A small retailer has a 4-core S814 with one processor license to run the production
workload. During the busy holiday season in November and December, the average daily
workload is doubled. Which solution will provide the required processing capacity for the
busy season?

A customer has 40 Power 520 servers and is concerned about the ongoing operational cost,
space, and high availability. Which solution should be discussed in order to satisfy the
requirements?

A customer asks why they should investigate Open Source solutions as opposed to single
vendor proprietary solutions. Which statement best summarizes the benefit of the solutions?

A POWERS customer with disk expansion drawers needs a non-disruptive solution to
improve the disk performance at the lowest cost. What should be proposed to satisfy the
customer’s requirement?

A customer has a BladeCenter S (BCS) with an 8-core POWER6 blade, 1.5TB of storage
and an external LTO tape drive installed. They want to upgrade to a P0WER8. Which of the
following is the lowest cost recommendation to satisfy their requirement?

A credit card company is going to implement a new application for which security is a major
requirement. The company has been quoted a solution running in Windows. Why should the
company consider a Power Systems solution?

A customer has 4U remaining in their rack. Adding a second rack is not an option. They will
run a number of small instances of WebSphere Application Servers. It has been determined
that the application will require a total of 38 cores and 1TB of memory. What is the lowest
cost Linux option that will satisfy the requirement?

Customers benefit from the OpenPOWER Foundation because:

A customer has an application that requires the following: • 21 cores • 24 by 7 operation •
High I/O bandwidth • Lowest TCO Which solution will satisfy the requirements?

What is a competitive advantage of a Power System compared to an Oracle Exadata
system?