replication
C. Offline Initialization
D. Quick Initialization
Questions 50. Which product enables a single point-of-control for multiple
storage resources to help support improved business application availability
and greater resource utilization?
A. DS8870
B. IBM SAN Volume Controller built with IBM Spectrum Virtualize software
C. XIV Gen3
D. Storwize V3700
Questions 51. Which solution offers compression?
A. DS8870
B. FlashSystem V840
C. XIV
D. FlashSystem 840
Questions 52. A customer needs an enterprise storage system with grid
architecture to make storage management easier.
Which storage system meets the customer's requirements?
A. XIV System
B. DS8870
C. FlashSystem 840
D. N series
Questions 53. A customer would like to use Analytics to drive business growth,

reduce fraud, and increase efficiency. However, budgets are limited and the
customer would like to use IBM Spectrum Scale to save money with the current
storage infrastructure.
Which two IBM Spectrum Scale characteristics are applicable? (Choose two.)
A. Increase storage utilization to defer future storage purchases.
B. Increase physical storage capacity to handle Analytics.
C. Reduce costs by using only high capacity drives.
D. Reduce operational efficiency to increase performance.
E. Identify the data that a company can dispose of.
Questions 54. What is the minimum role level needed to download support log
files to troubleshoot the IBM SAN Volume Controller?
A. Security Administrator
B. Monitor
C. Service
D. Copy Operator
Questions 55. What is the next step for a failed installation of an IBM TS4500
where there have been I/O errors that prevent placing the library into
production even after replacement of multiple parts and verification of
configuration definitions?
A. Facilitate a meeting with IBM and customer executives to discuss
available options to resolve the situation.
B. Escalate the issue through the compliant process (critsit) and explain this
process and next steps to the customer.
C. Conduct a workshop with customer system administrators and IBM
technical field support representatives to jointly resolve the problem.
D. Perform an in-depth problem analysis and follow up with appropriate
actions to resolve the issue.
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Questions 1. Which function controls host access to a volume in a switched

fabric?
A. LUN masking
B. Port masking
C. Private loops

D. Buffer to buffer credits

Answer: B
Explanation:
Questions 2. A customer has just learned that a brand new TS7650G
ProtecTIER installation will not run as a virtual tape library with Symantec's
NetBackup OST feature concurrently.
When should this implementation situation have been discovered?
A. The Pre-Sales site survey
B. The Pre-Install Technical and Delivery Assessment
C. The Solution Communication Vehicle (PTSCV) spreadsheet
D. The pre-qualification task performed by the subject matter expert for the
disk arrays
Answer: B
Explanation:
Questions 3. A customer has a large non-IBM storage environment, EMO and
HDS, with a mixture of VMware, Linux, Unisys mainframe and Windows,
including Windows 2003, based hosts. The customer is very interested in XIV
storage and the technical specialist has been asked to provide an IBM XIV
storage solution with a migration plan to replace his current storage
environment.
What is the biggest obstacle to an all IBM solution?
A. VMware is not supported on XIV
B. Windows 2003 is not supported on XIV
C. HDS storage cannot be migrated to XIV
D. Unisys mainframe is not supported on XIV
Answer: C
Explanation:
Questions 4. What is the maximum number of drives supported in a SONAS
single array?
A. 2048
B. 4096
C. 7200
D. 10000
Answer: C
Explanation:
Questions 5. A customer has a large repository of geophysical data (>500 TBs

and growing). This data is primarily in larger single- file datasets. This
customer would like to reduce their overall cost, floor space, and power
consumption. The customer has also communicated that the data must be
accessible as a file system and provide reasonable access times.
Which technology best meets these customer needs?
A. SONASu5ingXIV
B. TS3SOO using LTFS
C. SAN Volume Controller with SSD
D. ProtecTIER and Tivoli Storage Manager
Answer: D
Explanation:
Questions 6. What are the main logical components in the DS8000?
A. Volumes, extents, and file systems
B. Volumes, extent pools, and arrays
C. Virtual disk, managed disk, and LUNs
D. Arrays, managed disk groups, and managed disks
Answer: B
Explanation:
Questions 7. A customer's OPEX and CAPEX costs associated with their
current storage estate are growing rapidly. Which tool shows the financial
benefits of moving to an IBM storage estate?
A. TCOnow!
B. eConfig
C. Disk Magic
D. Capacity Magic
Answer: A
Explanation:
Questions 8. How many cache controllers does a fully-loaded IBM
Virtualization Engine TS7720 with a base frame and expansion frame contain?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 10
Answer: A
Explanation:
Questions 9. What happens when XIV with SSD caching installed suffers an

SSD failure?
A. SSD caching is disabled on all modules.
B. The complete module with the failed SSD cache is taken off-line.
C. SSD caching continues, but is unbalanced as one module has no SSD
cache.
D. The degraded module reads from its DRAM cache and disk, and all small
read misses are redirected to the secondaries.
Answer: B
Explanation:
Questions 10. Which statement is true about Capacity Magic outputs?
A. They are input directly into eConfig.
B. They are used as an input into Disk Magic.
C. They are used to provide the number and size of drives.
D. They are used to determine the overall performance of a solution.
Answer: D
Explanation:
Questions 11. A Business Partner has completed the sale of an XIV Gen3.
What is the most important step to ensure customer satisfaction?
A. Discuss delivery requirements with the customer
B. Conduct a pre-install Technical Delivery Assessment
C. Ensure the customer has prepared all necessary network cabling
D. Ask the customer if they have power installed for the new system
Answer: A
Explanation:
Questions 12. A customer has asked that IBM propose a solution to replace a
data warehouse that currently resides on two EMO DMX systems. Several staff
retired recently, and there is one remaining junior storage administrator. The
current solution has approximately 200 usable TB of storage and sees
maximum throughput at just under 600 MB/sec and 30,000 IOPS.
Which solution should be proposed?
A. A D58700 with 3 TB drives
B. A Storwize V7000 with 3 TB drives
C. SONAS configuration with 3 TB Drives
D. A full frame XIV Gen3 with 3 TB drives
Answer: A
Explanation:

Questions 13. What is the function of a T33501J Service Bay?

