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Question 1 Which of the following statements about Spectrum Copy Data Management
Standalone Licensing is incorrect:

Incorrect
Copies, mirrors, and clones are licensed
separately.
0.00 points out
of 1.00 Licensing is based on Flat price per terabyte
pricing. 

Replicas are only counted when they are used as new

copies.

Clients pay only for what they manage.

Question 2 What are the three primary offerings in IBM's

intelligent data protection & data reuse solution?

Correct
Spectrum Scale, Spectrum Virtualize, and Spectrum Archive
1.00 points out
of 1.00 Spectrum Protect, Spectrum Protect Plus, and Copy
Services Manager
 IBM Spectrum Archive

Spectrum Protect, Spectrum Protect Plus, Spectrum

Copy Data Management Double check wording 

Question 3 Which of the following statements about ransomware

is TRUE?

Correct
Spectrum Protect can automatically block ransomware
attacks.
1.00 points out
of 1.00 Spectrum Protect can analyze backup statistics for
signs of ransomware infection, and proactively notify 
administrators.

Spectrum Protect is a utility used for backups and

restores only; it is not meant to deal with ransomware.
Spectrum Protect uses encryption, and thus provides
backups that are immune to ransomware.

Question 4 Which of the following IBM

Data Resilience Services a look at the client’s environment and how it
stacks up

Correct
against the NIST framework.

1.00 points out

of 1.00 Data Resilience Workshop

IBM Services Engagement

IBM Cloud Readiness Review

Cyber Resilience Assessment

Tool & Cyber Incident Response Storage Assessment 

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Question 5 Which of the following cloud environments are

supported by IBM data resilience offerings?

Correct
IBM Cloud and IBM Cloud Object Storage
1.00 points out
of 1.00

Only IBM Cloud Object Storage

IBM’s data resilience offerings do not back up to

cloud environments; data is stored on-premises only.

IBM Cloud Object Storage, Amazon Simple Storage

Service (S3), Microsoft Azure Blob Storage 

Question 6 Spectrum Protect can copy data to which of the following:

Correct
Tape, public cloud services, and on-premises object
storage 
1.00 points out
of 1.00 Tape only
Public cloud services, on-premises object storage

Tape and data containers

Question 7 In a sales situation, which IBM data resilience

offering would you recommend for a client who needs to protect

Correct
born-on-the
cloud applications built with containers and utilizing OpenShift Kubernetes?

1.00 points out

Spectrum Protect Plus 
of 1.00

SafeGuarded Copy
Spectrum Protect

Spectrum Copy Data Management

Question 8 Which of the following statements about the

benefits of incremental forever backups is incorrect?

Incorrect
Incremental forever backups reduces the amount of
data going across the network.
0.00 points out
of 1.00 Incremental forever backups drastically reduce the
amount of storage needed to support backups.
Incremental forever backups only store data that
has changed. 

Incremental forever backups increase the length of

the backup window while minimizing the impact to the
client system.

Question 9 Which of the following are critical data protection

challenges facing organizations today?

Correct
Sharing data security policies with employees, and
complying with data retention regulations
1.00 points out
of 1.00

Maintaining more than one data center separated by

distance

Holding regular audits, integrating older and modern

infrastructures, and having at least one admin in the
data center at all times

Protecting data, outthinking cyber criminals, responding

to and recovering from incidents quickly 

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Question 10 How long has IBM been ranked in the leader quadrant
on the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Center Backup

Correct
and Recovery?

1.00 points out

of 1.00 3 years
IBM expects to be ranked as a leader for the first
time in 2022
9 years

14 years


Question 11 When combined with storage optimization capabilities such as incremental forever, deduplication, and
compression, Spectrum Protect delivers what percentage of cost savings over other vendors?
Correct

1.00 points out

100%
of 1.00
30%
75%
60% 

Question 12 Which of the following statements about must-have

capabilities of data protection software is false?

Correct

1.00 points out

of 1.00 The software must be scalable and capable of fast
backups.

The software must allow administrators to schedule

full backups on a repeating schedule (most often 

weekly or bi-weekly).

The software must be simple and cost efficient.

The software must enable the reuse of data in the

backup repository in non-production environments for
multiple use cases.

Question 13 When talking about Spectrum Protect blueprints,

what is the primary value you should emphasize?

Correct
Blueprints provide both sizing guidance and
automated configuration. 
1.00 points out
of 1.00 Blueprints can provide “appliance-like” performance
but have limited customization.
Blueprints are designed specifically for small and medium
sized workloads; they are not meant for large
workloads.
Blueprints are available for Linux operating
systems only; blueprints for Windows and AIX are planned for
future releases.

Question 14 When initiating a conversation about data protection, what is a key message?

