Exam Name: IBM Storage Networking Solutions Version1 Exam Type: IBM Exam Code: Doc Type: Q & A with Explanations Total Questions: 138

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1 Question: 1 A customer wants their LANbased applications to access their SAN storage; however, they do not want to pay the high expense required for Fibre Channel HBAs or application of a NAS gateway. Which of the following IBM System Storage products would be appropriate for this customer? A. IBM Switch L10 (2006L10) Switch with Arbitrated Loop B. IBM SAN16BR multiprotocol router (2109A16) with iscsi C. IBM SAN24M1 ( ) Switch D. IBM SAN File System Question: 2 If the NVRAM in one of the nodes in a dual head filer fails, which of the following actions will the IBM N3700 take? A. All writes on the node with the failed NVRAM will be written through. B. The filer will notify the administrator to issue a CF takeover command so that activity fails over to the other node. C. The filer will notify the administrator to power off the failing node so that a forced takeover is done by the other node. D. The failing node will automatically failover to its partner filer node and serve data. Question: 3 The IBM N Series subsystems include which of the following nocharge features? A. SnapLock B. SnapMirror C. SnapShot D. SnapVault Question: 4 In the seven tiers of disaster recovery, which of the following tiers requires physical transportation of backup media? A. Tier 6 - Zero or little data loss B. Tier 5 - Transaction integrity C. Tier 4 - Pointintime copies D. Tier 2 - Data backup with an offsite Facility Page 1 of 34

2 Question: 5 What is a key characteristic of the IBM N Series Write Anywhere File Layout that differentiates it from other file systems and allows a filer to reboot in a short time period when an unclean shutdown is performed? A. WAFL caches the journal of unexecuted file system requests in NVRAM. B. WAFL stores metadata in three files - the inode file, the blockmap file, and the inodemap file. C. WAFL has a two phase commit on journaling. D. WAFL creates a consistency point using a special Snapshot. Question: 6 Which of the following IBM N Series licensed functions enables a writable replica of data volumes and data sets? A. FlexCache B. FlexClone C. SnapMirror D. SnapShot Question: 7 Which of the following IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) products has functionality that would enable a customer to backup an existing SAN in some other way than across a LAN? A. TSM for Storage Area Networks B. TSM for Hardware C. TSM Extended Edition D. TSM for System Backup and Recovery Question: 8 A customer has an IBM SAN16BR Multiprotocol Router. They have a server in fabric A, and a storage device in fabric B. Which of the following protocols would be used to share storage resources among the fabrics without merging them? A. FCIP B. iscsi C. ifcp D. TCP/IP Question: 9 Using multiple IBM SAN M14 Directors (2109M14) requires which of the following enabled licenses to support FICON? A. Port Tunneling B. Expanded Port Feature Page 2 of 34

3 C. Enterprise Passthru D. Advanced Security with CUP Question: 10 For an IBM N3700, what is the minimum root volume size? A. 2GB B. 10GB C. 72GB D. 144GB Question: 11 What are the minimum and maximum raw capacities for an IBM N3700 (2863A10) subsystem? A. 1TB to 8TB B. 1TB to 16TB C. 2TB to 16TB D. 2TB to 32TB Question: 12 A customer wants LANfree and serverfree backups. They plan to offload storage processing from servers and move this function onto an independent network. Which of the following should be recommended? A. Storage Area Network (SAN) B. Internet SCSI (iscsi) C. Network Attached Storage (NAS) D. Direct Attached Storage (DAS) Question: 13 A customer wants a storage subsystem that will act as a file server to multiple workstations via LAN connections. Which of the following is the most appropriate technology? A. Direct Attached Storage (DAS) B. Internet SCSI (iscsi) C. Network Attached Storage (NAS) D. Storage Area Network (SAN) Question: 14 The IBM N3700 is less susceptible to software hacking than other Microsoft Windowsbased offerings for which of the following reasons? A. It has WAFL. B. It has Data ONTAP. C. It has SecureShare. Page 3 of 34

4 D. It supports Kerberos and CHAP. Question: 15 Which of the following protocols is included free of charge in the IBM N3700? A. CIFS B. NFS C. iscsi D. FCP Question: 16 Which of the following IBM N Series licensed functions enables creation of private logical partitions in filer networks? A. FlexVol B. LockVault C. MultiStore D. SnapMirror Question: 17 Which feature of Cisco Fabric Manager is designed to integrate with other management tools? A. The specific vendor plugin offered by Cisco B. The Cisco Agent on the host system C. A request form for a feature enhancement to Cisco D. The Application Program Interface Question: 18 A customer has two sites located several kilometers apart. The customer has both highspeed Internet link and dark fiber between the sites. The customer wants to utilize storage resources at either site such as peertopeer copy and disaster recovery implementation. To link these two sites together, installing which of the following would provide the highest performance and be most reliable? A. DWDM or CWDM pipe B. An ifcp router C. An FCIP router D. An FCP extender Question: 19 A customer has a SAN that includes storage from multiple vendors. The storage growth rate is over 60%. The customer is concerned about having older technology. They want to migrate data with little disruption. Which of the following solutions would best address the requirements? Page 4 of 34

