143-130 Exam Questions

You are using a Brocade DCX 8510 with an FX8-24 blade installed. There are two logical switches, RDR applications are in one logical switch and FICON tape is in a different logical...

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

A customer has validated the fabric configuration and still cannot establish an ISL path to a remote storage device. Which two tools will help to isolate the problem? (Choose two.)

You have a native FICON link across DWDM and you want to configure the proper number of buffer-to- buffer credits based on an average frame size. You are using Fabric OS v7.1 or la...

The use of FICON CUP on a Brocade Director allows the z/OS System Automation to perform which two functions? (Choose two.)

You want to use Virtual Fabrics for your FICON environment on your Brocade DCX 8510-8 hardware. Which two statements are true? (Choose two.)

A customer uses the Brocade Network Advisor FICON Configuration Manager (FCM) to merge a new fabric into a FICON cascaded fabric. Which two statements are true? (Choose two.)

Two FICON teams are sharing a Brocade DCX 8510 partitioned into two logical switches, LS1 and LS2. A storage array attached to LS1, with no connections to LS2, is to be moved to LS...

A customer wants to use Web Tools'/Element Manager's predefined basic graph types to simplify performance monitoring in their Brocade FICON fabric. Which three graphs are available...

According to Brocade best practices, what should be considered when configuring switches for FICON when using Virtual Fabrics?

You have multiple 1 Gbps DWDM links between two sites. The DWDM has different pathways with different round trip times (RTT) ranging from 10 ms to 30 ms. You are going to use FCIP...

A systems programmer is required to share channels across logical partitions and channel subsystems regardless of the channel subsystem to which the LPAR is configured. Which featu...

A customer purchased the Brocade FICON Advanced Accelerator license and enabled it on their Brocade 7800 4/2. Which three FICON extension features are enabled? (Choose three.)

You want to implement a Protocol Intermix fabric. Which two statements are correct? (Choose two.)

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

Multiple RMF LPARs are accessing the CUP port at the same time. What are two potential problems when gathering statistics using CUP? (Choose two.)

A customer wants to detect bottleneck conditions within a SAN fabric. Which two conditions are monitored? (Choose two.)

Refer to the exhibit. You have an IBM System zEC12 and will be running Linux on System z. You will need to use some of your FICON channels in FCP mode. Which mechanism is required...

A customer replaces an M6140 FICON Director with a new Brocade DCX Director. The M6140 was cascaded to an existing DCX that is in interopmode 2. Now the new DCX is cascaded to the...

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

Refer to the exhibit. What shows 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 Re...

You have enabled FMS on a Brocade DCX 8510 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...

A field engineer is asked to setup Advanced Performance Monitoring to measure the traffic between a FICON host/target pair. Which two types of advanced monitoring are available? (C...

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

You have Brocade 7800 channel extension between two sites. Which three would cause IFCC or disruption of the FCIP ISL? (Choose three.)

You decide to install APM monitors. What are two considerations for installing the monitors? (Choose two.)

In an effort to maintain a FICON high availability (HA) architecture, you have separated local production traffic and data being sent to the remote data center. Local production tr...

Refer to the exhibit. You are deploying FICON cascading. Which two steps are required when creating 2-byte link addressing? (Choose two.)

A systems programmer must determine the machine type, model, and serial number of an attached node. Which type of FICON data will provide this information?

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

A customer has a single 16 Gbps ISL with 30 km distance for cascaded FICON traffic. The z/OS applications require more than 16 Gbps bandwidth, but the 16 Gbps ISL is never fully us...

You told your data center IP/LAN coworkers that you will be handing them a 10 GbE connection from the FX8-24 blade. Your IP/LAN coworkers responded that they require each circuit t...

You are using a Brocade DCX 8510 with an FX8-24 blade installed. There are two logical switches, RDR applications are in one logical switch and FICON tape is in a different logical...

A systems programmer has implemented FICON Express8S channels on a System zEC12 mainframe. What is the maximum full duplex data transfer rate on these CHPIDs?

A customer has configured Brocade Trunking between a pair of Brocade DCX 8510 Directors to implement FICON cascading, however, the trunk will not form as expected. The customer use...

You want to implement a Control Unit Port (CUP) and properly set up z/OS parameters for any Brocade DCX 8510 that processes FICON I/O. What are three results upon implementation? (...

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

Some customers are considering implementing Protocol Intermix Mode (PIM) fabrics. Which statement is true?

You have a storage array that has FICON connections to the host. The storage array replicates volume data directly to a remote storage array synchronously (RDR/S) using FCIP. Which...

You are going to purchase a System zEC12. You must decide which FICON Express channels to buy for your mainframe connectivity into your FICON fabrics. Which statement is true?

A systems programmer is asked to install a new IBM System zEC12 mainframe with 40 logical partitions. How many Logical Channel Subsystems (LCSS) must be defined to support this con...

A customer uses Brocade Network Advisor to copy the Allow/Prohibit matrix from a Brocade 5300 switch to a Brocade 6510 switch. What is the result?

Your customer would like to capture the performance of ports used for FICON backups during a four-hour interval each Saturday morning. Which two tools will capture this data for re...

You have an IBM System zEC12 with a FICON SAN managed by Brocade Network Advisor for storage connectivity. You are implementing a multi-site virtual tape solution that uses IP repl...

You want to overcome the limitation of 256 channel paths (CHPIDs) defined for a System z channel subsystem. Which System z architectural enhancement was introduced to overcome this...

A customer uses the Brocade Network Advisor FICON Configuration Manager to configure a fabric for cascaded FICON. Which three statements are true? (Choose three.)

You have a Teradata FICON device and FICON tape devices that must read/write to a remote data center that is 1000 km away connected using a DWDM link. Management requires that the...

You have a new, switch-based fabric that you want to use to provide connectivity for both mainframe FICON I/O and Windows FCP I/O. Which statement is true?

A customer has an 8 Gbps 15 km distance cascaded Brocade DCX environment. Performance continues to degrade over time on their long distance ISLs. They migrated from Fabric OS v6.0...

A mainframe customer wants to attach open systems servers and storage onto an existing FICON fabric. What is Brocade's best practice?