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Question 1

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IBM has introduced something to help clients who are looking

for a container management platform for either Docker
packages or their own container packages. What IBM offering
helps this?

Select one:
IBM Spectrum Accelerate for Cloud

IBM Cloud Paks 

IBM Multicloud Manager

Kubernetes and Docker

Question 2

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What is the name of the base software stack that provides a

wealth of features for SAN Volume Controller and FlashSystem
storage systems?

Select one:
IBM Spectrum Virtualize 

IBM Spectrum Storage

IBM Spectrum Accelerate

IBM Spectrum Scale

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Question 3

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IBM offers a solution to deliver consumption-based cloud

pricing for on-premises storage infrastructure. What is it called?

Select one:
Storage Utility Offering 

Hybrid Multicloud Pricing

Storwize Public Cloud Pricing

Spectrum Virtualize Cloud Pak

Question 4

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In the Storage for Hybrid Multicloud client presentation, we

attempt to show the customer several characteristics that they
should be looking for in storage. We believe that these
characteristics are distinctive for IBM Storage and will give you
a competitive advantage. Which of the following is NOT one of
IBM’s distinctive competitive advantages?

Select one:
You can bring cloud economics on-premises by using
consumption-based pricing that flexes up and down

Non-volatile memory express (NVMe) delivers more 

predictable and faster throughput, thus helping to

increase infrastructure density

Artificial intelligence (AI) infused software as a solution

(SaaS) based monitoring and management can simplify
operations

Strategic storage choices are more about the software

foundation that you select than the hardware that it
happens to be running on

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Question 5

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When it comes to selling storage for hybrid multicloud what is

the one thing we should avoid?

Select one:
Promote infrastructure density

Promote cloud pricing 

Promote data availability

Promote Speeds and Feeds

Question 6

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What makes IBM’s Easy Tier unique?

Select one:
It works on a whole logical unit number (LUN) basis

It works only with IBM block storage devices

It is cognitive artificial intelligence (AI) driven rather 

than policy based

It can differentiate between 7.2K and 10K hard disk drives

(HDDs)

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Question 7

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IBM offers a high availability feature for highly critical data. This
feature may even support a 100% uptime guarantee. What is
the name of this feature?

Select one:
HyperSwap 

Synchronous Replication

Hyper-Scale

Asynchronous Replication

Question 8

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Sometimes we encounter scenarios where clients say that they

don’t need additional storage. What can IBM offer to still obtain
a win with Spectrum Virtualize while also providing clients with
a way to gain access to the cloud?

Select one:
SAN Volume Controller (SVC)

IBM Tape library solutions

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 

Spectrum Copy Data Management

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Question 9

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When it comes to Data Reduction Pools what is a major

differentiator that IBM has?

Select one:
Deduplication via hardware inside each FlashCore Module

Data Reduction ratios of 3:1 are easily obtained

Selectable flexibility by data pool 

Clients must have data reduction running in a Data

Reduction Pool

Question 10

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What powerful ability that is found in SAN Volume Controller

and the majority of the FlashSystem family enables clients to
bring consistent management and features to over 500 (used to
be 450) heterogeneous storage systems?

Select one:
Storage Virtualization 

IBM Storage Insights

WAN IP Replication

VAAI and VASA

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Question 11

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The majority of the Spectrum Virtualize-based FlashSystem

family supports Data Reduction Pools (DRPs) which can help to
increase effective capacity. Which of the following most
accurately describes the capabilities of DRPs?

Select one:
Thin provisioning, SCSI Unmap and compression

Thin provisioning and SCSI Unmap

Thin provisioning, SCSI Unmap, pattern removal, 

deduplication and compression

Thin provisioning, SCSI Unmap, deduplication and

compression

Question 12

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All Spectrum Virtualize storage solutions include powerful

cloud software that provides AI based predictive analytics and
proactive health monitoring. This software is included at no
additional cost. It is called _____________.

Select one:
IBM Spectrum Control

IBM Spectrum Connect

IBM Storage Insights 

IBM Multicloud Manager

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Question 13

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There are competitors who have stronger cloud features in

specific areas than we do at the moment. In what way might we
counter those advantages?

