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DS8900F Storage for IBM Z - Level 2 Quiz!

Question 1

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What IBM DS8900F capability allows organizations to introduce

hybrid cloud as a new storage tier for data archiving, long term
retention, and data protection in IBM Z environments?

Select one:

Fibre Channel Endpoint Security

Safeguarded Copy

Air Gap


Transparent Cloud Tiering

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Which of the following is not a benefit of the integration of IBM

DS8910F and TS7770 in a single 19-inch industry-standard
rack?

Select one:
Floorspace reduction

Use of TS7770 as a virtual tape library directly connected

to IBM Z


18% to 25% reduction in latency

Lower cost through sharing of infrastructure components

Question 3

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With the IBM DS8900F and IBM z/15, IBM provides a unique
technology that ensures that data is accessed only by
authorized servers and storage devices creating a trusted
storage network that encrypts data in which of the following
states?

Select one:
In-flight and in the cloud
In-flight only
In flight and at-rest
In-flight, at-rest, in the cloud 
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In a sales situation, which DS8900F class would you

recommend to help organizations reduce complexity while
addressing a wide variety of workloads at the lowest cost?  

Select one:
IBM DS8950F Agility class 

IBM DS9060F Business class

IBM DS8970F Enterprise class
IBM DS8910F Flexibility Class 

Question 5

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Points out of 1.00

What is a benefit of Cognitive Tiering?

Select one:
It enables disaster recovery across unlimited distances
with a recovery objective of a few minutes or even
seconds.
It provides a gateway for Data Facility Storage
Management Subsystem (DFSMS) to store and retrieve
data from the cloud.
It delivers better than seven 9's availability
(99.999996%) with zHyperSwap technology.
On a Db2 reorg, Media Manager will inform the 

DS8900F to place the data being reorganized on the

same optimized tiers as the source data existed.
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Which of the following features is an example of the separation

of protected data copies from active production data?

Select one:

HyperSwap

Default to remote code load


Air Gap

Transparent Cloud Tiering

Question 7

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Which of the following is NOT one of the three pillars of the

DS8900F value proposition?

Select one:
Businesses can build with flexibility
Businesses can protect the future
Businesses can ensure freedom from cyber attacks 

Businesses can deliver with confidence

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DS8900F class has a value proposition describing it as a green

eco-friendly model that is packaged in a smaller physical
footprint which is designed to consolidate mission-critical
workloads for IBM Z IBM LinuxONE, IBM Power Systems and
distributed environments under a single enterprise storage
solution.  What is that percentage range?

Select one:
18% to 25% 

25% to 33%
50%
9% to 18%

Question 9

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Points out of 1.00

What IBM technology provides no-data-loss capabilities within

metro distances?

Select one:
Thin Provisioning
Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex (GDPS)
HyperSwap 

Fibre Channel
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Which of the following is a racked agility-class solution?

Select one:

IBM DS8950F Model E96


IBM DS8950F Model 996

IBM DS8910F Model 993

IBM DS8910F Model 994

Question 11

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Which of the following is a racked flexibility-class solution?

Select one:
IBM DS8910F Model 993
IBM DS8910F Model 994 

IBM DS8950F Model E96

IBM DS8950F Model 996
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Which of the following is not a benefits statement about the

IBM DS8900F storage system?

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The DS8900F storage system helps businesses
accelerate their research and applications with the next
generation of the leading quantum cloud services and
software platform

The DS8900F storage system is the result of years of

research and collaboration between the IBM Storage and
IBM Mainframe teams

The DS8900F storage system is the next generation of

enterprise data systems built with the most advanced
POWER9 processor technology and is designed for data
intensive and mission-critical workloads

The DS8900F storage system can help businesses add

next-level performance, data protection, resiliency, and
availability across their hybrid multicloud solutions
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What is IBM's unique technology that provides the

authentication and encryption capabilities that are required
for Data Privacy Passports?

Select one:
Fibre Channel Endpoint Security
Key management interoperability protocol
Security key lifecycle manager 

Transparent Cloud Tiering

Question 14

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Points out of 1.00

Which of the following is NOT a strength of Dell's competitive

storage system solution?

Select one:
Dell offers inline compression and deduplication for greater
effective capacity and optimized for open systems

VMAX users looking to buy all non-volatile memory express

(NVMe) storage to boost performance are increasingly
considering purchasing from competitors

PowerMax offers a new level of performance and a cost-

reducing deduplication function that was missing from
VMAX

Dell EMC has been the market leader for decades for 

highly available tier one storage

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Which of the following is NOT a benefit of artificial intelligence

(AI)?

Select one:
Developing trust and confidence while increasing security
and significantly reducing costs


Increasing bandwidth capacity for the establishment
Metro Mirror pair function with 32 GFC host adapters

Accessing deeper insights to provide improved customer

care

Achieving stronger data-driven decisions

Question 16

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Which of the following terms relates to how easy or difficult it

is to corrupt or destroy data?

Select one:
Granularity
Replication
Immutability 

Isolation
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In a sales situation what DS8900F family model would you

recommend for an organization with small capacity
requirements that is looking to boost performance in their
mainframe environment?

Select one:

DS8888

DS8900F

DS8950F


DS8910F
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Which IBM technologies provide air gapped data corruption

protection and tools delivered by combining security and
protection capabilities of IBM Z and IBM DS8000?

Select one:
Thin provisioning and Easy Tier


IBM Z Cyber Vault with IBM DS8000 Safeguarded Copy

Transparent Cloud Tiering

Fibre Channel
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What IBM technology enables the rapid recovery of business

operations with two to four second Recovery Point Objectives
(RPOs) and less than 60 second Recovery Time Objectives
(RTOs) at more than 1,000 miles?

Select one:

Fibre Channel

HyperSwap

Thin Provisioning


Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex (GDPS) 
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Which DS8900F model value proposition describes it as

providing superior performance and higher capacity and
designed to consolidate all of a client's mission-critical
workloads into a single enterprise storage solution?

Select one:

DS8910F

DS8900F


DS8950F

DS8888

Question 21

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Points out of 1.00

Which DS8900F model replaces the DS8886F?

Select one:
Flexibility class: IBM DS8910F
Business class: IBM DS9060F
Agility class: IBM DS8950F 

Enterprise class: IBM DS8970F

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Which DS8900F model replaces the DS8882F and the

DS8884F?

Select one:

Enterprise class: IBM DS8970F

Agility class: IBM DS8950F

Business class: IBM DS9060F


Flexibility class: IBM DS8910F
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As organizations consider a series of imperatives in the wake of

the pandemic, which of the following technologies should they
employ to continue to address urgent and immediate business
priorities?

Select one:

Data Resilience

Disaster Recovery


Artificial Intelligence

High Availability
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Which of the following is a significant enhancement to DS800’s

cyber security capabilities?

Select one:

Integration of SafeGuarded Copy

Realtime fraud detection

Logical WORM (write once-read many) 

Mainframe-storage integration in a single rack

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What is the name of IBM's replication management solution

that delivers central control of the replication environment,
while helping to simplify and automate complex replication
tasks?

Select one:

Data Facility Storage Management Subsystem (DFSMS)

Metro Global Mirror (MGM) with Multiple Target Peer-to-

Peer Remote Copy (MT PPRC) 


Copy Services Manager (CSM)

Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex (GDPS)