IBM.000-200
IBM Storage Sales V1
1. A long time customer with both IBM servers and storage. The storage specialist has been asked to present an update on the IBM storage portfolio The sales specialist suspects there is a competitor actively marketing in the account.
Which of the following questions from the customer would most likely indicate a competitive storage activity?
A. How can the IBM SAN Volume Controller work in our environment?
B. What is the raw disk capacity of the IBM System Storage DS5300?
C. Does the DS8100 offer virtu a I ized arrays?
D. What are the support options available on the IBM System Storage DS5020?
Answer C
2. A customer has a heterogeneous storage environment and their storage growth rate is 75% per year.
Which of the following products would allow this customer to add new applications, new servers and more storage while not forcing them to schedule outages to add these upgrades?
A. SAN Volume Controller
B. Tivoli Content Manager
C. Tivoli Storage Manager
D. System Storage Productivity Center (SSPC)
Answer A
3. A customer is facing an audit in a few months. The company needs to show it is storing his data point in time regulated information properly. Therefore he wants to consolidate his data in an appropriate Storage Solution. But before purchasing he wants to validate and test the design.
Which of the following is the appropriate contact?
A. IBM Almaden Lab
B. IBM Techline
C. IBM Executive Briefing Center
D. Business Partner Innovation Center
Answer D
4. A small bio-technical company is interested in implementing an IBM Storage solution.
Which of the following tools can be used to help justify the cost of an IBM System Storage solution to a customer?
A. Disk Magic
B. Total Cost of Ownership Now (TCO)
C. Capacity Magic
D. System Storage Productivity Center (SSPC) for disk
Answer B
5. 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.
How can this best be accomplished?
A. Schedule a briefing at the IBM Almaden Research Center
B. Schedule a briefing at the IBM TotalStorage 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
Answer C
6. During a presentation on the DS5100, a member of the customer’s IT staff asks if the storage system cache Is mirrored
Which competitor is most likely to have highlighted mirrored cache as a feature of their storage system?
A. EMC
B. HDS
C. Sun
D. NetApp
Answer A
7. A Storage 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
Answer A
8. A retail customer has SAS attached storage for their Windows servers,, and is allocating money in next year’s budget for additional SAS attached storage.
What question should be asked to determine the proper storage solution to propose?
A. What backup solution are you using?
B. How many people manage your storage environment?
C. Has the customer considered IBM SAS solutions?
D. Would the customer consider a single storage pool?
Answer C
9. A manufacturing customer has an existing SAN for their AIX servers and they want to add their Windows servers with file level access to their existing storage pool.
Which of the following is the lowest cost solution?
A. IBM CISCO MDS 9513
B. N7900
C. DS33Q0
D. N6040
Answer D
10. A customer has Microsoft Windows, Sun, and Power servers with internal disk. They are porting several applications from other platforms to these servers and need 5 TB of shared disk.
Which of the following is the most cost effective, highly available, shared storage solution for this customer?
A. N5200
B. DS8300 Storage Server
C. DS3400 Storage Server
D. DS5300 Storage Server
Answer D
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