5 A. Determine the total amount of storage used and add additional storage for growth. 8 Recommend IBM N series to replace all systems including additional storage in order to accommodate the growth calculation. Recommend using NFS copies to migrate data. B. Determine the total amount of storage used. Recommend DS6000 and DS8000 subsystems to replace all subsystems, use remote copy for migrating data. C. Determine the total amount of storage used. Recommend SAN Volume Controller, DS6000 and DS8000 to replace all subsystems including additional storage to accommodate the growth calculation. Recommend using remote copy for migrating data. D. Determine the total amount of storage used and add additional storage for growth. Recommend the IBM SAN Volume Controller and additional DS6000 and DS8000 subsystems to accommodate the growth calculation. Recommend using SVC to migrate data. Question: 20 If a company wants to move its customer order data to a N3700 and needs a high availability solution, which of the following features should be considered? A. Snapshot licensed on two (2) N3700 filers B. SnapRestore licensed on two (2) N3700 filers C. DFM installed on two (2) N3700 filers D. A dual node N3700 Question: 21 A customer has an IBM pseries server with 2TB of high I/O OLTP DB2 data, an IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC), and an IBM DS4800. They need to plan for disaster recovery with a 30minute Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and last transaction Recovery Point Objective (RPO). Assuming the production and DR facilities have ifcp routed SAN with acceptable bandwidth, which of the following is the best solution? A. This requirement cannot be met. B. Use host mirroring to mirror boot and data LUNs. C. Use host mirroring to mirror the boot LUN(s) and SVC to mirror data LUNs. D. Use the SVC to mirror boot and data LUNs. Question: 22 If a customer is using an N Series filer and wants to enable NFS access security with Kerberos, which of the following must be considered? A. Whether the NIS authentication is turned off B. The client encryption software that is being used C. The assignment of client group IDs D. The client operating system levels Question: 23 A customer installed an IBM DS4300 Controller. The DS4300 connects to their existing SAN via multiple paths. The customer wants to ensure data path failover in the event of an HBA or link failure. Which of the following products should be installed on the servers that access the data stored on the DS4300? Page 5 of 34

6 A. Dynamic Link Manager B. PowerPath C. Redundant Dual Active Controller (RDAC) D. Subsystem Device Driver (SDD) Question: 24 A customer's storage requirements have grown over time. Storage management has become more complex, primarily due to the inclusion of EMC, HDS, and IBM storage subsystems. Their Microsoft Windows and Linux hosts must run vendor compatible failover and multipath drivers to access the storage. Installing which of the following IBM storage solutions would simplify this customer's storage management complexity, address the interoperability issues, and minimize cost? A. PowerPath, Dynamic Link Manager and IBM SDD driver B. IBM SAN File System (SFS) C. IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) and RDAC driver D. IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) and SDD driver Question: 25 A customer has an N Series filer installed. The filer is accessed only through their intranet so iscsi initiator authentication is not enabled. A new supplier has been added to the client's network. The supplier needs to update a shared tracking tool from outside the intranet using iscsi. What action should the customer take to secure their N Series filer? A. Configure NFS security. B. Configure CIFS security. C. Change default security authentication method from none to deny. D. Enable Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol. Question: 26 A customer wants to consolidate their existing environment which consists of an IBM DS8300 attached via FICON to an IBM zseries server. The customer has an immediate need to add Fibre Channel connections on the DS8300 for eleven (11) AIX servers and twenty (20) Microsoft Windowsbased servers. Future plans include: -using an existing WAN link to a remote data center, and -implementing iscsi on the existing IP infrastructure. The customer has asked for a proposal for a single director that can meet their needs. Which of the following products would be the most appropriate to meet the customer's current and future needs? A. IBM SAN140M ( ) Director B. IBM SAN16BR (2109A16) Multiprotocol Router C. Cisco MDS 9506 Multilayer Director D. IBM SAN256N (2045N16) Director Page 6 of 34

7 Question: 27 A retailer has a online catalog that is available 24X7. The business cannot afford any outages. The customer uses a DB2 database on an IBM pseries server. The DB2 database uses SAN storage through Fibre Channel switches. Which of the following solutions would satisfy the customer's high availability needs? A. Perform backups of the data every 2 hours. B. Copy the database to another subsystem every 2 hours. C. Provide a single HBA on each pseries server and the SAN storage subsystem. D. Use at least two separate paths from the pseries server to the SAN storage. Question: 28 A customer is experiencing random server hardware failures during tape backup operations of their IBM DS4000 and DS6800 storage subsystems. A review of their mtype switch SAN fabric determines that the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager clients can communicate with tape and disk resources on all HBA ports. What is the least disruptive corrective action to consider? A. Modify fabric zoning to separate tape and disk traffic. B. Create an extra VSAN to handle tape resources. C. Implement LUN masking on the disk storage. D. Implement a tape SAN fabric. Question: 29 A small customer requires shared storage due to application requirements. Performance and security are priorities for the new SAN. Which of the following protocols should be implemented to satisfy the requirements? A. TCP/IP B. FTP C. iscsi D. FCP Question: 30 A customer has eight (8) switches in two different Fibre Channel networks. Cisco is used for Network A and Brocade for Network B. They would like a fabric management solution that consolidates, simplifies, and provides automated management. Which of the following would best address their needs? A. Install IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Fabric, with well placed agents. B. Install an IBM SAN Volume Controller to virtualize the heterogeneous storage and manage the fiber storage from the SAN Volume Controller. C. Write a script that calls the SAN scanner and execute against each endpoint and compile the information in a single file. D. Create an ISL between all of the SAN switches and manage from one of the fabric management interfaces of one of the switches. Question: 31 Page 7 of 34

