C4090-450 Exam Questions

What is a feature of the Storwize V7000 that is not available in the StorwizeV3700?

A customer has a cluster of servers and needs to reduce their backup time by as much as 80%. What IBM Storage Solution could meet their requirements with minimum implementation and...

A prospect considering a single chassis PureFlex and is considering storage virtualization of an existing EMC array. Which of the following IBM solution would best satisfy this req...

A customer is comparing a desk solution from Violin with one from IBM. What resource would the sales specialization use to provide cost of ownership information Memory product?

Identify three key areas to qualify a midrange disk opportunity.

A customer wants to add storage to a mixed server environment and they want to re-utilize their existing storage. They would also like to consolidate management of their storage en...

A customer is looking for a low cost storage system to provide 10 TB of usable storage requested a system with SAS host attach. What would the sales specialist recommend?

A potential customer is interested in implementing a high availability solution split and 10 KM apart. Which solution best meets the requirements?

A customer wants to create Writable snapshots that only write changes to disk. Which optional N series software product addresses this requirement?

A customer has a high availability requirement for their existing disk subsystem. Which configuration best fulfills this requirements?

A customer has an existing software Storwize V7000 in their Atlanta data center. They have an additional storage Storwze V7000 in their second data center 2 kilometer away. They al...

An existing IBM storage customer has expressed concern with performance on a key application in terms of IVO response times. When software tool could the sales specialist sell to t...

According to the documented STG Solution Assurance Trigger Criteria and Designated Product List when TDA requested for DCS3700?

A Business partner is competing to an IBM footprint against aggressive EMC and Hitachi teams. The CFO has provided the current budget and business metrics which show the actual ope...

A customer would be like to backup their Symantec environment locally to a deduplicated virtual tape library using Symantec Biometric's Open Storage interface (OST). They also need...

A business partner needs help validating a DCS3700 eConfig configuration. Which is the best IBM resource contact?

What is the designated Product List or DPL?

A customer would like to consolidate four 20TB disk systems under one management point and the existing disk taking accounts a 10% growth rate. They would also like to add a tier o...

A customer issued an RFP that requires direst host attachment using SAS. What disk storage solution should the sales specialist propose for this requirement?

Which two of the following are examples of a company's legal need to comply with data retention? 1. Cost 2. Growth 3. Risk 4. Availability

Using the IBM One Voice Whiteboard Presentation as a reference, the initial discovery of a customer's IT platforms, their use cases and overall goals, incorporating IBM best practi...

Customer has two datacenters 1000 km apart, and wishes to perform disaster recovery across a small set of disks (less than 10 TB). What is likely to be the most costly part of this...

A customer with POWER7 servers running mission critical DB2 applications in a stock market transaction application have data centers at 2000 km distance. They need near zero recove...

A client has a file server with 100 TB of usable storage. The growth rate of the data is 50% per year. The majority of the data rapidly becomes inactive data and is not frequently...

The sales team is discussing the Storwize V7000 with the customer. The customer has asked about the software features of the Storwize V7000. Which of the Storwize V7000 software fe...

TCOnow! for Disk provides what value?

A customer needs approximately 800 TB of network attached storage for unstructured media files in a single file system. Which of the following choices would be the best solution fo...

Which of the following are supported host interface types on the Storwize V7000?

A customer has an existing IBM System Storage N6040 and is requesting a replication license to fail over workload to a secondary N series device in the event of a disaster. Which s...

A customer is looking to consolidate multiple heterogeneous SAN islands. To do this, what must the customer consider first?

A customer is running out of floor space on their data center using an aging EMC DMX. They are a loyal EMC customer but the CIO is willing to have a quick discussion with IBM. What...

A customer is currently running a large, multiple server Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 6 environment with DS5000. The sales specialist believes the storage sales opportunity can...

A customer has an IBM TS3310 configuration with LTO-4 technology that is out of capacity. They currently use 100 LTO-4 cartridges which are full, and will need to store an addition...

What IBM tool is most appropriate to simulate scenarios to meet customer response time requirements?

During storage discussions the customer has said they want to move away from Fibre Channel SAN switches and use Ethernet only in their environment. What is an area that must be dis...

A customer is a rapidly growing company requiring midrange block storage, but wants to minimize storage management complexity and cost. A single Storwize V7000 is proposed, but the...

A customer learns that their storage is no longer supported with the version of Linux required by an application they are using. How can this customer extend the useful product lif...

A customer requires 30 TB of relatively inexpensive block storage for a DB2 database in the midrange space. The customer also mentions the need for future performance increase as t...

What feature, introduced in the LTO-5 specification, enables the use of LTFS?

A customer has a DS5300 in a very large VMware environment. What software from IBM could be utilized to monitor and manage the storage from within VMware?

Which of the following drive types can be combined in a single EXP5000 expansion unit?

Which of the following IBM System Storage products supports a maximum of 16 GB of cache in a standard dual controller configuration?

The DS3500 series has fully redundant I/O paths with automated failover and mirrored data cache. These are examples of which value proposition?

A potential customer benefit of IBM LTO-5 is:

The management functions included with the IBM DS5000 Storage Manager are very similar to an offering from which other vendor?

A customer expresses dissatisfaction with the utilization numbers of their current heterogeneous storage resources, and with the management complexity. Which IBM product best satis...

An existing N series customer is looking for a software solution that will provide application aware snapshots for backup purposes on their ERP system. Which family of N series sof...

An existing N series customer has a number of Windows and AIX servers with local storage and is looking to integrate their disk with N series snapshots for backup purposes. Which I...

A sales specialist is working with a customer that is currently unhappy with their existing non-IBM backup software, and is looking at in-line data deduplication solutions. What co...

A manufacturing company is looking for a SAN that provides historic monitoring/reporting capabilities and application aware snapshots. What combination of IBM products would a sale...