Power Systems with POWER7 and AIX Technical Sales

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1 Power Systems with POWER7 and AIX Technical Sales Number: Passing Score: 800 Time Limit: 120 min File Version: IBM EXAM QUESTIONS & ANSWERS Exam Name: Power Systems with POWER7 and AIX Technical Sales Skills - v1

2 Visualexams QUESTION 1 How many total processor threads are possible when a customer migrates a workload requiring AIX 5.3 from an 8-core Power 550 to an 8-core Power 750? A. 8 B. 16 C. 32 D. 64 /Reference: QUESTION 2 A company is deploying several applications on IBM POWER6 and POWER7 Blade technology, and they want to move into a Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) infrastructure. In addition to the required switches in the BladeCenter, which of the following is necessary to address the customer requirement? A. Install a 10Gbps 2-port Converged Network Adapter. B. Install an 8Gbps 4-Port Converged Network Adapter card. C. Install an Ethernet and 4Gbps Fibre Channel Expansion Card D. Install Ethernet and fibre channel cards, connected into a converged switch /Reference: QUESTION 3 A customer has a large database server running online transactions where I/O performance has been the limiting factor for running business-critical processes. Which statement correctly describes the use of Solid State Disks (SSDs) in this environment? A. RAID-5 protection should be used on SSDs for best performance. B. SSDs should be placed where sequential write access is the primary type of I/O. C. Traditional hard disks can be concurrently replaced by SSDs, eliminating downtime. D. SSDs offer better response time than traditional hard disks, reducing total transaction processing time. /Reference:

3 QUESTION 4 A customer would like to consolidate multiple database workloads to a single server to reduce TCO. What is the effect of PowerVM on TCO? A. Reduces SAN cost B. Reduces network cost C. Reduces administration costs D. Reduces software licensing cost /Reference: QUESTION 5 A customer would like to buy a new Power 750 and attach 2 PCIe I/O drawers. What is the minimum configuration which will support this? A. One processor card and one GX+ expansion card B. Two processor cards and one GX++ expansion card C. One processor card, one GX+ expansion card, and one GX++ expansion card D. Two processor cards, one GX+ expansion card, and one GX++ expansion card /Reference: QUESTION 6 A customer has three 8-core servers at their office in a PowerHA cluster. Two of the servers actively support the database, and the third server is in a backup/standby mode. What is the minimum number of PowerHA licenses required to support the environment? A. 16 B. 17 C. 18 D. 24 /Reference:

4 QUESTION 7 A potential customer plans to deploy a new application on a RISC-based server. They are considering UNIX offerings from IBM and Sun. Which of the following statements are advantages of AIX over Solaris? A. AIX supports journaled filesystems. B. AIX supports a graphical management tool. C. AIX has a suite of workload management and performance tools. D. AIX supports application mobility without requiring a shut down. /Reference: QUESTION 8 What is the most up-to-date resource a Power Systems seller can use to verify if an adapter is supported on a POWER7 server? A. Sales Manual B. System Builder Redbook C. Installation Planning Reference D. Customer Specified Placement Tool /Reference: QUESTION 9 A customer has DB2 running on three POWER5 520s with AIX 5.2 and is planning to consolidate the systems on a new Power 740 with AIX 7.1. The customer is reviewing the RPE2 benchmark data to validate that the proposed solution will work. Why should rperf be used instead of RPE2? A. The rperf benchmark is run on every server model to obtain performance data, while RPE2 frequently uses extrapolations. B. rperf includes the performance impact to AIX due to the introduction of new features, while RPE2 does not focus on software versions C. The rperf metric considers the number of cores, memory utilization by the applications, I/O transactions, and RPE2 only measures core performance. D. rperf is obtained by duplicating the production environment, representing the most accurate performance of the installed systems, and RPE2 uses analytical models. /Reference:

