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Exam Code: A4040-224
Exam Name: Assessment: Power Systems with POWER7 Common Technical Sales
Skills -v2
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QUESTION 1
A customer plans to deploy a 24x7 application, and is evaluating prospective solutions based on which would
offer the highest level of application availability.
Which of the following solutions should be presented to the customer for consideration?
A. Power 780 with Active Memory Sharing
B. Power 770 with Active Memory Mirroring
C. Power 760 with Active Memory Mirroring
D. Power 740 with Active Memory Management
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 2
A customer wants to implement 8 LPARs, 4 of IBM i and 4 of AIX. The customer wants the new systems to be
modular, configured to support their needs, and have room to expand if needed.
Which system is the minimum needed to support the customer requirements?
A. PureElex p220
B. PureElex p260
C. PureFlex p24L
D. PureFlex p460
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 3
A customer is interested in virtualizing their environment. PowerVM and VMware are the products whose
hypervisors are best suited for their existing infrastructure.
Which advantage of PowerVM over VMware will most benefit their environment?
A. Industry leading hypervisor
B. Lower total cost of ownership
C. Consolidation of multiple workloads
D. Hypervisor components embedded in hardware
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 4
Which is one of the advantages of the 6-core Power 720 when compared to the 4-core Power 720?
A. Offers a P05 tier
B. Offers one 12X loop
C. Offers Dual VIO Servers
D. Offers more SAS Disk Bays in CEO
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 5
A customer would like to consolidate their AIX and IBM i workloads that are currently running on several
POWER6 servers. They also want to consolidate storage and use Live Partition Mobility to reduce planned
downtime for server maintenance.
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In addition to a Storwize V70001 PowerVM Enterprise Edition and dual VIO Servers, which of the following
configurations supports these requirements?
A. One POWER7+ server
IBM i and AIX client LPARs
B. Two POWER7+ servers
IBM i and AIX client LPARs
C. One POWER7+ server
AIX client LPARs
IBM i LPAR5 with internal storage
D. Two POWER7+ servers
AIX client LPAR5
IBM i LPARs with internal storage
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 6
The micropartitioning technology changed with the announcement of POWER77+. Due to this change, what is
the new minimum number of processing units required for an LPAR?
A. 0.01
B. 0.05
C. 0.10
D. 0.15
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 7
What is a technical advantage of a POWER7+ system compared to a POWER7 system?
A. Active Memory Sharing
B. Integrated Virtual Ethernet
C. Increased partition density
D. Thermal Power Management Device
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 8
A customer has installed an EXP30 disk expansion unit. Of the positions available for disks, what is the
maximum that can be used for SSD?
A. 6
B. 12
C. 24
D. 30
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 9
A client is interested in running a Big Data Analytics solution, such as Apache Hadoop, on a POWER7+
system. Which operating system best supports a Big Data Analytics solution?
A. AIX
B. IBM i
C. Linux
D. VIOS
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 10
A customer who has a POWER6 server would like to buy a POWER7+ server and wants to use one 1 2X PCI-
X drawer.
Which POWER7+ models will meet customer requirement?
A. 6-corePower 710
6-core Power 720
8-core Power 740
B. 4-core Power 720
8-core Power 740
8-core Power 750
C. 6-core Power 720
8-core Power 740
16-core Power 770
D. 16-core Power720
16-core Power 760
16-core Power 770
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 11
A customer has a POWER7 795 and a POWER6 570 in their current environment. The customer requires the
following:
Upgrade the POWER6 570
Retain the serial number
Integrate the system into a pool of systems supporting Elastic Capacity on Demand
What is the minimum upgrade which supports these requirements?
A. POWER7 795
B. POWER7+ 770
C. POWER 770
D. POWER7+ 780
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 12
A client wants to create shared storage pools to extend storage virtualization in their environment. What is the
minimum version of PowerVM required?
A. Entry
B. Express
C. Standard
D. Enterprise
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 13
Compared with POWER7 what is the main benefit of POWER7+ Active Memory Expansion?
A. Smaller page files
B. Less processor overhead
C. Dedicated Processor Cache
D. Dynamic Platform Optimizer (DPO)
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 14
A customer is evaluating solutions for IT service management, cloud and virtualization management, asset and
facilities management. Which of the following IBM software brands should be recommended?
A. Tivoli
B. Rational
C. Info sphere
D. Websphere
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 15
The POWER7+ processor offers Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) which provides the processor the ability to
transmit instructions from more than one hardware thread context.
What is the competitive multithreading offering from Oracle/Sun?
A. Hyper-threading (HT)
B. Multi-chip module (MCM)
C. Chip Multithreading (CMT)
D. Multi-core processor (MOP)
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 16
Which of the following is required for two HMC5 to be in a redundant-HMC configuration, managing Power
Systems servers?
