C4090-450 Exam Questions

A Business Partner sales person is proposing an IBM DS5000 storage solution to an installed EMC customer. Which of the following is the IBM resource with the most knowledge that ca...

A large company with data centers in three countries wants to start a project for storage consolidation which will reduce costs and improve storage utilization by implementing stor...

A loyal customer is replacing their existing storage of less than 30 TB. They have shared that they are extremely tight on floor space and would like to save as much space as possi...

Which of the following best describes LTO-5 specifications for cartridge capacity and throughput with compression?

A customer currently has 200 departmental servers with 1500 concurrent users providing home directories, and file and print services. Currently each server has internal storage. Th...

The sales specialist has an opportunity to recommend a new storage controller for a customer who has the following servers Sun with Solaris, HP with HP-UX, x86 with Windows, and x8...

A customer wants a NAS environment for both NFS and CIFS. The customer is concerned with the amount of rack space they will need for their environment. It is estimated that 100 dis...

A customer's backup window is six hours. However, their backups are now taking seven to eight hours. They are a looking for a solution to resolve this problem, and are ready to hav...

A customer is in need of a new tape solution. They need a system that will provide a capacity of at least 100 TB with the ability to complete backups within 4 hours. Daily backups...

There is a customer with a lights-out environment where all administration is done remotely. All equipment is installed by a third party group or by the equipment vendor. The custo...

As part of a consolidation plan, an insurance customer wants to automate their backup needs. The environment includes: 2 Power servers running AIX 4 System x servers running Window...

A midrange customer requires 100 TB of online file storage and notes that they will generate 100 TB of long term archive storage per year. The archive storage is very unlikely to b...

A customer believes their storage capacity will grow very quickly to many hundreds of terabytes, and that they will require high performance. However, they want to start with only...

A customer is looking at the TS3500 Tape Library with LTO-5 drives but is very concerned about obsolescence as this purchase will need to last for at least seven years. The sales s...

A customer with multiple small NAS filers commented that they would be interested in a solution that improved storage capacity utilization and gave them the ability to lower storag...

Which of the following IBM storage products provides host side SAS, iSCSI, and Fibre Channel connectivity?

The IBM System Storage N series gateways would best fit which type of customer?

What is a benefit of IBM Long Term File System (LTFS)?

A customer is looking to consolidate multi-vendor servers and storage platforms. Which of the following is a key differentiator of the PureFlex Foundation?

Which statement best describes PureFlex?

A customer is evaluating deduplication offerings from IBM, EMC, and NetApp. Which of the following technologies is a competitive advantage of the IBM TS7650 ProtecTIER Deduplicatio...

IBM's LTO-5 drive can be differentiated from HP's LTO-5 drive by it's use of what feature?

What technology does IBM N series utilize for its snapshots?

The SAN Volume Controller has what advantage over the Hitachi VSP virtualization product?

When comparing the EMC VNX series and IBM Storwize V7000 Unified, what is a significant benefit of the Storwize V7000 Unified Solution?

A customer with three Windows servers wants to create a shared storage array. One server runs a 400 GB Oracle database with high transaction rates. The second server is a file serv...

A customer is considering a PureSystem solution and alternatives from Hitachi, Cisco, and others. Which of the following is a benefit of using Flex System Manager?

Which of the following IT infrastructure offerings includes integrated server, storage, and network hardware and systems management software in a single vendor design

Which of the following is the most important benefit provided by tape automation?

A customer needs the highest availability level for an active SQL database. What included function of the Storwize V7000 allows the end user to provide seamless failover between in...

A customer has a large streaming file application that will be used to provide more than a million simultaneous connections for end users. The sales specialist estimated that their...

customer comments that their overall monthly workload tends to be rather constant in terms of IO rates and terabytes accessed for their Fibre Channel disk storage systems, but some...

A customer has an N3600 NAS with a small amount of cache. The customer is concerned that placing a Real-time Compression Appliance (RTCA) in front of the N3600 will place a large p...

A customer has had multiple drive failures in their non-IBM SAN leading to data loss. What N series data protection capability should put the customer at ease?

What Storwize V7000 technology allows a customer to take snapshots without consuming additional capacity?

Which of the following features of Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Select is an enhancement to the Storwize V7000 GUI management system?

A customer with a DS5300 has been adding storage at the rate of 30% per year. The customer is tired of buying more hardware when they are convinced that at least 20% of the storage...

A customer has asked to reduce the number of tools needed to manage both server and storage. They would like a single management interface to manage both server and storage resourc...

A customer is looking at a Windows server consolidation and unified storage solution. Which products best fit the customers need

An existing customer has a Storwize V7000 with 3 enclosures. They are planning to purchase a second Storwize V7000 with 1 enclosure for disaster recovery. How many Remote Mirroring...

A customer needs midrange storage for a new database. The customer is unsure which RAID level would be best for the new database and wants the ability to try different combinations...

A customer wants to compress CIFS shares on an IBM N series unit and also wants to replicate that data to a remote site. Which statement is TRUE about N series replication in this...

In the unexpected failure of the Real-time Compression Appliance, on which platform can the RTCA uncompression tool be installed?

A customer has a DS5300 with several expansion trays, and they are beginning to have some performance problems. Their environment has grown and it appears the storage cannot keep u...

A customer has two small data centers on their corporate campus. They've asked for ideas to improve capacity utilization and reliability of server access between the existing data...

A customer has 10 VMware servers and their current DS4000 system has come off of lease. They want to upgrade and replace it; however, they have limited budget, staff, and time to i...

An EMC Celerra customer is experiencing a significant growth in unstructured data stored and they are looking for a solution that does not require replacing all of their storage sy...

A distribution customer with System x servers has a requirement for automated scheduling, compression and deduplication on their Tivoli Storage Manager environment. Which of the fo...

An existing N series customer is looking to control primary NAS storage growth by using advanced technologies. Which IBM product will allow this customer to achieve their goal?

An insurance company is consolidating their IBM AIX servers from 8 down to 2 but will continue using IBM DS4000, IBM DS8000 and EMC VNX storage. Which of the following scenarios sh...