IBM C9020-970 Exam Overview:
| Certification Vendor: | IBM |
|---|---|
| Exam Name: | IBM Enterprise Storage Sales V4 |
| Exam Number: | C4090-970 |
| Related Certifications: | IBM Enterprise Storage Sales Specialist IBM Enterprise Storage Technical Support |
| Real Exam Qty: | 60 |
| Passing Score: | 800 (scale) |
| Exam Format: | Multiple-choice questions |
| Certificate Validity Period: | N/A (exam retired) |
| Exam Duration: | 120 minutes |
| Exam Price: | Varies by region (official fee at test centre) |
| Available Languages: | English |
| Sample Questions: | IBM C9020-970 Sample Questions |
| Exam Way: | Delivered at authorised Pearson VUE test centres or IBM testing partners |
| Pre Condition: | None specified; typically intended for sales professionals with storage experience |
| Official Syllabus URL: | https://www.ibm.com/training/certification |
IBM C9020-970 Exam Syllabus Topics:
| Section | Objectives |
|---|---|
| Customer Requirements and Alignment | - Aligning Solutions to Customer Needs - Gathering Customer Storage Use Cases |
| IBM Enterprise Storage Product Knowledge | - IBM Flash and Hybrid Storage Solutions - IBM SAN Volume Controller - IBM Spectrum Storage Suite - Software-Defined Storage Concepts |
| Sales Skills and Solution Positioning | - Feature/Benefit Articulation - Consultative Selling Approach - TCO/ROI Fundamentals - Competitive Differentiation |
IBM Enterprise Storage Sales V4 Sample Questions:
A customer wants recommendations on storage for an onsite cloud implementation to simplify management of company data.
Which solution should be recommended?
- A. Management as a Service (MaaS)
- B. Software as a Service (SaaS)
- C. Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- D. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Correct Answer: B 🗳️
A customer has heard that there could be issues with Easy Tier that will cause hot spots to occur with a given tier of disk. The customer already has hot spot concerns and desires a solution that will minimize those concerns.
Which new feature in Release 7.3 will minimize this concern?
- A. External virtualization
- B. Balancing
- C. Three tier support
- D. Limiting
Correct Answer: D 🗳️
A customer asks you if IBM has a self-service cloud provisioning solution.
Which solution should you recommend?
- A. IBM Spectrum Protect
- B. OpenStack
- C. IBM SmartCloud Storage Access
- D. Elastic Storage
Correct Answer: C 🗳️
A customer has a TS3500 tape library with two expansion frames. Today, the library has ten (10) LTO-2 drives and only 100 tape cartridge slots available. With the LTO-2 drives, a one week rotation would typically utilize 80 tape cartridges. The customer is adding 500 LTO-2 cartridges per year. The cost of maintenance on the LTO-2 drives is getting expensive.
What should you recommend to this customer?
- A. Add an expansion frame with six LTO-6 drives and 400 LTO-6 cartridges
- B. Replace all LTO-2 drives with LTO-5 drives immediately
- C. Add two LTO-6 drives and 80 LTO-6 cartridges to start
- D. Replace all LTO-2 drives with LTO-6 drives immediately
Correct Answer: D 🗳️
A customer plans to replace its storage infrastructure which supports Oracle databases and a server farm based on VMware by a storage grid architecture. A business partner sales specialist proposes two XIV Storage Systems with 486 TB of usable capacity and implementation services.
Which IBM storage approach should be used to migrate the applications' data at lowest cost?
- A. Use the native migration facility
- B. Migrate the data using IBM Lab Services
- C. Use host resources to migrate the data using LVM
- D. Utilize SVC as a migration tool
Correct Answer: A 🗳️
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