Assessment: Power Systems with POWER7 Common Technical Sales Skills -v2

Question 1

Which of the following is required for two HMC5 to be in a redundant-HMC configuration, managing Power Systems servers?

A. Both HMCs are the same model

B. All managed systems are at the same firmware level

C. Both HMC5 have the same HMC code version and release

D. The HMC5 are in a private cluster

Correct Answer: D

Question 2

A customer is considering server consolidation and I/O virtualization in the DMZ environment. Servers on multiple VLAN5 will be consolidated onto a single physical server, and will need to communicate with multiple VLANs outside the sewer over a single shared Ethernet adapter in the VIO Sewer (VIOS).
Which of the following is a requirement?

A. Assign an IP address to the Shared Ethernet Adapter.

B. Implement Network Interface Backup with pvlans.

C. Enable Shared Ethernet Adapter failover.

D. Enable the IEEE 802.1Q standard on the virtual Ethernet adapter.

Correct Answer: D

Question 3

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 4

A customer is running AIX and IBM i partitions on a POWER7+740 attached to a Storwize V7000 and needs both High Availability and Disaster Recovery.
Which of the following pars of actions supports these requirements?

A. Add a second Power Systems server and Storwize V7000 in a remote location. Add PowerHA Enterprise Edition to both environments.

B. Add a second Power Systems server at a remote location. Add PowerHA Standard Edition to both environments.

C. Add a second Power Systems server and Storwize V7000 in a remote location. Add PowerHA pureScale Enterprise Edition to both environments.

D. Add PowerHA Express Edition to the existing server. Add a Storwize V7000 at a remote location.

Correct Answer: A

Question 5

A customer has a Power 740 system with dual VIO Servers and a split backplane. The customer wants to use the integrated DVD drive to load AIX and IBM i on various LPARs. Which technology supports DVD virtualization?

A. NFS

B. NPIV

C. vSCSI

D. DLPAR

Correct Answer: C

Question 6

Assuming that necessary requirements have been satisfied, which RAS feature can ensure that critical workloads can remain active in the event of a processor core failure?

A. Live Partition Mobility

B. Dynamic Logical Partitioning

C. Dynamic Platform Optimization

D. Partition Availability Priority

Correct Answer: D

Question 7

A customer is interested in virtualizing their environment. PowerVM and VMware are the products whose hypervisors are best suited for their existing infrastructure.
Which advantage of PowerVM over VMware will most benefit their environment?

A. Industry leading hypervisor

B. Hypervisor components embedded in hardware

C. Consolidation of multiple workloads

D. Lower total cost of ownership

Correct Answer: B

Question 8

A client needs assistance with managing virtual machines and energy monitoring. The client is considering implementing Systems Director.
At a minimum, which edition of Systems Director would be needed?

A. Express

B. Enterprise

C. Standard

D. Basic

Correct Answer: C

Question 9

Compared with POWER7 what is the main benefit of POWER7+ Active Memory Expansion?

A. Smaller page files

B. Dynamic Platform Optimizer (DPO)

C. Dedicated Processor Cache

D. Less processor overhead

Correct Answer: D

IBM Assessment: Power Systems with POWER7 Common Technical Sales Skills -v2 - A4040-224 Exam Practice Test

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