1.

Which IBM tool will advise v7000 admin when to migrate a volume from one pool
to another
a. IBM storage tier advisory tool
b. TPC tiered storage optimization tool
c. Disk Magic
d. Storwise GUI

2. V7000 batteries perform maintenance discharge cycles for the purpose of

a. Ensuring the batteries are always fully charged and ready to support the
loss of AC power
b. Ensuring the batteries are always fully charged and verification of battery
load and AC input power and quality
c. Extending the lifetime of the batteries and to ensure the system
can accurately measure the charge in batteries
d. Extending the lifetime of the power supplies and to ensure the system
can accurately measure the charge in batteries
3. V7000 unified expand by adding additional disk enclosures and additional disks.
In what other way can the v7000 unified expand?
a. Data can be mirrored with other storwise systes
b. Cluster up to 4 v7000 control enclosures together
c. Active cloud engine can be added
d. Existing data can be deduplicated
4. A customer has an existing v7000 with single control enclosure and and nine
expansion enclosures. There is a requirement to attach an external system and
compress all 10 TB of data stored on it . system cpu has currently works at 35%
utilization. The external system consists of single enclosure . compression is
currently not implemented in v7000. Which upgrade path should be
recommended.
a. Add a new v7000 control enclosure to virtualize the external system
b. Virtualize the external system using v7000 control enclosure
c. Add a new v7000 control enclosure. migrate the existing data to the new
control enclosure and virtualise the external encl using the existing enclo
d. Add a new v7000 control encl and four expansion enclosure . igrate half of
the existing data to new control enclo. Virtualize the external syste across
both control enclosures.
5. A customer has an older storage system with large 7200 rpm disks in system.
They want to use this system as a staging area before writing to tape. How will
virtualizing this system and v7000 allow them to speed up their backup process
and continue to leverage this system?
a. They can make point-in-time copies onto externally virtualized storage

b. They can make volume mirrors onto the externally virtualized storage
c. They can make compressed copies onto-the-externally virtualized storage
d. They can deduplicate their data to externally virtualized storage

6. While the tehnical specialist evaluates a customers storage system , the

customers asks which RAID stripe set has been used for the array as identified in
the exibit
a. Raid6 +hotpsare
b. Raid5+hotspare
c. Raid dP + hotspare
d. Raid10+ hotspare

7. A customer looking for a virtualized storage solution for both bock and file. They
also need a management and reporting tool. They also want local point-in-time
copies of their exchange environment and this needs to be simplified. What
solution would be best meet their needs
a. V7000 unified, TPC select , flashcopy anager
b. V7000, TPC select flashcopy manager
c. V7000 unified,TPC select,global mirror
d. V7000 unified, metro mirror,flashcopy manager

8. Which ibm flashsystem implementations is recommended with v7000

a. Use ibm flashsystem for CIFS
b. Use ibm flashsystem for
c. Use cache disabled volume mirrorsacross the ibm flashsystem and
internal storwise 7000 drives
d. Mark ibm flashsystem managed disks as generic_ssd and add them to
easy tier pools

9. Customer is considering a v7000 but requires application consistent restore

capabilities for their AIX environment. Which solution be recommended
conjunction with v7000?
a. AIX system management v7000
b. TSM FastBack for v7000
c. Tivoli storage Flash copy Manage
d. Tivoli Storage Productivity for replication

10.Customer has configured remote copy for a newly installed v7000 v6.3 to a locl
SVC cluster . after confirming that the zoning is correct, the partnership still not
establish anad the technical specialist has been asked what should be done.
a. Clear the fcip routers proxy tab
b. Confirm that the v7000 layer is set to replication
c. Install and configure a CHAP authentication server
d. Upgrade the storwise v7000 to latest code

11.Custore wants to implement block mirroring between two v7000 systems

located in data centers 2km apart. The bandwidth of ht elink is 1 GB per second
but the customer expects occasional throughput peaks of 500MB/s sustained
over a few inutes at at ime. Which Is most appropriate
a. Metro mirror
b. Global mirror
c. Split cluster
d. Global mirror with change Volumes

12. Which is true for flashcopy consistency groups?

a. Source and target volumes must be in different I/O groups
b. Source and target must be on different physical disks
c. Can only be in s single consistency group
d. Cannot be located with in external enclosures

