C4090-958 Exam Questions

A technical specialist is in a discussion with a customer regarding changing the customer's storage environment from EMC to IBM. They are describing the environment. Which host env...

While discussing evaluation criteria for storage acquisition, a customer uses the following phrases: "acquisition cost," "software licenses," "staffing," and "ongoing maintenance c...

A customer has a large repository of geophysical data (>500 TBs and growing). This data is primarily in larger single- file datasets. This customer would like to reduce their overa...

Which XIV Gen3 feature can be included to prevent damage in a catastrophe?

For a D38800, a second redundant Hardware Management Console (HMC) is recommended in which of the following scenarios?

A customer is planning the installation of a new SAN Volume Controller cluster in their S Gbps Brocade environment. They have asked the technical specialist for potential configura...

A customer has two separate storage networks and is planning to implement an SVC to provide for FlashCopy between the two networks. What is the minimum number of ISL ports required...

A customer wants to deploy a centralized storage system to support a new database. Which of the following factors should the storage specialist consider first?

A healthcare and life sciences client wants to maintain electronic patient records, including medical images, for a period of seven years. How would the IT storage industry describ...

A customer has a Fibre Channel switch residing in a configuration where both production and test data coexist. Which of the following is the simplest method for ensuring that the t...

Which IBM tape interface architecture has the best performance and distance characteristics?

A customer is looking to build a virtual desktop infrastructure on an IBM platform. What metrics will be most useful in determining the storage platform recommendation?

What strategic tool minimizes low-confidence results while eliminating unrealistic assumptions about a workload proposed for a solution?

Which statement is true about the Easy Tier functionality that is available on the DSS000, SAN Volume Controller, and Storwize V7000 storage product families?

A customer has an archiving requirement that is considered Big Data. Every 8 hours1 an average of 4.5 Petab9tes of data must be written to tape. The customer currently is consideri...

A customer has just installed a ProtecTlER TS7620 SM2, and has accessed the PT Manager for the first time. Where would the implementation engineer fulfill Registration, E- mail Ale...

A customer has recently installed a SONAS system and now wants to set up backups to the virtual tape library (VTL) using their existing Symantec NetBackup data management applicati...

A customer tells a technical specialist that EMO stated XIV has a double drive failure problem because XIV has a 180 drive RAID group. What is the best response to this competitive...

A technical specialist is holding a general discussion with a customer who has a large volume of block and file data. The customer tells the specialist that their company's storage...

A technical specialist is enhancing an existing EMC storage environment with the IBM SAN Volume Controller. One of the primary customer requirements is to reclaim space in the exis...

A System z customer running z/OS Vi .11 is using a single D58801J storage system with Easy Tier enabled. Storage performance for a business critical application needs to improve to...

A customer wants to add a fully populated BladeCenter chassis to their existing core-edge SAN. They have suffered performance issues in the past due to congestion and over- utiliza...

A D38800 logical volume is composed of a set of what?

What is one of the most important considerations for the number of LUN5 required for optimum performance in an XIV Gen3 Storage System environment?

What is the earliest model of tape drive format that is compatible with TS1 140 tape drives?

Using the exhibit as a reference, which product is being accessed?

Which enclosures are supported when attaching to an N7900 subsystem?

Which statement is true regarding real4ime compression in the SAN Volume Controller and Storwize V7000 code release 64?

A customer is searching for high-end NAS products in the market looking for compression capability and is comparing N7950T to EMC VNX. Which key difference should the technical spe...

A Business Partner has proposed a solution for the migration of multiple D64700 systems to an XIV Gen3 with 10 modules. Which of the following is a migration consideration in this...

A customer wants a comparison of a public cloud subscription-based solution versus an in- house solution for a new project. The customer has requested a TOO for each solution using...

A customer requires the ability to provide access to billions of files simultaneously. What SONAS feature allows for this?

A customer is installing a new backup solution. An existing tape Ii brary based on TS1 120 Tape Drives that was installed on 7 September 2006 is proposed as part of the solution du...

What is the maximum number of PC and SCSI ports on an XIV Gen3 storage system?

A customer wants to better understand how much recovered storage space will be gained by implementing Real-time Compression (RTC) on their SAN Volume Controller (SVC). The customer...

A customer has storage on two sites that are 10 km apart, and a technical specialist is discussing replacing their EMC storage arrays. They tell the specialist that they use EMC SA...

A single frame T33501J contains 6 LTO-3 tape drives in Drive Mounting Kits. A customer wants to add two additional LTO-5 drives. Which of the following TS3500 components will be af...

Which tool provides storage management of an IBM SAN Volume Controller with application- aware copy services integration?

A customer with numerous open system servers is using a single DSSSOO system with Easy Tier enabled. Storage performance for a specific clustered server needs to improve for end-of...

Which technology/feature is designed to maximize the benefit of using SSD drives?

A customer needs to achieve a very aggressive RTO of 30 minutes or less. A critical requirement is a continuous availability and disaster recovery solution for the mainframe enviro...

In an XIV Storage System, what is the minimum number of modules required to support iSCSI connectivity?

A customer plans to implement SVC as part of a solution and has concerns regarding the resilience of the SVC architecture. The correct response to this concern is that SVC ________...

In order to cluster IBM SONAS interface nodes so that they can serve the same data, the interface nodes must coordinate their locking and recovery. This coordination is done throug...

An IBM XIV system with nine modules and 2 TB disks is being proposed to a customer who needs to increase disk capacity in the data center. The customer is concerned about data grow...

A mainframe customer has requested a proposal to replace an existing storage system. Which information does Disk Magic provide?

A customer intends to implement a Fibre Channel SAN at the production site. Replication will take place over a 10 kilometer Ethernet connection to a second site; however, only IP s...

Which function controls host access to a volume in a switched fabric?

A customer has a large non-IBM storage environment, EMO and HDS, with a mixture of VMware, Linux, Unisys mainframe and Windows, including Windows 2003, based hosts. The customer is...

What is the maximum number of drives supported in a SONAS single array?