IBM C4090-450 Actual Free Exam Questions & Community Discussion

Exam Code/Number: C4090-450
Exam Name/Title: Midrange Storage Sales V1
Certification Provider: IBM
Corresponding Certification: IBM Certified Specialist

Exam Questions: 234
Updated On: May 28, 2026

Question #25

A customer is interested in a Storage solution that can offer compression. What advantage would the Storwize V7000 offer?

A. Hash Based Deduplication

B. Post Process Compression

C. Host Based Compression

D. Real Time Compression

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Correct Answer: D Vote an answer

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Question #26

The sales specialist submits a proposal to the customer who asks if the solution supports multilevel Vraid architecture (Vraid0, Vraid1, Vraid5).
What major competitor has Vraid architecture?

A. HP

B. EMC

C. Network Appliance

D. SUN

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Correct Answer: A Vote an answer

Question #27

A customer has had multiple drive failures in their non-IBM SAN leading to data loss.
What N series data protection capability should put the customer at ease?

A. SAS 2.0 disk drives

B. Cache mirroring

C. FlashCopy

D. RAID-DP

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Correct Answer: D Vote an answer

Question #28

Which of the following functions does Hitachi Data Systems claim about the HDS USP V (Universal Storage Platform)?

A. Internal bandwidth equates to increased storage performance

B. Performance increases as more devices are added to FC-AL loop

C. Scalable cache up to 32 GB with non-definable usage

D. Priority I/O queuing feature is supported on both mainframes and open systems

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Correct Answer: A Vote an answer

Question #29

A customer is looking at the TS3500 Tape Library with LTO-5 drives but is very concerned about obsolescence as this purchase will need to last for at least seven years. The sales specialist discussed the LTO roadmap with them.
How many more generations of LTO are included in the LTO consortium's published roadmap?

A. 5

B. 10

C. 4

D. 3

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Correct Answer: D Vote an answer

Question #30

A customer believes their storage capacity will grow very quickly to many hundreds of terabytes, and that they will require high performance. However, they want to start with only 5 TB of storage. The customer wants to only learn one administrative interface for all their storage, and they want a low entry price to get their business started.
What solution best meets the customer requirements?

A. Storwize V7000

B. SAN Volume Controller with DS3500 behind the SVC

C. XIV system with on demand storage

D. Storwize V7000 Unified

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Correct Answer: A Vote an answer

Question #31

The management functions included with the IBM DS5000 Storage Manager are very similar to an offering from which other vendor?

A. HP

B. Oracle

C. Dell EqualLogic

D. Nexsan

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Correct Answer: B Vote an answer

Question #32

A customer is a rapidly growing company requiring midrange block storage, but wants to minimize storage management complexity and cost. A single Storwize V7000 is proposed, but the customer is concerned that they will quickly grow from 200 TB to 400 TB of capacity and thus outgrow the solution.
Which of the following is the best response to this concern?

A. Easy Tier on Storwize V7000 is no charge and automatic, thus providing an easy way to manage the storage as well as improve the performance.

B. Storwize V7000 with no charge Active Cloud Engine allows the customer to mix and match small form factor drives and large form factor drives in a single management interface.

C. Utilizing 3 TB drives in a single Storwize V7000 controller and expansion drawers provides the capacity needed as well as the single management interface.

D. Clustering Storwize V7000 provides a way to grow capacity in a single management instance using small form factor or large form factor drives.

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Correct Answer: D Vote an answer

Question #33

Which of the following products must be included to meet a customer requirement for encrypting data written to IBM TS1130 tape?

A. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center

B. Tivoli Storage Manager

C. Active Cloud Engine

D. Tivoli Key Lifecycle Manager

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Correct Answer: D Vote an answer

Question #34

The Information Technology Director at a prospect is interested in purchasing the N3300, and has asked the sales specialist to help present the solution to the Finance Director.
Which of the following should the sales specialist include in the proposal?

A. A configuration showing the technical detail of the solution

B. CIFS and NFS support is included in the price

C. Lowers Total Cost of Ownership (TCO} and improves Return On Investment (ROI)

D. N3300 combines iSCSI, NAS and FiberChannel into a single storage solution

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Correct Answer: C Vote an answer

Question #35

A retail customer is experiencing bottlenecks in their IT environment. Which of the following responses address this issue?

A. Perform Disk Magic study

B. Present IBM's Smarter Planet storage strategy to CFO

C. Trial install of Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM)

D. Meet with the IT Director

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Correct Answer: D Vote an answer

Question #36

A potential customer benefit of IBM LTO-5 is:

A. Features Fibre Channel at 4 Gbps

B. Provides faster SCSI connection

C. Offers the capability to Read/Write Ultrium 3 cartridges

D. Ability to utilize LTFS

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Correct Answer: D Vote an answer

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