13.What
a.
b.
c.
d.

is provided by active cloud engine within v7000 unified

Data is deduplicated in the .. Cloud file systems
Files are automatically moved . Different file systems
It leverages the active file management functionality in IBM GPFS
Extends to be moved between spinning hard drives and solid state disk

14.Which default host connections are available for configuration on v7000?

a. SAS and NAS
b. SAS and FC
c. Iscsi and SAN
d. Iscsi and FC

15.In a development /test scenario customer wants to convert a fully allocated LUN
to a compressed lun. Which feature of v7000 provide the function to
accomplish this
a. Easy tier
b. Flashcopy

c. Metro mirror
d. Volume mirroring

16.Which of following workload types is best suited for file system solution
a. OLTP (SAP)
b. Medical Imaging
c. Microsoft SQL Server
d. Customer Relations Application

17.Customer has issued an RFP to which the technical specialist must respond. They
require the ability to manage and provide historical reporting on v7000 as well
as an existing XIV and DS3000. Cost is an issue and they only want for the
number of storage devices that they are going to manage. What product should
be proposed.
a. ibm Tivoli storage productivity center enterprise edition
b. ibm Tivoli storage manager
c. this functionality is provided with v7000 GUI
d. ibm Tivoli storage productivity center enterprise edition

18.the STAT tool is utilized to determine which of following?

a. Gather data to be analyse .. Disk Magic
b. The performance requirement for a managed disk group
c. Analyze the potential benefit of a multi-tiered storage pool
d. Project the amount of data moved between different RAID levels.

19.Thin provisioning in storwise systems is designed to start thin and stay thin.
How is this done in storwise systems?
a. Hyperfactor
b. Data compression
c. Space reclamation
d. Zero Detect on write

20.What Is minimum number of external network connections required for v79000

unified
a. Four 1 Gigabit Ethernet file Module AND two 1 Gigabit Ethernet for V7000
b. Four 1 Gigabit Ethernet file Module AND two 10 Gigabit Ethernet for V7000
c. Four 10 Gigabit Ethernet file Module AND two 1 Gigabit Ethernet for V7000
d. Two 1 Gigabit Ethernet plus two 10Gigabit Ethernet for file Module AND
two 1 Gigabit Ethernet for V7000

21.A storage admin has two TPC 5.1 servers running on AIX and wants to configure
both to save batch reports to a network share exported from a v7000 unified.
The share must be visible to both TPC servers. In addition they must be
accessible to colleagues via a web browser. Which protocal must be configured
a. Iscsi , FTP
b. Sftp, smb
c. https , CIFS
d. https , nfs

22.v7000 admin wants to analyze the data access characteristics of storage pool
before implementing SSDs for automatic storage tiering. However the disk heat
map failed to generate. Which could be the cause of problem
a. the heat app file can only accessed by a root login
b. Easy tier has not been licensed for the v7000
c. The storage ttier advisory tool must be uploaded to v7000
d. Easy tier has not been enabled for storage pool

23.Customer would like storwize v7000 create consistent point-in-time instance of

their database. Which one you recommend
a. IBM system director
b. Tivoli storage manager
c. Tivoli storage flaashcopy manager
d. Tivoli storage productivity center

24.AIX admin wants to run a script from a host to automatically compress v7000
block volumes mapped to host. Which task needs to be performed to give the
host access?
a. An SSH private key must be uploaded to cluster
b. AN SSH public key must be uploaded to cluster
c. A password must be added to the cluster
d. A TPC storage resource agent must be authenticated on cluster

25.Customer has a requirement to replicate v7000 systems that are located 750
feet apart what replication be recommended based on customer request for Zero
downtime?
a. Global Mirror
b. mEtro mirror
c. global mirror and change volumes
d. RSYNC

26.Using v7000 internal migration feature , what type of connection is required to

migrate data
a. SAS
b. NFS
c. CIFS
d. FC

27.Customer wants to buy a v7000 but needs a support for a operating systems
which is currently not supported. What formal process to request support?
a. Submit a score/RPQ through IBM
b. Submit a request via IBM PartnerWorld
c. Submit a request via storwise V7000 Infocenter
d. Submit request via System storage InterOperation Center (SSIC)

