Power Systems with POWER7 Common Technical Sales Skills -v2 (000-224) Free Practice Test

Question 1

As compared to Intel, what feature of POWER7 processor technology permits more efficient processor core utilization to support highly threaded applications?

A. Decimal floating point execution

B. Out of order execution

C. SMT4

D. Single precision floating point execution

Correct Answer: C

Question 2

A customer has a 6-core Power 720 installed in a rack. The Power 720 has all internal disk bays populated.
The customer is considering adding Solid State Drives (SSDs) in a 12X I/O drawer.
Assuming the I/O drawer will fit in available rack space, what else must be considered?

A. Adapter height profile

B. Type of backplane

C. Number of cores

D. Number of PCI slots in the system

Correct Answer: D

Question 3

A customer wants to install the operating system on a new partition from the optical media pool of the virtual I/O server. What needs to be configured to be able to use this media pool?

A. vSCSI on both the partition and the VIO Server

B. NES on the VIO Server

C. SCSI on both the partition and the VIO Server

D. NPIV on both the partition and the VIO Server

Correct Answer: A

Question 4

Which of the following scenarios would benefit from the implementation of Shared Storage Pools as a disk storage virtualization solution?

A. A client that wants to do storage virtualization but has no SAN infrastructure

B. A client that wants to minimize the role of the VIO server and have it act only as a pass through to the virtual disk adapters

C. A client that wants to prevent their AIX administrators from performing storage management tasks

D. A client with a dynamically changing environment that wants the flexibility to rapidly provide new storage LUNs to virtual clients

Correct Answer: D

Question 5

Which POWER7 design feature improves processor performance by reducing processor idle times?

A. In Order Execution

B. Out of Order Execution

C. Cache Data Capture

D. TurboCore Mode

Correct Answer: B

Question 6

A customer has ordered a 6-core POWER7 720. Two IBM i partitions are defined in a shared processor pool with 2 processors. One of the IBM i partitions will be defined as desiring 0.5 processor, a maximum of I processor and uncapped, and 2 virtual processors. This partition runs WebSphere.
How many WebSphere licenses are required?

A. 4

B. 6

C. 1

D. 2

Correct Answer: D

Question 7

A customer wants a 4-core POWER7 + 720 with dual VIO Servers, each controlling three SAS disks. In addition to 6 SAS drives, which of the following needs to be included in the configuration?

A. 1 2X I/O PCIe Drawer

B. One PCIe Dual-x4 SAS Adapter

C. EXP24S 6FF Gen2-bay Drawer

D. Split Backplane

Correct Answer: C

Question 8

What is a technical advantage of a POWER7+ system compared to a POWER7 system?

A. Thermal Power Management Device

B. Integrated Virtual Ethernet

C. Increased partition density

D. Active Memory Sharing

Correct Answer: C

Question 9

A customer is considering running Linux in a virtualized environment and is evaluating the differences between PowerVM and VMware.
Which of the following would be an advantage of PowerVM?

A. Ability to move virtual machines

B. Ability to dynamically add CPU's

C. Number of virtual processors

D. Ability to dynamically add memory

Correct Answer: C

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