A customer is comparing a Power Systems solution with an x86 solution for big data analytics. Which no-charge IBM analysis is available to justify the value of IBM Power Servers compared to x86 solutions? A. IT Economics Study (Eagle Study) B. Performance Navigator C. System Planning Tool D. Workload Estimator Explanation: The IBM Systems Workload […]

A customer is considering a purchase of a Power System E950. One PCIe Gen3 I/O expansion drawer is required to meet the I/O adapter requirements. How many racks units (EIA) are required? A. 8 B. 9 C. 6 D. 10 Reference: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpapers/pdfs/redp5509.pdf

A customer has several workloads using LPARs. The customer desires that the maximum number of active cores be made available for each workload, a shared SAN connection, and dedicated LAN throughput for each workload. Which of the following satisfies the workload requirements? A. Dedicated donating cores, NPIV, SR-IOV network B. Shared Processor Pool, vSCSI, VIOS […]

Which IBM Power Systems Software provides network firewall services with the local virtualized server to control network traffic between LPARs? A. PowerSC B. Trusted AIX C. PowerVC D. Trusted Surveyor Reference: http://www.common.be/system/files/files/Power_Systems_2013_PC.pdf (20)

Which of the following is an advantage of Power System Servers over Oracle Exadata solutions? A. Support for Flash Drives B. Ability to add cores and memory C. Can run Oracle 12C natively D. Offers a greater quantity of cores for enhanced scaling Reference: https://www.slideshare.net/miguelnoronha/why-oracle-on-ibm-power7-is-better-than-oracle-exadata-the-advantages-of-ibm-power7-systems (slide 10)

While migrating from a Power System E880 to a Power System E980, which of the following is automatically provided on both systems? A. PowerVM Standard Edition B. IBM Cloud PowerVC Manager C. PowerVM Enterprise Edition D. IBM Cloud Private

Which of the following statements is true regarding Power Enterprise Pools? A. The XML configuration file can be downloaded from the ESS (My Entitled Systems Support) web site. B. One Enterprise pool can contain the following machine types: Power Systems E870, E870C, E880C, and E980. C. Mobile activations can be moved within a pool at […]

A customer with an AIX in-house SMT2 application on POWER6 would like to upgrade to POWER9. The customer would like to know the relative performance of the servers. Which resource provides the SMT2 performance of the two systems? A. IBM Performance Management for Power Systems B. IBM Power Systems Performance Report C. IBM Power Systems […]

A customer has four AIX VMs, each running a different application that needs simultaneous read/write access to the same files. Which of the following products should be recommended? A. PowerHA Enterprise Edition B. Spectrum Scale C. Spectrum Protect D. PowerHA Standard Edition

A customer requires that each client partition have access to two different VLANs. VLAN tagging will NOT be used in the environment. • There will be four client partitions, each of which will be connected to VLAN1 and VLAN2. • There will be two VIOS. • Redundant Ethernet connections will be accomplished using the Shared […]