A. Provides access to tape drives
B. Provides access to the second tape robot
C. Provides access to tape drive cleaning tapes
D. Provides storage for a third replacement robot
Answer: A
Explanation:
Questions 14. Which XIV Gen3 feature can be included to prevent damage in a
catastrophe?
A. Security option
B. Ruggedized option
C. Anti-flooding option
D. Anti-high frequencies option
Answer: B
Explanation:
Questions 15. For a D38800, a second redundant Hardware Management
Console (HMC) is recommended in which of the following scenarios?
A. Adding more than two expansion bays
B. Capture historic performance data using the native tools
C. Implement an environment that uses TKLM encryption management
D. Emergency power off the DS88FJO frame after main power input failure
Answer: C
Explanation:
Questions 16. A customer is planning the installation of a new SAN Volume
Controller cluster in their S Gbps Brocade environment. They have asked the
technical specialist for potential configuration oversights.
What should the technical specialist recommend to the customer?
A. Ensure the principal and subordinates are segmented
B. Utilize hard zoning for hosts to access the SAN Volume Controller
C. Set the fill word mode to 3 for the SAN Volume Controller connections
D. Open the SAN Volume Controller management IP address for routine
security scanning
Answer: B
Explanation:
Questions 17. A customer has a SONAS solution and is using Tivoli Storage
Manager HSM. The customer wants to integrate SONAS with HSM to migrate

low-use data to a tape-based storage platform.

Which action is needed for this integration project?
A. install the client side software on the SONAS
B. create a TSM DB Backup to send off-site on tape media
C. validate the readability of the data against the metadata
D. obtain the client licenses based on the number of SONAS interface nodes
Answer: C
Explanation:
Questions 18. A customer with Brocade-based fabrics is looking for a quick
and simple cost-effective method to gather information about the SAN
environment. The informational items desired include total number of active
ports, unused ports by switch, ISL oversubscription ratios, and a Visio
diagram.
What should the technical specialist suggest to the customer?
A. Brocade SAN Health
B. IBM Directorv6.3.1
C. Tivoli Storage Manager
D. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Select
Answer: A
Explanation:
Questions 19. Which of the following is a new capability of LTES Library
Edition V2.1 .1 with the IBM TS3500 Tape Library?
A. LTO-5 and IBM enterprise tape drives are supported.
B. CIFS and NFS fileshares can be easily migrated to tape.
C. Archival data can be migrated from file servers directly to tape.
D. Tivoli Storage Manager server provides host mount points for LTFS.
Answer: A
Explanation:
Questions 20. A D38800 has Easy Tier enabled and Easy Tier data collection is
set to AutoMode.
Which performance statistics are collected?
A. All multi-tier volumes
B. Homogeneous drive volumes
C. Volumes with ETMonitor set to automode
D. Easy Tier managed volumes with lOPmode set to managed
Answer: C
Explanation:

Questions 21. Referring to the exhibit, what does standard black text identify
when reviewing Solution Assurance Trigger Criteria for a Technical and Delivery
Assessment (TDA)?

A. A TDA is mandatory
B. A TDA is not required
C. A TDA is highly recommended
D. A TDA is applicable only to upgrades
Answer: C
Explanation:
Questions 22. Disk Magic can be used to generate which report for an XIV
Gen3?
A. Effect of SSD usage
B. Host protocol overhead
C. Drive type recommendations
D. Block workload useable capacity
Answer: A
Explanation:
Questions 23. What strategic tool minimizes low-confidence results while
eliminating unrealistic assumptions about a workload proposed for a solution?
A. Flash DA
B. Disk Magic
C. Performance Monitor
D. Data Placement Advisor
Answer: C
Explanation:

Questions 24. Which statement is true about the Easy Tier functionality that is
available on the DSS000, SAN Volume Controller, and Storwize V7000 storage
product families?
A. Easy Tier is automatically supplied with the D58700/D58800 P6.3.
B. Easy Tier D58700/DS8800 P6.3 has two modes of operation: automatic and
manual.
C. The Easy Tier functionality is identical on the D58700/DS8800 P6.3 and
SAN Volume Controller/Storwize V7000 6.4 code.
D. When using copy service on the DS8000 Easy Tier optimization of data on
the primary system, it is reflected at the secondary.
Answer: B
Explanation:
Questions 25. A customer has an archiving requirement that is considered Big
Data. Every 8 hours an average of 4.5 Petabytes of data must be written to
tape. The customer currently is considering Oracle SL8500 to meet this
requirement.
Why would the IBM TS3500 be a better technical fit?
A. Only T33500 is capable of meeting the throughput requirements.
B. TS3500 has full support for ACSLS, allowing faster server throughput.
C. T33500 is capable of faster handoffs due to its greater number of tape
robots.
D. TS3500 can meet this throughput requirement without requiring native
compression.
Answer: D
Explanation:
Questions 26. A customer has just installed a ProtecTlER TS7620 SM2, and
has accessed the PT Manager for the first time. Where would the
implementation engineer fulfill Registration, E-mail Alerts, and Call Home
configuration setup?
A. File->Configuration
B. Node -> Configuration
C. System -> Configuration
D. System -> User Management
Answer: B
Explanation:
Questions 27. A customer has recently installed a SONAS system and now

wants to set up backups to the virtual tape library (VTL) using their existing
Symantec NetBackup data management application. The server running the
NetBackup application has 1 GE connectivity, while a different server with 10
GE connectivity is used as the NDMP tape server.
Which options offers the least impact on the customer's current
infrastructure?
A. Set up a remote SONAS NDMP configuration
B. Configure a three-way SONAS NDMP implementation
C. Connect the SONAS directly to the VTL's fibre channel ports
D. Install a dedicated 8 Gbps fiber channel switch for connectivity
Answer: A
Explanation:
Questions 28. A customer tells a technical specialist that EMO stated XIV has a
double drive failure problem because XIV has a 180 drive RAID group.
What is the best response to this competitive statement?
A. EMC has double drive failure issues as well.
B. EMC deploys different drive tapes and sizes making their reliability issues
much more complicated.
C. EMC uses RAID protection. The high load on drives during RAID rebuilds,
that cause dual drive failures, do not exist on XIV.
D. EMC employs wide striping across many RAID groups, so they have the
possibility of high data loss in the event of a dual drive failure too.
Answer: B
Explanation:
Questions 29. A customer with a DS8800 believes that additional host ports
need to be connected into the SAN environment. Which resource or application
would be used to determine whether the customer's suspicions are correct?
A. IBM Tivoli NetCool
B. Tivoli Storage Productivitj Center
C. Storage Manager Performance Monitor
D. D58999 Performance Monitoring and Tuning Redbook
Answer: B
Explanation:
Questions 30. A technical specialist is holding a general discussion with a
customer who has a large volume of block and file data. The customer tells the
specialist that their company's storage maintenance is coming up for renewal
and that they are facing pressure from within the company to adopt a Cloud