28.Customer requirements specify a v7000 unified that will provide block level
access for user home directories. The environment consists of multiple windows
hosts on different subriets which only connects to a TCP/IP network. Which
protocol should the technical specialist recommend
a. FC
b. NFS
c. FCoE
d. iSCSI

29.v7000 software provides which user interfaces

a. CLI, CIM, standalone JAVA Client
b. CLI,SSH,Storage Manager
c. CLI,Management GUI,SMI-S,
d. CLI, MANAGEMENET GUI, Service Assistant
30.Customer wants to order a v7000 consisting of one control encl and two
expansion encl with 24*600GB HDDs each. They already have a DS5300 with
two expansion encl each with 16* 600 GB HDDs. The customer is planning to
virtualize the entire DS 5300 with v7000. How many licenses for real-tie
compression would they need for this environment
a. 2
b. 4
c. 5
d. 6

31.On v7000 how are volume snapshots implemented on a thin provisioned target?

a. Writes to snapshot source are redirected to a new area of disk

b. A snapshot pool is used to allocate data when needed
c. Extends and grains are pre-allocated as data is written to the snapshot
target
d. A hash algorithm is used to detect differences between source and target

32.What
a.
b.
c.
d.

presents are available when creating a volume on v7000

Generic,Thin provision,copy,thin copy,compressed
Generic,Thin provision,Flashcopy,Compressed
Generic,Thin provision,copy,Thin copy
Generic,Thin provision,thin mirror, compressed

33.A windows customer has a requirement for file shares. what native windows
protocol meets this requirement
a. Network file syste
b. Secure Copy Protocol
c. Common Internet File system
d. Hypertext Transfer Protocol

34.Which feature allows migration of volumes between pools whose extent sizes
differ
a. Volume mirroring
b. CLI migrateexts command
c. Migrate to another pool
d. Migration Wizard

35.How are block and file separated inside an un-clustered v7000 unified
a. By RAID arrays(MDisks)
b. By Volumes
c. By I/O group
d. By disks in the same RAID array

36.Customer has asked for technical assistance attaching a new storwise v7000 to
their existing Brocade 8G Fibre channel switches. Which is recommended switch
port setting
a. Set ports attaching to V7000 to fillword mode idle-idle
b. Set switch to compatibility mode
c. Set ports attaching to V7000 to fillword mode 3
d. Set ports attaching to v7000 to fillword mode arbff-arbff

37.Customer is interested in a v7000 unified and also considering an EMC VNX.

What is best resource to learn about competitive differences
a. IBM sales Manual
b. IBM Competecenter
c. IBM support portal
d. IBM information center

38.Which RAIS configuration offers the best capacity and performance for an SSD
array?
a. RAID 10
b. Raid 5
c. Raid 6
d. Raid 0 with volume mirroring

39.What features of v7000 unified would allow a customer to leverage discrete tiers
of storage for their CIFS or NFS filesystem data?
a. Easy Tier
b. Compression
c. Migration
d. ILM(Information life cycle management)

40.Customer wants to impleetn two Red hat Linux servers and two Microsoft
windows servers . each need to boot from a single v7000 unified with ethernet
connectivity only. User data must be directly accessible from each system
simultaneously. Which protocols must be implemented in this scenario.
a. Iscsi, cifs, nfs
b. Fc,iscsi ,cifs
c. ftp,cifs.nfs
d. SAS,cifs,nfs

41.To be considered eligible as a quorum disk on v7000, a lun must meet what
criteria?
a. It must be visible from at least one of the nodes on system
b. It must be an unmanaged disk
c. It has been manually allowed to be quorum candidate
d. It must be an image mode disk presented by a subsystem that is
supported

42.Customer has a v7000 that has virtualized external storage and they want to see
historical performance metrics across the environment for capacity planning.
How would Tivoli storage Productivity Center Select address this customers
needs
a. Provides native inputs for Disk Magic
b. Provides views with greater details of storage than the native GUIs
c. Provides the capability to monitor storage thresholds in real-time
d. Provides information lifecycle management information for auto-tiering

43.IBM customer wants to upgrade their v7000 system to a v7000 unified system.
What should be minimum code level on current v7000
a. V7000 running v6.4
b. V7000 running V6.1
c. V7000 running V6.2
d. V7000 running V6.3

44.Technical specialist wants to determine the v7000 and v7000 unified

configuration needed to provide enough space for amount of user data given.
Which tool answer this question
a. Disk agic
b. Capacity magic
c. Storage tier advisor
d. System storage interoperability center

45.What
a.
b.
c.
d.

windows component is leveraged by Tivoli storage Flash copy Manager?

