单选题A storage specialist is assessing a customer’s tape backup environment. Which of the following questions would be the most appropriate question to identify the customer’s environment？（）A Has there been any recent loss of data？B How many tape drives are

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A customer’s SAN environment has undergone significant growth over the past two years. They have also suffered a high turnover rate with administrative personnel. The customer has asked a storage specialist for help in documenting and understanding their changing SAN environment. The ability to make configuration changes to devices would be a plus.  Which tool should the storage specialist suggest（）

• A、Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Fabric Manager
• B、Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Basic Edition
• C、IBM TivoliNetView
• D、Disk Magic

第2题：

When designing a single tier AIX database solution for a customer， what other technical specialist would be most instrumental in putting together a total solution and why？（）

• A、xSeries specialist，as the customer may have some Intel-based systems.
• B、Hardware customer engineer，as they will be installing the entire solution.
• C、Services specialist，as they can provide education recommendations for the entire solution. 
• D、Storage specialist，as the customer may need disk to store the data and tape to backup the data.

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A customer with a small IT budget has one data center. Their main application is a database running on an IBM System Storage DS8000. The database has a data change rate of 50% per day. Once a week， they must do a point-in-time backup from the database to tape. The time it takes to run the backup now exceeds the backup window allowed. The customer requests a proposal to reduce database downtime caused by running backups， with nearly no impact to production volumes.    In addition to the tape backup， which DS8000 feature should a technical specialist propose（）

• A、FlashCopy
• B、FlashCopy SE
• C、Metro Mirror
• D、Global Mirror

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A customer has a new p5-550 running AIX 5.2 that is SAN-attached to a FAStT900.  They have encountered hangs lasting over a minute on their new system during application load testing.  They called the pSeries technical specialist for advice.  Which of the following would be the most appropriate questions to determine their next step in resolving the problem？（）

• A、Are there any errors in the error log？ Do they indicate any hardware or software errors？
• B、Has performance data been collected？ What do the results show in terms of I/O statistics？
• C、Has performance data been collected？ What do the results show in terms of CPU utilization？ 
• D、What type of SAN switch is the customer using？ What are the microcode levels on the switch？

第5题：

A customer has six Windows 2003 servers， three RedHat Linux servers， and three Netware servers.  The current environment is direct attached storage.  The customer needs a 2Gb Fibre solution that can scale up to 64 partitions over the next three years and provide connectivity to all three platforms.  The customer also needs a fibre attached backup solution.  Which of the following solutions has the best combination of price and performance？（）

• A、A DS4300 Turbo with Fibre Attached Tape Library
• B、A DS4500 with EXP700’s and Fibre Attached Tape Library
• C、A DS4500 with EXP710’s and Fibre Attached Tape Library
• D、A DS4300 with Additional EXP710’s and a SCSI Attached Tape Library

第6题：

A current System z customer has 10,000 IBM 3490 tape cartridges, most of which are only 10%utilized, in their tape shelf storage adjacent to the computer room. The customer currently has nospace for the new DS8700 that is on order. What should the IBM storage specialist propose as asolution?（）

• A、IBM Information Archive 
• B、TS3500 with LTO-5 drives 
• C、TS7700 Virtual Tape Server 
• D、TS3310 with two expansion frames

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A customer has the need to implement a tape backup solution to backup a 500GB database on a daily basis.  Which of the following factors is the most important consideration in the design of a backup and restore solution？（）

• A、Amount of data in the backup
• B、Bandwidth available to the tape device
• C、Length of the backup/restore window
• D、Speed that the backup system can find files for restoration

第14题：

Tiered disk systems （DS8700 and DS5020）， tape backup and Cisco director（s） utilizing VSANs have been proposed as a solution. The storage specialist is asked to explain the technical advantage of using Cisco directors and VSANs.  Which of the following is the key point to stress to the customer（）

• A、a single director and VSANs provides redundant fabrics at reasonable cost
• B、prevent disk and tape traffic from sharing a host port
• C、ease of implementation of Administrative Domains
• D、ability to easily create a DS8700 LPAR to send data directly to tape

第15题：

A customer has Direct Attached Storage （DAS） storage for their Windows servers. They are allocating money in next year’s budget for additional storage. Which of the following questions should be asked first to determine the proper storage solution to propose？（）

• A、What is the planned backup solution？
• B、How many people manage the storage system？
• C、What is the total planned capacity？
• D、Is a shared storage subsystem under consideration？

第16题：

A customer has a large amount of data stored on three database servers and is concerned that at present there is no disaster recovery plan in place.  They have an existing tape backup solution that meets their backup window.  In order to analyze potential disaster recovery plans， which of the following questions is the most important？（）

• A、What is the minimum critical backup window？
• B、Which server is handling the most critical data？
• C、How much data is stored on each server？
• D、What is the throughput of the hard drives？

第17题：

A customer with both IBM servers and storage asked their storage specialist to present updatedinformation on the IBM storage portfolio. The specialist suspects a competitor is actively selling inthis account. Which of the following questions, if asked by the customer, would most likely indicatecompetitive activity?（）

• A、Does the DS8700 offer virtualized arrays? 
• B、How can the IBM SAN Volume Controller work in our environment? 
• C、What is the raw disk capacity of the IBM System Storage DS5300? 
• D、What are the support options available on the IBM System Storage DS5020?

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