Strategy. The customer's main technical concern is to avoid downtime with

migration.
Which solution provides native support for this strategy?
A. XIV
B. DS8000
C. StorwizeV7000
D. Storwize V7000 Unified
Answer: C
Explanation:
Questions 31. How does the weight and height reduction delivery option change
the delivery configuration of a XIV Gen3?
A. Removes all of the modules from the rack and ships them separately
B. Removes the top four modules from the rack and ships them separately
C. Removes all of the modules and UPSes from the rack and ships them
separately
D. Removes the top four modules and UPSes from the rack and ships them
separately
Answer: C
Explanation:
Questions 32. A technical specialist is enhancing an existing EMC storage
environment with the IBM SAN Volume Controller. One of the primary
customer requirements is to reclaim space in the existing environment by using
real-time compression.
Which tool should the technical specialist use?
A. RMF Magic
B. Disk Magic
C. Capacity Magic
D. Comprestimator
Answer: D
Explanation:
Questions 33. A System z customer running z/OS Vi .11 is using a single
D58801J storage system with Easy Tier enabled. Storage performance for a
business critical application needs to improve to handle end-of-month and endof-quarter processing. The customer requires minimal disruption to
operations.
Which feature or action should the technical specialist recommend to the
customer to improve performance for this application?
A. Install a megapack of SSDs

B. Enable and configure I/O Priority Manager

C. Increase the installed cache of the D58800
D. Adjust the cache block size used by the D58800
Answer: B
Explanation:
Questions 34. A customer wants to add a fully populated BladeCenter chassis
to their existing core-edge SAN. They have suffered performance issues in the
past due to congestion and over-utilization of inter- switch links (ISL). The
customer has asked what is the best practice guideline concerning ISL
oversubscription ratio.
Which one of the following ratios does the technical specialist provide?
A. 1:1
B. 10:1
C. 20:1
D. 50:1
Answer: B
Explanation:
Questions 35. A D38800 logical volume is composed of a set of what?
A. Extents from one extent pool
B. Extents from both server groups
C. Extents from only one array site
D. Extents from a multiple array rank
Answer: A
Explanation:
Questions 36. What is one of the most important considerations for the
number of LUN5 required for optimum performance in an XIV Gen3 Storage
System environment?
A. XIV QOS settings
B. Application I/O threads
C. Host multi path configuration
D. SSD exclusion/inclusion list
Answer: C
Explanation:
Questions 37. What is the earliest model of tape drive format that is compatible
with TS1 140 tape drives?
A. 3590

B. TS1130
C. TS1120
D. 3592 J1A
Answer: D
Explanation:
Questions 38. A customer has two redundant fabrics with four switches per
fabric1 and each fabric has two VSAN5.
What is the minimum number of out-of-band connections required by Fabric
Manager to discover and manage the fabrics?
A. 2
B. 4
C. 8
D. 16
Answer: C
Explanation:
Questions 39. To effectively perform a comparative analysis, a customer needs
to compare the form, function, and features of IBM technology to equivalent
technology from EM
C.
Where can the technical specialist find this information?
A. TCOnow!
B. CompeteLine
C. Alinean tool
D. Storage Performance Council
Answer: B
Explanation:
Questions 40. In a SAN Volume Controller stretched cluster configuration, how
many dedicated Fibre Channel links are required for I/O Groups?
A. 0
B. 1
C. 2
D. 4
Answer: D
Explanation:
Questions 41. A customer is considering a ProtecTIER TS7650G solution with
IBM storage to be purchased at the same time. Which tool or resource should

the technical specialist utilize to determine the required amount of File Systems
for metadata and user data?
A. IBM Redbooks
B. Capacity Magic
C. IBM Tape Reporter tool
D. IBM Performance Planner tool
Answer: D
Explanation:
Questions 42. When running on a DS8000, which is the first version of Easy
Tier to allow thin Provisioning capabilities over remote replication (Metro Mirror,
Global Mirror, Global Copy, Metro/Global Mirror)?
A. 6.1
B. 6.2
C. 6.3
D. 6.4
Answer: C
Explanation:
Questions 43. Using the exhibit as a reference, the customer needs to
implement a DR/BC solution using a three site copy strategy to meet corporate
requirements with a recovery point objective of 5 seconds or less.
Which of the following solutions will meet the customer requirements?

A. 3-way TS7700 grid

B. XIV with asynchronous mirrors

C. DS8899 with Metro/Global Mirror

D. SAN Volume Controller with Storwize V7000 back-end storage and Global
Mirror
Answer: D
Explanation:
Questions 44. Easy Tier on a DS8800 in Automatic Mode performs its
operations at which level?
A. LUN
B. Rank
C. Extent
D. Array site
Answer: C
Explanation:
Questions 45. A customer is building a VMware infrastructure for several
hundred VM guests. Many of these guests run mission-critical applications
with large numbers of users.
Which feature of XIV Gen3 should be emphasized with this customer?
A. Ease of creating volumes with the GUI
B. Ability to create several thousand snapshots of volumes
C. Detailed performance history can be exported from the array
D. Data is spread over all the drives in the system, eliminating hot spots
Answer: D
Explanation:
Questions 46. A technical specialist is in a discussion with a customer
regarding changing the customer's storage environment from EMC to IBM. They
are describing the environment.
Which host environment causes the most design challenges?
A. Unisys mainframe
B. Windows boot from SAN
C. Microsoft Cluster Server
D. AIX including versions back to 4.3
Answer: A
Explanation:
Questions 47. A customer wants to implement a 3-site continuous copy
solution with three D38800 systems. A three-site Business Continuity (BC)
license and TotalStorage Productively Center for Replication (TPC-R) are already

installed.
Which action should be completed before using the TPC-R GUI to configure the
Metro/Global Mirror?
A. Select the action Start H1-'H2->H3
B. Configure the CIMON agent on the DSS800
C. Add copy sets to the Metro/Global Mirror session
D. Ensure paths exists between the 3 DS8800 systems
Answer: D
Explanation:
Questions 48. A customer is talking about the need for high security of data
and the compliance department is concerned about the possibility of third
parties recovering data that is on failed drives.
Which IBM storage solution should the technical specialist recommend to
overcome this problem?
A. XIV Gen3 V11.1
B. ProtecTlER V3.1
C. DS8LJOO Release 6.3
D. Storwize V7000 V6.4
Answer: B
Explanation:
Questions 49. The technical specialist is meeting with the CFO and is
discussing the need for a new storage solution to have virtualization.
Which benefit of storage virtualization should the technical specialist
emphasize to the customer?
A. Reduces TCO
B. Increases performance
C. Reduces number of servers
D. Increases number of disk drives
Answer: C
Explanation:
Questions 50. Using the exhibit as a reference, which product is being
accessed?

A. IBM XIV Gen3 Storage System

B. IBM SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center
C. IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller
D. IBM Tivoli Storage Productively Center V5.1
Answer: B
Explanation:
Questions 51. While discussing evaluation criteria for storage acquisition, a
customer uses the following phrases:
"acquisition cost," "software licenses," "staffing," and "ongoing maintenance
cost."
Which financial term best corresponds to the customer's discussion points?
A. TCO
B. RTO
C. NPV
D. IRR

Answer: A
Explanation:
Questions 52. HOTSPOT
The exhibit represents the heat map for a DS8800. Click on the volume that
would benefit most from Easy Tier.