8 A customer in the financial services industry has a centrally located IT infrastructure with worldwide satellite branches. The branches store their data at the central site. High availability and good transactional response time is required for the branches. To provide an acceptable solution, the most important consideration is the: A. Number of locations B. Remote link speed and its utilization C. Remote Link provider D. Wireless network traffic at the remote location Question: 32 A customer has meshed fabric that is now utilizing all ports. The fabric is physically located within the main office. The customer is experiencing fabric performance issues. The best fabric modification to resolve the customer's issues and, at the same time, allow for future growth would be to: A. Increase the switch count per meshed fabric tier. B. Install a director class switch or switches in a core edge fabric. C. Consolidate ISLs into Trunks (larger pipe). D. Create fabric islands. Question: 33 A customer wants to add an IBM N Series filer to their enterprise. They want to attach clients using CIFS and NFS protocols on the IP network. Which of the following should be considered when determining the impact of this solution on the IP network? A. The total usable capacity of the N filer and estimated peak data reference activity B. The operating system type for the clients that are attaching to the N Series servers C. The processor speed, memory size, manufacturer, and direct attached disk size of each client D. The vendor that manufactures the Network Interface Cards Question: 34 A customer currently has IBM Btype SAN Switches. They plan to purchase additional switches from Cisco. Which of the following interoperability issues must be considered? A. The use of the trunking feature B. The common devices to which they will be connecting C. The number of ports that each switch will have D. The number of EIA units used in a rack Question: 35 A customer is experiencing Fibre Channel physical layer errors on a single 2Gb multimode 185 meter connection from an IBM pseries server to a Fibre Channel switch using a single fiber patch panel. A quick check determines that both the server and switch are encountering errors. Which of the following is the most likely cause for these errors? A. The connection length is too far for multimode cabling. Page 8 of 34

9 B. Both HBA ports have their speed setting to auto negotiate. C. The patch panel has both singlemode and multimode cable connections. D. The switch port is not using a TriRate SFP. Question: 36 A customer has 40 servers. The customer wants a solution to centralize their storage. They require scalability and reliability. The following solution has been proposed: - one (1) IBM SAN140M - two (2) IBM DS4800 (four host connections) - one (1) IBM DS4100 (two host connections) What is a potential shortfall of this solution? A. The port count for this switch does not provide scalability. B. The SAN140M is a single fabric solution. C. The SAN140M is not fully redundant. D. There are not enough ports to support multipathing to all servers. Question: 37 A customer needs functions provided by the following features: -Copy Services -Metro Mirror -Global Mirror -Global Copy Performance is a factor but not the highest priority at this time. Which of the following solutions should they consider? A. IBM N3700 B. IBM SAN File System C. IBM DS4800 D. IBM DS6000 Question: 38 A customer has implemented an N3700 and is dissatisfied with client access performance at different times of the day. Which of the following actions should be taken first to identify the cause of the performance problem? A. Identify the owners of the clients who are accessing the N Series filer that are affected. B. Use the VMSTAT command on the N Series filer to collect performance statistics. C. Use the IOSTAT command on the N Series filer to collect performance statistics. D. Use the IFSTAT tool on the N Series filer to collect performance statistics. Question: 39 A customer is preparing to install a Cisco Storage Director MDS 9509 in their data center. The 9509 will be installed in an existing IBM 2102 rack with SAN32B switches. The rack is installed adjacent to an IBM pseries rack. Which of the following reasons explains why this would not be an optimal installation? Page 9 of 34

10 A. The 9509 is too heavy for the B. The 2102 does not have the correct PDUs to support the C. The 9509 has sidetoside airflow. D. The 9509 requires telco support rails. Question: 40 A customer is deploying a solution that includes several new IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) clusters and several IBM DS8100s. There will be 700 attached hosts. They would like a "fivenines" design that minimizes management complexity. Which of the following designs would achieve their goal? A. Deploy a single large Cisco core, with large Cisco edge switches. Use Cisco VSANs to separate the two "fabrics" for reliability. B. Deploy dual fabrics each consisting of a single IBM SAN256M core, and reuse existing Brocade 32port edge switches to conserve cost. C. Set up four fabrics. Isolate the storage on one pair of faulttolerant fabrics for reliability, and attach the hosts and SVC nodes on another pair. Use a storage router to connect the two pairs. D. Deploy dual fabrics. Attach the SVC and storage to a core switch. Use 256port director for all switches in the fabric. Question: 41 A customer wants a SAN in order to have a highly available environment. They require that there be no single points of failure. A total of twelve (12) hosts will initially attach to the fabric, and four (4) hostside attachments from a DS6800 will also connect to the fabric. There is no immediate need for scalability; however, the design needs to consider a potential IBM Tivoli Storage Manager backup server and a IBM Ultrium Tape Library (3582L23) with two (2) FC LTO Generation 3 tape drives. Which of the following combinations of Fibre Channel HBAs required, the minimum number of switches required, and the total number of ports required would be appropriate? A. 28 HBAs, 2 switches, 32 ports B. 13 HBAs, 2 switches, 19 ports C. 24 HBAs, 1 switch, 28 ports D. 26 HBAs, 2 switches, 28 ports Question: 42 A customer wants to install clustered hosts to use an existing IBM DS8300. The new hosts will run a businesscritical application. The current SAN environment does not incorporate redundant fabrics. Which of the following design guidelines will address the high availability needs of the cluster? A. Single HBA connections per clustered host using Veritas Volume Manager B. Single HBA connections per clustered host using SDD C. Multiple HBA connections per clustered host using Veritas Volume Manager D. Multiple HBA connections per clustered host using SDD Question: 43 Page 10 of 34

