C1000-021 Online Practice Questions and Answers

An online shopping website stores orders and large amounts of product data on a multi-tier IBM Storwize storage solution. All data is stored in a mixed pool including NL-SAS, enterprise, and flash storage. How can Easy Tier assist this organization with its data performance?

A. Promote data directly form NL-SAS to flash storage.

B. Promote data from enterprise to flash storage.

C. Place new data directly on flash storage.

D. Create image mode volumes on flash and enterprise storage.

Which function produces the heat map file that is used as input to STAT?

A. Easy Tier

B. Storage Tier Optimizer

C. Disk Magic

D. Comprestimator

A customer has an Oracle RAC environment that requires high availability and disaster recovery in one

solution.

Which feature of IBM Spectrum Virtualize address these needs?

A. Consistency groups

B. HyperSwap

C. Snapshot integration

D. Transparent cloud tiering

A customer has requested a proposal for 350 TB of NL-SAS disk storage for its new backup system. The customer requires data availability in case of dual drive failure, fast rebuild times, and minimum capacity loss to protection overhead.

Which RAID configuration should the technical specialist recommend?

A. RAID 0

B. RAID 0+1

C. RAID 6

D. DRAID 6

What is assured by executing a Technical and Delivery Assessment (TDA)?

A. The technical quality of a solution

B. Best practices are reviewed

C. The solution meets total cost of ownership requirements

D. Support calls will be unnecessary during implementation

A customer wants to move an MDisk between storage pools.

Which action accomplishes this task?

A. Manually migrate the MDisk to the target storage pool

B. Force delete the MDisk and recreate it in the target storage pool

C. Use Easy Tier to move the extents off the MDisk and reassign

D. Utilize the migration wizard to move the MDisk between storage pools

A customer needs software that will produce an application consistent clone of a database for use as a test environment.

Which feature or product enables this requirement?

A. IBM Copy Services Manager

B. FlashCopy

C. IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot

D. Volume mirroring

A customer experienced an issue on a mission-critical application during overnight processing. The customer needs help understanding exactly when the problem happened and help with troubleshooting.

Which feature of IBM Spectrum Control aids in problem determination?

A. Storage Resource agent

B. IBM Spectrum Virtualize GUI Performance Statistics

C. Storage Optimizer

D. Custom reporting

A customer's fibre-channel attached storage is approaching end-of-lease and will be returned. The customer is also evaluating IBM Storwize solutions. It is important during the transition period that data are available, that interruption is minimized, and that costs are kept low.

Which IBM Spectrum Virtualize for Storwize topic should be discussed with the customer?

A. Remote Mirroring license

B. Advanced chargeable features

C. FlashCopy license

D. Built-in functions

A customer acquires a new business unit that utilizes SAN boot volumes and wants to bring their systems and storage into the existing IBM SVC environment.

What must the customer do with the volumes to bring them under IBM SVC management with minimal downtime?

A. Import the volumes using Image Mode

B. Import the volumes using Managed Mode

C. Migrate the volumes using the migration wizard

D. Perform a backup and restore of the data