HP2-E58 Online Practice Questions and Answers
Businesses need to reduce costs and increase original and creative approaches. Which of these IT initiatives are most related to that business driver? (Select two.)
A. Responding to increased demand for mobile access
B. Embracing cloud computing
C. Cutting back on the rapid growth of big data
D. Shifting away from complex Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) environments
E. Adopting innovative platforms and technologies
Compared to HP Proactive Care, what are some weaknesses of Dell's support offering? (Select two.)
A. No predictable and transparent contracts
B. No optimization of products
C. Account management offered only with high end support
D. Limited offerings for complex environments
E. No credit-based services offering
You are encouraged by your manager to help a customer see how your proposed HP solution meets a "hurdle rate." What is a hurdle rate?
A. The rate at which the solution responds to service requests
B. The minimum acceptable rate of return for a project
C. The expected rate of return on a new investment
D. The rate at which an investment approaches the break-even point
How does the HP ProLiant Return on Investment (ROI) calculator help businesses who currently own legacy server technology?
A. It creates a long-term plan for the customer, detailing which innovations will be important in the future.
B. It compares the costs of the company maintaining its own resources against the costs of using the HP ProLiant-based public cloud.
C. It highlights the administration and labor savings that the customer gains by deploying ProLiant Gen8 servers.
D. It shows payback, break-even, and ROI if the customer replaces ProLiant Gen8 servers with Moonshot servers.
Converged Infrastructure is designed to solve many of the problems that affect traditional data centers. Which statement describes a common problem with traditional data centers?
A. Data centers are using two-tier architectures, which were designed to meet the needs of legacy client-server applications.
B. The IT infrastructure is compartmentalized into technology silos, making it difficult for IT to manage and change
C. Companies are relying more heavily on monolithic mainframes, decreasing the overall performance of the data center.
D. Bandwidth costs are increasing more rapidly than power and cooling costs, slowing the adoption of new bandwidth-intensive applications.
You are meeting with a customer to discuss a server solution. According to the server opportunity timeline, how should you begin the conversation?
A. Ask about the customer's budget.
B. Ask about the customers general impression of HP solutions.
C. Ask whether the customer is considering other vendors.
D. Ask about the customer's business needs and goals.
Which HP technologies enable a company to flatten its campus network infrastructure and implement a two-tier architecture?
A. HP Intelligent Resilient Framework (IRF. and higher-density switches)
B. HP Intelligent Management Center (IMC. and Virtual Connect)
C. Software-Defined Networking and OpenFlow
D. Unified wired and wireless access
A customer wants to know how the HP solution provides the company a competitive advantage and how it reduces costs. In which category of the strategic selling model does this customer belong?
A. The coach
B. The technical buyer
C. The economic buyer
D. The user
Your customer is purchasing HP servers and switches for its data center. The customer needs to ensure high availability for its mission-critical services. Which HP service should you recommend?
A. HP Foundation Care Plus with consolidated support options
B. HP Collaborative Support
C. HP Foundation Care
D. HP Proactive Care Plus with personalized support options