A. 52-e-2.jpg
Answer: A
Explanation:
Questions 53. HOTSPOT
The exhibit represents the XIV Gen3 GUI. Click on the icon that shows the
"QOS Performance Class" option.

A. 53-e-2.jpg
Answer: A
Explanation:
Questions 54. Which enclosures are supported when attaching to an N7900
subsystem?

A. EXN4000 only
B. EXP5990andEXP5O6O
C. EXN1IJOOandEXN4000onIy
D. EXN1000,EXN2000and EXN4000
Answer: D
Explanation:
Questions 55. Which statement is true regarding real4ime compression in the
SAN Volume Controller and Storwize V7000 code release 64?
A. No additional license is required; it is part of the base product.
B. There is no limit to the number of volumes that can be compressed.
C. Creating the first compressed volume in an I/O group will instantly dedicate
CPU and memory resources.
D. Compression feature is available on all SAN Volume Controller models as
long as the correct code 64 is implemented.
Answer: C
Explanation:
Questions 56. A customer is searching for high-end NAS products in the
market looking for compression capability and is comparing N7950T to EMC
VNX.
Which key difference should the technical specialist highlight to the customer?
A. Only VNX deduplicates data.
B. N7950T compresses data inline.
C. N7950T needs extra space for compression.
D. Both N7950T and EMC VNX compress data inline.
Answer: B
Explanation:
Questions 57. A Business Partner has proposed a solution for the migration of
multiple D64700 systems to an XIV Gen3 with 10 modules.
Which of the following is a migration consideration in this scenario?
A. Each D34700 LUN will have a single path
B. Only one DS4700 can be migrated at a time
C. D64700 controller pairs must be defined as a single target
D. Attach multiple target ports from the same DS4700 controller
Answer: A
Explanation:
Questions 58. A customer wants a comparison of a public cloud subscription-

based solution versus an in-house solution for a new project. The customer has
requested a TOO for each solution using a four year solution life cycle.
Which of the following factors should be included as part of the public cloud
solution's TOO?
A. Cost per kilowatt hour
B. Installation expenses of new hardware
C. Cost of new server operating system licenses
D. Expected increase of users over the project lifetime
Answer: D
Explanation:
Questions 59. A customer requires the ability to provide access to billions of
files simultaneously. What SONAS feature allows for this?
A. Network File system
B. Common Internet File Systems
C. Hypertext Transport Protocol
D. General Parallel File System
Answer: D
Explanation:
Questions 60. A customer is installing a new backup solution. An existing tape
Ii brary based on TS1 120 Tape Drives that was installed on 7 September 2006
is proposed as part of the solution due to lack of customer funds. Additionally,
because of local regulations, any tapes transported between locations require
encryption.
What advice should the technical specialist give?
A. Keep the TS112O drives and implement a chargeable upgrade to enable
encryption
B. Keep the TS1 120 drives and implement a chargeable upgrade to make them
TS1 130 drives
C. Replace the TS112O drives with TS1 140 drives, as the TS112O drives will
not support encryption
D. Replace the TSI 120 drives with TS1 140 drives, as the TS1 120 drives
support only AES2S6 encryption
Answer: A
Explanation:
Questions 61. What is the maximum number of PC and SCSI ports on an XIV
Gen3 storage system?
A. 24 PC ports and 6 SCSI ports

B. 12 PC ports and 24 iSCSI ports

C. 22 PC ports and 12 SCSI ports
D. 24 PC ports and 22 SCSI ports
Answer: D
Explanation:
Questions 62. A customer wants to better understand how much recovered
storage space will be gained by implementing Real-time Compression (RTC) on
their SAN Volume Controller (SVC). The customer has requested a test method
which shows how much space savings could be realized.
Which method would the technical specialist use to show the customer RTC
benefit on SVC?
A. Compress a mirrored copy and compare to the source.
B. Back a volume to tape and then use compression during the restore
C. Insert a RTC compression appliance between the SVC and back-end storage
D. Examine the managed disk group size after compressing the existing
volume.
Answer: A
Explanation:
Questions 63. A customer has storage on two sites that are 10 km apart, and a
technical specialist is discussing replacing their EMC storage arrays. They tell
the specialist that they use EMC SAN Copy.
Which IBM storage product has similar capabilities?
A. XIV
B. DSS800
C. ProtecTIER
D. SAN Volume Controller
Answer: B
Explanation:
Questions 64. A single frame T33501J contains 6 LTO-3 tape drives in Drive
Mounting Kits. A customer wants to add two additional LTO-5 drives.
Which of the following TS3500 components will be affected?
A. Capacity' On Demand
B. Storage slot quantity'
C. Internal patch cables
D. I/O slot expandability
Answer: C
Explanation:

Questions 65. Which tool provides storage management of an IBM SAN Volume
Controller with application- aware copy services integration?
A. IBM FlashCopy Manager
B. Smart Business Storage Cloud
C. IBM SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center
D. IBM Tivoli Storage Productivitj Center Standard
Answer: A
Explanation:
Questions 66. A customer with numerous open system servers is using a single
DSSSOO system with Easy Tier enabled. Storage performance for a specific
clustered server needs to improve for end-of-month and end-of-quarter
processing. The customer requires minimal disruption to operations.
Which feature or action should the technical specialist recommend to the
customer to improve performance for the clustered servers?
A. Install a megapack of SSDs
B. Enable and configure I/O Priority Manager
C. Increase the installed cache of the DS8SOO
D. Adjust the cache block size used by the DS8800
Answer: C
Explanation:
Questions 67. Which tool should a technical specialist use to estimate the
space savings that can be obtained by using data compression in a customer's
environment?
A. Disk Magic
B. Capacity Magic
C. Comprestimator
D. TCOnow! for Disk
Answer: C
Explanation:
Questions 68. What should be included with an N7900 to ensure customers
meet aggressive RPO and RTO requirements?
A. SnapRestore
B. FlashCopy Manager
C. Replication Manager
D. Tivoli Storage Manager
Answer: A

