Midrange Storage Sales V1 (000-450) Free Practice Test

Question 1

IBM's LTO-5 drive can be differentiated from HP's LTO-5 drive by it's use of what feature?

A. Compression

B. Giant Magneto Resistive heads

C. Speed matching

D. Cartridge capacity

Correct Answer: B

Question 2

Which company is leading the SPC-1 (Storage Performance Council) benchmark?

A. IBM

B. EMC

C. Oracle

D. Dell

Correct Answer: A

Question 3

What is a feature of the Storwize V7000 that is not available in the StorwizeV3700?

A. Storage Migration

B. Flash Copy

C. Thin Provisioning

D. Real Time Compression

Correct Answer: D

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Question 4

IBM Business Partners face a penalty for Critical Situations (critsits) caused when a Technical Delivery Assessment (TDA) is not followed.
In US dollars, what is the penalty IBM imposes if a critsit arises in this circumstance?

A. $25,000

B. $10,000

C. $2,500

D. $1,000

Correct Answer: B

Question 5

A customer has several storage systems which are nearing end of support life in March. The Business Partner would like to sell them a solution before the customer's next year budget goes into effect
What would benefit both the customer and business Partner and allow the customer to acquire a new solution earlier than March?

A. Leasing

B. Discount Lab Services

C. ROInow! For Desk

D. TCOnow! For Desk

Correct Answer: A

Question 6

A customer requires the highest capacity within a single 42U rack.
Which of the following IBM storage products provides the greatest physical capacity and density within a single rack?

A. DS5300 with EXP5060 High Density Enclosures

B. XIV system Gen3 with 15 modules

C. Storwize V7000 with small form factor expansion enclosures

D. DCS3700 with 1818-80e Expansion Units

Correct Answer: D

Question 7

According to the documented STG Solution Assurance Trigger Criteria and Designated Product List when TDA requested for DCS3700?

A. High recommended for first in customer location

B. Mandatory for first in customer location

C. Highly recommended for all

D. Mandatory for all

Correct Answer: A

Question 8

A customer is in need of a new tape solution. They need a system that will provide a capacity of at least 100 TB with the ability to complete backups within 4 hours. Daily backups consist of video images that cannot be compressed.
What should the sales specialist recommend as the most cost effective solution?

A. TS3500 with 4 LTO-5 drives

B. TS3100 with 2 LTO-5 drives

C. TS3200 with 4 LTO-5 drives

D. TS3310 with 2 LTO-5 drives

Correct Answer: D

Question 9

A manufacturing company is looking for a SAN that provides historic monitoring/reporting capabilities and application aware snapshots.
What combination of IBM products would a sales representative recommend?

A. Storwize V7000 with Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Select and Tivoli FlashCopy Manager

B. DCS3700 and Mashup Center

C. TS7650 ProtecTIER Deduplication Appliance and Cognos Active Report

D. DS5300 with Tivoli Storage Manager and Tivoli FastBack

Correct Answer: A

Question 10

A customer wants to buy an IBM Storage Solution including Storwize V7000, SVC and Storage
Management Software. They are also considering backup simplification.
What is the best offer for the most complete solution?

A. Select the appropriate hardware, IBM Tivoli Productivity Center Select and Flash Copy

B. Select the appropriate hardware, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager and Flash Copy Manager

C. Select the appropriate hardware, IBM Smart Cloud Virtual Storage Center and Tivoli Storage Manager

D. Select the appropriate hardware, IBM Tivoli Productivity Center Standard edition

Correct Answer: C

Question 11

A sales specialist is competing against EMC for a Data Retention opportunity. The customer has a need for less than 1 TB of fixed content. Which of the following IBM products should be quoted to satisfy this requirement at minimum cost?

A. DS3500

B. IBM Information Archive

C. DS5020

D. Storwize V7000

Correct Answer: A

Question 12

A loyal customer is replacing their existing storage of less than 30 TB. They have shared that they are extremely tight on floor space and would like to save as much space as possible.
Which of the following solutions would require the least amount of rack space for this customer?

A. N7950T

B. XIV system

C. Storwize V7000

D. DS5300

Correct Answer: C

Question 13

Which of the following products must be included to meet a customer requirement for encrypting data written to IBM TS1130 tape?

A. Tivoli Key Lifecycle Manager

B. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center

C. Tivoli Storage Manager

D. Active Cloud Engine

Correct Answer: A

Question 14

The sales specialist has an opportunity to recommend a new storage controller for a customer who has the following servers Sun with Solaris, HP with HP-UX, x86 with Windows, and x86 with Linux. The customer has mentioned that there are too many cables coming out of the back of our servers.
What can be concluded from this information?

A. The customer might be interested in a consolidated network solution that includes FCoE while the type of disk needed is still unknown

B. The customer might be interested in mixing data types such as CKD and FB due to the large number of different servers

C. The customer data is mostly CKD format, and thus might be interested in fast storage like a Storwize V7000 with fast SAS drives

D. The customer might be interested in virtualizing the large number of servers using Storwize V7000 or SVC

Correct Answer: A

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