A seller is configuring a quote for a healthcare client who will

install 3 servers attached to 14 tape drives in an IBM

Diamondback. The total tape capacity is 20PB (petabytes) with
30TB (terabytes) of active storage. To meet regulatory
requirements, all data at rest must be encrypted. What IBM
product should be added to the quote to meet the client
requirement?
Question 1Answer

IBM Security Verify

IBM FlashSystem 9500

IBM Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager

IBM X-Force Security Services

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A client with multiple IBM Storage Scale servers is expanding
data tiering to tape. They are concerned about the cost and
complexity of installing IBM Storage Archive on all their servers.
Why is this not a concern?
Question 2Answer

Storage Archive is not licensed by capacity, which allows full

tape library capacity at no additional charge.

The client should consider a different solution to reduce costs.

Storage Archive is only installed on the servers attached to

tape, reducing licensing costs and administrative complexity.

Storage Archive licensing is not expensive and is easy to install.

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In an initial IBM Storage Archive planning session, the client has
indicated they will start with a capacity of 12PB (petabytes) and
plan to keep the solution for 9 years. They have also indicated
that the data storage is growing at 10% compound annual
growth rate (CAGR). Approximately how much data will the
client have stored in year 9?
Question 3Answer

22.8PB

13.2PB

25.7PB

108PB
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A Middle Eastern genomics organization is starting a large
artificial intelligence (AI) project. They are concerned about
storage for AI being shared with other workloads. What can a
seller say to help align the organization to the market usage of
storage for AI?
Question 4Answer

Integrating AI storage into larger infrastructure is complicated.

72% of companies use AI storage for other workloads.

80% of companies plan to upgrade their storage infrastructure

to better support AI.
The lack of proper storage infrastructure is one of the key
reasons AI projects fail.
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A seller is working with the enterprise storage architect at a
major retail chain to design a high availability, reliable Storage
Area Network (SAN) architecture for the IBM Storage Archive
solution. The client has 3 servers attached to 12 tape drives in
each of the tape libraries at their district locations. The seller
has helped design a SAN with 2 fibre channel switches and 2
connections per server to the 2 host bus adapters (HBAs). How
many logical drive connections will be recognized by each
server?
Question 5Answer

96

144

There is no limit to logical paths.

48
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A seller is working with the enterprise storage architect at a
major retail chain to design a high availability, reliable Storage
Area Network (SAN) architecture for the IBM Storage Archive
solution. The client has 3 servers attached to 12 tape drives in
each of the tape libraries at their district locations. The seller
has helped design a SAN with 2 fibre channel switches and 2
connections per server to the 2 host bus adapters (HBAs). The
client has asked how many physical connections the tape drive
has in this configuration. What is your response?
Question 6Answer

12

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An existing IBM Storage Archive user has recently started
writing larger files to the archive. The client uses a write direct
to tape policy. Because they are writing larger files, what
changes will be required to the system to support the
workloads?
Question 7Answer

The client will need to expand the cache to support larger files
being written to the system with this policy.

No changes are required with this write direct to tape policy.

The client will not be able to use larger files size because Linear
Tape File System (LTFS) is limited in the size of the files.

The client will need to add a new policy to address the workload
changes using mmchangepolicy.
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A new client who has over 100PB (petabyte) of active archive
on HDD (hard disk drives) has asked for a general economic
guidance related to moving data to IBM Storage Archive. They
have indicated that 50% of the data is deep archive. What
guidance can be provided to help them discuss the financial
benefit of adding Storage Archive?
Question 8Answer

Tape is up to 16 times less expensive.

The percentage of data will generally equal the savings, 50%

resulting in 56% savings.

Tape is 97% lower cost.

There is no financial model for object data to tape.

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A seller is configuring a quote for a healthcare client that will
install 3 servers attached to 14 tape drives in an IBM
Diamondback. The total tape capacity is 20PB (petabytes) with
30TB (terabytes) of active storage. The client keeps machine
readable information (MRI) data active for 1 month because it is
frequently accessed during that time. Because the storage is
shared storage on an encrypted IBM FlashSystem 5300, the
data storage manager is concerned with the system reaching
capacity. What feature can both alert and prevent reaching
capacity?
Question 9Answer

Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) reporting

Pre-migration policy

Reclamation command execution policy

Capacity threshold policy

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A seller has a new client in the medical industry. Because the
client is new, the seller is concerned about the usability of
Storage Archive for them. Why should the seller have
confidence that Storage Archive is a viable choice for this
client?
Question 10Answer

Storage Archive is usable with file system data of any type.

Storage Archive is only used for technical applications.

Tape stores data in bits.

Storage Archive uses Linear Tape File system (LTFS) on tape.

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Global data creation and replication are growing every year.
According to International Data Corporation (IDC), what is the
forecasted yearly growth rate of unstructured data?
Question 11Answer

85%
72%

22.9%

19.9%
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A large Managed Service Provider (MSP) would like to deploy
tape using Linear Tape File System (LTFS). The client currently
uses data management with an open system file system that
they developed in-house. They have asked IBM for
development assistance. What is the best choice of software for
this client?
Question 12Answer

IBM Storage Defender

IBM Storage Archive EE (Enterprise Edition)

IBM Storage Archive SDE (Single Drive Edition)

IBM Storage Archive LE (Library Edition)

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An existing IBM storage archive user writing large files to the
archive with a write direct to tape policy has decided to start
using the infrastructure for shared warm production data. What
components of the solution are most impacted by this addition
to the architecture?
Question 13Answer

IBM Storage Archive metadata and IBM Storage Scale

There is no charge for capacity in Storage Archive.