5 QUESTION 10 What is one of the key benefits of Active Memory Sharing (AMS) to client LPARs? A. Adds more memory using the On/Off Capacity on Demand feature B. Assigns memory using DLPAR capability according to workload priority C. Adds additional memory using the Permanent Capacity on Demand feature D. Adjusts memory dynamically allocation depending on workload characteristics /Reference: QUESTION 11 System software for the Power 770 is licensed at what tier? A. HPC B. Small C. Large D. Medium /Reference: QUESTION 12 Which POWER7 internal storage option improves performance, reduces response time, and increases mission critical OLTP application productivity? A. 15K RPM SAS drives B. Solid State drives C. 15K RPM SATA drives D. USB Removable drives /Reference: QUESTION 13 Which of the following PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX Enterprise Edition statements is correct? A. It can scale up to 1024 cluster nodes. B. It provides for application failover without downtime. C. It allows data replication via TCP/IP and host-based remote mirroring. D. It requires all partitions in a system to run the same AIX version and technology level.

6 /Reference: QUESTION 14 Which of the following is enabled by using NPIV technology for fibre channel adapters? A. Sharing SAN disks as vscsi disks B. Multipathing and load balancing SAN traffic C. Combining SAN and LAN traffic on one adapter D. Virtualization and sharing of SAN adapters with client LPARs /Reference: QUESTION 15 An IT manager, new to Power Systems, wants guidance on AIX support strategy for planning purposes. Which of the following statements about the AIX Roadmap address the customer request? A. One TL update is released every twelve months. B. Two TL updates are released every twelve months. C. Four TL updates are released every twelve months. D. Three TL updates are released every twelve months. /Reference: QUESTION 16 A customer wants to know how to find the latest updates for their particular system. Which of the following should be recommended? A. Use the System Planning Tool (SPT). B. Use the Fix Level Recommendation Tool (FLRT) website. C. Find the latest version of AIX from Strength to Strength on the IBM Website. D. Receive the latest updates via with a Software Maintenance Agreement(SWMA). /Reference:

7 QUESTION 17 Which AIX edition is intended for price sensitive situations involving smaller workloads? A. AIX Basic Edition B. AIX Entry Edition C. AIX Express Edition D. AIX Standard Edition /Reference: QUESTION 18 A customer is deploying highly critical Web applications with dynamic workload characteristics on multiple Power Systems servers. Which features of PowerVM can help the customer to deploy the applications? A. Uncapped LPARs and WPARs B. Workload Manager and WPARs C. Uncapped LPARs and Live Partition Mobility D. Shared processor pool and Active Memory Expansion /Reference: QUESTION 19 A customer has 4 systems: Which of these systems is a candidate for Active Memory Expansion (AME)? A. SystemA B. SystemB C. SystemC D. SystemD /Reference: QUESTION 20 A customer is concerned about the stability and availability of an application with a large number of kernel extensions. Which of the following can improve the application availability? A. Security Expert B. Application Keys

8 C. Checkpoint Restart D. Storage Protection Keys /Reference: QUESTION 21 A customer is interested in PS700 Blade with 32GB of memory. The Blade will have 4 partitions sharing resources equally. They are looking for the least expensive operating system that supports Live Partition Mobility. Which of the following AIX Editions address their requirement? A. Basic B. Express C. Standard D. Enterprise /Reference: QUESTION 22 A customer is planning to deploy several Web servers in a dedicated partition running AIX 6.1. What would be a benefit of using Workload Partitions (WPARs) in this environment? A. WPARs offer better software isolation than traditional shared processor partitions. B. WPARs can share system files from the global environment, simplifying the installation of operating system fixes. C. Software licensing can be reduced if the WPARs are limited to use a single core each, since only one WPAR needs to have software licenses. D. Each Web server can have its own version of the operating system kernel, but still benefit from sharing the system files from the global environment. /Reference: QUESTION 23 A customer has a Power Systems server with EMC disk attached at a Disaster Recovery site 30 miles away. The remote site has no operations staff. The customer would like to implement an automated failover solution for their production application environment. Which solution will satisfy the customer requirement?