Explanation:
Questions 69. Where does the IBM Real-time Compression Appliance protect its
software and configuration?
A. Supplied USB device
B. An external quorum disk
C. Internal mirrored drives
D. Battery protected memory cache
Answer: C
Explanation:
Questions 70. A customer has a 300 Windows and Linux server consolidation
project planned to use virtualization. They have a DS8000 installed in
production and want to explore FCoE technology to reduce network
administration and complexly, being part of the sewer and network
optimization strategy.
Which component would enable DS8000 to be included in the new
infrastructure?
A. IBM SAN32B-E4
B. SAN Volume Controller
C. FCOE DS8800 Host Adapters
D. System Storage Productivity Center
Answer: C
Explanation:
Questions 71. When planning to use an SAN Volume Controller split cluster,
why is it strongly recommended to have a third site available?
A. A third site is recommended to house the SSPC.
B. A third site is recommended to house the managed disks.
C. A third site is recommended to house the active quorum disk.
D. A third site is recommended to house the quorum disk candidates.
Answer: C
Explanation:
Questions 72. Which statement is true about a SAN Volume Controller running
at 64 code level?
A. Real-time compression can only be managed by using the CLI.
B. Customers can have a trial license for real-time compression.
C. Image files such as JPFGs are good candidates for compression.
D. Using real-time compression slows down performance on the compressed

volumes.
Answer: B
Explanation:
Questions 73. What are the technical specialist's responsibilities with respect
to the SOLW (Statement of Limited Warranty)?
A. Ensure the base level warranty meets the customer's requirements.
B. Explain the warranty terms to the customer after the deal is complete.
C. None, this is handled by the support center once the system is installed
D. None, this is handled by the Service Support Representative when he
installs the equipment.
Answer: A
Explanation:
Questions 74. A customer is considering an implementation of a SAN Volume
Controller with Real-time Compression for a large DB2 environment of 250T
B. The Comprestimator tool was used to determinate that the maximum
compression ratio could be achieved.
Without adding any buffer space, what is the minimum amount of storage that
could be proposed for this solution?
A. 50 TB
B. 71,4 TB
C. 83.3 TB
D. 100 TB
Answer: C
Explanation:
Questions 75. IBM has been called in to enhance an existing EMC environment
with an IBM SV
C. Data has been collected and needs to be verified that the SVC will handle
the projected workload.
Which tool should be used to validate the proposed solution?
A. STAT tool
B. TCO now for Disk
C. Capacity Magic
D. Disk Magic
Answer: D
Explanation:
Questions 76. A technical specialist is having detailed discussions with their

customer on which levels of HBA firmware ere supported by the proposed XIV
solution.
Which tool or resource should the technical specialist use to determine this?
A. SSIC
B. Techline
C. IBM Redbooks
D. Compete Center
Answer: C
Explanation:
Questions 77. Which of the following is an attribute of the Real-time
Compression Appliance?
A. can be used to compress block storage
B. can be used to compress NFS and CIFS files
C. is good at compressing .mpg and .mp3 files
D. is good at handling thousands of small files (4k in size)
Answer: B
Explanation:
Questions 78. For what is the STAT tool utilized?
A. to gather data to be analyzed with Disk Magic
B. to analyze the potential benefit of a multi-tiered storage pool
C. to project the amount of data moved between different RAID levels
D. to determine the performance requirements for a managed disk group
Answer: B
Explanation:
Questions 79. A customer is evaluating deduplication offerings from IBM, EMC,
and NetApp. Which characteristic is a competitive advantage of the IBM
ProtecTIER deduplication gateway?
A. real-time compression engine
B. hash-based deduplication algorithm
C. HyperFactor deduplication algorithm
D. post processing versus inline deduplication
Answer: C
Explanation:
Questions 80. What tool set should be used by a technical specialist to
troubleshoot a TS7700 Grid Network Configuration?
A. TS7700 Architecture and Implementation Redbooks

B. TS7700 Cluster Grid HA/DR Configuration Manuals

C. TS7700 Performance Analysis Tools
D. TS7700 Architecture Design Tool Set
Answer: A
Explanation:
Questions 81. A TS3500 with a fully populated base frame and a total of 14
LTO-4 tape drives will be upgraded with two additional expansion frames. How
many expansion frames will be to the right of the base frame?
A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5
Answer: B
Explanation:
Questions 82. A customer has purchased a new SAN Volume Controller (SVC)
for their data center. The Service Support Representative needs to install it and
connect it to the SAN. Which rule must the Service Support Representative
follow?
A. The SVC nodes must have separate PDUs
B. The nodes must be connected using a top of rack switch.
C. The uninterruptible power supply unit must be dedicated to the SVC
D. The nodes must be installed using a separate private Fibre Channel
network.
Answer: C
Explanation:
Questions 83. Which data type will have the best compression ratio with Realtime Compression?
A. databases
B. file and print
C. encrypted data
D. JPEG images
Answer: A
Explanation:
Questions 84. What is the maximum number of disk drive modules (DDMs)
allowed on a DS8870 business model'?
A. 128
B. 144

C. 1028
D. 1536
Answer: D
Explanation:
Questions 85. A customer is talking about the need for high security of data
and the compliance department is concerned about the possibility of third
parties recovering data that is on failed drives. Which IBM enterprise solution
should the technical specialist recommend to overcome this problem?
A. Tivoli Key Lifecycle Manager
B. TPC Select
C. DS8870
D. Storwize V7000
Answer: A
Explanation:
Questions 86. When running a model in Disk Magic, what is the recommended
sample rate to capture maximum demand?
A. 1 hour
B. 2-3 hours
C. 45-90 minutes
D. 15-30 minutes
Answer: D
Explanation:
Questions 87. The customer understands the potential benefits of virtualizing
their heterogeneous storage environment.
However, the customer also requires immediate access to their data with
disaster recovery capabilities. Two sites are 100km apart and the third is
500km away.
Which feature of the SAN Volume Controller would help the customer meet
these requirements compared to the V7000?
A. easy to use GUI front end
B. stretched cluster capability
C. low bandwidth global mirroring
D. ability to virtualize heterogeneous storage arrays
Answer: B
Explanation:
Questions 88. How many

H. expansion units (HA1) can be installed and in location in a TS3500 Tape

Library?
A. One on the left of the L-frame
B. One of the middle of the tape library
C. One on the left of the L-frame and one on the end of the library
D. One any ware in the tape library
Answer: A
Explanation:
Questions 89. An existing 15 module XIV Gen3 array has shown performance
degradation after adding a new Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) workload
with highly random reads of 128 KB segments.
What could add performance to accommodate the new workload and provide
an additional automatically-managed cache?
A. expanding the number of XIV modules
B. adding SSD drives to each XIV module
C. activating InfiniBand capacity on demand
D. enabling enhanced cache management feature
Answer: B
Explanation:
Questions 90. A customer is planning to install two XIV storage systems with
synchronous mirroring. The two storage systems will be in separate data
centers approximately 50 km apart. The technical specialist has been asked
what guidelines should be followed to avoid degraded host I/O.
Which guideline should the technical specialist discuss?
A. the link between sites must support the full peak host write rate
B. use interval schedule named "Never" to configure the synchronous mirror
C. the link between sites must support minimum speed of 50 Mbps per FC
connection
D. if a single link is used between sites, then only connect one module per XIV
system to each other
Answer: A
Explanation:
Questions 91. A customer has a XIV Gen 3 which is rebuilding. At what point
will the SSDs be rebuilt?
A. The SSDs will not be rebuilt
B. The SSDs will be rebuilt with the other disks
C. The SSDs will only be rebuilt when a data module is installed

