You have identified a potential hybrid IT prospect. In your next conversation, you learn thatthe customer has just started to virtualize the data center. The customer wants to make the data center more agile with private cloud services. Which approach should you take with this customer?
A. Take a services-led approach to transform the customer data environment with cloud storage solutions.
B. Qualify the customer for an HPE private cloud solution built on hyperconverged infrastructure.
C. Qualify the customer for HPE Intelligent Edge because the customer is not yet ready for a hybrid IT solution.
D. Take a services-led approach to transform the customer data center into a full software- defined infrastructure.
A customer is interested in open source cloud technologies. What should you tell the customer about HPE Hybrid IT solutions?
A. HPE has years of expertise in proprietary cloud technologies, which are a better fit for most customers.
B. HPE recommends open source approaches only for customers who need to integrate with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
C. HPE has extensive partnerships with open source projects such as OpenStack and Cloud Foundry.
D. HPE recommends against open source-based solutions because they tend to lock customers in.
When assessing the potential impact of an HPE Edge-to-Cloud solution on an organization's existing infrastructure, which of the following is a key consideration?
A. Ensuring that the solution aligns with the latest technology trends
B. Determining the budget for the project before assessing the impact
C. Analyzing the solution's potential impact on existing business processes and systems
D. Avoiding any customization to minimize complexity
What is the current impact of big data and Hadoop on enterprise data centers?
A. Hadoop is a new technology, and most enterprises are waiting to implement it until larger companies, such as Google, have demonstrated its effectiveness.
B. Most companies have successfully implemented Hadoop already; you will find the most promising opportunities in moving customers from Hadoop to online transactional databases.
C. Half of enterprise customers have implemented Hadoop, but most still experience issues, partially due to an infrastructure not designed to support big data.
D. Most companies have found that Hadoop is less effective for handling big data; they prefer open-source solutions such as SAP HANA.
What is one way that HPE expands the number of opportunities for you to sell HPE Hybrid IT solutions?
A. HPE delivers a one-size-fits-all cloud option that you can target to small, medium, and large customers.
B. HPE provides an extensive partner ecosystem to ensure that the HPE solution fits in many environments.
C. HPE and Aruba together deliver HPC applications that are optimized for the small-to- medium business (SMB).
D. HPE has developed vertical-specific variations of its analytic software solutions.
In talking to your customers, what would suggest an HPE Hybrid IT opportunity?
A. The customer wants to know if better collaboration tools will improve employeeproductivity.
B. The customer is interested in updating their wired and wireless network to include a unified management solution.
C. The customer wants to implement user-based access to prevent unauthorized users from gaining access.
D. The customer has been trying to automate their infrastructure but is seeing few results.
What is one imperative for IT in order to support today's new generation of apps and data?
A. IT must extend change management lifecycles to reduce risk.
B. IT must be able to scale quickly and seamlessly.
C. IT must expand the data center footprint.
D. IT must deploy IoT devices that support next-gen analytic workloads.
What is one benefit of the private cloud model?
A. It removes the need for making capital expenditures in the data center.
B. It requires fewer IT resources than public cloud.
C. It offers more scalability than public cloud.
D. It enables self-service provisioning within the customer's IT infrastructure.
Which of the following is a key benefit of a hybrid cloud solution?
A. Reduced security risks
B. Lower cost of ownership
C. Simplified deployment process
D. Greater flexibility and scalability
You are meeting with a hybrid IT prospect. Which topic should you introduce to help you assess whether the customer will be interested in unique consumption models for Hybrid IT?
A. The customer has already allocated a significant portion of their IT budget to a competing solution.
B. The customer has a strategy for ingesting data collected from IoT devices and analyzingthe data at the core.
C. The customer wants to shift from a CAPEX model to an OPEX model.
D. The customer has heard of HPE Synergy and The Machine, and understands why these solutions are so innovative.
What is often the result of maintaining traditional development cycles?
A. Operating costs and overhead decrease.
B. Collaboration becomes more efficient.
C. IT moves from a support role to a business role in the company.
D. Line-of-Business (LoB) managers create their own stealth IT projects.
Which of the following is a key trend in the IT industry that is driving the adoption of HPE Edge-to-Cloud Solutions?
A. Increasing use of legacy systems
B. Decreasing demand for data storage
C. Growing use of data analytics and AI
D. Decreasing demand for high-speed network connectivity
When collecting customer requirements for an HPE Edge-to-Cloud solution, which of the following is a key consideration?
A. Documenting requirements in a way that is easy to understand for technical experts only
B. Gathering requirements from a single stakeholder to avoid conflicting inputs
C. Asking open-ended questions to gather as much information as possible
D. Avoiding any requirements that are difficult to implement
When assessing the potential impact of an HPE Edge-to-Cloud solution on an organization's existing infrastructure, which of the following is a key metric to collect and analyze?
A. Customer churn rate
B. Number of product returns
C. Mean time between failures
D. Employee satisfaction score
When validating that a final solution design meets updated customer requirements, which of the following is necessary?
A. Planning the solution design
B. Qualifying the customer requirements
C. Documenting customer intent
D. Selecting the right HPE and 3rd party products and services