11 A customer wants to merge two (2) IBM 2109M14 directors that are located in two different buildings. The buildings are located next to each other. The customer has determined that average traffic will be approximately 5.5Gb per second between the two buildings. Which of the following configurations will provide sufficient bandwidth and have a reasonable degree of reliability even if a cable is accidentally cut? A. three (3) ISLs with 2 trunked B. four (4) ISLs with 3 trunked C. four (4) ISLs with 4 trunked D. six (6) ISLs with 6 trunked Question: 44 A customer's primary data center has an IBM 2062D04 with one open slot. The customer wants to establish a connection with a remote data center that is located 350 kilometers away. The remote data center has an IBM 2062D01 with an open slot. In order to provide connectivity using a WAN connection between the two sites, which of the following would be the most appropriate module to add at both data centers? A. CWDM module B. 8port IP module C. 16port FC module D. 32port FC module Question: 45 A customer is planning a new SAN infrastructure as part of a data center consolidation project at a remote campus site. In the main building, there are: -twenty (20) Microsoft Windows based servers, each with 2 HBAs -twelve (12) AIX servers, each with 3 HBAs -two (2) HPUX servers, each with 4 HBAs -one (1) IBM DS8300 with 3 Host Adapter interfaces An IBM 3584 tape library with six LTO2 tape drives is located in another building with a 550 meter cable run. The time for tape backup operations must be kept to a minimum so all drives will be utilized at the same time by multiple clients. One Cisco MDS 9509 director will be located in the main building, and a Cisco 9216 switch will be located with the tape drives. How many additional short wave and long wave SFPs need to be ordered? A. 102 short wave SFPs and 0 long wave SFPs B. 100 short wave SFPs and 0 long wave SFPs C. 96 short wave SFPs and 4 long wave SFPs D. 0 short wave SFPs and 104 long wave SFPs Question: 46 A customer purchased 5 additional AIX hosts that will be added to an existing SAN fabric. Each server has four HBAs and will be running an application with significant I/O rates. The fabric is composed of a Cisco Storage Director MDS 9609 (2062D07) with two open slots and only three Page 11 of 34

12 unused ports. They plan to add an ISL in the future to scale their fabric. Which of the following should be added to the IBM 2062D07 to support the new servers? A. One (1) 32port module B. Two (2) 16port modules C. Two (2) 32port modules D. One (1) 16port module and one (1) 8port IP module Question: 47 Two companies merged. They are making changes to adopt the IT and SAN standards of one of the companies. The new architecture must address flexibility, high availability, and scalability. In order to make the fabric consolidation and merge process least disruptive, which of the following factors should be evaluated? A. The total number of domains, and storage ports B. The number of users, and the types of servers and operating systems C. Zoning on one fabric, security, network interfaces and management software D. Domain IDs, zoning, compatibility, IP addresses and fabric security Question: 48 When merging fabrics, which of the following should be done first? A. Verify that there is no activity on the fabric. B. Verify that there is an ISL between all SAN switches. C. Ensure that there are no duplicate IP addresses assigned to the switches. D. Ensure there are no duplicate domain IDs in the fabrics. Question: 49 A customer wants to implement VSANs on redundant Cisco Storage MDS 9509 Directors (2062D04) for their tape backup solution. There will be three VSANs, one for each of the following: -disk storage ports and the host ports that will access disk (VSAN 1) -host ports to access tape drives (VSAN 2) -tape connections (VSAN 3) Which of the following IVR topologies would be the best method for enabling InterVSAN zones? A. Establish IVR between VSANs 1 and 2. B. Establish IVR between VSANs 1 and 3. C. Establish IVR between VSANs 2 and 3. D. Enable IVR in automatic mode. Question: 50 A customer would like to connect some OLTP database servers to a new Cisco Storage Director MDS 9509 (2062D07). The data will travel over 16 ISLs that are spread out on two line cards. How many servers can the 9509 accommodate, assuming one port per server? A. 176 Page 12 of 34

13 B. 192 C. 208 D. 288 Question: 51 A customer has an existing network of SANB32 and SAN256B switches and directors. The customer wants to implement a BladeCenter solution for order processing. There are 11 processor blades and an Ethernet switch module in the BladeCenter. In order to access existing disk and tape subsystems, the customer wants to connect all of the processor blades to the existing SAN. However, external Fibre Channel switch ports are limited. Which of the following would be the most costeffective, nondisruptive fiber channel solution? A. Directly connect each blade to an existing director or switch. B. Use BladeCenter OPM (Optical Passthru Module) modules to connect to an existing director. C. Use the BladeCenter Brocade Enterprise SAN Switch Module to connect to the SAN. D. Use the BladeCenter 2port F Switch Module to connect to the SAN. Question: 52 A customer has an IBM N Series filer installed in their main data center. They want to mirror the data to a new N Series box. The N Series box is in a remote location for disaster recovery purposes and uses FCIP protocol. What N Series software and SAN components should be recommended? A. SnapMirror and IBM SAN16BR SAN Router (2109A16) B. SnapMirror and IBM SAN16MR SAN Router (2027R16) C. SnapVault and IBM SAN16BR SAN Router (2109A16) D. SnapVault and IBM SAN16MR SAN Router (2027R16) Question: 53 A customer's computer operations failed over to a remote data replication site. The hardware, operating system, and data recovery stage have been completed. The consolidated single pointintime data is available. Which of the following would be the next step to making the data usable by the customer's business applications? A. Turn off any antivirus scanning. B. Run a file system integrity check for applications and tools. C. Disable all replication and remote interfaces from the replication site to any target sites. D. Restart each application so that transactional integrity recovery can begin. Question: 54 Page 13 of 34