D. The SSDs will wait until the rebuild is finished and then they will start their
own rebuild
Answer: D
Explanation:
Questions 92. A customer is looking at the purchase of two ProtecTIER systems
with one for their production data center and another located at their DR data
center. Which option should the specialist discuss that could help the customer
make the decision?
A. ProtecTIER comes with built in IP replication at no additional cost with built
in Manager
B. If a restore is required at DR, the offsite tapes can be loaded to the DR
ProtecTI ER
C. The customer can manage both the Production and DR ProtecTI ER from the
same Manager Client
D. ProtecTIER uses Fibre Channel for all connections to allow for high speed
connections
Answer: A
Explanation:
Questions 93. A customer wants to improve their Recovery Point Objective for a
set of volumes to 2 hours by keeping a snapshot every hour for 7 days of this
consistency group of 10 volumes. The volumes contain databases that are
reorganized every night.
What is a concern for this solution on XIV Gen3?
A. XIV Gen3 performance will degrade when taking a snapshot
B. If a snapshot is restored from 1 day ago, all older snapshots will be lost.
C. High latencies will occur every hour at the point the group snapshot is
taken.
D. Snapshots kept for that long could consume much more space than the
actual volumes.
Answer: B
Explanation:
Questions 94. What is the meaning of the term "nominal capacity" when
discussing Protect TIER?
A. metadata file system capacity
B. size of the user data repository
C. amount of user data being managed
D. physical capacity of the storage array

Answer: B
Explanation:
Questions 95. A customer wants to expand the capacity of their minimally
configured SONAS appliance by 160TB of storage.
A. increase the number of storage nodes by 2
B. add a storage enclosure to the existing storage pod
C. upgrade the existing storage controller to 3 TB NL-SAS drives
D. expand the InfiniBand bandwidth between storage and interface nodes to 40
Gbps
Answer: C
Explanation:
Questions 96. An XIV Gen3 was ordered with the wrong power option. What
must be done to correct this situation?
A. The system must be returned to the factory for repair
B. The IBM Certified Engineer can modify the automatic transfer switch
C. The correct power configuration must be ordered and changed in the field.
D. The Systems Support Representative can change the power receptacle in the
field
Answer: A
Explanation:
Questions 97. A customer has a TS3500 Tape Library with LTO-3 drives
installed. As part of a hardware upgrade, the drives are being changed to LTO6. The customer is concerned about reusing the existing media, including
already purchased but unused tape cartridges.
What advice should the technical specialist give the customer?
A. None of the tape cartridges will be writable, however, the data can still be
read by the LTO-6 drives
B. Retain the written tape cartridges for later recovery; the blank media can be
used for later writes with a lower capacity than LTO-6 specific cartridges
C. Retain the written tapes and a LTO-3 drive for later recovery; blank media
will be unusable with LTO-6
D. Tapes written by LTO-3 drives will not be readable by LTO-6 drives; blank
tapes can be formatted for LTO-6
Answer: A
Explanation:
Questions 98. What will happen if a customer refuses to install a Customer-

Replaceable Unit (CRU)?

A. IBM will not send the part
B. the Remote Support Center will void the system warranty
C. the customer will be billed to have IBM replace the CRU part
D. IBM will dispatch a Service Support Representative to replace the CRU part
at no charge
Answer: C
Explanation:
Questions 99. A customer has a SAN Volume Controller, and they need to
separate the nodes in an I/O group across the sites. How far can the nodes be
separated?
A. The distance can be up to 100m apart
B. The distance can be up to 300m apart
C. The distance can be up to 300 km apart.
D. The distance can be 600 km apart using DWDM
Answer: C
Explanation:
Questions 100. A customer is considering adding additional IBM storage to the
environment. The customer is unaware of the current system usage or
performance.
What is available from IBM that will allow the customer to track real time,
historical data and exported reports to justify the purchase of the new IBM
storage systems?
A. To stat or iometer
B. Windows PerfMon
C. Compile workload data from all devices in the environment
D. Install TPC to evaluate current systems to compare data against IBM
subsystems
Answer: B
Explanation:
Questions 101. A customer is requesting an IBM XIV Gen 3 and would like to
order a full module system the with SSD drives installed in the modules. The
customer would like to know if the SSD drives will provide Easy Tier
functionality allowing the SSD drives to expand usable capacity.
How should the technical specialist respond?
A. Only half rack IBM XIV Gen 3 systems have Easy Tier license options.
B. Easy Tier is not an available function and the SSD drives do not add usable

capacity.
C. Only IBM XIV Gen 3 systems can use the additional SSD drives installed in
the modules.
D. The SSD drives installed in the modules expands usable capacity but does
not enable Easy Tier without an additional license
Answer: B
Explanation:
Questions 102. On XIV Gen3 what is the internal interconnect between the
modules?
A. Ethernet
B. InfiniBand
C. FICON (zHPF)
D. Fibre Channel
Answer: B
Explanation:
Questions 103. A Business Partner has proposed a solution for the migration of
two DS8100 systems to an XIV Gen3 with 14 modules. Which of the following
is a migration consideration in this scenario?
A. Define multiple paths to more than one I/O bay
B. Map a LUN with LUN ID 0 for communication to the XIV
C. DS8100 LUNs will have a single path for migration connectivity
D. A small performance penalty exists for non-preferred controller access
Answer: B
Explanation:
Questions 104. A customer is considering a storage consolidation project.
Which tool is recommended by IBM to convince the customer that the IBM
solution will be more cost-effective than one from our competitors?
A. IBM Systems Consolidation Evaluation Tool (Alinean)
B. CompeteCenter
C. IBM System Storage Interoperation Center
D. IBM ATS Server Consolidation Monitor
Answer: A
Explanation:
Questions 105. When using an SVC with Native IP Replication which of the
following is correct?
A. Requires an optional additional Ethernet adapter

B. Does not support encrypted or compressed data

C. Supports only synchronous mirroring
D. Supports mirroring from SVC to any other members of the Storwize family
Answer: D
Explanation:
Questions 106. SVC split cluster uses which SVC software function?
A. FlashCopy
B. Volume Mirror
C. Metro/Global Mirror
D. SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center
Answer: B
Explanation:
Questions 107. A customer is implementing a TS3500 Tape Library solution for
tape backup with NetBackup Version 7.5.
While the customer currently does not require an encrypted solution, it is
possible that in the future this will become a requirement. The proposed
solution uses TS1140 Tape Drives.
What advice should technical specialist give?
A. The current design already supports this requirements
B. Include an encryption module in the tape library chassis
C. Recommend purchasing the encryption-capable version of the TS 1140
D. Recommend changing the solution to the TS1050 Tape Drive, which is
encrypted-capable
Answer: A
Explanation:
Questions 108. When considering oversubscription, it is important to
understand the bandwidth, I/O, and response times demanded by each storage
device In a SAN switch/director, what is the best candidate for oversubscription
on a SAN port?
A. tape devices
B. System x VMware server with a large number of virtual machines
C. large Power server running AIX LPARs and VIO servers
D. small edge servers with 2 GB Fibre Channel cards
Answer: A
Explanation:
Questions 109. Which RAID level is implemented in the XIV?

