IBM Power Systems with POWER8 Sales Skills V1 Sample Questions:

1. A customer has an E870 and is installing IBM software products in a Red Hat partition.
What PVU will the customer be charged per core?

A) 120PVUs
B) 70PVUs
C) 80PVUs
D) 100PVUS

2. Which management function is provided by IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack?

A) Ongoing optimization and VM resilience
B) End-user self-service provisioning and automation
C) Electronic Service Agent for proactive hardware reporting
D) Resource pooling and dynamic VM placement

3. As a virtualization host, what is an advantage of VIOS compared to IBM i?

A) Dual (redundant) management partitions
B) V3700 external disk virtualization
C) Virtual SCSI
D) Virtual Ethernet

4. A customer is migrating from a POWER6 570 to a POWER8 S824. Which technology will have to be replaced?

A) Fibre Channel
B) SAS
C) FCoE
D) SCSI

5. A customer has many x86 systems running Linux and has run out of server rack space.
Which statement indicates how a Power Systems provides a solution to resolve the space issue?

A) Power rack systems are four sockets and therefore can reduce the space requirements by two times.
B) Power rack systems are 2U and 4U and have a much smaller footprint than x86 systems.
C) Lower energy consumption means less HVAC and therefore increases available datacenter space.
D) Higher performance means fewer servers for same workload.

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