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Data Foundation for Spectrum Fusion
Level 1 Quiz!

Question 1

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What product is IBM Spectrum Fusion built on?

System Z

Dell Apex

Google Cloud

Oracle 

Question 2

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On your way to grab coffee, a colleague stops you to ask about

the data persistence features in IBM Storage Fusion. What is a
key data persistence feature that IBM Storage Fusion offers to
clients?

Tiering policies

Data replication

Storage classes 

Metro disaster recovery (DR)

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What percentage of client engagements result in a IBM

Storage Fusion opportunity?

10%

33%

25%

60% 

Question 4

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According to Boston Consulting, what percentage of digital

modernization efforts fail?

50%

25%

70% 

90%

Question 5

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You are preparing your sales strategy for the quarter, but you
first need to understand what use cases are most important to
your clients. What are three top use cases for IBM Storage
Fusion?

Supply Chain Management, Web hosting, and email

hosting
Application development, databases, and AI/ML 

Analytics Data Lakes

ERP, HR Systems, and Inventory Control
Gaming, virtual reality apps, and accounting apps
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Your client is sold on the capabilities of IBM Storage Fusion

(Fusion), but needs to communicate the value of Fusion to their
manager. Which of the following is NOT a key value proposition
of IBM Storage Fusion?

Simplicity

Multitenancy 

Consistency

Scalability

Question 7

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You just finished a productive meeting with your client. They

asked you to provide a quick summary of the differentiated
value of IBM Storage Fusion (Fusion). Please select the
following value statement for Fusion that you would include in
your email.

Fusion makes Red OpenShift and IBM Cloud Paks 

simple

Only two phone calls needed to get support from IBM

(even with Red Hat products)

No guidance is needed from IBM to achieve business value

using Fusion

Flexibility and consistent user experience is available for

some Fusion capabilities
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You’re discussing with your colleagues the challenges clients

face in today’s world. What is the top challenge identified by
the IBM Institute of Business Value for clients in 2021 and
2022?

Cash flow

Information access

Sustainability 

Consumer demographics

Question 9

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What is the average initial IBM Storage Fusion deal size (US
Dollars)?

$300K 

$15K

$1. M

$100K
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Your client doesn’t have a way to ensure their data is easily

accessible and protected. They ask you to explain how IBM
Storage Fusion can help. Which IBM Storage Fusion data
service ensures that data is protected with polices and always
in the right place?

Data discovery

Data mobility 

Data security

Data persistence

Question 11

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IBM Storage Fusion (Fusion) provides a broad range of features

to develop the right data resilience that clients need for
application and business continuity. This includes encryption.
Fusion encryption supports encryption of what?

Data only at rest

Data only in flight

Software

Data at rest and in flight 

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You’re talking with your client’s Vice President (VP) of IT, and
trying to explain what IBM Hybrid Cloud can do for his
organization. What four capabilities would you tell him about
that IBM Hybrid Cloud delivers?

Backwards compatibility, protocol compliance, security

enforcement, and malware mitigation

End-to-end functionality, open architecture, strategic 

business advantages, and increased security benefits

Upgradability, high return on investment, low total cost of

ownership, and ease of use

Open source, industry standards, compatibility with all

clouds, and ease of deployment

Question 13

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You’re engaged with a client’s Chief Information officer (CIO),

who is frustrated about the amount of uncoordinated public
cloud spending in their business units. The situation has
become so out of control that other senior-level executives
have asked him to figure out the issue and fix it. To help the
CIO respond, what information would you provide him?

Tell the CIO to assemble a task force to centralize all cloud

spend within his organization

Tell the CIO to block all corporate credit card charges for
AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Tell the CIO to hire a consultant to survey the situation and

develop a plan of action to address the public cloud spend

Present the data from internal IBM research which 

shows that organizations derive 2.5 times the value

from hybrid cloud versus a single vendor approach, and
demonstrate IBM’s commitment to supporting our
clients with hybrid cloud
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Which is NOT a key enabling feature of Data Mobility?