A. RAID 5
B. RAID X
C. RAID DP
D. RAID 10
Answer: D
Explanation:
Questions 110. When is the Capacity Magic tool used?
A. to calculate array performance based on required capacities
B. to determinate the current available capacity on a given array
C. to calculate capacities based on a given storage configuration
D. to show capacity comparisons between IBM and competitive storage arrays
Answer: C
Explanation:
Questions 111. A large multi-site company is considering the purchase of a
DS8000 system and would like to build a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure for
approximately 400 users. Cost is a concern.
What should the technical specialist propose to help avoid performance
problems during peak times?
A. Thin Provisioning
B. SSD drives with Easy Tier
C. Adding an IBM FlashSystem 810
D. FlashCopy
Answer: A
Explanation:
Questions 112. A pre-install Technical Delivery Assessment (TDA) for an XIV
Gen3 system is designed to ensure what?
A. correct warranty is in place
B. correct software maintenance is in place
C. weight reduction option has been ordered
D. readiness to implement and support the solution
Answer: D
Explanation:
Questions 113. The customer has two sites 150 km apart. Currently they have
four NetApp storage arrays at each site for C1FSINFS data. An enterprise
storage solution would enable them to consolidate their arrays and enable
them to reads and writes of the data across the two sites with a Global

Namespace?
A. SONAS
B. X1V Gen3
C. StorwIze W000 Unified
D. N series N3300
Answer: D
Explanation:
Questions 114. Which of the following systems does Tivoli Storage Productivity
Center Select Edition manage?
A. IBM Storwize
B. SONAS
C. N series
D. DS8000
Answer: A
Explanation:
Questions 115. A customer is looking to implement an end user self service,
private storage cloud.
Which software product should the technical specialist recommend?
A. Smart Cloud Storage Access
B. Systems Director Storage Control
C. Workload Deployer Appliance
D. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Select Edition
Answer: A
Explanation:
Questions 116. Customer requirements state that all data must be encrypted
in their DS8870 storage environment.
Encryption key availability is a major concern, and maximum redundancy
must be implemented.
How many Tivoli Key Lifecycle Manager instances should be installed?
A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5
Answer: B
Explanation:
Questions 117. In a TS3500 Tape Library, when must the Full Capacity on

Demand feature be added into the configuration?

A. when encryption is implemented
B. when the second frame is added
C. with 12 drives in the base frame
D. with addition of the TS3000 console
Answer: B
Explanation:
Questions 118. A customer needs to know how many Global Mirror sessions
are supported within a single DS8870. Which information source would have
this information?
A. DSsenes website
B. DS8870 Redbook
C. IBM DS6000 Series website
D. DS8870 quick reference guide
Answer: B
Explanation:
Questions 119. A customer has several legacy storage arrays containing many
hot spare disks. The customer has heard that the IBM XIV does not have any
hot spares. What should the technical specialist explain to the customer about
the way the IBM XIV works?
A. he IBM XIV has two hot spare drives per module to handle failures.
B. he IBM XIV does not use hot spares; each drive has spare capacity and
spreads the data across the spare capacity of each drive.
C. Legacy storage arrays with hot spares take hours to rebuild extending the
failure window
D. The IBM XIV has four hot spares per module to allow for multiple hot spare
failures at one time.
Answer: B
Explanation:
Questions 120. A customer has a XIV Gen3 system. Which tool or resource
should be used to gather performance data?
A. Disk Magic
B. Tivoli Storage Manager
C. Storage Tier Advisor Tool
D. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center
Answer: D
Explanation:

Questions 121. A customer is looking to consolidate management from several

heterogeneous storage platforms. Each system is currently attached to an OEM
vendor solution with an 'SCSI backbone. Which of the following will help
manage the user's storage environment?
A. IBM Systems Director
B. IBM SAN Volume Controller
C. Tivoli Storage Manager
D. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center
Answer: D
Explanation:
Questions 122. What product provides an application consistent point-in-time
capture without application downtime?
A. FlashCopy
B. Global Copy
C. FlashCopy Manager
D. Global Mirror with Change Volumes
Answer: C
Explanation:
Questions 123. A customer wants to be more proactive with managing their
Brocade based SAN infrastructure. They would like to receive a warning when
an ISL reaches 75% utilization Cost is a major concern. Which one of the
following should be presented and discussed?
A. Data Center Network Manager
B. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center
C. Fabric Watch
D. Device Manager
Answer: C
Explanation:
Questions 124. A customer has ordered a TS3500 library with one expansion
frame and a total of 16 LTO-6 tape drives. Their requirement is to have
redundant connections to the integrated patch panel but they see that there is
only one connection available per drive.
What must be configured in order to create the redundancy required?
A. 16 additional fibre channel patch panel cables
B. Second patch panel
C. Replace the patch panel with a 24 port fibre switch

D. A third empty expansion frame

Answer: C
Explanation:
Questions 125. What tool contains capacity, performance and metadata
planning for standalone replicated TS7650G configurations?
A. Tape magic for Windows
B. ProtecTlER planner
C. Batch Magic for Windows
D. Storage Tier Advisor Tool (STAT)
Answer: B
Explanation:
Questions 126. How can a customer view 30 minutes of performance data from
the SVC?
A. Only through a SVC GUI interface
B. Only though Tivoli Storage Productivity Center
C. Both Tivoli Storage Productivity Center and SVC GUI interface
D. Only through the CIMOM and only with Tivoli Storage Productivity Center
Answer: B
Explanation:
Questions 127. A customer is interested in implementing sixteen 300 GB SAS
drives and sixteen 400 GB SSDs into their existing DS8800 subsystem
architecture. What solution would be an acceptable design?
A. The solution requested is an invalid architecture 400 GB SSDs are
supported only in a DS8 8 70 architecture
B. Intermix eight 300 GB SAS drives and eight 400 GB SSDs in the same
storage enclosure providing better performance, and enclosure protection
C. Implement sixteen 300 GB SAS drives and sixteen 400 GB SSDs into
separate storage enclosures as the architecture is unable to support an
intermix of SSDs and SAS drives in one storage enclosure
D. Alternate 300 GB SAS drives and 400 GB SSDs in each storage enclosure
slot This will provide a balance of 110 between enclosure slots ESMs. while
providing capability of storage enclosure protection
Answer: C
Explanation:
Questions 128. A customer is using an IBM SVC solution and has learned
about the usage of Solid State Drives in the system.