9 A. DataGuard Enterprise Edition B. IBM Systems Director VMControl C. PowerHA SystemMirror Enterprise Edition D. PowerPath with Peer to Peer Remote Copy (PPRC) /Reference: QUESTION 24 A petroleum company is replacing their reservoir modeling High Performance Computing solution with a newer, faster solution. The software runs on AIX 6.1. The current environment is based on the same software running on a cluster of Power 550 systems. They are planning to move to the Power 755 systems, adding 50% in performance when compared to the existing solution. Which performance metric should be used to estimate the number of machines and cores required? A. SPECint2006 B. SPECfp_rate2006 C. SPECjAppServer2004 D. SAP SD 2-Tier benchmark /Reference: QUESTION 25 A customer is implementing multiple partitions on a Power 780 system. They will use mksysb to back up AIX and want to minimize the number of tape cartridges used for the backup. Which solution addresses the customer concerns? A. Configure NPIV on the Virtual I/O Server and use it to back AIX up to a SAN-attached tape library. B. Add one tape device in each CEC on the 780 and dynamically assign them to the AIX partitions for backup. C. Create a NIM Master for network backups. Use NIM to back up the other partitions to internal disk, and copy the images to a tape. D. Use VIO Server to configure a virtual tape device across partitions. Allocate the virtual tape device to one partition at a time and perform the AIX backup to the tape. /Reference: QUESTION 26

10 A customer is running multiple business critical applications in a single LPAR with multiple WPARs. One of the applications requires an AIX fix to be installed to improve the stability of the application. What will ensure the AIX fix does not affect other applications running in the LPAR? A. Install the fix in the WPAR without committing. B. Use the efix tool to install the fix to the WPAR only. C. Stop all the applications, install the fix and then start WPARs one by one. D. Move the application which needs the fix to another LPAR and apply the fix there. /Reference: QUESTION 27 A Power 750 customer will be deploying several Web servers. What benefit would be provided by Workload Partitions (WPARs) in this environment? A. WPARs allow sharing of the Web server executables. B. WPARs are easily created from the HMC profile menu. C. WPARs allow the Web servers to have direct access to the system hardware. D. WPARs allow each of the Web servers' root user to control the global environment. /Reference: QUESTION 28 Which Edition of Systems Director should be recommended to an IT Director who wants performance analysis and capacity trend analysis reporting? A. Systems Director Express Edition B. Systems Director Standard Edition C. Systems Director Enterprise Edition D. Systems Director Standard Edition with the Capacity Analysis Plug-In /Reference: QUESTION 29 A customer plans to consolidate two existing POWER6 processor-based servers to a Power 770. In what way will Live Partition Mobility benefit them? A. It enables hot-swap of adapters from the old systems to the new system. B. The old and new systems can be run in parallel to test new system functionality.

11 C. LPARs can be moved from the old systems to the new one while they are still running D. The system serial number will remain the same after the upgrade for accounting purposes. /Reference: QUESTION 30 A customer has systems with AIX 6.1 and 5.3 distributed across two data centers located 8km apart. They want to implement high availability with automated application restart and synchronous data replication between the IBM Systems Storage DS8700 systems which are installed in each datacenter. Which solution addresses the customer requirements? A. Use the Geographic Logical Volume Manager (GLVM) for MetroMirror, and Live Partition Mobility to automate partition migration upon failure B. Use MetroMirror for the AIX volumes and High Availability Disaster Recovery (HADR) to automate partition migration and restart upon failure. C. Use the Geographic Logical Volume Manager (GLVM) for MetroMirror to replicate the data between the two sites and automate application recovery. D. Use MetroMirror for the AIX volumes, and PowerHA SystemMirror Enterprise Edition to automate failover of MetroMirror pairs and automate application recovery. /Reference: QUESTION 31 A customer would like to buy a new Power 750 and attach 2 PCIe I/O drawers. What is the minimum configuration which will support this? A. One processor card and one GX+ expansion card B. Two processor cards and one GX++ expansion card C. One processor card, one GX+ expansion card, and one GX++ expansion card D. Two processor cards, one GX+ expansion card, and one GX++ expansion card /Reference: QUESTION 32 Which of the following describes the advantage of using Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) in POWER6 and POWER7 Blades? A. The FCoE card provides both LAN and fibre channel function from a single card on the blade. B. The FCoE advanced technology removes the need for any BladeCenter switching to support this function. C. Component reliability on the fibre channel over Ethernet is higher than on regular Ethernet and

