M2090-744 Online Practice Questions and Answers

DB2 BLU powers two different cloud offerings. These are:

A. 1) BLU Acceleration for Cloud 2)AnImage offering including Cognos

B. 1)BLU Insight 2)AManaged Service offering including Cognos

C. 1) BLU Analytics Acceleration 2)AManaged Service offering that does not include Cognos

D. 1)DB2 BLU Cloud Edition 2)AnImage offering that does not include Cognos

Which of the underlying technologies give BLU Acceleration its greatest competitive advantage over alternative solutions?

A. In-memory, columnar technology

B. Actionable compression

C. CPU acceleration

D. Data Skipping

Which are the best two entry points for BLU Acceleration?

A. Cognos BIcustomers

B. SAP BW customers

C. DB2 for z/OS customers

D. Oracle ERP customers

What type of "as-a-Service" delivery is SoftLayer?

A. Infrastructure-as-a-Service

B. Platform-as-a-Service

C. Software-as-a-Service

Which best describes the approach that should be used when working on a Cognos and BLU opportunity where Oracle or SQL Server exists today?

A. Try and introduce BLU into the environment as a Cognos Workload Accelerator, leveraging BLU for Cloud or the 90-day free trial

B. Use the Oracle application compatibility layer for Oracle and do not focus on SQLServer since we don't have the equivalent

C. Work to displace the Oracle or SQLServer environment as this has the largest revenue opportunity

D. We are not targeting these environments. We are only targeting existing Cognos and DB2 environments

Which is the most accurate statement about why BLU is a better alternative solution to HANA?

A. BLU is less expensive than HANA. but is the same technology

B. BLU is the only solution in the industry which leverages both in-memory technology as well as deep hardware exploitation such as SIMD

C. BLU provides a less expensive solution which works with all SAP applications regardless of whether there are analytics or reporting running in the system

D. BLU provides a less expensive, mature and more flexible columnar implementation than HANA so that the client will not need to change their skills or hardware infrastructure

Which two examples show that Amazon RedShift lacks DB2 BLU's usability features?

A. Compression algorithms must be picked manually

B. Workload management divides resources manually and does not dynamically adjust memory allocation to meet workload requirements

C. Query execution plans must be specified manually

D. Data skipping must be specified manually

Which aspect of BLU Acceleration best differentiates it from other competitors with some form columnar database support?

A. Extreme performance

B. Available as a cloud offering

C. Load and go simplicity

D. Parallel Vector Processing

When talking to a client, what is the Leading benefit of Hadoop/Big Insights?

A. To analyze unstructured and structured data

B. To store only structured data

C. Use it as landing zone for structured, unstructured, and semi structured data

D. To analyze external data

What type of "as-a-Service" delivery is BlueMix?

A. Infrastructure-as-a-Service

B. Platform-as-a-Service

C. Software-as-a-Service