Which tool is recommended to determine the benefits of SSDs in the customer's

SVC?
A. IBM TPC for Disk
B. IBM Storage Tier Advisor Tool
C. IBM Disk Magic
D. IBM Capacity Magic
Answer: B
Explanation:
Questions 129. A customer purchased Metro Mirror synchronous replication
capabilities between two DS8870 systems. What is the maximum supported
distance for Metro Mirror?
A. 150 km (93 21 miles)
B. 300 km (186 4 miles)
C. 200 km (124 27 miles)
D. 250 km (155 34 miles)
Answer: B
Explanation:
Questions 130. Following the rules for Solid State Disks (SSD), how many SSD
drives can be supported in a DS8870 enterprise class base frame only?
A. up to 96
B. up to 192
C. up to 240
D. up to 384
Answer: D
Explanation:
Questions 131. A customer has expressed difficulty in the management of
multiple SAN fabrics consisting of IBM branded SAN switches in a core-edge
topology.
Which of the following tools would provide this capability?
A. Brocade SAN Health
B. IBM Storage Manager
C. IBM Network Advisor
D. IBM SmartCloud Storage Access
Answer: C
Explanation:
Questions 132. A customer is planning data migration for a high-end AIX

server. The server currently has 61 1 LUNs on non IBM storage and needs to
migrate the data to a newly installed XIV storage system. The customer has
asked the technical specialist how the data can be migrated in the most
efficient method possible for this server.
Which option should the technical specialist discuss?
A. Only 512 LUNs can be migrated at a time
B. All LUNs need to be allowed to fully synchronize before mapping the server
to XIV
C. All 611 LUNs can be migrated concurrently with the use of multiple
migration targets
D. Only one path to a passive controller is needed if the non-IBM storage has
active/passive controllers
Answer: A
Explanation:
Questions 133. A Business Partner has just sold a DS8870 with one Expansion
Unit and wants to implement encryption. What is a responsibility of the
customer for deployment?
A. ensure DS8870 Expansion Unit is installed appropriately
B. ensure the DS8870 is upgraded to the latest microcode level
C. system configuration and integration of TKLM server
D. encryption license installation and integration of TKLM server
Answer: D
Explanation:
Questions 134. An IBM prospect has several older competitive enterprise class
storage systems which have high administrative costs that prohibits staying
with this strategy. The prospect is looking to consolidate on to an IBM XIV
storage system because of the simplified GUI and ease of migration.
Which tool provided by IBM will assist in compiling and comparing all
associated costs of the two strategies?
A. IBM Storage Consolidation TCO Calculator
B. Disk Magic
C. TPC Select
D. ideas International
Answer: A
Explanation:
Questions 135. A technical specialist is holding a general discussion with a
customer who has a large volume of block.

The customer tells the specialist that their company's storage maintenance is
coming up they are facing pressure from within the company to adopt a Cloud
Strategy The technical concern is to avoid downtime with migration.
Which solution provides support for this strategy?
A. XIV with a N7950T
B. SONAS
C. DS8870 with SVC
D. Storwize V7000 Unified
Answer: D
Explanation:
Questions 136. A customer is looking for a storage system solution with
proactive system health management. The customer has asked about
advantages that XIV offers. Which feature should the technical specialist
discuss?
A. constant evaluation of all disk drives and all disk areas
B. deduplicates data in the background during light work loads
C. uses disk-resident diagnostics to predict potential module failure
D. each interface has resiliency_ which allows parts to be replaced in the
interface module
Answer: A
Explanation:
Questions 137. A customer has a newly installed TS3500 in a single logical
library configuration. They need connect the TS3500 to a System z and want to
assign cartridges that are already inside the library.
Which action should the technical specialist perform to allow mainframe
connectivity and assign the cartridges?
A. Enable Advanced Library Management System (ALMS)
B. Create a cartridge Assignment Policy (CAP) on the TS3500 Tape Library
C. Install the IBM TS3500 Library Manager on the Linux tape management
system
D. Use the automatic class selection (ACS) routines to process every new tape
allocation
Answer: A
Explanation:
Questions 138. A customer requires consolidated problem reporting capability
for multiple TS3500 Tape Libraries, Which of the following would provide this
capability?

A. Implement a IBM TS3000 System Console (TSSC)

B. Attach a modem to each TS3500 to a single phone line
C. Configure connectivity to a Hardware Management Console (HMO)
D. Modify a Machine Reported Product Data (MRPD) file and distribute to all
TS3500 libraries
Answer: D
Explanation:
Questions 139. A customer who has a mixed block and file storage environment
and a combination of IBM and other vendor storage arrays has requested the
following from a technical specialist 1 provide current capacity reporting and
prediction 2, provide data placement policy recommendations 3 make
technology recommendations based on the information provided by 1 and 2.
Which tool will help the technical specialist gather the information necessary to
make the recommendations in part 3?
A. 1BM Director
B. Capacity Magic
C. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center
D. Disk Magic
Answer: C
Explanation:
Questions 140. Which IBM enterprise storage solution offers a tape based tier
option when used with a Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) server, called HSM
(Hierarchical Storage Manager), and will allow the file system to be extended to
TSM managed tape devices?
A. SONAS
B. Storwize V7000
C. SVC Easy Tier
D. N7950T Gateway
Answer: D
Explanation:
Questions 141. A customer is planning to consolidate several medium-sized
data centers into a completely new data center.
The customer has complained about all of the cabling needed for the SAN and
LAN, and the technical specialist has been asked about simplifying the
infrastructure.
Which technology should the technical specialist discuss?
A. FCoE

B. SCSI
C. FCIP
D. IEEE 802.1.15
Answer: A
Explanation:

Questions 142. A customer is considering the purchase of two IBM XIV Gen 3
systems for their storage and disaster recovery requirements. The customer
does not have Fibre Channel between their data centers. The customer would
like to know if replication can be done between the two IBM XIV systems. If it
can, what protocol would be used?
A. IBM XIV Gen 3 systems only have Fibre Channel connectivity for host
communication
B. The customer will have to purchase Fibre Channel switches for replication
C. IBM XIV Gen 3 systems can use iSCSI connections to setup replication
D. Multi-Protocol routers are required for all types of replication and host
connectivity
Answer: C
Explanation:

Questions 143. Which DS8870 Technical and Delivery Assessment (TDA) must
be performed for a customer that has a DS8870 system already installed in the
same location?
A. pre-sale TDA
B. post-sale TDA
C. pre-install TDA
D. TDA is not required
Answer: B