14 A customer has an IBM N3700 model A10. The customer uses RAID DP and traditional volumes. According to best practices, what is the minimum number of drives that would be needed for system overhead? A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4 Question: 55 A customer is planning for a disaster recovery site that will be located approximately 8 kilometers from their primary site. The customer has decided to use the IBM SAN256M ( ) director at both sites. New fiber is needed between the two sites. The estimated traffic between the two sites should initially average 1.1Gbps, but future growth predictions indicate an average of 5.3Gbps within two years. If cost is a major factor, the most appropriate solution would be to: A. Install one 9 micron cable with 2Gbps short wave module now and add a short wave 10Gbps module later. B. Install one 9 micron cable with 2Gbps long wave module now and add a long wave 10Gbps module later. C. Install one 50 micron cable with 2Gbps short wave module now and add a short wave 10Gbps module later. D. Install one 50 micron cable with 2Gbps long wave module now and add a long wave 10Gbps module later. Question: 56 A customer needs to connect two (2) IBM pseries servers (each with 4 HBAs) to an IBM DS4800 (with 4host ports). They plan to use dual 2005H08 switches. How many SFPs need to be ordered to meet the connectivity requirements? A. 2 B. 4 C. 6 D. 8 Question: 57 A customer requires a NAS solution. Some of the high priority features required include: -replication -file and block I/O in the same array -heterogeneous access of data via FCP or iscsi Which of the following IBM System Storage products will address the customer's needs? A. IBM DS8000 B. IBM DS6000 C. IBM SAN Volume Controller D. IBM N3700 Page 14 of 34

15 Question: 58 A customer installed an IBM N3700 model A10 to consolidate two file servers into a single device. IBM Tivoli Storage Manger (TSM) is used to perform regular backups to a SCSI IBM Ultrium Tape Library (3583L18) that is attached to the TSM server. Which of the following would be the most costeffective solution for backing up the new NAS device? A. Add a SCSI attached tape drive to the N3700 and back it up using NDMP. B. Backup the N3700 via filetodataserver Threeway configuration and then TSM from the data server. C. Establish a new TSM server and use it to exclusively backup the N3700. D. Replace the SCSI drives with FC drives, connect the N3700 to the SAN and use TSM LANfree backup and the N3700 TSM client. Question: 59 A customer wants to consolidate fiftyfive (55) Microsoft Windows servers and thirty (30) Linuxbased servers in various isolated fabrics into a new fabric with an IBM DS8300 storage server. Performance and initial cost are the major customer concerns. Which of the following designs should be suggested to the customer? A. Coreedge fabric B. Partially meshed fabric C. Fully meshed fabric D. Cascaded fabric Question: 60 An IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) with a new IBM DS4100 and an existing IBM DS4500 are being installed. There is data on an array on the DS4500 that needs to be migrated into SVC managed volumes. Which of the following would be the most important step to perform prior to starting the migration? A. Map all existing LUNS on the DS4500 as mirrored vdisks. B. Develop a detailed plan for configuring the DS4500 imagemode mdisks. C. Connect all servers to the fabric and implement singleinitiator zoning. D. Create LUNs on the DS4100 and correctly set the host type and disk mapping. Question: 61 Which of the following is the best method for implementing significant zoning changes in redundant fabrics? A. Merge the fabrics, and then make the zoning modifications during high I/O activity. B. Merge the fabrics, and then make the zoning modifications during low I/O activity. C. Make the zoning modifications in both fabrics regardless of the I/O activity. D. Make the zoning modification in one fabric at a time during low I/O activity. Question: 62 A customer has an IBM SAN Btype CoreEdge fabric with M12 director firmware level and F16 edge switches at level 3.0.2c. The customer implemented a maintenance window for Page 15 of 34

16 upgrading their director firmware to level 4.4.x. The implementation resulted in fabric segmentation with attached edge switches. Which of the following actions should the customer have taken prior to making this upgrade? A. Disable all of the director ISL ports prior to the upgrade. B. Configure the upload prior to the upgrade and configure the download after the upgrade. C. Reference the switch firmware interoperability within vendor's firmware release notes. D. Stop all I/O traffic during the upgrade. Question: 63 A customer created a new 2TB share for their IBM pseries server that runs AIX 5.3. They added it to the list of exports on an IBM N3700. The server cannot access the new share. What is the probable cause of the error? A. AIX 5.3 is not supported on the N3700. B. AIX 5.3 does not know how to handle 2TB NFS shares. C. The N3700 cannot share a 2TB volume. D. The export list was not activated on the N3700. Question: 64 A customer has a SAN that includes one IBM DS8000 and one DS4800. Hosts access to the storage is controlled ONLY via the storage controller's LUN masking utility. The customer has noticed a long delay when the servers boot due to delays during the fabric discovery stage. In order to minimize the fabric discovery stage, the best approach would be to: A. Reduce the number of HBAs for the servers. B. Implement fabric zoning per host HBA. C. Increase the number of fabric ISLs. D. Increase the fabric RO_TV timer value. Question: 65 A customer has a large coreedge SAN. They are experiencing outages that involve multiple servers losing connectivity to their associated storage devices. Which of the following actions should be taken first to determine the problem? A. Check the most critical server and check host connectivity. B. Check the most heavily used storage device and check connectivity. C. Check the storageside edge switch and verify connectivity to storage devices. D. Verify the ISL and storage port connectivity from the core director. Question: 66 A customer purchased an IBM N3700 and wants to determine data patterns with regard to usage, age, type and user. Which of the following solutions will meet the customer's needs? A. IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Data B. IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Fabric C. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager with Operational Reporting Page 16 of 34

