C1000-020 Online Practice Questions and Answers

A customer is looking to add copy services to provide disaster recovery between sites with heterogeneous storage.

Which product should the sales specialist discuss with the customer?

A. IBM Spectrum Control

B. IBM Spectrum Archive

C. IBM Spectrum Virtualize

D. IBM Spectrum Accelerate

An IBM i customer is interested in an all-flash solution to help with performance and latency.

Which advantage does the IBM FlashSystem 900 have over other vendors' flash solutions in this environment?

A. Native IBM I support

B. HyperSwap

C. Support for VIOS

D. PowerHA support

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.

An IBM customer wants to implement a block-only, software-defined storage (SDS) solution based on grid storage design with qualified commodity hardware.

Which solution allows the customer to do this?

A. IBM Spectrum Accelerate

B. IBM Spectrum Control

C. IBM Spectrum Virtualize

D. IBM Spectrum Scale

Which IBM solution that uses FlashCore technology includes data deduplication?

A. IBM Storwize V7000F

B. IBM FlashSystem 900

C. IBM DS8888

D. IBM FlashSystem A9000

During a meeting with a customer, an IBM sales specialist discovered that the reason for replacing existing storage is because of long rebuild times and multiple drive failures that have caused data loss and lengthy restores.

Which drive protection method should the sales specialist highlight as a solution with IBM Storwize?

A. Drive mirroring

B. Erasure coding

C. Encryption

D. Distributed RAID

A customer is looking to boost performance of its applications. It has two years left on the lease of existing storage. The customer also has a significant amount of copy services and replication built into its environment.

Which IBM storage solution is able to boost performance without a major change to the customer's environment?

A. IBM Spectrum Virtualize

B. IBM FlashSystem V9000

C. IBM FlashSystem 900

D. IBM FlashSystem A9000R

How can a sales specialist verify that a proposed storage solution fits within the customer's current budget?

A. Verify useable space with Capacity Magic

B. Analyze output from STAT

C. Perform TCONow! for Disk analysis

D. Perform a Disk Magic study

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

An HPC customer wants to manage large amounts of file data across multiple sites. Which solution should the sales specialist propose to the customer?

A. IBM Spectrum NAS

B. IBM Spectrum Scale

C. IBM Spectrum Virtualize

D. IBM Spectrum Control

An IT manager needs a solution to monitor, automate, and analyze a complex storage environment. Which solution should the sales specialist recommend?

A. IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management

B. IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack

C. IBM Spectrum Connect

D. IBM Spectrum Control

A customer who has just purchased an IBM FlashSystem A9000 wants to have IBM assistance with implementation and initial training.

Which IBM group should the sales specialist approach?

A. IBM A9000 Development

B. IBM Lab Services

C. IBM SSRs

D. IBM Technical Advisors

Which IBM storage product includes transparent cloud tiering?

A. IBM Spectrum Protect

B. IBM Spectrum NAS

C. IBM Spectrum Accelerate

D. IBM Spectrum Virtualize

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