143-130 Exam Questions

You are converting some of your channel paths and devices from ESCON to cascaded FICON. What are two FICON-specific configuration issues that you will face? (Choose two.)

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 Brocade DCX 8510 has four Virtual Fabric logical switches for various different environments in your data center. It also has an FX8-24 blade installed. You want to connect ea...

A customer has channels and control units directly attached to a pair of Brocade 7800s. The firmware was recently upgraded to Fabric OS v7.1.0. There are two separate environments...

What is required when using 48-port blades on a Brocade DCX 8510-8?

A Brocade 6510 will be shared between an open systems group and a FICON group. The FICON group wants to generate RMF reports for both the FICON attachments and disk mirroring but w...

Refer to the exhibit. You want to generate a FICON Director Activity Report for multiple FICON enabled directors. Which two steps are required? (Choose two.)

You want to implement NPIV for your Linux for System z environment to solve scalability concerns. Which statement is true about the implementation?

In the exhibit, you have gathered information from RMF that can help you determine if you have a buffer credit starvation problem on a port. Which value in the report would you rev...

Referring to the exhibit, you have a FICON environment with two local and two remote Brocade DCX 8510 Directors. There is an FCIP connection between them using the FX8-24 blade. Wh...

In the exhibit, you have a DWDM ring between two sites that are approximately 75 km apart for each (east/ west) span of the ring. The DWDM ring has been constructed so that there i...

There are three data centers shown in the exhibit. Two data centers need to be online at all times and each data center can backup the adjacent data center. Which two elements must...

Referring to the exhibit, a customer has three sites, each interconnected with ISLs. Site 1 serves as a backup to Site 2, Site 2 serves as a backup to Site 3, and Site 3 serves as...

Referring to the exhibit, a customer currently has two data centers 10 km apart and a third data center 500 km away. Which two techniques would prevent a multi-hop path between sit...

Referring to the exhibit, you have a FICON environment with two Brocade DCX 8510 Directors already connected together by an ICL. You are not using Virtual Fabrics. You want to add...

Referring to the exhibit, a customer wants to configure an enhanced Traffic Isolation Zone (ETIZ) so that a single target storage array control unit can be in two separate TIZs wit...

Referring to the exhibit, which field in the RMF Direct Access Device Activity Report indicates delays that are caused by contention in the FICON fabric?

The customer wants to upgrade firmware of the Brocade switches to Fabric OS v7.0.0c. What are two additional considerations for FICON environments? (Choose two.)

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...

Your company has decided not to implement virtual fabrics on switching devices so you must provision a single z/OS switch domain. Which Brocade DCX 8510-8 chassis blade configurati...

You have a FICON tape environment and want to extend it over FCIP using the FX8-24 blade. You are going to use FICON Acceleration. Which two statements are true? (Choose two.)

You recently upgraded your mainframes to IBM System zEC12 and are implementing zHPF. Which statement is true?

Your customer has connected two campus sites with fiber connections between two Brocade DCX 8510 Directors. The z/OS mainframe is at site A and the storage array is at site B. Whic...

A company is planning a three-site disaster recovery strategy. There will be two sites within the same general geographic area and a third site 500 km away. Which three technologie...

A customer wants to use ICLs to cascade two Brocade DCX 8510-8 Directors. They want the ICLs to form a Brocade Trunk with the maximum bandwidth. What is the number of QSFP ports re...

A customer wants to deploy a pair of cascaded Brocade DCX 8510 Directors and would like the capability to add ISLs and delete ISLs between the two directors with the least impact t...

Refer to the exhibit. A customer has problems in a Brocade Director fabric. Their support provider requests additional information. What FICON-specific information is captured in t...

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

A customer has a cascaded FICON fabric with two Brocade DCX 8510-8s and four ISLs are used in a single Brocade Trunk. They notice large differences in the ISL utilization and want...

You are using IBM Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex (GDPS) for your business continuity solution. You use Brocade DCX 8510 FICON Directors for your FICON SAN, and Brocade F...

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

A systems programmer wants to cascade a new Brocade DCX 8510 to an existing DCX 8510. The systems programmer defined the domain ID in the LINK field of the CNTLUNIT macro as 0x10....

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...

Refer to the exhibit. A customer has a policy to automate support calls. They have a number of Brocade DCX 8510s supported by two vendors. How would the customer ensure that report...

You extensively use DB2 and have used MIDAW with good results. You recently purchased an IBM System zEC12 and an appropriate storage array. You have all the z/OS code levels and DA...

FICON CUP is enabled and after a site power outage, the customer notices that some of the accessibility to storage has changed. Which two Brocade Network Advisor displays would the...

Your customer is connecting a z/OS host to storage arrays at a backup site with single mode fiber through a DWDM which is limited to a speed of 10 Gbps. The customer's available eq...

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

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...

You are using HCD to configure 2-byte link addressing in a cascaded environment. Which statement is true about addressing ISLs in this environment?

A customer wants to monitor port state conditions on a select group of F_Ports and prevent the port from reinitializing during specific events. The customer will use portcfgautodis...

You are using channel extension with FICON Acceleration between two remote sites using Brocade 7800s and a cascaded Brocade DCX 8510. You need to isolate paths to specific ports. W...

A customer has many Linux guests hosted by z/VM. The customer wants to use their FCP CHPIDs more efficiently. Which mechanism will allow this?

You want to implement FICON/FCP intermix. What are two considerations? (Choose two.)

Refer to the exhibit. 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 Brocade DCX 8510 customer with a single link cascaded FICON fabric (20 km distance) running at 8 Gbps experiences an increasing number of bit failures. The customer receives 10 C...

What is the Brocade best practice for setting the switch ID and the domain ID?

A customer currently does not use CUP and does not have an FMS license in a cascaded fabric. Brocade Network Advisor manages the local site but for security reasons has no manageme...

You have purchased an FMS license for each of your Brocade DCX 8510 Directors using FICON. As you begin to use the directors, which statement is true?

You have two Brocade DCX 8510s and require the ability to host a high performance and scalable cloud computing environment that uses zVM with a minimum of 500 ports. In a switched-...