IBM Storage Scale servers and license

IBM Storage Scale license and Active Storage

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In a discovery discussion with a client, the client asks what IBM
Storage Archive does for tape. What is the best response?
Question 14Answer

Policy manages data from existing storage systems.

Simplifies usage and operation without device specific software.

Provides a file system format on tape.

Makes tape a direct network attachment.

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A Silicon Valley artificial intelligence (AI) startup wants to
deploy tape to preserve source data to validate and retrain
their AI engine. The company has over 20PB (petabytes) of data
to move to tape. The company CIO (Chief Information Officer)
has raised a concern about IBM Storage Archive being a
proprietary solution. The client is very concerned with vendor
lock-in. What is the best response to this concern?
Question 15Answer

IBM can provide a Linear Tape-Open LTO solution.

IBM Storage Archive is a POSIX (Portable Operating System

Interface) file system used in many operating systems.

All data is written in an open format called Linear Tape File

System (LTFS), which can be read by other vendors.

All data is controlled by an XML (Extensible Markup Language)

format metadata that can be shared with other vendors.
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A seller is configuring a quote for a media and entertainment
client who will install 3 servers attached to 14 tape drives in an
IBM Diamondback. The total tape capacity is 20PB (petabytes)
with 30TB (terabytes) of active storage. The client has
requested a recommendation on the tape drive interface. What
is a major advantage of the Fibre Channel (FC) interface?
Question 16Answer

FC supports fail-over and load balancing.

FC can connect to tape libraries 300km (kilometers) away

FC tape drives have a higher data rate.

FC uses light to transmit data.

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A seller is configuring a quote for a media and entertainment
client who will install 3 servers attached to 14 tape drives in an
IBM Diamondback. The total tape capacity is 20PB (petabytes)
with 30TB (terabytes) of active storage. What is the license
requirement for IBM Storage Archive?
Question 17Answer

20,000 TB license

There is no charge for Storage Archive for media and

entertainment clients.

3 server licenses

14 server licenses
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A high-performance computing and research lab is currently
running IBM Elastic Storage Server (ESS) for high performance
workloads. Because they are running ESS, which is based on
IBM Storage Scale, how can the client attach tape for data
tiering?
Question 18Answer

IBM Storage Archive and IBM Storage Scale can be combined

with High Performance Storage System (HPSS) software to
integrate into ESS clusters.

IBM Storage Archive software can be added to the ESS clusters

attaching to tape via an ESS host bus adapter (HBA).
External server nodes attached to tape with IBM Storage
Archive can be added to the ESS cluster to allow a policy-driven
modern data protection scheme for all the ESS data.

IBM Storage Archive software can only be used with standalone

namespaces.
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An existing IBM Storage Archive client would like to double the
number of tape drives in the tape library. What other
component of IBM storage Archive will change with this
addition?
Question 19Answer

The number of servers

The number of index nodes (inodes)

Storage Archive metadata

The number of tape libraries

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A seller is configuring a quote for a healthcare client who will
install 3 servers attached to 14 tape drives in an IBM
Diamondback. The total tape capacity is 20PB (petabytes) with
30TB (terabytes) of active storage. The client informs the seller
that when machine readable information (MRI) data is retrieved
from the archive, it must stay active for 1 month because it is
frequently accessed during that time. What components should
be added to the quote to meet the client requirement?
Question 20Answer

Increased external storage and an IBM Storage Scale license

Increased server storage and an IBM Storage Archive license

Increase tape drives and servers to meet the data recall rate

IBM FlashSystem 9500 and IBM Storage Defender to protect

against malware
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An arctic exploration company wants to store data with IBM
Storage Archive. Because they have a primary data center in an
earthquake zone, they want to replicate data to a second data
center. What is the maximum distance they can replicate the
data with Metro site mirroring?
Question 21Answer

300 km (kilometers)

3,000 km

Up to 300 miles

Synchronous replication can be any distance.

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A prospective IBM storage archive client has requested that the
archive solution for 100PB (petabytes) of glacial data have high
availability at every level. Which of the following will not be
required to meet this request?
Question 22Answer

Dual-active IBM TS4500 robots

Multi-site, multi-copy IBM Storage Archive policy

IBM Storage Defender for Data Protection

Clustered IBM Storage Scale servers

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A company is beginning a new deployment of IBM Storage
Archive for an active archive storage. In the design of the
architecture, the client has indicated that when data is recalled
from tape, they want to keep it active for 1 month because
data is often accessed multiple times during a 30-day period
before going dormant. What component of the solution will be
impacted by this requirement?
Question 23Answer

Active storage capacity and Storage Scale licenses

The number of tape drives in the library

External flash storage and metadata

The inode (index node) counts and server memory

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In a discussion with a large financial client, a seller notes that
the company runs financial software on AIX software. As a large
IBM Power client, the company wants to use Power servers for
IBM Storage Archive. The client has asked if they can use one of
their existing servers. What is the best response?
Question 24Answer

External flash storage and metadata

The inode (index node) counts and server memory

The number of tape drives in the library

Active storage capacity and Storage Scale licenses

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A large media and entertainment client is using Linear Tape File
System (LTFS) formatted tape to receive raw data from
production sets. The company would like to know how they can
discover what is on a tape without reading the entire tape.
What is the best option to satisfy this request?
Question 25Answer

The LTFS tape must be verified in order to build the index

Have the film crew enter the contents of tape in a database

before sending the tape.

Use IBM Storage Archive to read the tape before sending the
tape to the company.

Explain that the Linear Tape File System (LTFS) index contains
the entire file structure on the tape without reading the data