M2090-744 Online Practice Questions and Answers

Which are the two key differences between the SoftLayer and Amazon public clouds?

A. SoftLayer provides only bare metal servers, while Amazon provides both virtual and bare metal

B. SoftLayer provides bare metal and virtual servers, while Amazon provides only virtual

C. SoftLayer does not charge for network transfer between SoftLayer datacenters, while Amazon charges for bandwidth between AWS datacenters

D. SoftLayer charges for network transfer between SoftLayer datacenters, while Amazon does not charge for bandwidth between AWS datacenters

DB2 BLU powers two different cloud offerings. These are:

A. 1) BLU Acceleration for Cloud 2)AnImage offering including Cognos

B. 1)BLU Insight 2)AManaged Service offering including Cognos

C. 1) BLU Analytics Acceleration 2)AManaged Service offering that does not include Cognos

D. 1)DB2 BLU Cloud Edition 2)AnImage offering that does not include Cognos

Which of the underlying technologies give BLU Acceleration its greatest competitive advantage over alternative solutions?

A. In-memory, columnar technology

B. Actionable compression

C. CPU acceleration

D. Data Skipping

Which are the best two entry points for BLU Acceleration?

A. Cognos BIcustomers

B. SAP BW customers

C. DB2 for z/OS customers

D. Oracle ERP customers

What type of "as-a-Service" delivery is SoftLayer?

A. Infrastructure-as-a-Service

B. Platform-as-a-Service

C. Software-as-a-Service

Which best describes the approach that should be used when working on a Cognos and BLU opportunity where Oracle or SQL Server exists today?

A. Try and introduce BLU into the environment as a Cognos Workload Accelerator, leveraging BLU for Cloud or the 90-day free trial

B. Use the Oracle application compatibility layer for Oracle and do not focus on SQLServer since we don't have the equivalent

C. Work to displace the Oracle or SQLServer environment as this has the largest revenue opportunity

D. We are not targeting these environments. We are only targeting existing Cognos and DB2 environments

Which best describes the Oracle environments that we should prioritize for Oracle takeout opportunities?

A. All Oracle environments are equally simple to go after with our Oracle application compatibility layer

B. The ideal environments are those where the Oracle Application Suite is being used by the client

C. SAP, Cognos and environments with home grown applications will generally be the easiest to go after

D. We only target take-out with SAP environments

Which aspect of BLU Acceleration best differentiates it from other competitors with some form columnar database support?

A. Extreme performance

B. Available as a cloud offering

C. Load and go simplicity

D. Parallel Vector Processing

When talking to a client, what is the Leading benefit of Hadoop/Big Insights?

A. To analyze unstructured and structured data

B. To store only structured data

C. Use it as landing zone for structured, unstructured, and semi structured data

D. To analyze external data

What type of "as-a-Service" delivery is BlueMix?

A. Infrastructure-as-a-Service

B. Platform-as-a-Service

C. Software-as-a-Service