IBM Service Management Tivoli Storage Management V3

Vendor: IBM

Certification overview

IBM Service Management Tivoli Storage Management is the certification for the people who have experience and knowledge in handling Tivoli Storage Manager. Tivoli Storage Manager is data protection tool that gives companies a single point of contact to manage their needs regarding the storage of the data.

Who can do this certification

Person who have keen interest in managing Tivoli Storage Manager Can easily apply for certification. The person must be an expert who knows how to do backups and recovery package. The person must be an expertise who can efficiently handle the tool and manages all the backups without help of any other person.

Benefits

After clearing the certification for IBM Service Management Tivoli Storage Management professionals can easily control and admin all the storage related tasks in the company. One can surely get rewarded by getting hike in their salary as well as change in position within an organization and many other benefits.

Associated Exam

The associated exams to comprehensive the certification process are as follows. There are three mandatory exams which needs to be cleared and fourth exam further involves seven exams but you not need to complete all these seven only clearing one of them is mandatory.

1. IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V4.2 Implementation (000-562): This test is for the individuals who can easily perform all the required gathering and plan the storage productivity center. He is responsible of administrating all the tasks related to Tivoli Storage Productivity Center.
2. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager V6.2 Implementation (000-037): Person with this certification handles all the tasks including installing, configuring, verifying, up gradation and documentation of Tivoli Storage Manager.
3. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack V6.1.1 Implementation (000-534):With this certification one able to know about the TSM, backup products, networking skills, knowledge of different types of protocols being used. Plus the idea about various storage management things including SAN, iSCSI, NAS, SATA.

Above test which are mandatory. The associated test also includes the following test but one have to clear any one of the following to complete the certification.

• SNIA FC-SAN Certification Exam - Level 1: SNIA Storage Network Foundations (S10-101)
• SNIA Storage Networking Management & Administration exam (S10-201)
• SNIA FC-SAN Certification Exam - Level 1: SN Architect (S10-300)
• IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment V6.1, Core Administration (000-253)
• DB2 9.7 DBA for Linux UNIX and Windows (000-541)
• DB2 9 DBA for Linux UNIX and Windows (000-731)

Prerequisites

All the pre requirement tests which are like of must to complete the certification are mentioned in the associated exams section above. Pre requirement is only to clear associated exams with a good percentage of marks so that person can easily get their certification completed.

Examination Overview

Certification includes many different test which are mentioned above so it also includes multiple topics under it. For clearing the storage management certification one must have a detailed knowledge of all the associated test so that you can complete your certification with good marks. Topics include knowledge of networking concepts, databases and different types of operating system. It also includes the concepts of storage hardware technologies like NAS, DAS, SAN and understanding of distributed server technologies and also how to fix operating system related issues.

Validity of the Certification

Each and every certification of IBM is valid till the IBM Certification team makes some modifications in the process of that particular certification. Validation of the certification remains till the new changes are being done in the process of the certification like some changes in associated test is one of them.

Steps involved in the certification

One must have to follow a step by step guidelines in order to complete the certification with good marks. First of all you will register for the certification in which area you want to do that. After selecting the certification, you need to prepare for that test. One need to apply one by one for the associated test and after a rigorous preparation in that test you can opt in to give that test. Then you need to apply for the certification in your nearest test center. Once you are done with applying you can go and give the test which is an objective type test and you need to score at least passing marks so that you can get your certification by email from the IBM.

Expert Review

Companies usually prefer to hire professionals who have deep knowledge regarding Tivoli Storage Manager and has a certification in that area.If Experts are to believed then themultinational companies always prefer to hire employees who have completed certification in any field. As certification gives them a solid proof that the person is an expert in that particular area.

Hideki Miyazaki, KB Home

Nishio, Japan