Power Systems with POWER7 and AIX & Linux Technical Sales Skills - v2 (C4040-225) Free Practice Test

Question 1

A customer wants to consolidate workloads which require AIX 5.3 onto a POWER7+ 770. The customer is comparing rPerfs to determine the size of the system. Which of the following needs to be considered when determining the system size using rPerfs?

A. I/O

B. Disk

C. SMT

D. Memory

Correct Answer: C

Question 2

A customer is considering upgrading the SEA in the VIO Server (VIOS) from a 1Gb adapter to a 10Gb adapter. Which of the following is unaffected by the upgrade?

A. Client virtual adapter definitions

B. VIOS processor allocation

C. Switch ports

D. Network cables

Correct Answer: A

Question 3

A customer wants to implement a DB2 pureScale HPC cluster on Power Systems with AIX, and is examining the options for the communication adapters in the servers. In addition to InfiniBand, which of the following adapter types is supported?

A. Quad Data Rate (QDR)

B. Fibre Channel Over Ethernet (FCoE]

C. Double Data Rate (DDR)

D. Remote Direct Memory Access Over Converged Ethernet (RoCE]

Correct Answer: D

Question 4

An AIX 6 customer wants to know how long IBM will provide new fixes for a given AIX Technology Level (TL). The current IBM strategy is to provide what length of support to customers with SWMA?

A. Approximately 1 year if the customer is running TL6 or later

B. Approximately 5 years if the customer is running TL6 or later

C. Approximately 3 years if the customer is running TL6 or later

D. Approximately 2 years if the customer is running any TL

Correct Answer: C

Question 5

Which of the following describes how Active Memory Sharing works?

A. Compresses memory so the LPAR thinks it has more than actual physical memory assigned to it

B. Moves a running workload between different LPARs by copying contents of memory

C. Automatically disables bad memory DIMMs

D. Virtualizes memory in a shared memory pool; hypervisor automatically moves physical memory between LPARs

Correct Answer: D

Question 6

A customer needs to keep AIX 5.2 running in their environment, but they want to run on POWER7 hardware. What is the best method to accomplish this task?

A. Versioned WPAR

B. LPAR

C. Live Application Mobility

D. AIXWPAR

Correct Answer: A

Question 7

A client is considering implementing PowersC into their current AIX 7.1 environment, Providing a secure virtualization layer through a Trusted Firewall is the main priority. Which Edition of PowerSO supports the requirement?

A. Basic

B. Standard

C. Enterprise

D. Express

Correct Answer: B

Question 8

What are the primary factors to be considered when evaluating the bandwidth requirements of an application?

A. Number of messages per second Average message size

B. Number of transaction per second Desired response time

C. Number of I/O operations per second Number of concurrent transactions

D. Availability of 10Gb Ethernet switches Desired response time

Correct Answer: A

Question 9

A customer is performing a daily backup of a large amount of data to a shared SAN tape library.
Reducing the overall backup time is a major concern.
Which is the first action that should be recommended towards reducing the overall backup time?

A. Analysis of throughput bottlenecks

B. Addition of tape drives on the tape library

C. Addition of Fibre Channel adapters

D. Review of processor and memory capacity

Correct Answer: A

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