A. Both HMCs are the same model
B. The HMC5 are in a private cluster
C. All managed systems are at the same firmware level
D. Both HMC5 have the same HMC code version and release
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 17
A system is being planned with three processor pools: the base pool, plus two user defined pools with limits to
meet software licensing. All partitions will be uncapped.
Which of the following describes how processor cycles are assigned if one of the user pools does not use all
the available cycles in a time slice?
A. Capacity is made available to the service processor.
B. Capacity is made available to other user pools and the base processor pool.
C. Capacity is made available to other user pools, but not to the base processor pool.
D. Capacity is made available to the base processor pool, but not to other user pools.
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 18
A potential customer is interested in a single application Power System solution that utilizes a tightly integrated
operating system and database. Which operating system should be proposed?
A. AIX
B. IBM i
C. SuSe Linux
D. Red Hat Linux
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 19
A client wants to purchase a POWER77+ server with the following requirements:
Two PCIe 12X I/O drawers
Partition scalability to 320 LPAPs
Which system supports the client needs?
A. Power 710
B. Power 720
C. Power 740
D. Power Linux 740
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 20
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. NES on the VIO Server
B. NPIV on both the partition and the VIO Server
C. SCSI on both the partition and the VIO Server
D. vSCSI on both the partition and the VIO Server
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 21
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. Split Backplane
B. 1 2X I/O PCIe Drawer
C. One PCIe Dual-x4 SAS Adapter
D. EXP24S 6FF Gen2-bay Drawer
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 22
A customer wants to implement a BigInsights solution using the open source Hadoop Distributed File System
(HDFS) on a Power Systems server. Which operating system is appropriate?
A. AIX
B. zOS
C. IBM i
D. Linux
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 23
A customer has a 4-core POWERS 550 with 8 internal 300GB SCSI disks. The main workload is a highly-
threaded Java application, for which they want to reduce the response time.
How can the customer resolve the issue?
A. Add 2 additional POWERS cores
B. Add 4 additional internal 300 GB SCSI disks
C. Purchase a POWER7 server with internal SAS disks
D. Purchase a PCI adapter that supports 177 GB SSD modules
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 24
Which option, available in Power 710 and 720, makes them more desirable choices for smaller workloads at
better prices, when compared to Power 730 and 740?
A. Power 710 and 720 offer split backplane option but 730 and 740 do not.
B. Power 710 and 720 offer 4 core processor option but 730 and 740 do not.
C. Power 710 and 720 come in a 2U form factor but 730 and 740 are 4U only.
D. Power 710 and 720 come in single chassis option but 730 and 740 need second CEO.
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 25
A customer needs to virtualize their storage using both vSCSI and NPIV in their SAN environment.
What is the minimum number and type of HBAs that need to be configured for the VIO Server?
A. One8Gb HBA
B. Two 8Gb HBAs
C. TW0 4Gb HBAs
D. One 4Gb and one 8Gb HBA
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 26
Active Memory Mirroring is a POWER7 RAS feature that eliminates outages due to uncorrectable errors in
which of the following?
A. DDR3 memory
B. Cache memory
C. Partition memory
D. Hypervisor memory
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 27
A customer who plans to purchase a pair of Power 740 systems is researching which operating system would
best fit the needs of the organization. Much of the corporate workload will be based on many instances of
databases.
Which of the following operating systems includes a built-in database?
A. AIX
B. z/OS
C. IBM i
D. Linux
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 28
Which statement applies to Active Memory Sharing (AMS) as compared to Active Memory Expansion (AME)?
A. Supported with AIX 6.1 and PowerVM Standard
B. Supported with AIX 5.3 and PowerVM Standard
C. In-memory data is compressed for enabled partitions
D. Memory is dynamically allocated between enabled partitions
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 29
A customer is considering adding more workloads to their production 6-core Power 720. The server already has
several IBM i LPARs with dedicated resources.
What information would help the technical representative determine the upgrade configuration needed?
A. A current system plan
B. An ASMI hardware report
A print screen of the system properties
C. A system configuration list generated from the HMC
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 30
Which of the following PowerVM Editions is required to take advantage of Live Partition Mobility?
A. Basic
B. Express
C. Standard
D. Enterprise
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 31
Which IBM Software Group product is most appropriate for a customer that wants to build a Business
Intelligence solution for their Power Systems-based data warehouse?
A. Cognos
B. DB2 PureScale
C. WebSphere Content Manager
D. Intelligent InfoSphere Analyzer
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 32
A customer would like to efficiently manage the WebSphere Application Server software licensing costs of an
uncapped partition in a shared processor pool.
Which of the following should be set appropriately?
A. The number of processor value units
B. The capacity entitlement of the LPAR
C. The number of virtual processors assigned to the LPAR
D. The maximum number of physical processors allocated to the LPAR
Correct Answer: C
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