What is one key value that customers are seeking from their data platform?
A. Automation to deliver data on demand
B. Ability to perform a wholesale migration from on-prem to cloud
C. Less of a concentration on hybrid environments as most data is on-prem
D. Ability to use run analytics on tape for lower costs
What is an appropriate discovery question for uncovering a customer's need for an HPE composable infrastructure solution?
A. How much insight do you have into your public cloud spending?
B. What do you understand about APIs and how they work?
C. What are your plans for implementing storage class memory (SCM) now and in the future?
D. What are your plans for automating operations and simplifying management?
What is one characteristic that indicates that you could have a good opportunity to sell HPE Nimble?
A. The customer puts absolute zero downtime at the top of their list of requirements.
B. The customer is looking for a simple storage solution for their VMware environment.
C. The customer is looking for a software-defined storage solution to store files for big data.
D. The customer wants to simplify by transforming to a hyperconverged environment.
What is one challenge many customers face in implementing containers?
A. While IT sees the value of containers, developers are reluctant to deploy them.
B. The options for container solutions can be confusing to distinguish.
C. There are not enough options for container solutions in the market.
D. Their environments are virtualized, and containers and virtualization cannot coexist.
What is one benefit of HPE InfoSight?
A. It simplifies lifecycle operations with workflows.
B. It decreases time spent provisioning hardware.
C. It provides template-based orchestration.
D. It lowers IT operating expenditures.
How does HPE recommend positioning HPE SimpliVity versus HPE Nimble solutions?
A. SimpliVity is targeted for scale up storage requirements while Nimble is targeted for scale out requirements.
B. SimpliVity is targeted for mission critical workloads while Nimble is targeted for general purpose workloads.
C. Both solutions are targeted for general purpose workloads, but SimpliVity is targeted specifically for emerging big data and AI applications.
D. Both solutions are targeted for general purpose workloads, but SimpliVity is for customers who want hyperconvergence.
What is one characteristic that indicates that you could have a good opportunity to sell HPE Nimble?
A. The customer is looking for storage nodes for an object storage solution.
B. The customer needs an easier way to migrate data between on-prem and the public cloud.
C. The customer has a VMware environment and wants to migrate that to a hyperconverged solution.
D. The customer is primarily concerned about avoiding and disruption to mission critical services.
What is one benefit of HPE Synergy for customers who want to start containerizing their applications?
A. HPE Synergy helps customers to reduce deployment time for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform from days to hours.
B. HPE Synergy is specifically designed to run containerized workloads rather than traditional or virtualized workloads.
C. HPE Synergy includes a self-service catalog that enables developers to provision container platforms without help from IT.
D. HPE Synergy helps customers replace their existing continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/ CD) tools with end-to-end HPE Synergy automation tools.
You have proposed an HPE Primera 630 solution to a customer. The customer has had to do forklift upgrades in the past and is concerned about that hassle in the future. What feature of your proposal should you explain?
A. The Primera 630 system offloads most of the customers' data to HPE StoreOnce Catalyst, making upgrades unlikely to be necessary.
B. The Primera 630 system is the largest capacity solution that HPE offers, so the need for a future upgrade is unlikely.
C. The Primera 630 system is built on the same hardware platform as Nimble, so the customer can seamlessly move from Primera to Nimble as necessary.
D. The Timeless Service for the Primera 630 system will permit a free upgrade to a larger scale Primera system in the future.
What is one benefit of the HPE GreenLake workloads?
A. They include all of the solutions available through HPE GreenLake.
B. They help sales professionals sell to mid-sized customers because they are designed specifically for these customers.
C. They decrease the time it takes sales professionals to provide a quote.
D. They are the only solutions that can be run in co-locations.
What is one benefit of HPE GreenLake for HPE Intelligent Data Platform solutions?
A. It unlocks the ability for customers to migrate their data between their on-prem environment and the public cloud.
B. It adds more software features to HPE storage arrays and provides experts to advise customers on implementing those features.
C. It brings intelligence that is only available on HPE storage arrays delivered by GreenLake.
D. It helps customers achieve predictable costs for storage with a consumption-based model and metering.
For which customers does the HPE 100% Availability Guarantee apply?
A. For all customers with any HPE storage array
B. For all customers with HPE Nimble and HPE RMC
C. For all customers with any HPE storage array and HPE Datacenter support or higher
D. For all customers with HPE Primera and HPE Proactive Care or higher support
What is one benefit of the HPE acquisition of MapR for HPE customers?
A. HPE has added MapR's Al-based algorithms for deduplication and compression to make HPE storage solutions more efficient.
B. Customers can obtain the MapR software platform, designed to simplify the deployment of artificial intelligence (AI), on density-optimized HPE Apollo servers.
C. HPE can give customers the benefits of the MapR expertise in artificial intelligence and machine learning.
D. With the addition of MapR, a leading hardware provider for supercomputing, HPE can offer customers a more extensive HPC portfolio.
Your mid-sized customer wants to implement an HPE hybrid cloud solution but is worried about the cost. What should you talk about to overcome this objection?
A. The HPE Business Scholarschips program offers smaller businesses a chance to earn extra capital and complete with bigger enterprises.
B. HPE data analytics determine on a daily basis whether the customer is actually financially at-risk or not.
C. On a price-per-unit basis, HPE is the most affordable option in the market.
D. HPE Financial Services help customers find a way to implement a new solution that is within their budget.
Which customer is a good fit for HPE GreenLake?
A. "To stay within our budget, I want to expand our storage using HDD or even tape. Speed is not an issue, so I don't want flash."
B. "We need to ensure that our network can keep up with growth, without breaking our budget."
C. "With the security risks it poses and given the sensitive nature of our data, I don't even want to consider an IoT network."
D. "Our CIO recently moved most of our workloads to the cloud and added a second cloud provider."