143-120 Exam Questions

You have enabled FMS on a Brocade DCX FICON Director so you can have the FICON Director Activity Report (RMF 74-7) record. You look for the RMF reports and notice that the RMF 74-7...

What can show average PEND and CONN times that should be used as the starting point for a channel I/O analysis in conjunction with the FICON Director Activity Report?

You have FMS licenses installed on your Brocade DCX FICON Directors. You use the FICON Director activity report and collect RMF data at five minute intervals. You are having proble...

Which two terms in command mode are used interchangeably in FICON to describe one I/O operation in progress? (Choose two.)

You extensively use DB2 and have used MIDAW with great results. You recently purchased a System z10 and an appropriate storage array. You have all the z/OS code levels and DASD arr...

You have both FICON and FCP connections to a standalone Brocade DCX that does not have virtual fabrics enabled. Recently, the open systems team accidentally added mainframe DASD to...

You have four FICON Directors with 124 ports available. Your open systems SAN consists of four other Directors that are at end of lease. You are deciding whether or not to replace...

Your customer wishes to implement Brocade 7800s as a replacement for Brocade Edge M3000s in a FICON tape cascaded fabric. Which three should you consider? (Choose three.)

Your customer wishes to implement Brocade 7800s as a replacement for Brocade Edge M3000s in a FICON tape cascaded fabric that includes M-Series switches. Which three elements shoul...

A customer is deploying two FX8-24 blades to support their FICON disaster recovery environment. The customer is interested in having multiple circuits configured per FCIP tunnel. W...

A customer has purchased the Brocade Accelerator for FICON license and has enabled it on their Brocade 7800. Which three FICON extension features are enabled? (Choose three.)

A customer already has a 4 Gbps FICON cascade DWDM link between two sites 75 km apart. They want to increase this to 8 Gbps and have confirmed that this service is available from t...

What are two reasons why buffer credits are used in FICON? (Choose two.)

What are two Brocade recommended best practices with CUP for B-Series switches? (Choose two.)

A customer has a FICON disaster recovery solution deploying Brocade DCXs with FX8-24 blades. Which three configuration options are required to run FICON Acceleration? (Choose three...

A customer wants to configure Top Talkers to evaluate their FICON traffic. Which license is required?

What are two considerations before swapping ports in a FICON environment? (Choose two.)

A customer has upgraded their FCIP solution for FICON from Brocade 7500s to Brocade 7800s. Which two additional features are available with the 7800s? (Choose two.)

What is the Brocade recommendation for zoning FICON nodes?

A customer wants to use Web Tools predefined basic graph types to simplify performance monitoring in their B-Series FICON fabric. Which three graphs are available? (Choose three.)

A field engineer has been asked to setup Advanced Performance Monitoring to measure the traffic between a FICON host/target pair. Which two types of advanced monitoring are availab...

Which two additional values can SAN Health provide to FICON customers? (Choose two.)

You need to enable RMF to be able to read the statistics from a FICON Director. Which two tasks must you complete? (Choose two.)

A customer wants to compare, verify, and document the cascaded configuration. The channel definitions will be matched to path statements and I/O definitions. Which tool can be used...

A customer wants to merge two cascaded FICON fabrics and use the DCFM "FICON Merge Fabrics" wizard to identify conflicts. Which two conflicts would be identified? (Choose two.)

A customer wants to configure Top Talkers in fabric mode to monitor real-time performance data using DCFM for the FICON connections. At the same time the customer wants to use othe...

A user wants to disable failover on a Traffic Isolation (TI) Zone. What should be considered before disabling failover?

You must configure a cascaded FICON fabric using Brocade DCXs. Both zoning and PDCM are implemented to control connectivity between ports. What is an important rule to consider whe...

Which three tasks are configured in the DCFM FICON configuration wizard? (Choose three.)

Which two statements describe the differences between blocking and prohibiting? (Choose two.)

You want to generate a FICON Director Report for multiple FICON enabled Directors. Which two steps are completed? (Choose two.)

Which application provides a built-in FTP server used to manage firmware?

A customer is facing problems in a B-Series Director fabric. Their support provider requests additional information. What FICON-specific information is captured in the supportsave...

Given the system error message shown below, which parameter value should be changed? IOS051I INTERFACE TIMEOUT DETECTED ON 24FE,6F,E4,**02,PCHID=0411 Brocade 143-120 Exam

Your customer advises that they have incurred some link incidents in the fabric, but they do not see link incident reports posted on the z/OS system consoles where they are expecti...

Linux servers and storage were recently added to a Director previously used only for a FICON environment. The Linux servers discovered the FICON DASD. You find that default zoning...

You are restoring power to a FICON Director using CUP that previously had all ports fully functional. You are notified that connectivity has been lost on some ports after the power...

A customer is displaying Brocade DCX-4S switch statistics to determine the cause of a performance problem with tapes during a backup. The counter tim_txcrd_z (Time TX Credit Zero)...

For performance improvements, the recommended buffer-to-buffer credits on a Director port are related to which two values? (Choose two.)

You are running FICON Express8 cards on your System z10EC, Brocade DCX, and DASD arrays. You have noticed performance issues. Response times have been abnormally high with PEND nea...

Which two can be used with a channel that supports System z High Performance FICON? (Choose two.)

Which two elements affect the unrepeated distance supported by System z FICON features? (Choose two.)

What are three topologies supported by FICON Native mode (CHPID type FC)? (Choose three.)

Which two modes are supported by the System z FICON Express8 card? (Choose two.)

What are three technologies required for a System z Parallel Sysplex architecture? (Choose three.)

As the z/OS systems programmer, you are converting some of your channel paths and devices from ESCON data streams to FICON data streams. What are two FICON specific configuration i...

In a FICON infrastructure, between a System z and its storage, what contains valid components of an end-to-end path of that infrastructure?

A systems programmer wants to share channels across logical partitions within a single channel subsystem. Which CSS feature will need to be implemented?

A systems programmer is planning to cascade a new Brocade DCX chassis to an existing DCX. The systems programmer has defined the domain ID in the LINK field of the CNTLUNIT macro a...

A systems programmer has implemented FICON Express8 channels on the System z mainframe. What is the maximum, certified, effective full duplex data transfer rate that is possible on...