Question 1.
A manufacturing customer is not concerned about system failure, they believe heir 2 week manufacturing cycle allows for recovery. You wish to identify an opportunity for business esilience. 

Which of the following is the impact of system failure?

A. Automated recovery capabilities
B. Redundant servers
C. Quality of Service
D. Resource utilization

Answer: C

Question 2.
Identifying each customer recovery and budget requirements is an important first step in a Business Resilience (BR) engagement. A customer determines they have anRTO of 2-6 hours.

Which of the following addresses this BR requirement?

A. Continuous availability, end to end automation
B. Rapid data recovery
C. Tape based backup and restore
D. Real time data and server replication

Answer: B

Question 3.
A fundamental driver for the efficiency of any server is the level of utilization that is achieved. 

What are the typical current utilization levels for various processor types and what should be done to increase this utilization?

A. Mainframe 80%
B. Unix >50%
C. X86 >10%
D. Mainframe 100%
E. Unix >40%
F. X86 >10%
G. Mainframe >80%
H. Unix 15-25%
I. X86 <10%
J. Mainframe >80%
K. Unix >50%
L. X86 >20%
M. Application provisioning

Answer: C

Question 4.
Estimating resources can be the most difficult task in the performance-planning process. 

What are the components that the NEDC Technical Leader should be primarilyinterested in?

A. CPU time, disk access rate, LAN traffic, amount of real memory
B. Disk access rate, number of simultaneous users, number of concurrent batch jobs
C. Paging rate, CPU time, networking bandwidth
D. CPU clock speed, operating system type and communication I/O

Answer: A

Question 5.
A large manufacturing customer datacenter has reached its physical limits. A Which of the following is the key element in the Active Energy Strategy green agenda?

A. IT Management solution to monitor IT Assets
B. Facility monitoring into single portal
C. Smart management of IT devices, cooling systems and virtualization of infrastructure
D. A full chargeback suite for usage and accounting

Answer: C

Question 6.
A securities trading bank has a critical performance issue. Peaks in trading behavior temporarily result in a huge number of orders which must be processed in time to avoid penalties. 

Which of the following meets this immediate situation?

A. IBM SAN Volume Controller provides outstanding performance. Develop a virtualized 
     architecture with the customer to leverage caching properties to meet the
B. IBM server technology withCUoD
C. Analyze the business application; providing high performance solutions for a few peaks is not  
    cost
D. affective. Suggest your customer negotiate the service levels
E. Identify the real issue and develop the proper solution combining software, hardware and 
    services out of IBM comprehensive portfolio.

Answer: B

Question 7.
A prospect is confused with the multiple pillars (BR, EE, VC, and II) within the NEDC strategy. They are interested in virtualization and consolidation, but are concerned that too many pillars will result in a compromise and a poor solution. 

Which of the following is an effective response?

A. The pillars are interrelated and should be implemented together for maximum benefit
B. NEDC Innovation Workshop will help them identify which pillars are most critical and create a 
    roadmap for implementation of one or more pillars
C. NEDC pillars should be implemented one at a time like most applications, combining them as  
    goals makes implementation very difficult
D. Select the most urgent with the highest ROI. Once a successful track record is established 
    other pillars should be implemented

Answer: D

Question 8.
Following successful implementation of a NEDC project, the customer is concerned all of the objectives were not achieved. 

Which of the following would provide a check point for the project objectives for comparison?

A. NEDC Innovation Workshop
B. Scorpion study
C. Technical and Delivery Assessment
D. Team Solution Design

Answer: A

Question 9.
An IBM Solution Assurance Review (SAR) is conducted to facilitate which of the following?

A. Expectations and assignment of responsibilities for a project
B. Confirms appropriate IBM hardware configuration
C. Ensure proper stakeholder support within an organization
D. Qualifies the Business Partner for Special Bid Pricing

Answer: A

Question 10.
One important factor in developing any BR strategy is to determine the customer Recovery Point Objective. 

Which of the following defines a business RPO?

A. RPO indicates how much data the business canhafford to recreate (or lose)
B. RPO denotes the time interval between an outage and when the remote servers are available
C. RPO is the length of elapsed time that the business has agreed they can afford to be without 
    their systems and critical business applications
D. RPO is the distance between the product data centers and the recovery site

Answer: A

Question 11.
A customer CIO is very concerned about the ability of his current staff to handle implementation of the desired NEDC BR project. They plan to implement immediately. 

Which of the following addresses this issue?

A. Send the staff to IBM education to gain the skills
B. Replace the staff with new skilled individuals
C. Engage a consultant to establish a plan
D. Contract with IBM or Business Partner to perform the critical work elements

Answer: A

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