12 fibre channel adapters. D. The AIX device driver for FCoE has been completely rewritten for the current adapter, eliminating errors and performance issues. /Reference: QUESTION 33 A customer needs to share large files across three Power Systems servers to create and validate complex automotive designs. What IBM solution should be recommended? A. PowerHA SystemMirror B. Peer to Peer Remote Copy C. General Parallel File Systems D. Parallel Operating Environment /Reference: QUESTION 34 In a scaleout environment, what is a benefit of running DB2 purescale compared to other solutions? A. Provides a highly available cluster of Power Systems enabling near linear scalability and disaster recovery across different sites. B. Incorporates a hardware locking mechanism which resembles the Parallel Sysplex on the mainframe, delivering performance and scalability. C. Enables near linear scalability by partitioning and clustering the database across multiple nodes, and adding nodes dynamically when needed. D. Provides scalability by employing a highly available cluster of servers interconnected by an Infiniband network and a central locking mechanism. /Reference: QUESTION 35 A customer wants to run a Domino application, a Business Intelligence database, and a batch processing application on Linux. The workloads have different behaviors and do not have peaks at the same time. What is a benefit of running these applications on a Power Systems server instead of running on separate x86 servers? A. Each Linux application can run in a Workload Partition, reducing the management efforts. B. Total cost of Linux applications on Power Systems is more cost effective than on x86 because of platform licensing.

13 C. Memory cloning can be used on the Power Systems to have a single image of the Linux kernel shared by all partitions. D. Using micropartitions on Power Systems allow the workloads to share the processing resources, increasing the overall system utilization. /Reference: QUESTION 36 A small IT department is deploying Power 720 servers exploiting virtualization technologies. Each Power 720 will have two partitions, one with 6 cores and one with 2 cores, and both partitions having 32GB of memory each. Live Partition Mobility is being considered at some point in the future. What is the minimum AIX Edition required to support the customer? A. AIX Basic Edition B. AIX Express Edition C. AIX Standard Edition D. AIX Enterprise Edition /Reference: QUESTION 37 A customer is interested in PS700 Blade with 32GB of memory. The Blade will have 4 partitions sharing resources equally. They want the least expensive operating system that supports Live Partition Mobility. Which of the following AIX Editions address their requirement? A. Basic B. Express C. Standard D. Enterprise /Reference: QUESTION 38 An IT director is eager to adopt POWER7 servers because of their relative performance ratings and energy efficiency, but is concerned about migrating applications which require AIX 5.3. Which of the following will address his concern? A. POWER7 servers running AIX 5.3 operate in POWER5+ mode. B. POWER7 servers running AIX 5.3 operate in POWER6 and POWER6+ mode. C. POWER7 servers running AIX 5.3 operate in POWER5 and POWER6 modes. D. POWER7 servers running AIX 5.3 operate in POWER5 and POWER7 modes.

