Power Systems with POWER7 and IBM i Sales Skills -v2 (C4040-124) Free Practice Test

Question 1

A CEO has stated that historical reports are no longer enough, and that the company needs to perform predictive analysis of current DB2 UDB data to remain competitive in the marketplace.
Which IBM solution supports this requirement?

A. Statistical Analysis System (SAS)

B. SPSS

C. Web Query for i

D. Tivoli Intelligence ThinkDynamic Orchestrator

Correct Answer: B

Question 2

A production system with IBM i is replicating journaled data changes to a second system.
What feature will ensure complete transactions are recorded on the backup system, if the production system fails during.
a series of database changes?

A. Remote journaling replicates complete journal entries to fully define application transactions.

B. DB2 for IBM i includes a force write ratio parameter that immediately sends data changes to the target system.

C. IBM i supports journaling commitment control, to prevent incomplete transactions from being recorded.

D. DB2 for IBM i automatically backs up changes made to either database until they are written to both systems.

Correct Answer: C

Question 3

A Power 770 customer wants to purchase second Power 770 that would only be used in a disaster recovery (DR) situation. They have stated that the cost of purchasing the same number of IBM i licenses for an inactive DR system is too expensive.
Which solution supports the DR requirement and addresses the concern about IBM licensing costs?

A. A new Power 770 with On/Off Capacity on Demand

B. A new Power 770 Capacity Backup (CBU) system

C. The IBM SmartCloud Enterprise solution

D. The PowerHA v7 for IBM i Edition

Correct Answer: B

Question 4

A customer is concerned that there have been no new releases to IBM i since 7.1 was announced in 2010. They are afraid that IBM is no longer investing in IBM i as a strategic operating system.
Which statement answers the customer concern?

A. IBM consolidated its investments in POWER so that it could be exploited by multiple operating systems. All investments in POWER benefit IBM i.

B. IBM has purposely extended the period between major releases, but has delivered Technology Refreshes with new capabilities approximately every six months.

C. IBM i is used by over 150,000 companies around the world to run their business applications. The size of this customer set assures the continued future of IBM i.

D. The announcement of PureSystems servers and the support of common software technologies such as PowerVM and PowerHA demonstrate investment in IBM i.

Correct Answer: B

Question 5

How is relative workload performance for IBM i benchmarked on Power Systems servers?

A. CPW

B. SAPs

C. TPC-C

D. rPerf

Correct Answer: A

Question 6

The system administrator for a company has called and stated that 4 new disk drives had just been installed and added to the Auxiliary Storage Pool of their system.
The IT Director is out of the office and the administrator is unsure how to start using the new storage. What should be explained?

A. The IBM System Service Tools (SST) should be used to configure, manage, and activate new disk drives.

B. Navigator for i provides a set of GUI-based system management features that will allow simple activation of the new drives.

C. Disk configuration tasks such as activation and RAID protection can easily accomplished using the Hardware Management Console.

D. IBM i automatically distributes data (data spreading) across the new disk arms and requires no operator involvement.

Correct Answer: D

Question 7

Why do many customers have a minimal number of technical staff devoted to database management and administration for their IBM i environments?

A. DB2 for i supports a wide variety of index types that can span partitions, different storage subsystems and network connections without special programming.

B. DB2 for i offers an ANSI SQL-compliant relational database, supporting data portability standards that do not require IBM i database administrators.

C. DB2 for i automatically uses encoded vector indexes for every database operation providing faster scans that are easily processed in parallel cores.

D. DB2 for i provides many automatic functions like disk balancing and index optimization that are often manual operations for databases on other platforms.

Correct Answer: D

Question 8

An IBM i customer needs 3 additional test environments to run IBM i, AIX and Linux. They currently have only one IBM i environment.
Which of the following is the minimum needed to add the 3 new environments?

A. PowerVM Express Edition Linux and AIX licenses

B. PowerVM Enterprise Edition Linux and AIX licenses

C. PowerVM Standard Edition Linux and AIX licenses

D. PowerVM Standard Edition IBM i, Linux and AIX licenses

Correct Answer: C

Question 9

A new Power 720 needs to be configured with 3 LPAR5. Each LPAR must have its own physical disk, physical LAN, physical tape attachment and access to a shared DVD drive.
Which tool allows a partner to model the system to ensure these requirements are supported?

A. Systems Planning Tool

B. System ServiceTool

C. Virtual Partition Manager

D. IBM Presales Advisor

Correct Answer: A

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