C1000-021 Online Practice Questions and Answers

A customer is evaluating an IBM Storwize V5010 solution and wants to know what additional software

functions are available.

Which additional feature on the IBM Storwize V5010 is a chargeable upgrade?

A. FlashCopy

B. Encryption

C. Data Reduction Pools

D. Compression

A customer is evaluating an IBM Storwize V7000 for high performance storage for applications and the

ability to run storage backups with the least impact on performance.

Which solution meets the customer's requirements?

A. Create volumes with volume mirroring between I/O Groups.

B. Use IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot to create a copy to another storage pool.

C. Create volumes with volume mirroring to a virtualized external IBM Storwize V5010.

D. Setup volumes from two IBM Storwize V7000 systems and use Metro Mirror.

A customer has a single, non-IBM storage system with 100 drives of the same capacity. The storage

administrators spend most of their time trying to eliminate hot spots. The customer is considering an IBM

Storwize V5020 purchase with approximately the same number of drives.

Which IBM Storwize feature helps resolve these issues?

A. A single storage pool

B. Volume migration

C. HyperSwap

D. Auto-storage pool balancing

Which tool can be used to quickly estimate the compression ratio for a SVC environment?

A. Capacity Magic

B. Disk Magic

C. Comprestimator

D. Data Reduction Estimator Tool

An IBM Storwize V7000 prospect has a rapidly growing SQL database and is interested in methods to

maximize storage capacity efficiency.

Which feature addresses this concern?

A. Unmap

B. Easy Tier

C. Transparent cloud tiering

D. Data Reduction Pool

During the last 10 years, a company has refreshed its storage environment three times. This has caused

extended outages.

Which functions or attributes of the IBM Spectrum Virtualize address these concerns?

A. Rebalancing extents across a storage pool

B. HyperSwap using intra-cluster synchronous remote copy

C. Cloud integration and stretched cluster

D. External virtualization and non-disruptive data migration

A customer is concerned about storage license compliance. Which IBM Spectrum Suite component should the customer use?

A. IBM Storage Mobile Dashboard

B. IBM Spectrum Control

C. IBM Big Fix Compliance

D. IBM License Metric Tool

A customer has added a second control enclosure to its existing IBM Storwize V7000. What should the customer do next to balance the workloads?

A. Move designated volumes to the new I/O group

B. Monitor Easy Tier as it balances the workloads

C. Run Storage Pool Balancing on one I/O group

D. Use IBM Storage Tier Advisor Tool to analyze heat data files from the cluster

What is assured by executing a Technical and Delivery Assessment (TDA)?

A. The technical quality of a solution

B. Best practices are reviewed

C. The solution meets total cost of ownership requirements

D. Support calls will be unnecessary during implementation

A customer is implementing encryption using SKLM on IBM Spectrum Virtualize.

Which protocol is required to communicate between the storage device and the key management server (s)?

A. LDAP

B. iSCSI

C. FC

D. IP

Which tool analyzes a heat map file generated by Easy Tier?

A. Comprestimator

B. Storage Tier Advisor Tool

C. IBM Spectrum Insights

D. Storage Tier Optimizer

Which IBM Storwize product has the capability to provide up to 12 SAS interface ports for host connectivity with optional adapter cards?

A. IBM Storwize V5020

B. IBM Storwize V7000

C. IBM Storwize V5030

D. IBM Storwize V5010

A customer's fibre attached DELL EMC storage has reached its end of life and needs additional capacity. The customer cannot afford to have its applications offline for an extended period of time during the storage refresh and is considering an IBM Storwize V5030 or IBM Storwize V7000 as a replacement.

Which included IBM Storwize function helps this customer?

A. Copy Data Manager

B. IBM Spectrum Connect

C. Volume move

D. Data migration

An education agency is building an in-house application that designs, delivers, and scores standardized tests. The agency needs a scalable storage solution that initially provides SAS host connectivity during the proof-of-concept phase and that can be seamlessly upgraded to more advanced features.

Which storage solution should a technical specialist recommend?

A. IBM FlashSystem V9000

B. IBM Storwize V7000

C. IBM Storwize V5020

D. IBM FlashSystem 900

A customer has multiple virtualized storage systems and requires that volumes are optimally placed for performance.

Which member of the IBM Spectrum Storage Family includes analytics-driven tiered storage optimization to move full volumes to the most cost-effective tier?

A. IBM Spectrum Virtualize

B. IBM Spectrum Archive

C. IBM Spectrum Accelerate

D. IBM Spectrum Control