Correct
A truly integrated data resilience solution should include components from multiple vendors.
1.00 points out
Data resilience includes many things, such as the ability to operate during, adapt to, and recover from 
of 1.00
an event or attack.
While chances of a cyber attack are slim, it’s still a good idea to protect your data.
An effective data resilient solution can prevent 100 percent of threats to your systems and data.

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Question 15 Copying data from Spectrum Protect Plus to an IBM Spectrum Protect
server has all of the following advantages
EXCEPT: 

Correct

1.00 points out

The Spectrum Protect server cannot move the data to
physical tape or to a virtual tape library for long- 
of 1.00
term data availability and
disaster recovery preparedness.

It enables long-term data availability and disaster

recovery preparedness.

It allows companies to take advantage of their

existing investment for long-term data retention and disaster
recovery.

It simplifies data recovery, replication, and

offload to multicloud environments.

Question 16 In a sales situation, which IBM data resilience solution

would you recommend for a client who needs

Correct comprehensive data resilience for

physical file servers, virtual environments, and a wide range of applications?

1.00 points out

of 1.00 Spectrum Copy Data Management

SafeGuarded Copy
Spectrum Archive

Spectrum Protect & Spectrum Protect Plus 

Question 17 Which of the following accurately depicts the

maximum capability of a single Spectrum Protect server?

Correct

1.00 points out

A single Spectrum Protect server can manage hundreds of objects.
of 1.00
A single Spectrum Protect server can manage billions of objects. 
A single Spectrum Protect server can manage thousands of objects.
A single Spectrum Protect server can manage millions of objects.

Question 18 Which of the following is a FALSE statement about

IBM's plans to converge Spectrum Protect and Spectrum Plus

Incorrect
into a single
platform?

0.00 points out

of 1.00 Merging the platforms has been difficult because
they have two separate backup repositories.
Spectrum Protect and Spectrum Protect Plus will
always be separate platforms.

IBM plans to complete the convergence of the two

platforms sometime in 2022. 

Open Snap Store Manage (OSSM) is technology that is

available now for storing Spectrum Protect Plus
backups directly into a
Spectrum Protect backup repository.

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Question 19 In general, which of the following statements is

likely to be the most effective selling point against a competitor

Correct
about the
complete IBM?

1.00 points out

of 1.00 IBM can deliver a full data center operation from
end-to-end including servers, storage, tape, cloud, and 
software.
Data vault with air gap

Spectrum Protect Plus offers broad support for

operating systems, devices, and applications.
Spectrum Copy Data Management makes copies of data
available to consumers when and where they need
them, without creating
unnecessary copies or leaving unused copies on valuable storage.

Question 20 Early in the opportunity identification

conversation, is it appropriate to ask your client how long they can tolerate

Correct a
business outage?

1.00 points out

of 1.00 No, because recovery time objective (RTO) and
recovery point objective (RPO) are not important
considerations at this early
stage of the conversation.
Yes, because you need to know how quickly they must
be back up and running if there is an outage.

Yes, because depending on their answer, it could dramatically impact the

cost of the solution you are 
proposing.

No, because they probably already have a quick and

easy way to switch to backup servers and storage with
no impact to the
business.

Question 21 Which of the following “best

practices” of IBM’s data Resilience Framework takes advantage of some of the

Correct
latest AI capabilities through partnerships with IBM Security and its QRadar
solution, and other technology

1.00 points out

partners such as Predatar, to determine data
pattern anomalies to capture a threat before it can harm all the
of 1.00 data?

Identify & Monitor 

Administrative Security

Administrative Security

Pervasive Security

Question 22 In a sales situation, which IBM data resilience

offering would you recommend for a client who needs software

Incorrect
that supports
hardware snapshots with application and crash consistency, along with
automation and

0.00 points out

orchestration of the data copies.
of 1.00
Spectrum Protect Plus
Spectrum Protect
SafeGuarded Copy 

Spectrum Copy Data Management

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Question 23 IBM Spectrum Virtualize

with _________________ enables clients to take hardware snapshots of their data
and

Correct
store them in immutable volumes on the array – up to as many as 15,000
snaps.

1.00 points out

of 1.00 Spectrum Copy Data
Management
Safeguarded Copy 

Red Hat OpenShift and

Kubernetes
Open Snap Store Manager

Question 24 Which of the following is an incorrect reason for a client to modernize

their data protection platform?

Correct
To prevent data loss due to file corruption.
1.00 points out
of 1.00 To prevent data loss due to natural disasters.
Licensing is based on Flat price per terabyte
pricing.
To prevent cyber attacks. 

Question 25 The best way to approach a client conversation

about data resilience is to:

Correct
Introduce Spectrum Protect and demonstrate where it fits into IBM's
overall data protection portfolio
1.00 points out
of 1.00 Lead clients to IBM's data protection offerings,
rather than lead with those offerings 

Lead with IBM's complete data resilience portfolio

As a door opener, deliver a proposal for how

Spectrum Protect can provide great value in the client's
environment.

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