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Storage Scale and Storage Scale Server
Level 2 Quiz!

Question 1

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Which of the following is TRUE about Storage Scale and Storage

Scale Systems (SSS)?

SSS performance will not vary depending on workload

characteristics

Storage Scale and SSS are appliances that do not require

physical, network, or file system planning

Storage Scale policies automate data management, 

moving data non-disruptively between various tiers of

SSS storage

Storage Scale and SSS can only tier data to Tape; SSS does
not support tiering Storage Scale data to IBM Cloud Object
Storage

Question 2

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How do you get increasingly greater performance with Storage

Scale System 3x00 (e.g. SSS 3000, 3200, or 3500)?

Scale out by adding additional Storage Scale Systems 

into the Storage Scale environment

Only use it with VMware vSphere 6 or greater

Make sure to only use with Storage Virtualize

Only use FlashCore Modules

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In this course, three major marketspaces of Storage Scale /

Storage Scale System (SSS) competitors are identified based on
their offering characteristics. Which of the following is NOT a
major Storage Scale / SSS competitor marketspace?

Established High Performance Computing environment

Non-Storage Scale (generic storage) competitors running

high performance file storage

Public Cloud vendors providing object storage 

Startup companies promising large scale software defined

storage

Question 4

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Storage Scale can be leveraged in all industries with a common

set of pain points around performance, scalability, and ease of
management. Which of the follow customer requirements is
beyond the capability of Storage Scale?

Ability to match the performance requirement of new AI

workloads

Ability to share data to different applications

Ability to grow capacity from small footprint

Ability to enable comprehensive insight by combining 

system metadata with custom tags

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What is the primary tool used to help you design a Storage for
Data and AI solution?

File & Object Solution Design Experiment

File & Object Solution Design Engine 

File & Object Design Engine

File & Object Solution Development Engine

Question 6

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What is the leading use case for Storage Scale System 5000?

High performance computing for AI workloads

Edge computing

Backup and recovery for archival data

Large capacity and data lake workloads 

Question 7

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Which of the following is FALSE about Storage Scale Systems

(SSS)?

SSS do not support non-disruptive upgrades 

SSS come in different models that support NVMe, NL-SAS,

and HDD

SSS models with HDD's are intended for high capacity

storage tiers and provide excellent sequential performance

All SSS deployments require one SSS Management Server

(EMS) per Storage Scale cluster
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How is Storage Scale (SSS) licensed?

SSS is licensed with Storage Scale for SSS in one of two

editions: Data Awareness Edition or Data Model Edition.

SSS is licensed with Storage Scale Standard Edition or 

Storage Scale Advanced Edition

Standard Storage Scale for SSS capacity licensing is 'Per

Disk', customer has option to license SSS by 'Per TiB'

SSS is licensed by the number of Storage Scale clients and

servers attached to SSS

Question 9

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What is a key benefit of IBM's Storage for Data and AI

architecture?

The ability to grow compute resources independently of 

storage resources

The ability to grow expensive branded, purpose-built

storage with custom hardware

The need to grow compute resources coupled directly with

storage resources

The need to add new users, new workloads and work with
various data types as long as they are based on IBM
sources
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The main reason Storage Scale Systems (SSS) can be quickly

and easily installed is because all the SSS software elements
are efficiently packaged. Which technology advancement
contributed to the efficient packaging?

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)

Containerized software 

Graphics processing unit (GPU)

Virtual Machines (VM)

Question 11

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Which of the following is the best statement about IBM Storage

Scale?

Storage Scale unifies data for a single source of truth and

simpler management

Storage Scale disaggregates data for a distributed

management schema

Storage Scale delivers multiple sources of truth with 

quantum management

Storage Scale focuses exclusively on flash-based storage

and easy management
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Which of the following deployment methods is the best option

for Storage Scale customers who wish to minimize time to value
with an on-premises deployment?

Customers can consume Storage Scale as cloud services

from Public Clouds such as Amazon Web Services (AWS),
Oracle Cloud, and IBM Cloud

Customers can purchase the Storage Scale software to

deploy on commodity servers and enterprise disk or flash
storage

Customers can purchase Storage Scale to support IBM

Cloud Pak offerings

Customers can purchase Storage Scale System (SSS), 

an integrated solution with hardware and software pre-
installed, tested, and optimized

Question 13

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Cyber resiliency is an organization’s ability to continue

delivering the intended outcomes despite adverse cyber
incidents. Which of the following IBM Storage offerings are part
of the Cyber Resiliency solution blueprint with Storage Scale?

