Assessment: Power Systems with POWER7 Common Sales Skills -v2 (A4040-122) Free Practice Test

Question 1

Where can customers find details of IBM plans and commitments for future investment, support and development for Power Systems?

A. Published investment levels in Power Systems, AIX and IBM i

B. Power Systems Redbooks and White Papers

C. Presentation on Power Systems growing share of the UNIX market

D. Roadmaps and Executive Briefing Center

Correct Answer: D

Question 2

An AIX customer who has a POWER6 570 with PowerVM Enterprise Edition plans to upgrade to a POWER7+ 770.
Applications moving from the POWER6 570 to the POWER7+ 770 must remain available.
Which option will support minimal outage to the application environment?

A. Install Smart Cloud Entry on the POWER7+ 770 and use the integrated migration tool to move the application into the cloud.

B. Install the POWER7+ 770 and use Live Partition Mobility to move the applications from the POWER6 570.

C. Install PowerHA System Mirror on both the POWER6 570 and the POWER7+ 770 and do a failover.

D. Perform a disk copy on the POWER6 570 and restore the image on the POWER7+ 770.

Correct Answer: B

Question 3

What energy capability of Power Systems can be used in data centers to restrict server energy consumption, especially in cases where the data center might be nearing the limit of the energy it can provide?

A. Dynamic Power Saver

B. Processor Core Nap

C. EnergyScale for I/O

D. Power Capping

Correct Answer: D

Question 4

When upgrading a POWER6 570 to a POWER7+ 780. Which of the following can be re-utilized?

A. PCIe Gen2 adapters and disks

B. Memory and PCIe Gen 2 adapters

C. Memory and Disks

D. Disks and PCIe Gen 1 adapters

Correct Answer: D

Question 5

A prospective customer is running a database application that cannot be upgraded. They plan to replace it with a DB2-based server environment that can scale in the future.
The prospect has asked why anyone would choose Power Systems servers when Intel-based servers cost less. Which of the following is an effective response?

A. Power Systems servers offer superiority in energy-management technologies and use dramatically less energy while generating much less heat.

B. Core for core, Intel-based servers have more expensive DB2 software licensing costs when compared to Power Systems.

C. DB2 on Power Systems delivers more than ten times the throughput per core than on Intel due to exploitation of SMT.

D. Power Systems servers offer a lower TCO due to greater processor power, virealization technologies and both horizontal and vertical growth.

Correct Answer: D

Question 6

An IT manager is concerned that all components required for a working system are included in the price quotation. Which resource insures that all the features required for a working system are priced?

A. Systems Planning Tool

B. Technical Delivery Assessment

C. Workload Estimator

D. eConfigurator

Correct Answer: D

Question 7

A customer needs a Power Systems server to be initially configured with 8 active cores and 256GB of memory, and upgrade at a later date to 16 cores and 512GB of memory. Which model supports these requirements at the lowest cost?

A. Power 740

B. Power 720

C. Power 730

D. Power 710

Correct Answer: C

Question 8

A system needs 3TB of disk storage, based on plans for expansion The storage manager of the IT department would like to use thin provisioning to make best use of storage space What disk technology would provide this type of capability?

A. EXP30 with SAS drives using EasyTier

B. Dual VIO Server with storage pooling

C. Logical Volume Mirroring with RAID-1 on internal SSD

D. Storwize V7000 with RAID-5

Correct Answer: D

Question 9

Which software product ships with the Business Intelligence Solution Edition pre-installed and tested on Power 710 through Power 740 servers?

A. InfoSphere

B. Business Objects

C. Cognos

D. SPSS

Correct Answer: C

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