What is a key advantage of leasing storage equipment over buying storage equipment?

A. Leasing ensures business continuity for leased equipment.

B. Leasing is not on the client's balance sheet.

C. Leasing improves the alignment of project cost with project benefits.

D. Leasing rates automatically reduce over time.

Which IBM solution provides simplified management for a heterogeneous block storage environment?

A. IBM Spectrum Accelerate

B. IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management

C. IBM Spectrum Protect Suite

D. IBM Virtual Storage Center

In a customer briefing for IBM Flash System 900, the ability to reduce storage capacity using compression is presented as an option to lower hardware costs.

How should this capability be described?

A. It is a compression and deduplication feature.

B. It is a standard algorithm for all IBM disk and tape devices.

C. It is a licensed function.

D. It is primary storage data reduction by using a purpose-built technology.

During a meeting with a customer, an IBM sales specialist discovered that the reason for replacing existing storage is because of long rebuild times and multiple drive failures that have caused data loss and lengthy restores.

Which drive protection method should the sales specialist highlight as a solution with IBM Storwize?

A. Drive mirroring

B. Erasure coding

C. Encryption

D. Distributed RAID

A customer has floor space constraints and needs additional capacity for an application. The current environment is running at 80% utilization.

Which IBM Spectrum Virtualize concept should a sales specialist emphasize to the customer?

A. Easy Tier

B. Virtualization

C. Compression

D. Clustering

Which product allows a customer to monitor and recommend optimization for existing storage to align to business requirements?

A. IBM Spectrum Connect

B. IBM Spectrum Control

C. IBM Spectrum Insights

D. IBM Spectrum Scale

Which IBM solution helps a customer manage a heterogeneous storage infrastructure and track the performance of SAN attached devices?

A. IBM Spectrum Virtualize

B. IBM Storage Insights Pro

C. IBM SAN Health

D. IBM Spectrum Control

Which IBM Spectrum option provides for block storage provisioning in an OpenStack powered cloud?

A. IBM Spectrum Scale

B. IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management

C. IBM Spectrum Protect

D. IBM Spectrum Archive

Who is responsible for ensuring that a TDA is performed?

A. IBM Client Executive

B. Opportunity owner

C. Distributor D. IBM SSR

A customer needs to create clones of a production database environment to refresh its test and development environments. The production database contains sensitive data, and automated data masking is required.

Which solution should the sales specialist recommend?

A. IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management

B. IBM Spectrum Virtualize

C. IBM Spectrum Control

D. IBM Spectrum Project Snapshot