17 D. IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Disk Question: 67 A customer has five (5) Microsoft Windows 2003 servers and an IBM DS6800 with redundant fabrics. Each server has two (2) HBAs. Eight (8) ports are used on the DS6800. There are a total of four paths from each server to the storage. SDD is the multipathing application. Which of the following is the most appropriate sequence to bring new disk paths online for each server? A. Enable all paths, rescan for new disks, and then install SDD. B. Install SDD, enable all paths, and then reboot the server. C. Install SDD, reboot the server, and then enable all paths. D. Install SDD on the server before adding paths. Question: 68 A customer has a redundant storage fabric. They upgraded their firmware on both fabrics during the scheduled maintenance window. During completion of the fabric rebuild, a large percentage of the customer's servers could not access the storage. In order to prevent loss of storage access and enable recovery in the event of undesirable conditions during the maintenance window, which of the following procedures should have been followed? A. Disable all ISL ports within both fabrics prior to the upgrade. B. Disable all server ports within both fabrics prior to the upgrade. C. Upgrade the firmware for the primary switches first within both fabrics before advancing to others. D. Upgrade one fabric at a time, allowing 24 hours stability before upgrading the other. Question: 69 A customer needs to access an IBM DS8300 and an EMC DMX from an IBM pseries server with AIX 5.2. What multipath driver combination will work? A. MPIO with PCM modules B. PowerPath and RDAC C. SecurePath and SDD D. SDD and PowerPath Question: 70 Which of the following switches support both Fibre Channel and FICON? A. Cisco MDS 9140 Switch ( ) B. IBM SAN Switch (2109F32) C. IBM SAN24M1 Switch ( ) D. IBM SAN32B2 Switch (2005B32) Question: 71 Which of the following SAN directors can provide FCP and iscsi capability in the same chassis? Page 17 of 34

18 A. btype B. mtype C. Cisco D. QLogic Question: 72 Which of the following IBM N Series functions is a chargeable feature? A. SnapRestore B. FlexCache C. FlexVol D. iscsi Question: 73 A company needs additional storage for a blockbased database application. The application has low I/O bandwidth requirements. The customer has an extensive TCP/IP infrastructure. They are interested in low cost products that would be compatible with their environment. Which of the following technologies would be appropriate for this customer? A. iscsi B. NAS C. SAN D. FCIP Question: 74 What file system is used by the IBM N Series products? A. WAFL B. Data ONTAP C. SnapShot D. SnapVault Question: 75 A customer believes their Cisco SAN infrastructure is experiencing performance problems and would like to monitor the environment using the Cisco Traffic Analyzer. Which of the following tools should be used to collect the necessary data for analysis? A. Device Manager B. Fabric Manager C. Fabric Watch D. EFCM Question: 76 Page 18 of 34

19 Which of the following statements accurately explains how IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Storage Area Networks performs backups? A. It pulls all data to be backed up across the LAN. B. It obtains meta data across the LAN, and all data are backed up across the SAN. C. It obtains meta data across the SAN, and backs up data across the LAN. D. It uses SAN management functions to execute the backup. Question: 77 Which of the following IBM N Series licensed functions integrates SnapLock and SnapVault technologies to create a solution specifically designed for addressing compliance requirements for unstructured data? A. FlexClone B. LockVault C. MultiStore D. SnapRestore Question: 78 A customer wants to consolidate four (4) Microsoft Windows 2003 file and print servers. They have a LAN that is 100Mb Ethernet. They want a storage solution that provides medium performance at a low initial cost. Which of the following would meet this customer's needs? A. Direct attach storage to the four (4) servers. B. Attach an IBM N3700 to the LAN and consolidate all storage. C. Install a SAN fabric and attach all servers to an IBM DS4800. D. Add an EXP 400 with fourteen (14) 73GB SCSI disks to the LAN and share the data via iscsi. Question: 79 A customer wants to mirror an IBM DS4500 at their primary location to an IBM DS4300 Turbo at a remote location with a T3 connection. Which of the following protocols must be supported across the T3 to allow data replication from the DS4500 to the DS4300 using the Enhanced Remote Mirroring feature of the DS4000 product line on the existing connection between sites? A. iscsi B. FCP C. NDMP D. FCIP Question: 80 A company is developing a disaster recovery plan. They are currently working on a Business Impact Analysis. At this stage, which of the following steps is most important? A. Identify potential risks to the company. B. Identify viable recovery strategies. C. Define recovery objectives and timeframe. D. Develop exercises with external agencies. Page 19 of 34

20 Question: 81 Which of the following characteristics of the IBM N3700 model A10 provides for graceful data recovery in event of a power loss? A. RAID DP B. Data ONTAP C. Modular expansion enclosures D. Battery backed up cache module Question: 82 The IBM N3700 is less susceptible to software hacking than other Microsoft Windowsbased offerings for which of the following reasons? A. It has WAFL. B. It has Data ONTAP. C. It has SecureShare. D. It supports Kerberos and CHAP. Question: 83 What is the approximate raw capacity of an IBM N3700 (2863A20) with 144GB disk drives and no EXP600 ( ) expansion units? A. 1TB B. 2TB C. 3TB D. 4TB Question: 84 How are optional software licenses for the IBM N Series products priced? A. One time charge (OTC) per enterprise B. One time charge (OTC) per subsystem C. Tierpriced based on capacity D. Tierpriced based on number of users Question: 85 On an IBM N3700, what is the maximum number of snapshots for a volume? A. 63 B. 127 C. 255 D. 511 Page 20 of 34