14 /Reference: QUESTION 39 An IT manager needs to deploy multiple applications simultaneously. Which virtualization technology will reduce the number of operating system maintenance tasks? A. Workload partitions B. Dynamic logical partitions C. Dedicated logical partitions D. Virtualized logical partitions /Reference: QUESTION 40 The system administrator at a university has many standalone machines and wants to consolidate them, minimizing the amount of time to upgrade all of the operating systems. Which of the following solutions supports the requirement? A. Micropartitions B. Logical Partitions C. Dynamic Partitions D. Workload Partitions /Reference: QUESTION 41 System software for the Power 780 server is licensed at which tier? A. Large B. Small C. Medium D. Enterprise /Reference:

15 QUESTION 42 An IT director needs to deploy 3 partitions, each using dedicated internal boot disk. Which system will support the customer requirement using the least amount of rack space? A. Power 770 servers B. Power 750 servers C. Power 755 servers D. Power 720 servers /Reference: QUESTION 43 A customer is evaluating using the PCIe SSD adapter for the system boot in their new Power 750. Redundancy and hotswap capability are required. What configuration supports the customer requirements? A. Configure the PCIe SSD adapter and drive modules as a JBOD B. Configure a pair of mirrored PCIe SSD adapters and drive modules C. Configure the PCIe SSD adapter and drive modules in a RAID6 array D. Configure the PCIe SSD adapter and drive modules in a RAID5 array /Reference: QUESTION 44 A company runs very large database applications on multiple HPUX servers. They recently upgraded the device drivers for their fibre channel HBAs and have suffered numerous crashes on several systems. Which feature of Power Systems running AIX would help eliminate this problem during prerelease Testing of a new device driver? A. Redundant VIO servers B. Storage Protection Keys C. Electronic Service Agent D. /Reference: QUESTION 45 A customer wants to run DB2 on a Power 780 with uncapped partitions. They have licensed DB2 for 32 of the 64 active cores, and will use it in multiple partitions. How can the customer ensure that the number of licenses purchased for DB2 is not exceeded?

16 A. Create a 32core shared processor pool for the DB2 partitions. B. Limit the number of virtual processors on each DB2 partition to 32. C. Use the IBM License Metric Tool to dynamically manage DB2 usage in the partitions. D. Set the 'Desired Processing Units' in each DB2 partition profile so that the sum of all partitions equals 32. /Reference: QUESTION 46 A customer has two Power 770 systems with 4 enclosures each. Thirty two cores and 1TB of memory are activated on each system. Each system has 3 database partitions and each partition has 10 cores and 300GB of memory. Which solution will provide automated recovery of unplanned outages at least cost? A. Purchase PowerVM Enterprise Edition. Use System Director to automate Live Partition Mobility to recover from partition failure. B. Create additional shared processor partitions as standby nodes. Use PowerHA SystemMirror to activate and use CoD resources when a failover occurs. C. Purchase an additional 32core Power 750 with PowerHA SystemMirror Standard Edition. Use the new system as standby node with the XD component of PowerHA. D. Purchase an additional Power 770 system. Locate production and standby database partitions on each system. Use DB2 purescale to provide automated partition monitoring and failover. /Reference: QUESTION 47 A customer has ten RS/6000 Model M80, two pseries 690 Model 681, five POWER5 510 and two POWER6 560 machines installed and running commercial applications. They want to do a server consolidation study in order to replace the existing systems with POWER7 systems. What performance metric is recommended when evaluating the replacement system? A. IBM CPW B. IBM rperf C. SPECint_rate2006 D. IDEAS International RPE2 /Reference: QUESTION 48 Which of the following is a correct statement about rperf?

17 A. It can only be used on systems running without partitions. B. It is relevant for IBM systems running the AIX operating system. C. It is the main benchmark for sizing systems that will run HPC applications. D. It has a direct relationship with other benchmarks like TPCC and SpecjAppServer2004. /Reference: QUESTION 49 The systems administrator of a large manufacturer has POWER5 and POWER6 servers, each with LPARs running AIX 6.1. They are running several workloads including SAP, DNS, Oracle, DB2 and WebSphere Application Server, and plan to consolidate onto one POWER7 server. How can the system administrator determine how much benefit Active Memory Expansion (AME) could provide for the consolidated system? A. Run amepat now on all of the existing LPARs. B. Run amepat after consolidation on all LPARs. C. Run amepat now on all existing LPARs running on the POWER6 servers. D. Run amepat now on all existing LPARs running database applications. /Reference: QUESTION 50 A Power Systems customer would like to upgrade their HMC to the latest version of software to support a new hardware feature. What resource will help identify dependencies for firmware and system software for their upgrade? A. ITSO Redbooks B. Facts and Features C. System Planning Tool D. Fix Level Recommendation Tool /Reference: QUESTION 51 A Power 770 customer needs to add additional I/O adapters. There is no room for the cards, so an I/O drawer must be added. What resource will help identify supported I/O drawers and the maximum number of drawers permitted per loop? A. I/O Planning Guide B. Power Systems data sheet

