C1000-021 Online Practice Questions and Answers

A customer has a single, non-IBM storage system with 100 drives of the same capacity. The storage

administrators spend most of their time trying to eliminate hot spots. The customer is considering an IBM

Storwize V5020 purchase with approximately the same number of drives.

Which IBM Storwize feature helps resolve these issues?

A. A single storage pool

B. Volume migration

C. HyperSwap

D. Auto-storage pool balancing

A customer is concerned about storage license compliance. Which IBM Spectrum Suite component should the customer use?

A. IBM Storage Mobile Dashboard

B. IBM Spectrum Control

C. IBM Big Fix Compliance

D. IBM License Metric Tool

A customer would like to provide data protection and high availability for their Microsoft Hyper-V environments that are installed on IBM Storwize V7000 storage.

Which IBM Spectrum Protect product should the storage specialist propose?

A. IBM Spectrum Protect for Space Management

B. IBM Spectrum Protect Enterprise Resource Planning

C. IBM Spectrum Protect for Workstations

D. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

A customer wants to start using containers for new workloads. What is required to support the IBM Storage Enabler for containers?

A. IBM Spectrum Connect

B. IBM Spectrum Virtualize 8.1.x or later

C. IBM Spectrum Accelerate 12.2.x or later

D. IBM Spectrum Control

An IBM FlashSystem V9000 customer wants to upgrade its system due to additional workloads.

What is a valid upgrade path to add performance and capacity?

A. Add IBM FlashSystem Storage enclosures

B. Add node pairs

C. Add node pair with storage enclosure (building block)

D. Add F Model Expansion enclosures

A customer has multiple virtualized storage systems and requires that volumes are optimally placed for performance.

Which member of the IBM Spectrum Storage Family includes analytics-driven tiered storage optimization to move full volumes to the most cost-effective tier?

A. IBM Spectrum Virtualize

B. IBM Spectrum Archive

C. IBM Spectrum Accelerate

D. IBM Spectrum Control

A customer's fibre-channel attached storage is approaching end-of-lease and will be returned. The customer is also evaluating IBM Storwize solutions. It is important during the transition period that data are available, that interruption is minimized, and that costs are kept low.

Which IBM Spectrum Virtualize for Storwize topic should be discussed with the customer?

A. Remote Mirroring license

B. Advanced chargeable features

C. FlashCopy license

D. Built-in functions

A customer acquires a new business unit that utilizes SAN boot volumes and wants to bring their systems and storage into the existing IBM SVC environment.

What must the customer do with the volumes to bring them under IBM SVC management with minimal downtime?

A. Import the volumes using Image Mode

B. Import the volumes using Managed Mode

C. Migrate the volumes using the migration wizard

D. Perform a backup and restore of the data

A customer wants to know the advantage of DRAID over traditional RAID

What should the technical specialist explain?

A. The hot spare space moves around the RAID array

B. No rebuild area capacity is required

C. All drives participate in application I/O

D. It is a dynamic form of RAID that automatically adjusts the RAID level to performance needs

A customer needs to create a full copy of a production volume.

Which option must be used creating a FlashCopy?

A. Clone

B. Duplicate

C. Snapshot D. Volume Copy