C4090-450 Exam Questions

A customer is implementing a server consolidation project and is looking at storage solutions that provide primary storage deduplication. What combination of technologies should th...

A sales specialist has heard of a sales incentive for each unit of IBM Real-time Compression Appliance they sell. Which install base should the sales specialist target?

Which IBM resource maintains a web site to assist with sales strategies against EMC?

A sales specialist is on the way to a meeting with the Data Center Manager to discuss their storage growth. While waiting for the appointment a technical support person asks a spec...

Which of the following best describes the TCOnow! for Disk tool?

An IBM Technical Delivery Assessment must be completed. Where is this checklist located?

The three types of an IBM Technical Delivery Assessment (TDA) are:

A customer is purchasing an IBM storage subsystem that will be first in the enterprise and is on the IBM Designated Product List. What is the sales team required to complete?

A multimedia company is looking for a storage system that will archive their movies. Which of the following disk technologies should be recommended?

What is one of the primary roles of the SONAS device?

IBM has leading hardware, software and a full line of services designed to help meet the customer's storage efficlency needs. Which of the following solutions contributes to a more...

The sales specialist is preparing the IBM System Storage DS6800 proposal for replacing a customer's EMC Symmetrix who's warranty has expired. Which of the following TCO advantages...

A small bio-technical company is interested in implementing an IBM storage solution. Which of the following tools can be used to help justify the cost of an IBM System Storage solu...

A customer has Microsoft Windows, Oracle, and Power servers with internal disk. They are porting several applications from other platforms to these servers and need 5 TB of shared...

A healthcare customer is not satisfied with the utilization of their heterogeneous storage devices. Which of the following solutions should the IBM sales specialist recommend to be...

A customer has a heterogeneous storage environment and their storage growth rate is 75% per year. Which of the following products would allow this customer to add new applications,...

A manufacturing customer has a requirement to add twelve additional servers (dual attached) to their existing two Brocade 16 port SAN Switches that have no more ports available. Wh...

A sales specialist is talking to a client regarding their current tape library and backup strategy. Which of the following questions would be most appropriate to identify the custo...

Which of the following topics should be discussed with the customer FIRST, prior to designing a backup and recovery solution?

A banking customer currently has a Microsoft Windows and Linux environment. They need file level access storage to share files across the Windows and Linux hosts. Which of the foll...

A customer's major concern is the high cost of implementing SAN attached storage. They do need to consolidate storage and share data while utilizing existing LAN network infrastruc...

A retail customer has SAS attached storage for their Windows servers, and is allocating money in next year's budget for additional SAS attached storage. What question should be ask...

The sales specialist submits a proposal to the customer who asks if the solution supports multi- level Vraid architecture (Vraid0, Vraid1, Vraid5). What major competitor has Vraid...

A manufacturing customer has an existing SAN for their AIX servers and they want to add their Windows servers with file level access to their existing storage pool. Which of the fo...

Which of the following competitors offers customers a virtual tape solution for mainframes?

A long-time customer has both IBM servers and storage. The sales specialist has been asked to present an update on the IBM storage portfolio. This specialist suspects there is a co...

During a presentation on the DS5020, a member of the customer's IT staff asks if the storage system cache is mirrored. Which competitor is most likely to have highlighted mirrored...

Which company is leading the SPC-1 (Storage Performance Council) benchmark?

Which of the following products helps a customer identify a performance bottleneck?

A CIO mentions the complexity of their current SAN environment and how difficult it is to manage. Which of the following should be the sales specialist's next step?

Which of the following functions does Hitachi Data Systems claim about the HDS USP V (Universal Storage Platform)?

A sales specialist is assigned a new account that favors EMC in a heterogeneous storage environment. The only point of entry is a staff dissatisfied with EMC's products due to thei...

Which of the following business requirements addresses Data encryption on tape?

Which of the following data retention solutions is considered to be the market share leader?

Which of the following will an EMC sales representative most likely use as an advantage of Centera over the IBM Information Archive?

A customer is looking for a new backup solution and has installed a large base of EMC Symmetrix storage systems. Which of the following solutions will EMC likely propose?

Which of the following is an advantage of the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) over competing storage visualization products?

Which of the following is an advantage of the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) over competing storage visualization products?

A sales specialist is assigned a new account that favors EMC in a mixed storage environment. The only point of entry is a staff dissatisfied with EMC's products due to their frustr...

A multimedia company is looking for a storage system that will archive their movies. Which of the following disk technology would you recommend for acceptable write performance?

A sales specialist is talking to a customer who is implementing a storage solution for an emergency room surgeon to rapidly retrieve critical information. Which of the following is...

Which of the following customer environments is addressed by the N series?

Oracle STK claims the highest reliability and fastest mount times in the industry. Which feature(s) of the TS3500 should be configured in response to the STK proposal?

The customer is looking for a new server to run his interactive database application. Many users will be accessing the database at the same time. Which of the following what types...

A sales specialist is competing against EMC for a Data Retention opportunity. The customer has a need for less than 1 TB of fixed content. Which of the following IBM products shoul...

An IBM Power System with AIX customer is using an IBM System Storage DS8800 in location A and an IBM System Storage DS5300 in location B 25 km across town. The customer wants a red...

A customer has a SAP production database with 10 TB of usable storage on a DS4700. The growth rate of the data is 50% per year. The majority of the data rapidly becomes reference d...

Before a customer is willing to buy the proposed SVC and TPC storage solution, they want to actually see the product demonstrated "hands on", in an environment similar to what the...

Which IBM resource should be used to validate the results from a Disk Magic study PRIOR to presenting the final storage solution and pricing to a client?

Interactive training modules for the XIV system can be found at which of the following resources?