High Volume Storage Fundamentals V3 Exam #000-455 Sample Test
High Volume Storage Fundamentals V3 Exam #000-455 Sample Test
High Volume Storage Fundamentals V3 Exam #000-455 Sample Test
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<strong>High</strong> <strong>Volume</strong> <strong>Storage</strong><br />
<strong>Fundamentals</strong> <strong>V3</strong><br />
<strong>Exam</strong> <strong>#000</strong>-<strong>455</strong> <strong>Sample</strong> <strong>Test</strong><br />
1. The technical specialist calls on a customer and learns they are planning a major<br />
business update in the manufacturing process, and that they will need to refresh many of<br />
the systems in important departments. They are using IBM Systems Director in those<br />
critical business departments.<br />
What should the technical specialist request to help them refresh their environment?<br />
A. ask what software is used for network management<br />
B. ask for a Visio diagram of their network and environment<br />
C. ask about all of the individual components and areas they plan on refreshing<br />
D. ask for a report from Director with the IBM machine type, model, serial number<br />
and OS<br />
2. A customer has invested in a local installation of entry DS storage to provide high<br />
availability. New business requirements dictate that they provide business resilience.<br />
Which of the following technologies would help provide this additional functionality?<br />
A. Converged Network Adapters<br />
B. Fibre Channel over Ethernet<br />
C. Tivoli <strong>Storage</strong> Productivity Center<br />
D. Enhanced Global Mirroring<br />
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3. The customer's data needs to be placed on the appropriate storage type.<br />
What methodology will allow this?<br />
A. Fibre Channel protocol<br />
B. archiving<br />
C. tiering<br />
D. virtualization<br />
4. A disk opportunity was discovered during a conversation with an insurance company.<br />
They require additional storage capacity with the ability to securely protect data while at<br />
rest. They would like to provide this functionality within a single subsystem.<br />
Which of the following solutions would the technical specialist suggest?<br />
A. DS3512 with nearline SAS drives<br />
B. DS3512 with SED SAS drives<br />
C. DS3512 with 10k rpm SAS drives<br />
D. DS3512 with 15k rpm SAS drives<br />
5. The technical specialist is proposing a Storwize <strong>V3</strong>700 to a customer who is also<br />
considering quotes from HP, Dell and EMC.<br />
What resource should be consulted for general IBM feature/function advantages?<br />
A. eConfig<br />
B. Support Line<br />
C. Techline CompeteCenter<br />
D. System <strong>Storage</strong> Interoperation Center<br />
6. Which of the following tools would be used to determine how many drives are needed for<br />
a proposed Storwize <strong>V3</strong>700 solution to meet usable space requirements?<br />
A. Capacity Magic<br />
B. Disk Magic<br />
C. DDP Calculator<br />
D. xConfig<br />
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7. The technical specialist wants to determine the usable terabytes for a given Storwize<br />
<strong>V3</strong>700 configuration.<br />
What tool would best serve that function?<br />
A. Disk Magic<br />
B. Capacity Magic<br />
C. Standalone Solutions Configuration Tool<br />
D. TCOnow!<br />
8. Name a unique feature DS3524 has that HP P2000G3 MSA does not have.<br />
A. battery-backed cache with the ability to destage data to a removable flash card<br />
B. Easy Tier for the ability to have hybrid storage pools with SAS and nearline SAS<br />
drives<br />
C. SAS hard drives to set up high performance storage pools<br />
D. replication within the complete IBM DS and Storwize storage product line<br />
9. A customer is looking at a Storwize <strong>V3</strong>700 solution and is interested in multi-protocol<br />
