What do you call the target time that a business sets to restore their IT and business activities

after a disaster has struck?

Select one:

Maximum Acceptable Downtime (MAD)

Recovery Point Objective (RPO)

Recovery Time Objective (RTO)

Emergency Response Time (ERT)

Which IBM offering provides immutable copies of production data to allow customers to recover
from cyber breaches, user errors, or malicious attacks?

Select one:

IBM Spectrum Archive

IBM Transparent Cloud Tiering

IBM Modern Data Protection

IBM DS8000 Safeguarded Copy

Plans and processes for quickly reestablishing access to applications, data, and IT resources
after an outage generally falls under the category of:

Select one:

Disaster recovery

Operational flexibility

Backup

Replication
In what stage of the cyber resiliency lifecycle would a business define a roadmap and actions to
build their cyber resilience plan?
Select one:

Detect

Respond

Protect

Identify

What is the IBM product of choice to lead with when you are talking to clients about the
explosion of data, the importance of modernizing their data centers, running AI & Big Data
analytics workloads, and protecting against cyber attacks?

Select one:

IBM Power Systems Virtual Servers on IBM Cloud

TS7700

IBM Cloud Object Storage

IBM DS8900F

What is a collection of offerings on the IBM Z platform, each addressing a different set of IT
resiliency goals that can be tailored to meet the recovery objectives for a business called?

Select one:

IBM Transparent Cloud Tiering (TCT)

IBM Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex (GDPS)

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework

Select one:
A tape drive that delivers fast access to data, improves security, and provides long-term
retention at a lower cost than disk solutions

An LTO tape storage solution that is supported on open system platforms

A tape offering that delivers support for mixed media configurations

A high-performance virtual tape library

IBM Storage Insights provides businesses with:

Select one:

Flexible and scalable cloud storage for unstructured data

IBM software-defined storage offerings that share the same UI, simplify deployment, and lower
cost

Management and protection of data that is used for big-data analytics and new cognitive
workloads

Cloud based AI-driven management and support capabilities

What is the name of a network security measure that is employed on one or more computers to
ensure that a secure computer network is physically isolated from unsecured networks, such as
the public internet or an unsecured local area network (LAN)?

Select one:

Hybrid multicloud

Modern data protection

Cyber resiliency

Air gap

Which of the following is not a result of planned or unplanned downtime?

Select one:
Lost data center personnel

Lost brand equity or trust

Lost revenue

Lost productivity

IBM Tape Air Gap provides one of the most secure ways to protect and confront cyber crime.
What feature makes it so secure?

Select one:

It offers safeguards to ensure delivery of critical services

It is offline by design

It provides good disaster recovery

It provides the ability to maintain 2 separate data centers with duplicate data

What IBM offering helps reduce CAPEX and OPEX by enabling hybrid cloud as an additional
storage tier for data archiving, long term retention, data protection, and access to extended
storage capacity?

Select one:

IBM Transparent Cloud Tiering (TCT)

IBM Modern Data Protection

IBM DS8000 Safeguarded Copy

IBM Air Gap Protection

What is the core Storage offering for IBM Z?

Select one:
IBM FlashSystem

IBM Cloud Object Storage

IBM DS8900F

IBM Spectrum Discover

What is the process of making extra copies of data called?

Disaster recovery

Operational flexibility

Backup

Replication

Which of the following provides the architectural foundation for IBM Storage solutions optimized
for IBM Z?

Select one:

RedHat Hybrid Cloud

NIST Cybersecurity Framework

Blockchain

IBM POWER9 Processors

What degree of availability does the DS8900F offer?

Select one:

Six 9s
Seven 9s

Nine 9s

Eight 9s

What is the primary business value of IBM Storage + IBM Z?

Select one:

They offer a total multi-layered mainframe and storage solution that is deeply integrated with
end-to-end cyber resiliency

They deliver an optimized solution with strength in distributed environments

They allow a modern data center to leverage both private and public clouds to gain efficiency

They deliver optimal performance to clients through the use of NVMe solid-state-drives and
NVMe-oF connections between storage and Z

IBM Storage Insights is both secure and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliant
because:
Select one:

It eliminates the need for data lakes and data mining

It is separated from the cloud, ensuring freedom from a cyber attack

It is not possible to see the actual data, only the information about the storage arrays
themselves

Users can see all of the data in a single view for analysis and discovery

What is a cyber resiliency feature that prevents data from being modified or deleted due to
mistakes or intentional bad actions?

Select one:

Encryption
Insulation

Isolation

Immutability

When it comes to disaster recovery and operational flexibility, what should a well-designed
system have?

Select one:

Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) continuity centers that get customers back to work as
quickly and efficiently as possible

Replication of code and data in a secondary site that is separated by geographical distance

A cloud-based metadata repository with a tertiary repository

A physical library of vital records and critical systems

Which of the following is not a characteristic of a modern, data-driven infrastructure?

Select one:

Secure to the core

Targeted to on-premise only

Modern

Agile

What is the primary reason for businesses to modernize and transform their data protection
environment?

Select one:

Control overall costs while helping to balance performance

Provide crash resistant and application consistent data access

Automate their data processes

100% data encryption protects data at-rest and in the cloud with no impact in performance.
Where else does it protect data?

Select one:

in-flight

in non-secure storage

in multiple locations

on disk

The best reason to use tape storage in a modern data center is that tape helps protect data
against ransomware and other malware attacks by providing:
Select one:

Multisite storage

Offsite storage

Remote storage

Offline storage

What IBM offering is included at no extra charge with all IBM Storage systems?

Select one:

IBM Spectrum Virtualize

IBM Spectrum Suite

IBM Spectrum Storage