M2090-744 Online Practice Questions and Answers

Which are the two key differences between the SoftLayer and Amazon public clouds?

A. SoftLayer provides only bare metal servers, while Amazon provides both virtual and bare metal

B. SoftLayer provides bare metal and virtual servers, while Amazon provides only virtual

C. SoftLayer does not charge for network transfer between SoftLayer datacenters, while Amazon charges for bandwidth between AWS datacenters

D. SoftLayer charges for network transfer between SoftLayer datacenters, while Amazon does not charge for bandwidth between AWS datacenters

Which are the best two entry points for BLU Acceleration?

A. Cognos BIcustomers

B. SAP BW customers

C. DB2 for z/OS customers

D. Oracle ERP customers

What type of "as-a-Service" delivery is SoftLayer?

A. Infrastructure-as-a-Service

B. Platform-as-a-Service

C. Software-as-a-Service

Which best describes the approach that should be used when working on a Cognos and BLU opportunity where Oracle or SQL Server exists today?

A. Try and introduce BLU into the environment as a Cognos Workload Accelerator, leveraging BLU for Cloud or the 90-day free trial

B. Use the Oracle application compatibility layer for Oracle and do not focus on SQLServer since we don't have the equivalent

C. Work to displace the Oracle or SQLServer environment as this has the largest revenue opportunity

D. We are not targeting these environments. We are only targeting existing Cognos and DB2 environments

Which two examples show that Amazon RedShift lacks DB2 BLU's usability features?

A. Compression algorithms must be picked manually

B. Workload management divides resources manually and does not dynamically adjust memory allocation to meet workload requirements

C. Query execution plans must be specified manually

D. Data skipping must be specified manually

Which of the following summarizes the BLU Acceleration value prop?

A. Fast, Inexpensive, Compatible

B. Fast, Simple. Agile

C. Simple. Reliable, Inexpensive

D. Agile, Inexpensive, Complete

Which aspect of BLU Acceleration best differentiates it from other competitors with some form columnar database support?

A. Extreme performance

B. Available as a cloud offering

C. Load and go simplicity

D. Parallel Vector Processing

When talking to a client, what is the Leading benefit of Hadoop/Big Insights?

A. To analyze unstructured and structured data

B. To store only structured data

C. Use it as landing zone for structured, unstructured, and semi structured data

D. To analyze external data

What type of "as-a-Service" delivery is BlueMix?

A. Infrastructure-as-a-Service

B. Platform-as-a-Service

C. Software-as-a-Service

There is a customer currently running Cognos on top of SQL Server. Despite going to Cognos 10.2,the customer continues to experience performance challenges. Which is the best initial course of action?

A. Look for another entry point. DB2 does not have SQL Server compatibility

B. Propose BLU Acceleration as a Cognos accelerator to speed up existing reports using a BLU for Cloud

C. Propose an enterprise wide SQL Server takeout with an aggressive IULA

D. Propose PDOA since SQL Server can't run on Power