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IBM C1000-031 IBM Power Systems Scale-Up Technical Sales Exam Practice Test

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IBM Power Systems Scale-Up Technical Sales Questions and Answers

Question 1

Which IBM product is used to create, deploy, and manage virtual machines?

Options:

A.

PowerSC

B.

PowerVC

C.

PowerHA Enterprise Edition

D.

PowerVM Enterprise Edition

Question 2

A customer with a Power System E870 with five IBM i licenses wants to replace it with a new Power System E980 for a new workload. They will require eight IBM i licenses.

What is the most cost-effective way for the customer to accomplish this?

Options:

A.

Purchase 3 new IBM i licenses and transfer 5.

B.

Purchase 2 new IBM i licenses and transfer 6.

C.

Purchase 5 new IBM i licenses and transfer 3.

D.

Purchase 8 new IBM i licenses.

Question 3

Which Ethernet virtualization technique supports Live Partition Mobility on POWER9?

Options:

A.

vSwitch

B.

Standalone SR-IOV without VIOS

C.

Proxy ARP

D.

SEA

Question 4

A customer has used Trial Capacity on Demand on their Power System E980 for two months to test the effect of activating two additional cores and 32GB of additional memory for their SAP LPAR. Being satisfied with the test result, they bought a permanent activation of the two cores and 32GB memory.

They now want to do another short test that requires the activation of one additional core.

Which option provides the most cost-effective solution?

Options:

A.

Use Static Activation.

B.

Use Utility Capacity on Demand.

C.

Use Trial Capacity on Demand again.

D.

Use Mobile Activation.

Question 5

A customer wants to configure a Power System E950 with:

  • 36 physical processor cores
  • 24 active processor cores
  • A partition running AIX with 8 virtual processors and 4.0 processor entitlement.
  • A partition running AIX with 12 virtual processors and 7.2 processor entitlement.
  • A partition running Linux with 8 virtual processors and 6.4 processor entitlement.
  • 2 partitions running VIOS, each with 4 virtual processors and 2.0 processor entitlement.
  • All partitions are uncapped.
  • All processors are in the default pool. No additional Shared Processor Pools are used.

How many AIX licenses are required?

Options:

A.

24

B.

12

C.

20

D.

36

Question 6

What is the main advantage of using dedicated donating cores for a Virtual Machine (VM) running a workload on a Power System E980 with multiple VMs?

Options:

A.

To reduce the cost of software licenses.

B.

To extend the processor pool with unused processor cycles.

C.

To reduce the cost of activated cores.

D.

To enable Elastic Capacity on Demand.

Question 7

An AIX customer has a Power System E950 connected to a V9000 in one location. The customer is planning to purchase another Power System E950 and V9000 that will be installed 25 miles (40 km) from the primary location.

Which product would enable the applications to start at the secondary location, if any of the VMs failed at the primary location?

Options:

A.

PowerVM Standard Edition

B.

PowerVM Enterprise Edition

C.

PowerHA Standard Edition

D.

PowerHA Enterprise Edition

Question 8

Which of the following statements is true regarding LPAR Mobility?

Options:

A.

An active AIX logical partition cannot be migrated from one server to another server by using the System Management Interface Tool (SMIT)

B.

An inactive logical partition may be migrated from one server to another server by using the Partition Migration wizard on HMC.

C.

The HMC command-line interface is required to migrate a Linux logical partition from one server to another server.

D.

A suspended logical partition cannot be migrated from one server to another server.

Question 9

A customer with a Power System E880C is considering a model conversion to a Power System E980. They currently have Elastic CoD enabled.

Which of the following steps will need to be completed to continue to use Elastic CoD on the Power System E980?

Options:

A.

Prepay for Elastic CoD usage when placing the upgrade MES order for the Power System E980.

B.

Reorder the Elastic CoD enablement features when placing the upgrade MES order for the Power System E980.

C.

Reorder the Utility CoD enablement features when placing the upgrade MES order for the Power System E980.

D.

Convert static activations to mobile activations when placing the upgrade MES order for the Power System E980.

Question 10

An IBM Business Partner is installing two systems in two locations for a Disaster Recovery (DR) solution.

Which of the following is the most efficient way to set up production systems for DR of the LPARs operating system disks?

Options:

A.

Boot OS from internal disks using NPIV.

B.

Boot VIOS from SAN and LPAR OS boot from internal disks using NPIV.

C.

Boot LPAR OS from internal disks using vSCSI.

D.

Boot LPARs from SAN using NPIV.

Question 11

When using Mobile Activations in Power Enterprise Pools and LPM (Live Partition Mobility) migration, which of the following is true?

Options:

A.

The target system must have available inactive CoD capacity.

B.

Additional PowerVM licenses for the target system must be purchased.

C.

The customer must return the mobile activations to the source systems processor pool within 30 days.

D.

The customer must notify IBM prior to moving activations to the target system.

Question 12

What is the most cost-effective Capacity on Demand (CoD) offering that will allow a new customer to analyze the effects of activating two cores on a Power System E980 and 32GB of memory for one month?

Options:

A.

Enable Mobile Activations

B.

Trial

C.

Elastic

D.

Utility

Question 13

A customer is interested in running many Linux workloads and they are comparing a single Power System E950 versus multiple LC922 servers.

An advantage of the Power System E950 is the ability to support:

Options:

A.

dual VIOS.

B.

either PowerVM or KVM.

C.

OPAL firmware.

D.

Power Enterprise Pools.

Question 14

An IBM Business Partner is designing a production system for SAP HANA with multiple virtual machines.

Which feature of a Power System E980 server is an advantage over an x86 server for the customer?

Options:

A.

Memory bandwidth and Level 4 cache

B.

12-way simultaneous multithreading

C.

Takes advantage of DDR3 memory

D.

Number of cores per socket

Question 15

An AIX customer is purchasing two new POWER9 processor-based servers: each connected to its own DS8880 at different sites. The customer wants high availability with the least amount of downtime.

Which solution will satisfy the customer’s requirements?

Options:

A.

Combine PowerHA with DS8880 data replication capabilities for automated failover across the sites.

B.

Create dual VIOS on each POWER9 and double the total number of adapters in each machine.

C.

Use the DS8880 data replication capabilities to replicate the data across the sites.Configure PowerVM Live Partition Mobility for application availability.

D.

Use the DS8880 data replication capabilities to perform automated node failover across the sites.

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