21 Question: 86 Which of the following IBM N Series licensed functions prevents deletion or alteration of data prior to a specified retention date? A. SnapLock B. SnapMirror C. SnapRestore D. SnapVault Question: 87 A customer has mission critical servers attached to a SAN. However, the customer wants a high performance, highly available, easily managed SAN. Low performance NICequipped Microsoft Windows servers, which require block level technology, also need to be included in the SAN. The SAN will include the following: -IBM DS8300 (32 ports) -IBM DS4800 (8 ports) -Fifteen (15) IBM p570 servers with four (4) LPARS each running AIX 5.3 -Thirty (30) IBM xseries servers running Windows IBM 3584 Library with fourteen (14) LTO Generation 3 drives Given the customer requirements, which of the following would be the best solution? A. Two (2) IBM SAN256B Directors (2109M48)and two (2) IBM SAN16BR Routers (2109A16) B. Two (2) Cisco MDS9509 Directors with a Multiprotocol Services Module C. Two (2) IBM SAN140M Directors ( ) D. Six (6) IBM SAN32M2 switches ( ) and two (2) IBM SAN04MR Routers (2027R04) Question: 88 A customer wants to share an IBM DS8100 with both open systems and a mainframe that is running FICON. All devices must connect to the same fabric. Eight (8) ports are required for the mainframe to connect to the fabric, and fourteen (14) ports are needed for the open systems. The DS8100 needs sixteen (16) ports on the fabric. Which of the following products is the minimum needed to meet these customer needs? A. Two (2) SAN24M1 Switches ( ) twentyfour (24) ports active on each B. Two (2) SAN16MR Routers (2027R16) with ifcp Enterprise enabled C. Two (2) Cisco MDS 9120s ( ) with twenty (20) ports each and the Enterprise Package D. Two (2) Cisco MDS 9216As (2062D1A) with two (2) 16port FC line cards and Mainframe Package enablement Question: 89 A customer is attempting to connect a new BladeCenter chassis with QLogic switch modules into an existing btype switched fabric. However, the ISL links are segmented. Which of the following steps should the storage technical specialist take FIRST? A. Ensure btype switch is set to native mode. B. Verify the domain IDs for the switch. C. Confirm that a QLogic switch is the principal switch. D. Check that all zones are specified by domain ID and port number. Page 21 of 34

22 Question: 90 A customer has a SAN that includes storage from multiple vendors. The storage growth rate is over 60%. The customer is concerned about having older technology. They want to migrate data with little disruption. Which of the following solutions would best address the requirements? A. Determine the total amount of storage used and add additional storage for growth. Recommend IBM N series to replace all systems including additional storage in order to accommodate the growth calculation. Recommend using NFS copies to migrate data. B. Determine the total amount of storage used. Recommend DS6000 and DS8000 subsystems to replace all subsystems, use remote copy for migrating data. C.Determine the total amount of storage used. Recommend SAN Volume Controller, DS6000 and DS8000 to replace all subsystems including additional storage to accommodate the growth calculation. Recommend using remote copy for migrating data. D. Determine the total amount of storage used and add additional storage for growth. Recommend the IBM SAN Volume Controller and additional DS6000 and DS8000 subsystems to accommodate the growth calculation. Recommend using SVC to migrate data. Question: 91 A customer has a SAN that consists of over 200 fabricattached hosts, 25 fabricattached disk subsystems, and 8 SAN switches. They need to manage the SAN topology from a device and need to provide a hostcentric view. Which of the following IBM products will provide this capability? A. IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Fabric B. IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Disk C. IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Data D. IBM Tivoli NetView Question: 92 A customer is considering the use of a file server to store large circuit designs for its design engineering users. The users are geographically dispersed and frequently update their designs. The workstations used include UNIX, Linux, and Microsoft Windows. The best fileserver solution would be to install: A. A UNIX file server B. An IBM NAS Gateway 500 C. An IBM N3700 D. A Windows 2003 fileserver Question: 93 A customer is experiencing random server hardware failures during tape backup operations of their IBM DS4000 and DS6800 storage subsystems. A review of their mtype switch SAN fabric determines that the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager clients can communicate with tape and disk resources on all HBA ports. What is the least disruptive corrective action to consider? A. Modify fabric zoning to separate tape and disk traffic. Page 22 of 34

23 B. Create an extra VSAN to handle tape resources. C. Implement LUN masking on the disk storage. D. Implement a tape SAN fabric. Question: 94 A customer needs a disaster recovery solution where no data will be lost and that provides automated recovery of systems and applications. Which of the following tiers of disaster recovery solutions should the solution encompass? A. Tier 3 Disaster Recovery solutions: Electronic vaulting of data, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager - Disaster Recovery Manager B. Tier 4 Disaster Recovery solutions: Batch/Online Database Shadowing and Journaling, PPRCXD, FlashCopy, FlashCopy Manager, PeertoPeer Virtual Tape Server, Asynchronous Cascading PPRC, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Disaster Recovery Manager, ercmf, iseries IASPs with FlashCopy C. Tier 6 Disaster Recovery solutions: PPRC, XRC, GDPS/PPRC Storage Manager, PeertoPeer VTS, Asynchronous Cascading PPRC, PPRC Migration Manager, ercmf, GeoRM, AIX Logical Volume Mirroring, iseries IASPs with PPRC D. Tier 7 Disaster Recovery solutions: GDPS/PPRC, GDPS/XRC, GDPS/PPRC with Open LUN Management, GDPS/PPRC with HyperSwap, HACMP/XD, ESS support of GDS for MSCS, iseries High Availability Business Partner software Question: 95 A customer has discovered that after upgrading to 4Gb SAN switches and installing SCLC converter cables, their switch error logs and their server error logs show much higher temporary and permanent I/O errors on the ports that communicate with older 1Gb HBAs. The customer is using existing facilities that were originally installed for mainframes. The most likely cause for the errors is the presence of: A. The SCLC cables have reversed connectors. B. The wavelength used with 4Gb SFPs is not recommended for use with the 1Gb HBAs. C. A patch panel joining 62.5 and 50 micron fibers is causing errors. D. 4Gb switches are more sensitive to electronic noise in the room. Question: 96 A customer has a SAN that consists of a 1 GB fabric serving 13 hosts and 2 IBM DS4400 storage subsystems. The customer wants to upgrade the fabric to 4Gb and add 35 new servers. All of the new servers will have redundant 2Gb Fibre Channel HBAs installed. Which of the following solutions would best meet these requirements? A. Two (2) IBM SAN256B Directors (2109M48) each with two (2) 32port 4Gb blades B. Three (3) IBM SAN32B2 Switches (2005B32) with three (3 )ISLs C. Eight (8) IBM SAN Switches (2005H08) with Full Fabric Activation D. Eight (8) IBM SAN Switches (2109S16) with ISLs Question: 97 Page 23 of 34