Storage Scale, Storage Protect, and Storage Virtualize

Storage Scale, Storage Protect, Storage Archive, and 

IBM Tape

Storage Scale, Storage Protect, and Storage Protect Plus

Storage Scale, Cloud Object Storage, Spectrum Archive,

and IBM Tape
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What are the ways that users can access data stored in an
Storage Scale System (SSS)?

As block storage natively attached to a standard Fibre

Channel SAN

Through native S3 RPC calls using the REST API

Through Storage Scale clients installed on workstation; 

or through NFS, SMB or Object protocols using Storage
Scale Protocol nodes

Through iSCSI ports on a ESS Data Server or through RDMA

ports on the Fiber Channel

Question 15

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Storage Scale and Storage Scale System (SSS) work with which
of the following products to improve operational efficiency with
scalable data protection in an enterprise storage deployment?

IBM Storage Protect 

IBM Storage Archive

IBM Storage Control

IBM Storage Insights

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Storage Scale System 5000 (SSS 5000) is the High-Capacity

SSS model. Which one of the following statements is true about
SSS 5000?

SSS 5000 offers a straight-forward, easily configurable, 

and powerful selection of HDD models, optimized for
the Collect stage of the AI ladder

SSS 5000 are used for cold storage capacity tier only,
independant from any other Storage Scale or SSS storage
cluster

SSS 5000 cannot be mixed with previous generations of

SSS

Data stored in SSS 5000 cannot be catalogued by Storage

Discover

Question 17

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Which of the following options is a primary area of opportunity

for Storage Scale / Storage Scale System (SSS)?

Unstructured data and data reduction computing

Structured data and cloud portable computing

Structured data and high performance computing

Unstructured data and high performance computing 

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The AI market is growing and data remains at the heart of AI.

According to an analyst report discussed in this course, what is
the expected market size (in US dollars) by the year 2023?

$50 billion dollars

$98 billion dollars 

$32 billion dollars

$13 billion dollars

Question 19

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What is the data problem that Storage Scale aims to solve?

Automate cataloging of unstructured data. Automatically

generates metadata allowing optimization, governance,
and compliance

Deliver a unified block and file storage solution designed

for rapid and flexible deployment across SAN and File data

Provide low-medium performance data lake at lowest

possible cost with multi-site erasure coding for maximum
security

Provide a common enterprise data platform that solves 

complicated, costly, and massive siloes of data storage
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What are the leading TACTICAL use cases for Storage Scale and
Storage Scale System (SSS)?

Genomics, Fluid Dynamics, and Monte Carlo Simulations

Big Data, Object storage, and File Management

Archive, Information Life Cycle Management, and Back- 

up / Restore

HPC, Analytics, and AI

Question 21

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Storage Scale System 3x00 (e.g. SSS 3000, 3200, or 3500) has
great flexibility with respect to deployment. Which statement
below best describes this characteristic?

SSS 3x00 can be scaled up by adding hard drives to the 2U

chassis.

Once full, SSS 3x00 needs to offload its data to an SSS

5000 capacity model.

SSS 3x00 can start small from all-NVMe 2U building 

blocks and scale out to exabyte capacity and beyond.

SSS 3x00 uses fork-lift upgrades to expand capacity

Question 22

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Which of the following is NOT one of the leading Storage Scale /

Storage Scale System (SSS) use cases?

Storage for Data and AI

Data optimization for tactical needs such as archive,

backup/restore, and Information Lifecycle Management
(ILM)

General enterprise NAS workloads with tens of 

thousands of SMB workstations

Data lake, enterprise data architecture

Question 23

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Storage Scale and Storage Scale Systems (SSS) are the two
offerings we discussed in this course. What is the relationship
between Storage Scale and SSS?

Storage Scale can only be deployed as SSS. There is no

option to deploy Storage Scale software defined storage on
commodity hardware

Storage Scale is an optional component of an SSS install -

you can choose to use SSS either with or without Storage
Scale

There is no relationship - SSS is used to deploy IBM file

storage without any other Storage Scale nodes or software

SSS is a pre-integrated, tested Storage Scale storage 

building block running Storage Scale RAID, making it

easier and faster to deploy Storage Scale storage
Question 24

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Which of the following is NOT supported by Storage Scale

software defined open platform?

Provides multi-protocol access to data including SMB, NFS,

Object, and Hadoop protocols

Integrates with Cloud via Transparent Cloud Tiering

Ability to be configured as Block storage 

Ability to be hardware agnostic for storage

Question 25

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Which of the following is NOT a feature of Storage Scale storage

management at scale?

Simplify enterprise data management with a single global

namespace

Intuitive GUI supporting many Storage Scale features

including performance, capacity, and network monitoring

Provide production-level iSCSI unified block storage 

Support billions of files and yottabytes of data