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Family Enterprise Disk Storage Technical
Sales Level 3 Quiz.

Question 1

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Your newest DS8000 client inquiries about what benefit

DS8000 Metro Mirror Remote Pair FlashCopy provides. How do
you respond?

Remote Pair FlashCopy reduces the amount of time the

Metro Mirror relationship is suspended for so there isn't as
much data to be resynchronized.

The FlashCopy command is Inband but the same amount

of data movement is replicated required across the
mirroring links between the 2 FlashCopy targets.

Remote Pair FlashCopy reduces the amount of time the

FlashCopy relationship is paused for allowing the customer
to start using the FlashCopy sooner.

The FlashCopy command is Inband so there no data 

movement across the mirroring links between the 2

FlashCopy targets thereby reducing the amount of data
replicated and bandwidth required.
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IBM Storage Insights and Storage Insights Pro allow IBM

Support to collect and upload a clients packages if what action
is taken?

Clients must obtain a letter 116 to enable IBM Support to

monitor the DS8000.

Clients must obtain a Letter 112 to enable IBM Support to

monitor the DS8000.

Clients must opt out to enable IBM Support the ability to

monitor the DS8000.

Clients must opt in to enable IBM Support the ability to 

monitor the DS8000.

Question 3

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When DS8000 Safeguarded Copy is taken at the replicated

secondary site, what "Restore to the Production site" options
are available?

Clients must restore only from the TS7700.

Clients can restore to different Safeguarded Copy Source

Volumes only.

Clients can restore to the same or different Safeguarded 

Copy Source Volumes.

Clients can restore to the same Safeguarded Copy Source

Volumes only.
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Once a FlashCopy has completed the Established Phase then

what happens to the volumes?

They are unusable and not ready yet.

They are completely usable – rewritable. 

They are usable but non-writable.

They are immutable and protected.

Question 5

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How does DS8000 Global Mirror do synchronization in the

reverse direction when there has been a production site switch
(planned or disaster)?

Utilizes Delta Sets in cache to form consistency groups. 

Global Mirror Master tells all subordinates when to form a

consistency group.

Utilizes journal volumes at the Primary site to form

consistency groups.

FlashCopy Change Volumes are used to form a consistency

group.
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It turns out that clients were the ones to push for enhanced
GDPS Continuous Availability. They complained they were
losing millions of dollars within 1-hour of downtime. What
amount of downtime did they push IBM to deliver?

5 minutes or less. 

10 minutes or less.

7 minutes or less.

2 minutes or less.

Question 7

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Using HyperSwap for continuous availability is an excellent idea

for clients with high availability requirements. Which one of the
following is true, regarding HyperSwap technology enabled on
the DS8900F?

HyperSwap can enable High Availability using Flashcopy 

within the DS8900F.

HyperSwap requires CSM, GDPS, PowerHA, or VM Recovery

Manager.

HyperSwap is required to enable cluster failover in an AIX

PowerHA configuration.

HyperSwap provides for High Availability for systems

located at global distances.
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A client explains they are concerned about the scalability of

IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM). What accurate statement
can you tell them to set their mind at ease?

CSM supports an unlimited number of sessions and an 

unlimited number of copysets.

CSM supports an unlimited number of sessions and

thousands of copysets.

CSM supports thousands of sessions and an unlimited

number of copysets.

CSM only supports thousands of sessions and thousands of

copysets.

Question 9

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When meeting with a major client, you realize they have made a
number of incorrect statements about thin provisioning and
overprovisioning. Which statement below is accurate?

Overprovisioning requires thin provisioning, but thin

provisioning does not require overprovisioning.

Thin provisioning is dependent on overprovisioning.

Thin provisioning requires overprovisioning, but

overprovisioning does not require thin provisioning.

Overprovisioning is independent of thin provisioning. 

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IBM zHyperWrite is designed to significantly improve which

applications Write performance?

Db2, IBM, MQ, CICS, VSAM

Db2, IBM, Batch Resiliency

Db2, IMS

Db2, IMS and MQ 

Question 11

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DS8000 Global Mirror is a 2 site, 3-volume replication solution.

What are two key statements about DS8000 GM?

Combined solution of FlashCopy, Global Copy and

automation, AND it has integration with VMware Metro
Storage Cluster.

Built in automation to create consistency AND has a 

maximum network round trip time (RTT) of 50ms.

Designed to protect production performance at the

expense of mirror currency (RPO), AND it is designed to
provide a low RPO of 1-5 seconds.

Designed to protect the lowest RPO at the expense of

production performance AND do it at unlimited global
distances.
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During a meeting with an MSP who is considering acquiring

several DS8000s, a lot of questions arise about security. Fibre
Channel Endpoint Security consists of which two categories?

Data at rest and Data in Flight.

Link Layer and Network Layer.

Authentication of Identities and Rights to Access and 

integrity and confidentiality of data transferred between
two entities.