CIM object manager
Tivoli Storage Manager
SnapManager for SQL Server
Volume shadow Copy Sercies(VSS)

46.An existing Tivoli storage Manager(TSM) customer is looking at different NAS or

file based storage devices How will TSM backup filesystems on the v7000
unified?
a. TSM agent embedded in v7000 Unified
b. TSM FastBack embedded in v7000 unified
c. TSM server embedded in the v7000 unified
d. TSM suite for Unified Recovery embedded in V7000 unified

47.Technical specialist is helping a customer setup their ILM policy on v7000 unified.
When setting up a migration policy which type of data would the technical
specialist want to direct away from compresses coleus
a. Documents
b. Spreadsheets
c. Presentations
d. DICOM images

48.Which protocol is used to transmit file replication data in v7000 unified

a. SSH
b. NFS
c. FCoE
d. FCIP

49.On V7000 what is the term used to describe the portion of an MDisk used to
create a Volume?
a. Chunk
b. Extent
c. Segment
d. Partition

50.What are two key hardware based competitive differentiators between v7000
and EMC VNX? IBM v7000 advantages are
a. Twice as many external connections , less power consumption
b. Twice as many external connections, ore compact packaging
c. Power load management, supports external storage through virtualization
d. Scale out performance , supports external storage through virtualization.

51.After analysis of the customers v7000 performance data the technical specialist
discovers the best solution is to increase the number of drives to improve
performance within the pool. Assuming that space in the pool is no more than
50% utilized. What feature should the technical specialist advise the customer to
use in the existing volume to gain performance from the new disk without
experiencing an outage?
a. Flashcopy
b. Volume copy
c. Global Mirror
d. Dynamic Array Expansion

52.Which of following is a licensed feature for the block portion of a v7000 unified
and is included for file side?
a. Flashcopy
b. Compression
c. Thin Provision
d. Remote Replication

53.What is key piece of information required to estimate bandwidth needed for

replication
a. Recovery point objective
b. Peak application workload
c. Distance between locations
d. Total amount of data be replicated

54.Which features is an advantage of v7000 over the EMC VNX?

a. Virtualization of external block stiorage
b. CIFS/NFS import/export wizard
c. Disturbed RAID
d. Active Cloud Engine

55.Which of following I/O characteristics would work best with Easy Tier?
a. Sequential writes with 64K blocks
b. Randi reads with 64K blocks
c. Sequential writes with 128K blocks
d. Random reads with 128K blocks

56.Technical specialist is demonstrating how storage pools are created in v7000 and
the customer asks how to rename a storage pool once it is created.
a. Storage pools cannot be renamed once finish is clicked
b. Issue the chpool command from the CLI to rename the current storage pool
c. The only way to rename a storage pool is to delete it and recreate with a
different name
d. Select MDisks by pools, then right click on the pool name and rename

57.Customer has installed two v7000 control encl in two buildings 10KM apart. The
hosts are FC attached but only a 10GB Ethernt link exists between sites with no
SAN routing. The customer wants to implement a two node Microsoft windows
cluster with a node at each site. How would this best be implemented
a. Implement two v7000 cluster and use cross-site volume mirroring to provide
redundancy

b. Implement two v7000 clusters using Metro Mirror to provide redundancy

c. Implement two v7000 clusters and use host based mirroring to provide
redundancy
d. Implement a single v7000 cluster and use intra-cluster Metro Mirror to
provide redundancy

58.When using the migration wizard, which of the following can be migrated?
a. SAN boot images
b. Windows clustered systems
c. VMware ESX hosts which are set to allow volume copies to be recognized
d. Raw device mappings

59.In planning for rack installation v7000 or unified v7000 , what is the total
number of v7000 expansion encl per I/O group that can be attached to system?
a. 6
b. 9
c. 36
d. 40

