143-120 Exam Questions

You will be migrating several hundred Windows/Intel servers to Linux on your System z10. Which statement describes the difference between the FICON Express8 channels and the FCP ch...

What are two z/OS features you can use with your System z10 and an appropriate storage array to improve the performance of DB2? (Choose two.)

A customer is planning on connecting a new storage array at 8 Gbps. The storage vendor has recommended that the Fill Word should be set to IDLE/IDLE. Which step must be taken to ve...

To use Systems Automation to manage a FICON switch, which two conditions must be satisfied? (Choose two.)

You are using channel extension with FICON Acceleration between two remote sites using Brocade 7800s and a cascaded DCX. You need to isolate paths to specific ports. Which feature...

There are three data centers as shown in the exhibit. Two data centers need to be on line at all times and each data center can backup the adjacent data center. The IOCP is configu...

A customer would like to implement a B-Series cascaded FICON fabric solution and ensure a fabric- wide consistency policy. Which feature must be used to accomplish this?

Your customer is implementing a FICON cascaded fabric in a pure Fabric OS environment. You are asked to validate if there is a hop of concern. What will you look for in the design?...

Which three statements apply when using Enhanced Traffic Isolation zones? (Choose three.)

Which two statements apply when using Traffic Isolation (TI) Zones with failover enabled? (Choose two.)

Your customer has been operating an intermix fabric, with FICON channels cascading from Brocade DCXs to storage devices attached to M6140 switches. The customer is removing all M-S...

Your company uses Brocade fabrics and has purchased an M-Series fabrics company. You want to merge a Brocade DCX, that is filled with 48-port blades, using IM=2, with a M6140. Whic...

Your M6140 FICON fabrics customer has recently acquired another company which uses Brocade DCX FICON fabrics. Their plans include consolidating to a single mainframe and consolidat...

You have a customer with a Mi10K to Mi10K cascaded FICON fabric that has recently acquired another company which has a Brocade DCX to DCX cascaded FICON fabric. They are implementi...

Your company uses Brocade fabrics and has purchased an M-Series fabrics company. You want to merge a Brocade DCX with an M6140. What are two possible issues to consider? (Choose tw...

You want to connect a new Brocade DCX onto your existing M6140, which runs in Open Fabric Mode. Which three steps must be performed before you can setup a cascaded interop fabric?...

A B-Series customer needs to change the MIHPTO value currently configured for the CUP. Which tool is available to make the change?

Your customer is upgrading a single-switch configuration to a cascaded configuration. They now need to update their IOCP entries with 2-byte link addresses. What information is nec...

A System z customer is investigating the implementation of private cloud computing in their data center. Which two Brocade DCX features would allow a switched-FICON infrastructure...

Your customer wants to deploy a switched I/O infrastructure. What are three benefits for doing this? (Choose three.)

A customer wants to deploy Virtual Fabrics in a Brocade DCX. Which two Virtual Fabric features are available for use in a FICON environment? (Choose two.)

A customer is planning on deploying a Brocade DCX using Virtual Fabrics to support a number of open systems and FICON applications. What is the maximum number of logical switches t...

Referring to the exhibit, a CHPID connected to SW 1 has paths defined to both CU A and CU B . In Brocade 143-120 Exam the event of ISL 1 failing, which feature can be implemented t...

Your company recently acquired another company located across a river over 1 km wide. Your current disaster recovery (DR) plans are to write data to tape and transport them offsite...

A company realizes that losing one of two sites will result in not having a backup site. This Brocade 143-120 Exam company is planning a three site disaster recovery strategy. Ther...

Referring to the exhibit, a customer currently has two synchronous data centers 10 miles apart and an out of region data center (OOR DC) 500 miles away. Which two features could be...

Using dark fiber connections, you want to add an additional FICON Director to an existing 8 Gbps FICON fabric to connect to a remote backup location. The new FICON Director will be...

The customer wants to use cascaded FICON Directors between multiple sites as part of its business continuance strategy. The CIO has requested an automated solution that provides no...

The System z customer has cascaded FICON using a 30 km DWDM link. The ISL links on each switch are 4 Gbps. The customer cannot achieve 4 Gbps utilization across the fabric. What is...

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...

You need to gather information from RMF that can help you determine if you have a buffer credit Brocade 143-120 Exam starvation problem on a port. Which value in RMF would you revi...

What are three benefits of using FICON CUP? (Choose three.)

When gathering statistics using CUP, if more than one RMF LPAR is accessing the CUP port at one time, what are two potential problems? (Choose two.)

What are three benefits of using FICON CUP? (Choose three.)

CUP installed on a Director is capable of performing which two functions? (Choose two.)

What are three supported CHPID types for System z Ethernet connectivity? (Choose three.)

You are migrating from direct attached FICON at one site to a cascaded FICON architecture spanning two sites that are 20 km apart. You are concerned about performance on the cascad...

Your company has provided you with dark fiber between your local data center and a remote data center. What are two concerns when configuring your Director for extended distance FI...

A System z10 customer who uses FICON Express8 channel cards will be implementing high performance FICON (zHPF). The customer has both M-Series FICON Directors as well as B-Series F...

Which offset does the M6140 use in calculating the proper port address?

A customer has a policy to automate support calls. They have a number of Mi10Ks and Brocade DCXs supported by two vendors. How can the customer ensure that reports for the Mi10Ks a...

What are two prerequisites for gathering RMF data from a FICON switch? (Choose two.)

A customer using a FICON Fabric with Brocade DCXs wants to use DCFM to perform a blade swap to perform a FRU replacement on one of the Directors. What are two important rules to co...

You must ensure that configuration data is backed up for a B-Series Director. Which two applications would you use? (Choose two.)

You are installing a firmware update on a Brocade DCX with CUP enabled. z/OS reported a Brocade 143-120 Exam timeout on the CUP device. Which action should you take to avoid losing...

Which two System z operating systems work with a Brocade DCX? (Choose two.)

You are experiencing unusual traffic performance patterns and would like to provide DCFM's real- time performance data to your local support team for further investigation. How wou...

You are migrating from direct attached FICON at one site to a cascaded FICON architecture spanning two sites that are 20 km apart. You are concerned about performance on the cascad...

Which three actions are required to create and populate the RMF FICON Director Activity Report so frame pacing delay can be monitored? (Choose three.)

You used a 2-byte link address for installing new storage on a single (non-cascaded) Brocade DCX-4S Director. Unfortunately you cannot configure the CHPID online. Which statement i...