Host and Storage.

Question 13

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IBM DS8000 Global Copy provides Asynchronous Mirroring

without inherent consistency. How would a client use this
technology and achieve consistency?

GDPS/CSM will automatically do this.

Just use VMotion.

Manually stop updates at the primary, transition to Sync 

Mirroring Mode, and replicate a consistent FlashCopy.

They do not see any use case for using this capability.
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Utilizing Transparent Cloud Tiering (TCT) on the DS8900F, how

many concurrent cloud targets are supported?

Unlimited 

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Question 15

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You have noticed recently that many clients are asking about
when to use Easy Tier. When would you recommend they use
Easy Tier?

Only when used for open systems.

Only when a storage pool has three storage tiers.

Anytime because Easy Tier will perform auto- 

rebalancing even in a single tier or "homogenous"

storage pool.

Only when a storage pool has two storage tiers.

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During a client meeting, one the IT staff mentions they have

heard you say that DS8000 HyperSwap allows IO operations to
the Secondary box. He wants to know what exactly that means?

It allows Read IO to a HyperSwap secondary when it's 

suspended.

It allows all Read and Write IO to be performed from the

HyperSwap secondary is in Full Duplex.

It allows Read IO to a HyperSwap secondary when it's in

Full Duplex mode.

It allows all Read and Write IO to the to the secondary of a

HyperSwap suspended environment.

Question 17

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A client is intrigued with Safeguarded Copy and plans on using

it as part of their new cyber security solution. They are
attempting to do some capacity planning and they want to
know what is the maximum size of a Safeguarded Backup
Volume? Which answer below is correct?

32TB 

20TB

16TB

12TB
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DS8000 HyperSwap is designed for Continuous Availability

environments. What does it do?

Substitutes the Metro Mirror secondary with a restart of the

application.

Substitutes the Metro Mirror secondary and requires an IPL

of the server and restart of the application.

Substitutes the Metro Mirror secondary with no application

interruption.

Provides integrated non-disruptive fail-over with IBM Z, 

Power and x86 environments.

Question 19

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Your new client is curious about how all the features work in
their new DS8000. They ask how does DS8000 Global Mirror
form consistency groups?

Changes are copied from Site 2 to Site 1, over writing

existing data at Site 1.

A full sync must always be performed from Site 2 to Site 1.

A full sync must always be performed from Site 1 to Site 2.

Changes are copied from Site 1 to Site2, over writing 

existing data at Site 2.

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What are three key focus areas for the DS8900F?

Cyber Resiliency, 2/3/4 site Replication, and Storage

Resiliency.

Security, VMware, and low latency of 18us.

Cyber Resiliency, 2/3 site Replication, and NVMe for 

performance.

2/3 site replication, low latency of 18us, and Storage

Resiliency.

Question 21

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In an effort to stay ahead of the increasing threats generated by

cyber criminals, IBM created the
Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex (GDPS) Design
Council. Who is part of the council?

Current GDPS users from 30+ forward-looking 

companies.

10 carefully selected former EMC Symetrix clients.

IBM FlashSystem, Spectrum Scale and Storwize

developers.

Former members of the National Institute of Standards and

Technology (NIST).
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IBM has come out with something new on the Z platform which
addresses performance enhancements around reading from
the secondary box. What, or how, does this enhancement work?

It does not require HyperSwap to be enabled.

It requires Metro Mirror full duplex relationships that are

protected by HyperSwap.

It cannot be used if zHyperLink is used for synchronous

I/O.

It allows concurrent host access to Global Mirror target 

volumes.

Question 23

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When does DS8000 Metro Mirror require automation to

maintain data consistency?

Automation is always required for DS8000 Metro Mirror,

whether the dependent data is on a single or multiple
subsystems.

Automation is required for DS8000 Metro Mirror when 

dependent data spans across multiple physical disk

subsystems and recommended when all primary
volumes are within a single subsystem.

Automation is never required with DS8000 Metro Mirror as

the quorum/witness is leveraged.

Automation is only required with DS8000 Metro Mirror with

a quorum/witness in use.
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During a meeting, a prospective client is becoming excited

about Easy Tier. Which simple statement below is true and
should make the client very happy?

Easy Tier operates at the full volume or LUN level.

Easy Tier is supported by all server platforms with no 

additional software or host configuration, and it is

enabled by default.

Easy Tier extent movement within a tier is called "inter-

tier" rebalancing.

Easy Tier extent movement between tiers is called "intra-

tier" rebalancing.

Question 25

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You are at a prospective client site, and they are asking about
the ability to combine different types of replications with, or
without, Multi-Target being involved. What easy resource can
you use to quickly address their questions?

The DS8000 Copy Services Matrix. 

Copy Services Manager/IBM I Toolkit.

Storage Insights with Copy Services Manager.

Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex (GDPS)
management console.