24 A customer has an IBM Tivoli backup solution. The backup server is AIX and uses an IBM 3584 LTO Tape Library. The robotic control path is defined within the backup configuration via LUN 1 of a tape drive. The customer is experiencing backup failures due to link loss conditions with the tape drive. The failures are preventing access to the robotics and denying any further media movement requests. Which of the following 3584 features can be purchased to prevent these backup failures? A. Arbitration Extension B. Link Recovery Response C. Control Path Failover D. Robotic Path Selection Question: 98 A customer wants to implement an easilymaintained, high availability SAN design following IBM recommended best practices. The customer has 100 open system hosts, an IBM 8300 with 24 ports, and an IBM 3584 Ultrium Tape Library using LANfree backup with 7 LTO gen1 tape drives. Which of the following solutions will best meet the customer's needs? A. Twelve (12) IBM SAN32B2 (2005B32) Switches B. Two (2) IBM SAN Switch (2109M14) Directors C. Two (2) IBM SAN140M ( ) D. Two (2) Cisco MDS 9509 (2062D07) Directors with multiple VSANs Question: 99 A customer in the financial services industry has a centrally located IT infrastructure with worldwide satellite branches. The branches store their data at the central site. High availability and good transactional response time is required for the branches. To provide an acceptable solution, the most important consideration is the: A. Number of locations B. Remote link speed and its utilization C. Remote Link provider D. Wireless network traffic at the remote location Question: 100 A customer has made available an exported NFS mount outside the firewall. Before user authentication occurs, authorization for the client system submitting the request must be verified. The recommended verification method would be to use: A. The NFS client configured as a router. B. The CIFS client configured as a router. C. The local hosts file. D. IPSec to authenticate clients. Question: 101 In order to administer the IBM N3700 remotely and secure passwords that are sent over the network, which of the following SecureAdmin features must be configured? Page 24 of 34

25 A. LDAP or NIS B. 256bit encryption C. NDMP D. SSL or SSH Question: 102 A customer recently acquired IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Data to discover how their storage is utilized. Initial analysis shows they have several large files duplicated on multiple servers. They also found that several mpeg files are located on enterprise class storage arrays on the SAN. When analyzing their IP network, they determined that their utilization is at 80% with existing database traffic. Which of the following would be the best solution to resolve the file sharing issue? A. IBM SAN Volume Controller B. IBM SAN File System C. IBM DS8000 D. IBM DS3000 Question: 103 A customer's environment has 100 servers. Sixty are high I/O, and 40 are low I/O. The customer is implementing a centralized storage strategy with the following hardware: -one (1) IBM DS8300 with twentyfour (24) host connections - two (2) IBM DS4800 with eight (8) host connections - a fournode IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) What is the best price/performance switching strategy? A. Two (2) IBM SAN256B (2109M48) Directors B. Two (2) IBM SAN140M ( ) Directors and four (4) IBM SAN24M1 ( ) Switches C. Four (4) IBM SAN140M ( ) Directors D. Twelve (12) IBM SAN32B2 (2005B32) Switches Question: 104 A customer has two sites that are 2000 kilometers apart. Each of the sites has a mixture of mainframe z/os (FICON), Linux, UNIX, and Wintel servers. The two sites serve as remote backup locations for each other. The customer has IBM DS8300 servers at one location, and a mixture of IBM DS8100 servers and IBM Enterprise Storage Servers at the other. Using which of the following would be the best way to connect the two sites to implement Global Mirror for z/os and open systems? A. An ifcp router B. An FCP extender C. A DWDM or CWDM multiplexor D. An FCIP router Page 25 of 34

26 Question: 105 A customer needs additional storage resources for up to 20TB. The customer uses a large Oracle database application that runs on raw disk devices and requires sustained high I/O bandwidth. Which of the following would be the most appropriate product to propose to this customer? A. IBM DS300 (17012RD) B. IBM DS400 (17001RS) C. IBM DS4800 (181588A) D. IBM N3700 (2863A10) Question: 106 A digital media company is providing digital editing and rendering for an upcoming movie release. The company will use 12 digital editing stations and 4Gb Ethernet network segments. They require 25TB of storage to provide these functions. The following proposal was presented to the company: - Two (2) IBM DS4800 with 8 hostside connections and 16TB each -One (1) Cisco MDS9506 (2026T04) with one 16port line card and a Multiprotocol Services Module for iscsi support for the workstations. What is a potential shortfall of this solution? A. iscsi will not provide enough bandwidth to support the requirements. B. There are not enough fiber ports to support the requirements. C. There is not enough bandwidth in the MDS9506 to support the requirements. D. The DS4800 does not have enough throughput to support the requirements. Question: 107 A client has a SAN that includes disk subsystems from multiple vendors. The customer would like to centralize disk management. The customer also wants the flexibility to migrate older data to less expensive disk subsystems. Which of the following products should be recommended? A. IBM SAN Volume Controller B. IBM SAN File System with 6 Metadata servers C. IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Fabric D. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Extended Edition Question: 108 A customer has Sun Solaris servers running Veritas Volume Manager and DMP attached to nonibm disk. They want to integrate an IBM DS8300 into the current environment. Which of the following would be the best multipathing option? A. Install SDD to access the DS8300. B. Have the customer switch to MPXIO. C. Use Veritas DMP to access the DS8300. D. Use SecurePath to access the DS8300. Question: 109 Page 26 of 34