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Question 1

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1.00 points out of 1.00

Which DS8900F model replaces the DS8882F and the DS8884F?

Select one:

Flexibility class: IBM DS8910F

Enterprise class: IBM DS8970F

Agility class: IBM DS8950F

Business class: IBM DS9060F

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Question 2
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1.00 points out of 1.00

In a sales situation, which DS8900F class would you recommend to help organizations reduce complexity while addressing a
wide variety of workloads at the lowest cost?

Select one:
IBM DS8970F Enterprise class IBM DS8970F Enterprise class IBM DS8970F Enterprise class
IBM DS8950F Agility class
IBM DS9060F Business class
IBM DS8910F Flexibility class

Question 3

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1.00 points out of 1.00

Which IBM offering provides functionality to create immutable points of data recovery for a production volume?

Select one:

Transparent Cloud Tiering

Safeguarded Copy

Fibre Channel

Thin provisioning and Easy Tier

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Question 4
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1.00 points out of 1.00

Which DS8900F model value proposition describes it as providing superior performance and higher capacity and designed to
consolidate all of a client's mission-critical workloads into a single enterprise storage solution?

Select one:

DS8910F

DS8888

DS8950F

DS8900F

Question 5

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With the IBM DS8900F and IBM z/15, IBM provides a unique technology that ensures that data is accessed only by
authorized servers and storage devices creating a trusted storage network that encrypts data in which of the following
states?

Select one:
In flight and at-rest
In-flight and in the cloud
In-flight, at-rest, in the cloud
In-flight only

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Question 6

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1.00 points out of 1.00

Which of the following is a racked agility-class solution?

Select one:

IBM DS8950F Model E96

IBM DS8910F Model 994

IBM DS8910F Model 993

IBM DS8950F Model 996

Question 7

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What IBM technology enables the rapid recovery of business operations with two to four second Recovery Point Objectives
(RPOs) and less than 60 second Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) at more than 1,000 miles?

Select one:

HyperSwap

Thin Provisioning

Fibre Channel

Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex (GDPS)

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Question 8

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Which of the following is NOT a focus of a cyber resilient solution?

Select one:

Isolation

Immutability

Replication

Granularity

Question 9

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1.00 points out of 1.00

What IBM technology provides no-data-loss capabilities within metro distances?

Select one:
Thin Provisioning
HyperSwap

Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex (GDPS)

Fibre Channel

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Question 10

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1.00 points out of 1.00

Which of the following terms relates to the amount of data loss and the amount of downtime that a business can afford?

Select one:

Isolation

Immutability

Granularity

Replication

Question 11

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Which of the following is NOT one of the three pillars of the DS8900F value proposition?

Select one:
Businesses can ensure freedom from cyber attacks
Businesses can protect the future
Businesses can build with flexibility
Businesses can deliver with confidence

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Question 12

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1.00 points out of 1.00

In a sales situation what DS8900F family model would you recommend for an organization with small capacity requirements
that is looking to boost performance in their mainframe environment?

Select one:

DS8888

DS8950F

DS8910F

DS8900F

Question 13

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1.00 points out of 1.00

Which of the following is a racked flexibility-class solution?

Select one:
IBM DS8910F Model 993
IBM DS8910F Model 994
IBM DS8950F Model E96
IBM DS8950F Model 996

Question 14

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1.00 points out of 1.00

Which of the following terms relates to how easy or difficult it is to corrupt or destroy data?

Select one:
Immutability
Isolation
Replication
Granularity

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Question 15

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1.00 points out of 1.00

Which of the following is not a benefits statement about the IBM DS8900F storage system?

Select one:

The DS8900F storage system helps businesses accelerate their research and applications with the next generation of
the leading quantum cloud services and software platform

The DS8900F storage system is the next generation of enterprise data systems built with the most advanced POWER9
processor technology and is designed for data intensive and mission-critical workloads

The DS8900F storage system is the result of years of research and collaboration between the IBM Storage and IBM
Mainframe teams

The DS8900F storage system can help businesses add next-level performance, data protection, resiliency, and
availability across their hybrid multicloud solutions

Question 16

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1.00 points out of 1.00

Which of the following is NOT a strength of Dell's competitive storage system solution?

Select one:

Dell offers inline compression and deduplication for greater effective capacity and optimized for open systems

PowerMax offers a new level of performance and a cost-reducing deduplication function that was missing from VMAX

Dell EMC has been the market leader for decades for highly available tier one storage

VMAX users looking to buy all non-volatile memory express (NVMe) storage to boost performance are increasingly
considering purchasing from competitors

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Question 17

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1.00 points out of 1.00

What is IBM's unique technology that provides the authentication and encryption capabilities that are required for Data
Privacy Passports?

Select one:
Fibre Channel Endpoint Security
Security key lifecycle manager
Transparent Cloud Tiering
Key management interoperability protocol

Question 18

Complete

1.00 points out of 1.00

What IBM DS8900F capability allows organizations to introduce hybrid cloud as a new storage tier for data archiving, long
term retention, and data protection in IBM Z environments?

Select one:

Fibre Channel Endpoint Security

Transparent Cloud Tiering

Air Gap

Safeguarded Copy

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Question 19

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1.00 points out of 1.00

On the DS8900F what does the maximum usable and virtual capacity depend on?

Select one:

Cache size

Input/output

Processors

Cores

Question 20

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0.00 points out of 1.00

When discussing air gap capabilities, what does "offline by design" mean?

Select one:

Servers are isolated, not connected to a host.

Unplanned outages will not affect continuous processing of data.

Tape cartridges are only accessible when mounted.

Data is immutable and cannot be changed.

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Question z JT

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1.00 points out of 1.00

Which DS8900F model replaces for the DS8886F and the DS8888F?

Select one:
Agility class: IBM DS8950F
Flexibility class: IBM DS8910F
Enterprise class: IBM DS8970F
Business class: IBM DS9060F

Question 22

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0.00 points out of 1.00

What is the name of IBM's replication management solution that delivers central control of the replication environment,
while helping to simplify and automate complex replication tasks?

Select one:

Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex (GDPS)

Data Facility Storage Management Subsystem (DFSMS)

Metro Global Mirror (MGM) with Multiple Target Peer-to-Peer Remote Copy (MT PPRC)

Copy Services Manager (CSM)

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Question 23

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Which DS8900F class has a value proposition describing it as a green eco-friendly model that is packaged in a smaller
physical footprint which is designed to consolidate mission-critical workloads for IBM Z IBM LinuxONE IBM Power Systems
and distributed environments under a single enterprise storage solution?

Select one:

IBM DS8970F Enterprise class

IBM DS8950F Agility class

IBM DS8910F Flexibility class

IBM DS9060F Business class

Question 24

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1.00 points out of 1.00

Which of the following features is an example of the separation of protected data copies from active production data?

Select one:

FlyperSwap

Default to remote code load

Transparent Cloud Tiering

Air Gap

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Question 25

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What is a benefit of Cognitive Tiering?

Select one:
It delivers better than seven 9's availability (99.999996%) with zHyperSwap technology.
On a Db2 reorg, Media Manager will inform the DS8900F to place the data being reorganized on the same optimized
tiers as the source data existed.
It enables disaster recovery across unlimited distances with a recovery objective of a few minutes or even seconds.
It provides a gateway for Data Facility Storage Management Subsystem (DFSMS) to store and retrieve data from the
cloud.

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