HPE2-E72 Online Practice Questions and Answers

What is one of the trends in how customers are using public cloud services?

A. Most customers have consolidated their public cloud services onto a single public cloud.

B. A majority of customers have moved some cloud services back on-prem in the last year.

C. A majority of customers have fewer concerns about how public clouds handle data sovereignty than they did two years ago.

D. In the next two years, customers plan to move about 75 percent of workloads to public clouds.

A customer has a hybrid environment with services deployed on-prem, in Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Microsoft Azure. The customer needs a storage solution. What is one benefit of HPE that you should explain?

A. HPE SimpliVity gives customers a hook into the cloud with stretched clusters that have a mix of onprem and cloud nodes.

B. HPE Nimble and Cloud Volumes will let the customers move their data freely around the hybrid environment.

C. HPE Primera includes an embedded cloud catalog that will help customers deploy services and data in their hybrid environment.

D. HPE 3PAR will help the customer move the data on-prem and eliminate the need for cloud services.

What is an accurate trend in how companies procure infrastructure?

A. More companies are looking for a pay-as-you-go model, event for on-prem infrastructure.

B. After experimenting with pay-as-you-go in the cloud, more and more customers want to return to a traditional CAPEX model.

C. Most customers do not have a preference towards CAPEX or OPEX as long as they like the solution.

D. Companies are trying to pay for their infrastructure upfront to avoid interest cost.

What is a use case for Microsoft Azure Private Cloud?

A. A company wants to apply pay-as-you-go funding to all their IT services.

B. A company has implemented DevOps and wants to deploy apps to both a private and public cloud.

C. A company wants to use Anthos to orchestrate migrating workloads across their private and public cloud.

D. A company wants to find a service provider that can offer private cloud as-a-service.

How does HPE recommend positioning HPE SimpliVity versus HPE Nimble solutions?

A. SimpliVity is targeted for scale up storage requirements while Nimble is targeted for scale out requirements.

B. SimpliVity is targeted for mission critical workloads while Nimble is targeted for general purpose workloads.

C. Both solutions are targeted for general purpose workloads, but SimpliVity is targeted specifically for emerging big data and AI applications.

D. Both solutions are targeted for general purpose workloads, but SimpliVity is for customers who want hyperconvergence.

What is an effective way to begin a value-oriented conversation about HPE solutions with a customer?

A. "Have you compared HPE deduplication strategies with those of competing storage vendors?"

B. "What goals are you trying to achieve with your hybrid cloud environment ?and what stands in the way?"

C. "How much do you know about how 802.11ac and how it can improve performance in your wireless network?"

D. "Let's talk about how much memory capacity HPE servers have as opposed to white box servers."

What is one drawback of traditional private cloud solutions as compared to public cloud?

A. Traditional private cloud solutions have a CAPEX model, rather than pay-as-you-go like public cloud.

B. Traditional private cloud solutions lead to more unexpected costs than public cloud.

C. Traditional private cloud solutions make it harder for the company to audit regulatory compliance than with public cloud.

D. Traditional private cloud solutions almost always have a higher TCO than public cloud.

You are proposing an HPE Intelligent Data Platform solution to a customer. The customer says: "I'm actually strongly considering cloud storage instead. On-prem storage solutions are too slow to deploy and too expensive to scale." What is one way that can you overcome this objection?

A. "Sure, your public cloud solution is convenient. But what about orchestrating your infrastructure? In the cloud, it's all siloed."

B. "Public cloud providers are offering outdated tools to develop apps. Only private cloud environments allow you to containerize your apps."

C. "HPE GreenLake offers the same scalability and pay-as-you-go economics of the public cloud but in the safety of an on-prem environment."

D. "Public cloud is the right choice, but with HPE's public cloud, you'll have greater performance and reliability. There's no oversubscription and no downtime."

For which customers does the HPE 100% Availability Guarantee apply?

A. For all customers with any HPE storage array

B. For all customers with HPE Nimble and HPE RMC

C. For all customers with any HPE storage array and HPE Datacenter support or higher

D. For all customers with HPE Primera and HPE Proactive Care or higher support

What is one benefit of the HPE acquisition of MapR for HPE customers?

A. HPE has added MapR's Al-based algorithms for deduplication and compression to make HPE storage solutions more efficient.

B. Customers can obtain the MapR software platform, designed to simplify the deployment of artificial intelligence (AI), on density-optimized HPE Apollo servers.

C. HPE can give customers the benefits of the MapR expertise in artificial intelligence and machine learning.

D. With the addition of MapR, a leading hardware provider for supercomputing, HPE can offer customers a more extensive HPC portfolio.