C1000-021 Online Practice Questions and Answers

Which IBM website provides the most current support matrix information for the IBM Storwize product line?

A. IBM Infocenter

B. IBM System Storage Interoperation Center

C. IBM Sales Manual

D. IBM Knowledge Center

A customer is looking for a storage solution that provides FC and SAS host attachment without the need

for SAN switches.

Which IBM disk system is appropriate to use?

A. IBM Storwize V5020

B. IBM FlashSystem V9000

C. IBM Storwize V7000

D. IBM Storwize V5030

A customer has added a second control enclosure to its existing IBM Storwize V7000. What should the customer do next to balance the workloads?

A. Move designated volumes to the new I/O group

B. Monitor Easy Tier as it balances the workloads

C. Run Storage Pool Balancing on one I/O group

D. Use IBM Storage Tier Advisor Tool to analyze heat data files from the cluster

A customer is considering both an IBM VersaStack converged and a competitor's hyper-converged systems for a new system running mixed workloads including virtual machines and database servers.

What should the technical specialist highlight to the customer?

A. Expanding storage on a hyper-converged system requires additional protocol support

B. Hyper-converged systems save the customer money on database licenses

C. Hypervisor choices are limited by design on converged systems

D. Compute and storage resource can scale independently on a converged system

A customer is implementing encryption using SKLM on IBM Spectrum Virtualize.

Which protocol is required to communicate between the storage device and the key management server (s)?

A. LDAP

B. iSCSI

C. FC

D. IP

A customer requests a copy of an existing volume for development purposes that can be modified without affecting the original volume. There is no expectation that the volume will be refreshed or need to reference the original production data.

Which FlashCopy function can accomplish this request?

A. Backup

B. Snapshot

C. Clone

D. Full

A customer running IBM Storwize V7000 has requested details of where to get the IBM Storage Provider for VMware VASA.

What should the technical specialist advise the customer?

A. The required code is already part of Spectrum Virtualize and will already be installed

B. The customer should download the plug-in from the VMware support website

C. The customer should download IBM Spectrum Control Base and run it on the IBM Storwize V7000

D. The customer should download IBM Spectrum Connect and run it on a Linux server

In addition to compression savings, what information is shown in a Comprestimator output?

A. Thin provisioning savings

B. Encryption savings

C. Data deduplication savings

D. Pattern removal savings

A customer desires an in-depth storage monitoring tool that includes collecting performance statistics and historical data as well as helping with data placement optimization.

What should be included as part of an IBM Storwize Family solution?

A. IBM Storage Insights

B. IBM Storage Mobile Dashboard

C. IBM Virtual Storage Center

D. IBM Storage Tier Advisor Tool

Which IBM resource allows the technical specialist to model a configuration to include disk drives, RAID types, array layouts, and feature codes?

A. apacity Magic

B. IBM Storage Insights

C. Disk Magic

D. e-config