Interactive training modules for the XIV system can be found at which of the following resources?

A. Sales kit

B. KYI

C. Smart Zone

D. TDA website

Which IBM resource should be used to validate the results from a Disk Magic study PRIOR to presenting the

final storage solution and pricing to a client?

A. Customer Engineer

B. Storage Sales Specialist

C. CompeteLine Representative

D. Field Technical Sales specialist (Pre-Sales)

Before a customer is willing to buy the proposed SVC and TPC storage solution, they want to actually see the

product demonstrated “hands on”, in an environment similar to what the customer has installed. This includes

EMC, HDS, and IBM storage products.

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How can this best be accomplished?

A. Schedule a briefing at the IBM Almaden Research Center

B. Schedule a briefing at the IBM System Storage Executive Briefing Center

C. Schedule a briefing at the IBM System Storage Interoperability Center/Systems Lab

D. Schedule an FTSS to come on site and install either SVC or TPC at the customer site

A customer has a SAP production database with 10 TB of usable storage on a DS4700. The growth rate of

the data is 50% per year. The majority of the data rapidly becomes reference data and is not frequently

accessed. The customer would like to implement a content addressable storage solution that would migrate

the reference data to a less expensive disk.

Which of the following would be most cost effective solution?

A. IBM Information Archive

B. DS5020 using SATA drives and TSM with HSM

C. DS5300 with TotalStorage Productivity Center for Data

D. Storwize V7000 with Tivoli Storage Productivity Center

An IBM Power System with AIX customer is using an IBM System Storage DS8800 in location A and an IBM

System Storage DS5300 in location B 25 km across town. The customer wants a redundant copy in location

B for disaster recovery.

Which of the following solutions will best satisfy this requirement?

A. FlashCopyonaDS8800

B. SAN Volume Controllers with FlashCopy

C. SAN Volume Controllers with Metro Mirror

D. Global Mirror on the DS8800 and Enhanced Remote Mirror on the DS5300

A sales specialist is competing against EMC for a Data Retention opportunity. The customer has a need for

less than 1 TB of fixed content. Which of the following IBM products should be quoted to satisfy this

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requirement at minimum cost?

A. DS5020

B. IBM Information Archive

C. DS3500

D. Storwize V7000

The customer is looking for a new server to run his interactive database application. Many users will be

accessing the database at the same time.

Which of the following what types of server would you expect the customer to be running the database on for

best performance and scalability?

A. Intel server

B. Data warehouse node

C. Unix or AIX server

D. High performance cluster

Oracle STK claims the highest reliability and fastest mount times in the industry. Which feature(s) of the

TS3500 should be configured in response to the STK proposal?

A. TS3500wilhadualgripper

B. TS3500 with the High Availability option

C. TS3500 with ALMS (Advanced Library Management System)

D. TS3500 with both LTO Generation 4 Ultrium Drives and 3592 high performance drives intermixed

Which of the following customer environments is addressed by the N series?

A. A customer wanting to implement a global file system

B. A customer with Windows CIFS and AIXNFS requirements

C. A customer who requires good scalability and performance

D. A customer who needs to consolidate multiple storage controllers under one management interface

A sales specialist is talking to a customer who is implementing a storage solution for an emergency room

surgeon to rapidly retrieve critical information.

Which of the following is a key technology to meet these needs?

A. Direct attach Fibre Channel Storage

B. Direct attached SCSI Drives

C. Direct attach USB appliance

D. Direct attach Near Line Storage