support.<br />
Which statement is true about available host connections?<br />
A. on-board NAS and optional block<br />
B. on-board SAS and optional longwave<br />
C. on-board iSCSI and optional Fibre Channel<br />
D. on-board Fibre Channel and optional InfiniBand<br />
10. What two standard features of the Storwize <strong>V3</strong>700 are included in the license machine<br />
code at no additional cost? (Select two)<br />
A. CIFS<br />
B. Easy Tier<br />
C. FlashCopy<br />
D. thin provisioning<br />
E. real-time compression<br />
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11. An IBM BladeCenter Optical Pass-thru Module has the following advantage from an IBM<br />
BladeCenter Fibre Channel switch:<br />
A. zoning is created at the pass-thru module<br />
B. all cable connections on the pass-thru module must be filled<br />
C. no configuration is required on the pass-thru module<br />
D. only single-mode fiber can be used<br />
12. On a DS3500 or DCS3700, what are two advantages of adding drives in a DDP?<br />
(Select two)<br />
A. write zeroes to all the new disk space<br />
B. provide automatic data defragmentation<br />
C. immediately rebalance data<br />
D. auto migration of volumes to thin provisioned arrays<br />
E. add more than two drives simultaneously<br />
13. What function within IBM DS <strong>Storage</strong> Manager would allow an administrator to view real<br />
time I/O and cache statistics on a DS3500 controller, arrays and logical configurations?<br />
A. Collect All Support Data<br />
B. Support Monitor<br />
C. System Event Logs<br />
D. Performance Monitor<br />
14. What are the three FlashCopy presets in the Storwize <strong>V3</strong>700 GUI?<br />
A. Snapshot, Clone, Backup<br />
B. FlashCopy, <strong>Volume</strong>Copy, Replication<br />
C. Metro Mirror, Global Mirror, SnapVault<br />
D. Thin, Incremental, Deduplication<br />
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15. A customer needs to expand an existing DCS3700 for a new PACS application. It is<br />
determined they initially need 12 new nearline SAS drives with the need to expand<br />
capacity regularly in 12 drive increments.<br />
What advantage does Dynamic Disk Pooling (DDP) have compared to a standard array<br />
type when using Dynamic Array Expansion (DAE)?<br />
A. change data stripe across the array<br />
B. can add more than 2 drives at a time<br />
C. dynamically configures drive extents by volume<br />
D. provides better performance than standard array types<br />
16. Which Storwize <strong>V3</strong>700 capability will reduce the workload on a host system running<br />
VMware?<br />
A. CNA (Converged Network Adapter)<br />
B. VAAI (v<strong>Storage</strong> API for Array Integration)<br />
C. ALUA (Asymmetric Logical Unit Access)<br />
D. DDP (Dynamic Disk Pooling)<br />
17. In the IBM tape drive family, with both single drives and tape libraries, the TS3200 offers<br />
which of the following LTO Ultrium 6 tape drives?<br />
A. half-height Fibre Channel, half-height SCSI, full-height iSCSI<br />
B. half-height SAS, full-height SCSI, half-height Fibre Channel<br />
C. half-height SCSI, half-height LVD-SCSI, half-height Fibre Channel<br />
D. full-height Fibre Channel, half-height Fibre Channel, half-height SAS<br />
18. The DS3524 supports thin provisioning capability in what disk configuration?<br />
A. RAID-5<br />
B. RAID-6<br />
C. DDP<br />
D. virtualization<br />
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19. IBM invented linear-tape file system (LTFS) for tape.<br />
Which LTO standards are supported by LTFS?<br />
A. LTO-4, LTO-5<br />
B. LTO-6, LTO-WORM<br />
C. LTO-5, LTO-6<br />
D. LTFS-SDE, LTO-WORM<br />
20. Which storage system will use RAID P+Q for performance?<br />
A. EMC VNX5300<br />
B. IBM DS3500 series<br />
C. IBM N3000 series<br />
D. HP EVA P6300<br />
21. What IBM process is used to document the customer's environment, outline the proposed<br />