18 C. Power Systems Facts and Features D. Run FLRT to recommend I/O features /Reference: QUESTION 52 After purchasing the Active Memory Expansion (AME) Enablement Feature, what tasks must be completed before AME can be used? A. Enable using active partition properties with DLPAR. B. Enter the activation key via the AIX 6.1 command line and reboot AIX. C. Enter the activation key via the HMC, power cycle the managed system and start the LPAR. D. Enter the activation key via the HMC, modify the partition profile, and restart the LPAR. /Reference: QUESTION 53 What operating system is required to support Active Memory Expansion? A. AIX 6.1 B. AIX 5.3 C. Red Hat 10 D. SUSE LINUX 11 /Reference: QUESTION 54 A proposed server architecture includes SAN LUNs being presented to client LPARs using shared HBAs to reduce infrastructure cost. The customer requires minimal management efforts for the dual VIO Servers. Which technology is recommended for this proposal? A. NPIV B. vscsi

19 C. Arbitrated loop D. Converged adapter /Reference: QUESTION 55 A customer would like to consolidate multiple database workloads to a single server to reduce TCO. What is the effect of PowerVM on TCO? A. Reduces SAN cost B. Reduces network cost C. Reduces administration costs D. Reduces software licensing cost /Reference: QUESTION 56 A Power 720 has AIX 6.1 and Linux partitions. During normal workloads there is more than enough memory available to the LPARs. During monthend processing one partition becomes memory constrained. What can help overcome this situation? A. Active Memory Sharing (AMS) B. Active Memory Expansion (AME) C. Integrated Virtual Memory (IVM) D. Memory Capacity on Demand (CoD) /Reference: QUESTION 57 An AIX 5.3 customer has a Power 780 in a 2meter (T42) rack. This rack needs to be moved six inches (15cm) to allow underfloor access. What preparation for moving the rack will result in the least disruption to endusers? A. Initiate LPAR fallover to backup systems. B. Use Live Partition Mobility to move the LPARs to other systems. C. Use Live Application Mobility to move critical applications to alternate systems. D. Back up all LPARS to a NIM server and restore them to other LPARs on other systems.

20 /Reference: QUESTION 58 A customer has multiple application servers which create one process for each connected user. All users share the same AIX environment. What is a benefit of using WPARs in this environment? A. WPARs give more controls for resource management than the traditional AIX operating system tools. B. WPARs support Live Application Mobility which can be used to balance user processes across systems. C. WPARs each have a copy of the AIX kernel, offering better availability than a system without WPARs. D. WPARs provide the ability to apply fixes specific for each environment, enabling the customer to create specialized application servers. /Reference: QUESTION 59 Which of the following is a correct statement about Workload Partitions (WPARs)? A. WPARs use dedicated cores and shared memory. B. WPARs are restricted to using dedicated resources. C. WPARs share the resources of a single AIX instance. D. WPARs use shared cores, memory, and dedicated network adapters. /Reference: QUESTION 60 A financial company is auditing to ensure their systems are safe from external attack. They have just purchased new Power 750 servers. Which features of AIX 6.1 will help in the auditing process? A. IPSec and Kerberos Authentication B. Secure By Default and AIX Security Expert C. Trusted Execution and Role Based Access Control D. First Failure Data Capture and Storage Protection Keys /Reference:

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