C1000-020 Online Practice Questions and Answers

An IBM SVC customer is migrating to use data reduction pools. They want to add data reduction capabilities to grow effective capacity and make existing storage more efficient.

What is required to add the capabilities and minimize TCO?

A. Compression licenses for the usable capacity being compressed

B. No further licensing required

C. IBM Spectrum Control

D. IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management

Which offering provides file sharing and transparent cloud tiering?

A. IBM Spectrum Virtualize

B. IBM Spectrum Accelerate

C. IBM Cloud Object Storage

D. IBM Spectrum Scale

Which IBM solution provides simplified management for a heterogeneous block storage environment?

A. IBM Spectrum Accelerate

B. IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management

C. IBM Spectrum Protect Suite

D. IBM Virtual Storage Center

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

Which concern should a sales specialist emphasize when proposing a new high availability storage replication solution between two sites?

A. Number of hosts attached

B. Server speed of models

C. WAN connection

D. Host attachment protocol of the storage devices

A company has added a new IBM Storwize V7000 to its existing multi-vendor environment.

Which software is needed to allow the IBM Storwize V7000 to manage the different storage devices?

A. Security Key Life Cycle Manager

B. External Virtualization

C. Global Mirror

D. Real-time Compression

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

What is a key difference on the warranty between IBM FlashSystem and many of its competitors?

A. IBM replaces the flash modules if the IOPS are within IBM specification.

B. IBM provides full coverage for flash modules under a maintenance contract.

C. IBM provides on-site coverage for flash modules replacement.

D. IBM provides coverage for flash modules for five years.

A customer has purchased a new IBM Storwize V7000 and wants a 4-hour response time. What is the standard warranty for IBM Storwize V7000?

A. 9 to 5 same day

B. 24 x 7, 2-hour response

C. 9 to 5 next business day

D. 24 x 7, 4-hour response