C1000-020 Online Practice Questions and Answers

A customer is looking to boost performance of its applications. It has two years left on the lease of existing storage. The customer also has a significant amount of copy services and replication built into its environment.

Which IBM storage solution is able to boost performance without a major change to the customer's environment?

A. IBM Spectrum Virtualize

B. IBM FlashSystem V9000

C. IBM FlashSystem 900

D. IBM FlashSystem A9000R

A customer has concerns about the performance of business analytics on its IBM XIV Gen3 system.

Which optional feature of the IBM Gen3 XIV retains the customer's investment in hardware and training and improves performance?

A. Compression

B. Self-encryption drives

C. FlashCache

D. Hyper-Scale Mobility

Which feature of the IBM storage portfolio can make the cost of IBM FlashSystem V9000 competitive with the cost per TB of spinning disk?

A. Data Reduction Pools

B. High IOPS

C. Ultra Low Latency

D. Easy Tier

Which function does a pre-install Technical and Delivery Assessment (TDA) perform?

A. Review the customer pricing of the IBM storage solution.

B. Provide a roadmap of questions to use when reviewing a proposal for IBM storage products prior to ordering.

C. Use a checklist of questions to assess the site readiness for installation.

D. Review the technical configuration before ordering the storage solution.

Why would a client ask for an ROI calculation for a proposed IBM storage solution?

A. To measure the time until an investment id depreciated

B. To measure the overall OPEX and CAPEX

C. To determine how a lease is a better option than a purchase

D. To measure the financial benefit of an investment over a given period

A customer is deploying a new data center and requires a storage solution that provides storage virtualization, management, and archive-to-tape at the lowest cost per TB.

Which solution should the sales specialist recommend?

A. IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management

B. IBM Spectrum Virtualize

C. IBM Spectrum Suite

D. IBM Spectrum Archive

Which product allows a customer to monitor and recommend optimization for existing storage to align to business requirements?

A. IBM Spectrum Connect

B. IBM Spectrum Control

C. IBM Spectrum Insights

D. IBM Spectrum Scale

Which IBM storage product includes transparent cloud tiering?

A. IBM Spectrum Protect

B. IBM Spectrum NAS

C. IBM Spectrum Accelerate

D. IBM Spectrum Virtualize

What is the official IBM resource that is targeted at its business partners for information on storage?

A. IBM DeveloperWorks

B. Inside System Storage

C. IBM PartnerWorld

D. IBM Redbooks

A customer needs to create clones of a production database environment to refresh its test and development environments. The production database contains sensitive data, and automated data masking is required.

Which solution should the sales specialist recommend?

A. IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management

B. IBM Spectrum Virtualize

C. IBM Spectrum Control

D. IBM Spectrum Project Snapshot