Automated discovery 

Location-independent global data access

Automated tiering

Policy-driven data staging & caching

Question 15

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You just learned about IBM Storage Fusion during the latest
SKO. As a result, you believe that IBM Storage Fusion could be
a great fit for your client that is considering modernizing their
infrastructure with Red Hat OpenShift. What are the five
application data services that compose IBM Storage Fusion
that can help organizations leverage the full value of their data
to turn data into a revenue-able asset?

Data persistence, data resilience, data security, data 

mobility, and data discovery

Deduplication, data mirroring, unified data access control,

data caching, data copy

Data pipelines, data cleansing, data archive, databases,

data cataloging

Safeguarded Copy, data virtualization, data persistence,

data resilience, and data mobility
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You’re finalizing the IBM Storage Fusion (Fusion) Level 1

education, what is a next step to identify an opportunity?

Avoid tough client conversations about data services

Rely on technical sellers and business partners to lead

Fusion conversations

Understand the pain points of Red Hat OpenShift / IBM 

Cloud Paks deployment and Data Services

Share the Fusion message and differentiation only with

IBM colleagues

Question 17

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In preparation of a client demo, you decide to take a step back

to make sure you understand the business value of IBM Storage
Fusion. What is the goal of IBM Storage Fusion?

To virtualize storage

4 

To scale non-containerized workloads

To sell Red Hat OpenShift licenses
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You’ve been invited to speak at a conference about the

approach that modernized organizations take towards storage.
You plan to talk about IBM Storage Fusion Metro Disaster
Recovery (DR) as one of the things many of these forward-
looking organizations should leverage. Which enterprise
application data services does IBM Storage Fusion Metro DR
support?

Data mobility

Data discovery

Data resilience 

Data persistence

Question 19

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As the client’s need for data management grows, challenges

arise for these two distinct teams. Who (what) are these
teams?

Systems Admin and Business Operations

Storage Admin and Network Admin

Business Operations and Security

Application/DevOps and Infrastructure 

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According to Gartner, what percentage of new digital workloads

will be cloud native by 2025?

70% 

33%

85%

95%

Question 21

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Many clients are in need of a centralized repository for

metadata. What does IBM Storage Fusion data discovery do
for clients?

Provides rapid, automated data discovery and robust 

metadata capture, enrichment, and curation of data in a

centralized repository

Ensures data availability, recoverability, and accuracy in the

event of disruptive events or system failures

Provides reliable, consistent data and application

protection while delivering full stack encryption of data at
reast

Captures and stores data of all types, protocols, and sizes

while providing efficient storage, and uniform, simple
access
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A Technology Sales Managing Director (MD) just came from a

meeting and Slacks you with updates about that meeting. The
MD finished the Slack exchange with the following direct
message: “The client also talked about something called IBM
Storage Fusion. I must admit, I’ve never heard of it before. Tell
me in a sentence what it is”. How do you respond?

IBM Storage Fusion is an application data services platform

(running on Red Hat OpenShift) organizations can use to
handle persistent data needs, so they can realize the full
value of their applications and their data

IBM Storage Fusion is a block storage array designed only

for IBM Cloud Paks

IBM Storage Fusion is a virtualization platform for 

VMware that provides a container-native file system

IBM Storage Fusion is an application platform (running on

Red Hat OpenStack) organizations can use to handle
persistent data needs, so they can realize the full value of
their applications and their data

Question 23

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IBM Storage Fusion provides fundamental encryption of data

and allows clients to manage encryption keys and secrets.
IBM Storage Fusion key management is a key feature of what
value pillar?

Data resilience

Data discovery

Data mobility

Data security 
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During a client meeting, you are asked to explain the

importance of data resilience. What IBM Storage Fusion
feature supports the data resilience value proposition?

Backup and restore 

Automated tagging

Data discovery

Encryption

Question 25

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Who is considered an IBM Storage Fusion end-user in the IT

Services Pipeline?

Kubernetes Developer or Architect 

Storage Admin
Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Business executive