IBM Storage Technical V2 Sample Questions:

1. A customer has existing SAP HANA production nodes connected to BM Spectrum Scale. The customer needs to scale out additional nodes to maintain the high bandwidth requirement.
Which type of nodes should be proposed?

A) Storage nodes with NVMe drives
B) Storage nodes with SSD drives
C) Protocol nodes with SSD drives
D) Storage nodes with SAS drives

2. How is RPO defined?

A) The recovery checkpoint of the database
B) The amount of time it takes, from initial disaster declaration, to having critical business processes available to users
C) The amount of data loss that's deemed acceptable
D) The recovery point to start the backup after disaster declaration

3. A customer is considering the Cisco MDS 9148 and the IBM SAN48B-5 SAN switches.
What are two key advantages for the IBM SAN48B-5 switch? (Choose two.)

A) 1U of rack space
B) 1Gbps port support
C) 16Gbps port support
D) Pay as you grow from 16 to 48 ports
E) 10Gbps port support

4. A customer's compliance department requires that data is kept for ten years. The data must be available as needed, and the customer must ensure that the data
cannot be modified.
Which technology should the specialist recommend?

A) NVMe flash
B) NL-SAS drives
C) SED drives
D) WORM tape cartridges

5. Which IBM product should you propose to a customer with multiple PB of unstructured data that require a single name space?

A) IBM Spectrum Scale
B) DS8870
C) V840
D) XIV Hyper Scale

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