60.What is key functional difference between the v7000 and unified v7000
a. V7000 unified is a simplified , low cost v7000
b. V7000 unified consolidates block and file workloads into a single storage
systems
c. V7000 unified provides additional clustering and scale out options for block
storage
d. V7000 unified consolidates multiple v7000 controllers onto a single storage
system

61.Which type of protocol does the v7000 migration wizard support?

a. FC
b. CIFS
c. NFS
d. Rsync

62.Customer has a v7000 with Easy tier enabled would like to reduce response time
in a heavy read environment. What should be reviewed in this environment to
assist in reducing the response time?
a. Identify the node canister that will run the easy tier function
b. Review performance monitor for response time on targeted MDisks

c. Use the IBM storage Tier advisory tool to determine the number of SSDs
needed
d. Applications will need to be reconfigured to take advantage of easy tier

63.IBM v7000 version6.4 introduced a new capability to support non-disruptive

volume moves across I/O groups. Identify a value proposition to leverage this
new feature. The new capability enables you to
a. Concurrently move volumes between storage pools
b. Migrate volumes between non-clustered v7000 systems
c. Ensure there is balanced capacity amounts between non-clustered v7000
systems
d. Rebalance volume assignments within an I/O group or across i/O groups

64.Customer will be replacing several storage systems over the next year. What
feature of v7000 will make this easier for customer
a. The ability to virtualize volume across all the disk in storage system
b. Ability to use FLashcopy to save multiple copies onto external storage
c. Ability to virtualize and migrate the data
d. Ability to compress data in real-time

65.Customer has installed a v7000 with 2 expansion enclosures and 1 control

enclosure
They also want to virtualize their existing storage systems
clarion cx4-120
command enclosure
3x expansion disk enclosures
ds5300
2X EXP5060 High density expansion disk enclosures(60 drives in each)
How many external virtualization licenses required for their configuration
a. 5
b. 8
c. 7
d. 10

66.In a remote mirror relationship between two v7000 systems. what is

recommended maximum latency for asynchronous replication?
a. 120ms
b. 30ms
c. 80ms
d. 60ms

67.What ensures application consistency of replicated volume targets?

a. File system locks
b. Consistency groups
c. Flashcopy manager
d. Asynchronous data transfer

68.Customer has a large storage environment and has heard about the benefits of
SSD drives for performance. They currently have a v7000 installed. What tool be
used to size SSDs for environment
a. IBM system Director
b. Tivoli storage manager
c. Storage tier advisory tool
d. Tivoli storage productivity center

69.Active cloud engine feature may be defined as

a. A policy driven migration of file based data
b. Provision of virtual machines in a private cloud
c. The inclusion of solid state (SSD) into a disk pool
d. Asynchronous replication with change volume for the migration data

70.Customer is using thin provisioned volumes for their v7000 production

environment
what feature would be the quickest way to duplicate an instance of their
environment for development and testing?
a. Flashcopy
b. Thin mirrored volume
c. Metro Mirror with change volumes
d. Migration with compressed volumes

71.Customer wants to implement a VMware cluster with v7000 unified storage. A

second copy of data required in a building located 5 KM away and the customer
intends to switch th epriary location regularly between sites. Neither v7000 I
sSAN attached. A dual 1Gb Ethernet link exists between sites
which protocol would be suitable for attaching datastores to the hosts?
a. NFS
b. CIFS
c. FC
d. FCIP

72.Customer requirements specify a configuration with 15000 rpm drives that must
be balanced for performance in the respective storage pools
How will the storwise v7000 architecture satisfy requirement
a. Data will be uniformly spread across multiple storage pools
b. Creates arrays with equal capacity and performance characteristics
c. Automatically selects a RAID that is appropriate for the application specified
d. Configures a setup with maximum usable capacity depending on the selected
RAID level.

73.customer is looking for an IBM storage solution with 10 TB of capacity. They are
looking for an auto-tiering solution which can also handle file data storage
what IBM storage product would the technical specialist recommend?
a. V3700
b. DCS3700
c. V7000
d. V7000 unified

74.On V7000 which statement about Global Mirror with the Change Volume feature
is correct?>
a. Change volumes cannot be used with consistency groups
b. The minimum cycle time for a replication is 5 minutes
c. Flash copies for consistency purposes are created at the remote site only
d. The flash copies are automatically created for consistency purposes at both
sites and we are mountable on a host server.