Power Systems with POWER7 Common Technical Sales Skills -v2

Question 1

A customer has ordered a 6-core POWER7 720. Two IBM i partitions are defined in a shared processor pool with 2 processors. One of the IBM i partitions will be defined as desiring 0.5 processor, a maximum of I processor and uncapped, and 2 virtual processors. This partition runs WebSphere.
How many WebSphere licenses are required?

A. 2

B. 1

C. 4

D. 6

Correct Answer: A

Question 2

A prospective customer is comparing Oracle VM for Sparc and PowerVM from IBM. Which of the following is an advantage of PowerVM?

A. Single contact point for support

B. More virtual processors per LPAR

C. Is available for x86

D. Lower initial cost

Correct Answer: B

Question 3

A customer is considering adding more workloads to their production 6-core Power 720. The server already has several IBM i LPARs with dedicated resources.
What information would help the technical representative determine the upgrade configuration needed?

A. A current system plan

B. A system configuration list generated from the HMC

C. An ASMI hardware report A print screen of the system properties

Correct Answer: A

Question 4

A customer plans to deploy a 24x7 application, and is evaluating prospective solutions based on which would offer the highest level of application availability.
Which of the following solutions should be presented to the customer for consideration?

A. Power 760 with Active Memory Mirroring

B. Power 770 with Active Memory Mirroring

C. Power 780 with Active Memory Sharing

D. Power 740 with Active Memory Management

Correct Answer: B

Question 5

Active Memory Mirroring is a POWER7 RAS feature that eliminates outages due to uncorrectable errors in which of the following?

A. Hypervisor memory

B. Partition memory

C. DDR3 memory

D. Cache memory

Correct Answer: A

Question 6

A customer has a 6-core Power 720 installed in a rack. The Power 720 has all internal disk bays populated.
The customer is considering adding Solid State Drives (SSDs) in a 12X I/O drawer.
Assuming the I/O drawer will fit in available rack space, what else must be considered?

A. Number of PCI slots in the system

B. Type of backplane

C. Adapter height profile

D. Number of cores

Correct Answer: A

Question 7

A customer is managing a Power 720 with dual VIO Servers with a 7310-CR4 HMC. A PS701 blade which requires Active Memory Expansion (AME) will be added to the environment. Existing resources must be reused as much as possible.
Which of the following supports the configuration?

A. An HMC 7042-CR7 minimum needs to be added.

B. A Flex System Manager (FSM) is required.

C. Firmware of the blade and IVM must be at the latest level.

D. The HMC must have a minimum code level of V7R7.6.0.

Correct Answer: D

Question 8

A customer wants to have 2 AIX development LPARs on a POWER7 720 server. Cost must be kept as low as possible, while being able to use VIO Server and NPIV storage for the AIX LPARs.
What is the minimum needed to support this configuration?

A. PowerVM Standard One 8Gb Fibre Channel adapter One SAS disk One Ethernet adapter

B. PowerVM Express Two 4Gb Fibre Channel adapters One SAS disk Two Ethernet adapters

C. PowerVM Express One 8Gb Fibre Channel adapter One SAS disk One Ethernet adapter

D. PowerVM Enterprise One 8Gb Fibre Channel adapter Two SAS disks One Ethernet adapter

Correct Answer: C

Question 9

A customer needs to run a Linux application which is available for both x86 and Power processors. What is an advantage of a PowerLinux JR1 solution versus an x86 solution?

A. More utilities are compiled for Power vs x86

B. Virtual machines can be moved between PowerLinux servers

C. More memory bandwidth

D. PowerVM on PowerLinux systems uses Single Level Storage

Correct Answer: C

IBM Power Systems with POWER7 Common Technical Sales Skills -v2 - 000-224 Exam Practice Test

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