IBM Power Systems with POWER7 and AIX & Linux Sales Skills -v2 Sample Questions:

1. A customer who ordered Red Hat Linuxfrom IBM needs to renew their subscription to the distribution. How should this be done?

A) If SWMA is in effect, the subscription is automatically extended.
B) If SWMA is not in effect, and After License Charge (ALC) will be required before the subscription can be renewed.
C) Subscriptions are automatically renewed unless the customer specifies otherwise.
D) Renewal subscriptions must be ordered directly from Red Hat.

2. An existing customer with a POWER5 server would like to compare the performance differences for a new Power Systems server. Which resource provides the information in the most concise format?

A) PM for Power Systems
B) Power Systems Performance Report
C) Commercial Processing Workload
D) Competitive Performance Analysis

3. A 16-core Power 730 running Red Hat Linux is being considered as a platform for a high performance, big data application and needs 7TB of disk space.
Which storage option will provide the highest overall performance and use the least amount of rack space?

A) SONAS using Active Cloud Engine
B) EXP30 using AIX Logical Volume Mirroring
C) V7000 using EasyTier
D) DCS3700 using Dynamic Disk Pooling

4. A customer has memory constraints and has the maximum amount of memory installed on the system. The customer asks if there are functions or products available to solve the problem without purchasing a second server.
Which function should be discussed?

A) Active Memory Duplication is a feature of PowerVM and will double the size of the memory pages.
B) Active Memory Sharing is a PowerVM feature that will allow increased memory utilization and provide additional logical memory.
C) Active Memory Expansion is a hardware feature that will double the memory DIMM slots for additional memory support.
D) Active Memory Mirroring is available as a hardware option and will mirror the memory to disk, doubling the amount available.

5. The IT director of a data center has servers from Dell, IBM and Sun:
-The Dell servers run Linux -The Sun Servers run Solaris -The IBM servers run AIX.
Consolidation to fewer platforms is being considered.
What competitive advantage does the purchase of a new POWER7 server have over a new Sun T5 server for this customer environment?

A) Linux and AIX run natively on Power Systems servers.
B) Capacity on Demand resources can be activated in increments of one tenth of a processor core.
C) A POWFR7 system supports twice the number simultaneous threads per clock cycle of Dell and Sun systems.
D) WPAR5 can be implemented on an AIX system to support both of the UNIX and Linux workloads.

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