Select one:
IBM’s lower price and superior warranties offset any
advantages a competitor might have in specific areas

IBM can effectively create a homogeneous 

infrastructure with consistent abilities everywhere

Where IBM has advantages they are so significant that they

offset the advantages that our competitors might have

With Storage Insights, IBM can perform predictive

analytics on every system in a client’s data center thereby
providing a much simpler infrastructure to manage

Question 14

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When we examine our competitor’s storage systems, we

observe that one of them has a stronger cloud solution than the
rest. Which competitor temporarily has the stronger cloud
abilities?

Select one:
Dell

HPE

Pure

NetApp 

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Question 15

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What is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Formation

Template?

Select one:
It’s a service enabling the launch of virtual machine
instances

It is a template that contains a software configuration

It creates and configures AWS resources and figures out 

dependencies

It’s a platform with application services that share

common security and interconnection

Question 16

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The majority of Spectrum Virtualize solutions are positioned for

future storage advancements. What is the ultrahigh-
performance, low-latency, storage type that is supported by
most of the FlashSystem family?

Select one:
FlashCore Modules

Storage Class Memory 

Storage disk scalability

Server cache intermix

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Question 17

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IBM’s acquisition of Red Hat has enabled our storage to support

containerization and easy transportability between various
clouds and on-premises environments using an open standard.
What software enables this?

Select one:
Docker

OpenShift 

OpenStructure

Kubernetes

Question 18

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What makes Easy Tier so efficient that it can deliver impressive

results even when using only a small percentage of truly high-
performance storage?

Select one:
It works on a sub-LUN basis 

It uses a brute force algorithm to predict what should be

moved

It works through an advanced hyperlink connection

It uses central processing unit cache memory for swap

space

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Question 19

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Virtualization is the foundation of most traditional data centers.

Virtual machines were designed to make efficient use of
physical hardware. Containers are different. What are
containers primarily designed to accomplish?

Select one:
Containers help IT managers contain the amount of data
that new-gen applications are creating

Containers make even more efficient use of physical

hardware than virtual machines

Containers make it easy to move applications from one 

place to another

Containers orchestrate the deployment and management

of new applications at the scale of a Hybrid Multicloud

Question 20

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What is the name of the powerful and unique purpose-built

storage devices that are found in the majority of Spectrum
Virtualize-based storage systems?

Select one:
Storage Class Memory

FlashCore Modules 

MicroLatency Modules

Dual Ported NVMe SSDs

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Question 21

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Which is NOT part of the core messaging around the IBM

difference?

Select one:
Hybrid: IBM Storage stands apart by providing a consistent
approach to security, data reduction, data mobility, and
operations

Secure: IBM Storage, unlike competitors, extends

encryption across your existing information technology (IT)
storage environment

Performant: IBM Storage is distinctive with 

benchmarked input/output operations per second

(IOPS) performance faster than over 450
heterogeneous storage systems

Multicloud: IBM Storage has a unique software foundation

that provides open interoperability across storage systems
and clouds

Question 22

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What is the most affordably priced system in the FlashSystem

portfolio with end-to-end NVMe?

Select one:
FlashSystem 5010

FlashSystem 5100 

FlashSystem 7200

FlashSystem 5030

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Question 23

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One great example of the power of consumption-based cloud

pricing for on-premises infrastructure relates to one of the IBM
FlashWatch guarantees. Which best describes this
combination?

Select one:
When acquiring IBM FlashCore Modules under
consumption-based cloud pricing, the FlashWatch
Endurance Guarantee means the flash will still be working
when the capacity is finally consumed

Two storage systems are required for 100% uptime via 

HyperSwap and using the Utility Offering, the cost of the
base capacity on the 2 systems is only 1.2x the base
cost of a single leased system

With FlashWatch including 90 days of data migration for

free, the consumption-based cloud pricing can ramp up
slowly over the first three months

With the FlashWatch Data Reduction Guarantee,

compression and deduplication can help reduce acquisition
costs to the point that cloud pricing isn't necessary

Question 24

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What term is used to refer to block storage that is virtualized by

Spectrum Virtualize for Cloud on Amazon Web Services (AWS)?

Select one:
S3

EBS 

AMI

EC2

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Question 25

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In an environment that is experiencing dramatic and consistent

growth, which of the following statements represents an
excellent reason for choosing FlashSystem 7200 rather than
FlashSystem 5100?

Select one:
2.5X more cache, 2.5X more IOPS and 2.5X more
clustering

1.5X more cache, 1.5X more IOPS and 1.5X more

clustering

3X more cache, 3X more IOPS and 3X more clustering

2X more cache, 2X more IOPS and 2X more clustering 

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