C1000-020 Exam Questions

During a meeting with a customer, an IBM sales specialist discovered that the reason for replacing existing storage is because of long rebuild times and multiple drive failures tha...

A customer is looking to boost performance of its applications. It has two years left on the lease of existing storage. The customer also has a significant amount of copy services...

Which IBM product lets a customer have the same data in three sites for business continuity?

A customer has concerns about the performance of business analytics on its IBM XIV Gen3 system. Which optional feature of the IBM Gen3 XIV retains the customer's investment in hard...

Which feature of the IBM storage portfolio can make the cost of IBM FlashSystem V9000 competitive with the cost per TB of spinning disk?

Which function does a pre-install Technical and Delivery Assessment (TDA) perform?

How can a sales specialist verify that a proposed storage solution fits within the customer's current budget?

A customer has floor space constraints and needs additional capacity for an application. The current environment is running at 80% utilization. Which IBM Spectrum Virtualize concep...

Why would a client ask for an ROI calculation for a proposed IBM storage solution?

A customer is deploying a new data center and requires a storage solution that provides storage virtualization, management, and archive-to-tape at the lowest cost per TB. Which sol...

A sales specialist is proposing a storage product to an existing IBM storage customer. The product is already installed at a different customer site. The Technical and Delivery Ass...

What is the official IBM resource that is targeted at its business partners for information on storage?

Which IBM solution helps a customer manage a heterogeneous storage infrastructure and track the performance of SAN attached devices?

Which product should a sales specialist recommend for a customer that wants to integrate storage management for a Kubernetes environment?

A customer needs an additional 200 TB usable for video surveillance files. Which tool calculates the necessary storage for this environment?

Which product should a sales specialist recommend for a customer who needs to monitor the historical performance of their Oracle database running on a IBM Storwize V7000?

Which IBM software product used by IBM Spectrum Scale moves infrequently accessed data from disk to tape?

A customer has purchased a new IBM Storwize V7000 and wants a 4-hour response time. What is the standard warranty for IBM Storwize V7000?

A customer is looking at several competing storage proposals and asks the sales representative why Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is important. Which response should be the sales sp...

A customer wants to have a disk storage system that provides recommendations on capacity growth that will optimize performance. Which solution should the sales specialist recommend...

Which product should a sales specialist recommend to a customer looking for a vSphere plug-in that allows provisioning storage for their IBM Storage?

Which IBM Spectrum option provides for block storage provisioning in an OpenStack powered cloud?

A customer running IBM Spectrum Virtualize is considering adding IBM FlashSystem. How should the sales specialist describe the IBM Spectrum Virtualize usage of the IBM FlashSystem?

Which resource includes information to help move IBM storage opportunities forward?

An IBM Spectrum Scale customer needs to increase data capacity, while reducing TCO for data storage for this cluster. Which IBM offering will lower TCO for IBM Spectrum Scale?

How does IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management simplify copy data management?

An IBM SVC customer is migrating to use data reduction pools. They want to add data reduction capabilities to grow effective capacity and make existing storage more efficient. What...

What is a key advantage of leasing storage equipment over buying storage equipment?

A customer is looking to add copy services to provide disaster recovery between sites with heterogeneous storage. Which product should the sales specialist discuss with the custome...

Which offering provides file sharing and transparent cloud tiering?

A customer wants application consistent restore capabilities. Which software should the sales specialist recommend to this customer?

Which IBM solution provides simplified management for a heterogeneous block storage environment?

Who is responsible for ensuring that a TDA is performed?

Which tool should be used to verify that a proposed IBM FlashSystem A9000 solution will deliver the performance required by a customer's high transactional database applications?

A customer wishes to present natively 400 TB of NFS storage. Which IBM solution should the sales specialist recommend?

A customer needs to create clones of a production database environment to refresh its test and development environments. The production database contains sensitive data, and automa...

Which key metric drives a customer's disaster recovery strategy?

An IBM i customer is interested in an all-flash solution to help with performance and latency. Which advantage does the IBM FlashSystem 900 have over other vendors' flash solutions...

Which concern should a sales specialist emphasize when proposing a new high availability storage replication solution between two sites?

In a customer briefing for IBM Flash System 900, the ability to reduce storage capacity using compression is presented as an option to lower hardware costs. How should this capabil...

What is the most cost efficient storage medium for large backup and archival data?

In the event of logical corruption, a customer wants to have application-aware backups of a DB2 database that can be quickly restored. Which solution should be recommended?

A customer has an existing XIV storage environment that is running out of capacity. The customer wants to add a flash storage system that utilize the same grid architecture design...

Which IBM PartnerWorld technical resource should a qualified IBM Business Partner use to obtain technical information and competitive comparisons to close a proposal?

A customer wants to implement a software-defined storage solution and has existing storage leases that they want to leverage as part of the solution. Which IBM SAN Volume Controlle...

What is a key difference on the warranty between IBM FlashSystem and many of its competitors?

A customer is spending considerable effort managing its mixed-vendor storage environment. Storage issues include lack of data migration, inability to analyze storage environment or...

A customer using IBM SVC hardware has had issues when its own storage team installed upgrades of the IBM Spectrum Virtualize code. Which hardware option should the sales specialist...

A customer wants a cloud-based service that provides real-time analytics of its IBM Storwize infrastructure. Which offering meets this requirement?

Which product allows a customer to monitor and recommend optimization for existing storage to align to business requirements?