solution and list prerequisites from a site survey?<br />
A. TCO analysis<br />
B. IBM Scorpion Study<br />
C. IBM Designated Product List (DPL)<br />
D. Technical Delivery Assessment (TDA)<br />
22. Each SAS 2.0 port/cable contains how many full duplex channels?<br />
A. 1<br />
B. 2<br />
C. 3<br />
D. 4<br />
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23. Using current technology, which drive type provides the best price performance in a video<br />
streaming environment?<br />
A. SSD<br />
B. Fibre Channel<br />
C. nearline SAS<br />
D. SAS<br />
24. A DS3500 supports which drive types?<br />
A. USB, FDE, SED<br />
B. SAS, nearline SAS, SSD<br />
C. SCSI, Fibre Channel, IDE<br />
D. Fibre Channel, SATA, FATA<br />
25. Which two port address formats can be used to define an iSCSI host to a Storwize<br />
<strong>V3</strong>700? (Select two)<br />
A. Extended unique identifiers (EUI)<br />
B. Worldwide port names (WWPN)<br />
C. iSCSI qualified names (IQNs)<br />
D. SAS port name (SPN)<br />
E. Worldwide node name (WWNN)<br />
26. Which RAID level protects against a dual drive failure?<br />
A. RAID 0<br />
B. RAID 3<br />
C. RAID 5<br />
D. RAID 6<br />
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27. What RAID type is well-suited for applications that require fast access to non-critical data,<br />
or data that can be easily restored from backup?<br />
A. RAID 0<br />
B. RAID 1<br />
C. RAID 5<br />
D. RAID 10<br />
28. Which remote replication operating mode is synchronous and limited to distances of up to<br />
300 kilometers?<br />
A. Global Mirror<br />
B. Metro Mirror<br />
C. Global Copy<br />
D. FlashCopy<br />
29. A customer just completed their Business Impact Analysis (BIA) study to create and<br />
design their business continuity plan. Developing this plan enables them to set the<br />
parameters around how the business can respond to a disaster.<br />
Two key elements established as part of the BIA are:<br />
A. disk RAID configurations and high availability<br />
B. Recovery Point Objective and Recovery Time Objective<br />
C. FlashCopy and Continuous Data Protection<br />
D. system backup and response time to retrieve tapes<br />
30. What is the connectivity method of a NAS storage device?<br />
A. iSCSI cable to a Fibre Channel switch<br />
B. Fibre Channel cable to a Fibre Channel switch<br />
C. Gigabit Ethernet cable to a network switch<br />
D. SCSI cable to a network switch<br />
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31. The concept of the core/edge design topology is that the storage system(s) should be<br />
connected to what highly available device?<br />
A. Fibre Channel switch<br />
B. director class switch<br />
C. executive class router<br />
D. Ethernet router<br />
32. What is a selling feature of LTO-6 compared to LTO-5?<br />
A. longer shelf-life<br />
B. higher capacity cartridges<br />
C. more cartridges per library<br />
D. increased compatibility with older technology<br />
33. To what extent are LTO-6 tape drives backward compatible with previous versions of<br />
LTO?<br />
A. read only previous generation 5 media and 4 media<br />
B. read and write previous generation 3 media and read only generation 2 media<br />
C. read and write previous generation 5 media and read only generation 4 media<br />
D. read and write previous generation 4 and 5 media and read only generation 3<br />
media<br />
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ANSWERS<br />
1 D<br />
2 D<br />
3 C<br />
4 B<br />
5 C<br />
6 A<br />
7 B<br />
8 A<br />
9 C<br />
10 CD<br />
11 C<br />
12 CE<br />
13 D<br />
14 A<br />
15 B<br />
16 B<br />
17 D<br />
18 C<br />
19 C<br />
20 B<br />
21 D<br />
22 D<br />
23 C<br />
24 B<br />
25 AC<br />
26 D<br />
27 A<br />
28 B<br />
29 B<br />
30 C<br />
31 B<br />
32 B<br />
33 C<br />
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