IBM System Storage DS8000 Technical Solutions V3 Sample Questions:
1. With the DSS000, if a customer raises a Severity' I call with the Hardware or Software Support Center.
IBM will work on the call 24 hours a day, seven days a week provided the customer does what?
A) Escalates the problem within IBM to see if this route helps fix the issue first
B) Supplies all dumps, logs and traces that the device or component in error has produced
C) Has people available to work 24 hours a day, seven days a week to match the Support Center's effort
D) Agrees to attend a daily teleconference and continues to emphasize the importance of the problem
2. What is DS8000 Assist On Site (AOS)?
A) AOS is an STG lab services program to assist DSS000 customers perform HDD secure data erase.
B) AOS is an STG lab services program to assist DSS000 customers onsite for machine performance improvements.
C) AOS is a program designed to help DS8000 customers support accessing the system remotely through SSL secure connection.
D) AOS is a GTS program to assist DS8000 customers for data migration.
3. The value-based licensing for the Operating Environment License (OEL) is priced based on what characteristics?
A) Only the amount of usable capacity
B) Disk drive type and raw capacity
C) Amount of cache, number of host adapters, usable capacity
D) Only the total raw capacity
4. A customer has a DS8000 with 100 TB raw capacity' installed and running in their data center. All storage is for open systems workloads. There is 30 TB of unused capacity'. There are no Advanced Functions installed, but after a presentation from the Business Partner they are interested in using FlashCopy to help reduce their overnight batch window.
How can this function be tested in compliance with the DS8000 licensing rules?
A) A FlashCopy license for 100 TB is needed
B) AFlashCopylicense for 30 TB is needed
C) All Advanced Function software is loaded so it can be used in test mode for 45 days
D) Use the DSEA website to request a temporary' license
5. A customer wants to place some HDDs in a DS8870. The customer also wants to enable Easy Tier with SSD for all HDDs, but wants to minimize the amount of SSDs purchased.
Which option would be valid?
A) SDDs come in full drive sets (16 drives). Purchasing a single full drive set, if configured properly, would enable all the HDDs to be in an Easy Tier pool at the lowest cost.
B) SSDs come in half drive sets (8 drives). Purchasing a single half drive set, if configured properly, would enable all the HDDs to be in an Easy Tier pool at the lowest cost.
C) IBM never recommends less than 50% of the configured drives be SSD, so the customer should match the number of HDDs with the same number of SSDs.
D) IBM recommends a 2:1 ratio of HDDs to SSDs, so the customer should purchase half the number of SSDs compared to the number of HDDs purchased.
Solutions:
Question # 1 Answer: C | Question # 2 Answer: C | Question # 3 Answer: B | Question # 4 Answer: A | Question # 5 Answer: A |