IBM C9020-461 Exam Overview:
| Certification Vendor: | IBM |
| Exam Name: | IBM Midrange Storage Technical Support V4 |
| Exam Number: | C4090-461 |
| Available Languages: | English |
| Related Certifications: | IBM Certified Specialist - Midrange Storage Technical Support V4 |
| Real Exam Qty: | Approximately 60 |
| Exam Duration: | 120 minutes |
| Exam Price: | USD 200 |
| Certificate Validity Period: | Certification retired (historically valid until program withdrawal) |
| Exam Format: | Multiple Choice, Multiple Response, Scenario-based Questions |
| Passing Score: | 800 / 1000 |
| Sample Questions: | IBM C9020-461 Sample Questions |
| Exam Way: | Authorized IBM/Pearson VUE testing center (onsite); online delivery depended on IBM policies at the time. |
| Pre Condition: | No formal prerequisite exam; IBM recommends practical experience with IBM midrange storage solutions and related technical training. |
| Official Syllabus URL: | https://www.ibm.com/training/certification/ |
IBM C9020-461 Exam Syllabus Topics:
| Section | Weight | Objectives |
|---|---|---|
| Topic 1: Competitive Positioning and Support Resources | 15% | - Position IBM solutions
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| Topic 2: Solution Design and Configuration | 25% | - Design appropriate storage solutions
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| Topic 3: IBM Midrange Storage Portfolio | 25% | - IBM storage products and features
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| Topic 4: Customer Requirements Analysis | 15% | - Identify customer business and technical requirements
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| Topic 5: Storage Technologies | 20% | - Core storage concepts
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IBM Midrange Storage Technical Support V4 Sample Questions:
1. What is IBM Security Key Lifecycle Manager used for?
A) To control the access of encrypted storage devices
B) To activate encryption keys on USB drives for IBM Storwize V7000
C) To provide encryption for SAN attached storage devices
D) To eliminate the requirement for encryption keys on managed devices
2. A customer has a mission-critical applicationthat has a mixed workload of varying access demands. The performance is not meeting its business objective. The IBM Business Partner offered an IBM Storwize V7000 system with SSDs and HDDs.
Which license allows this customer to automatically move moderately used data to the HDDs?
A) Compression license
B) Easy Tier license
C) Flash Copy license
D) Remote Mirror license
3. Which open standard provides a web based self-service portal to interact with underlying services such as launching an instance, assigning IP addresses, and configuring access controls?
A) IBM Dig Insights
B) IBM Spectrum Scale
C) OpenPower
D) OpenStack
4. A customer provides the information shown in the exhibit for the company's primary database environment. Solution requirements include meeting of exceeding the current I/O rate of the existing environment.
System name Name Max IOPS Avg IOPS Min IOPS Max BW (MBps) Avg BW (MBps) Min BW (MBps) Max Latency (ms) Avg Latency (ms) pldenxivg3 denoubivs_arch1 1101 20 0 274 5 0 3 2 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_arch2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_bin1 322 1 0 1 0 0 32 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_bin2 184 0 0 1 0 0 21 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_bkup1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_bkup2 25 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_bkup3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_data1 997 39 0 128 3 0 28 2 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_data2 997 38 0 133 3 0 31 2 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_data3 1005 43 0 127 3 0 23 1 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_data4 2217 38 0 175 3 0 19 2 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_data5 1194 37 0 109 2 0 32 1 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_data6 1118 30 0 70 2 0 23 1 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_data7 1111 29 0 70 2 0 21 1 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_data8 2443 24 0 156 1 0 10 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_data9 1710 8 0 108 0 0 12 1 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_log1 2107 49 0 46 1 0 2 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_log2 2174 44 0 43 1 0 2 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_NJP_bin 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_NJP_data 1452 9 0 93 0 0 0 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_NJP_log 65 14 0 3 0 0 0 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_os1 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_os2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_pg1 12 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_pg2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_arch1 501 5 0 122 1 0 3 1 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_arch2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_back1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_back2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_back3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_bin1 209 2 0 6 0 0 16 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_bin2 283 0 0 17 0 0 18 1 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_bin3 176 1 0 8 0 0 18 1 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_data1 3128 116 0 201 5 0 17 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_data2 1117 65 0 71 2 0 16 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_data3 1129 69 0 71 2 0 16 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_data4 1136 63 0 72 2 0 16 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_data5 1147 65 0 72 2 0 16 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_data6 3470 60 0 223 2 0 36 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_data7 2389 51 0 152 2 0 20 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_log1 204 12 0 13 0 0 2 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_log2 279 11 0 12 0 0 3 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_os1 21 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_os2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_pg1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total= 35458 943 0 2580 44
Average= 788 21 0 57 1 0 10
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What should the minimum I/O rate be for the new solution?
A) 21 I/Os per second
B) 35458 I/Os per second
C) 788 I/Os per second
D) 943 I/Os per second
5. A customer has an existing Dell - EqualLogic PS6210E and is looking to leverage thin provisioning and Easy Tier on its existing storage.
Which IBM product best fulfills this requirement?
A) IBM Storwize V7000 with external virtualization license
B) IBM Storwize V7000 with remote mirroring license
C) DCS3860 with Easy Tier license
D) TS3310 with IBM Spectrum Archive and IBM Spectrum Protect
Solutions:
| Question # 1 Answer: A | Question # 2 Answer: B | Question # 3 Answer: D | Question # 4 Answer: A | Question # 5 Answer: A |

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