IBM Power E1050 Level 2 Quiz

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Question 1 IBM is bringing future capabilities to the Power10

Correct platform (Power E1050 server included) with the
introduction of PCIe Gen5 I/O support, which helps
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consolidate extreme IO workloads without
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compromising performance. What is the maximum
number of PCIe Gen5 slots available in the Power

8

Question 2 Which Power E1050 product configuration provides

Correct the best performance per core?

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8c

12c 

18c
Question 3 According to “The Key to Enterprise Hybrid Cloud
Correct Strategy”- an annual Forrester consulting study
commissioned by IBM, what percentage of
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organizations said that on-premises infrastructure
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is a critical part of their firm's hybrid cloud strategy?
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85% 

56%

64%

46%

Question 4 You're talking to a client about how IBM has

Incorrect optimized math libraries so that AI tools can take
advantage of the acceleration provided by the
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Matrix Math Accelerator (MMA) units of Power10.
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The client asks which usecases will benefit from
MMA? How do you reply?

Deep learning and machine learning

Statistical deep learning and inferencing 

Statistical machine learning and inferencing

Machine learning

Question 5 The cost of a mega data breach increased 10%

Correct between 2020 and 2021, the largest cost increase
in the last seven years. What was the cost of a
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mega-data breach reported in 2021?
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$104 million (USD)

$401 million (USD) 

$140 million (USD)

$410 million (USD)

Question 6 You're talking to a client about how IBM Power10
Correct simplifies encryption and supports end-to-end
security without impacting performance for a
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seamless user experience. The client asks how
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does IBM Power10 achieve this without impactingBack Next
performance. How do you reply?

Encryption is handled in the software

Encryption is handled in the hardware 

Encryption is handled in the hardware and

software

Encryption is handled in the firmware

Question 7 Your client is looking to do a technology refresh

Correct with a goal of reducing their datacenter footprint,
energy costs, and software license costs. They are
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interested in consolidation to the Power E1050 and
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ask how much reduction in core count they can
expect without loss of performance? What
percentages do you share with this client?

25% - 50% 

30% - 40%

10% - 20%

20% - 40%

Question 8 You’re talking to a client about the benefits of using

Correct an IBM Power E1050 server for consolidation. They
ask you what operating systems it supports. What
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do you tell them?
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IBM i

Linux

AIX and Linux 

AIX, Linux, and IBM i

Question 9 You're talking to a client about migrating to the
Correct new Power E1050. As cost is always a concern, the
client asks about the average price performance
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improvements they can expect to see if they
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migrate from their older E950 midrange servers toBack Next
the Power E1050? What percentage do you share?

40%

20%

30% 

50%

Question 10 The Power E1050 comes with support for a built-in

Correct hypervisor for enterprise-class virtualization. What
hypervisor(s) does the Power E1050 support?
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PowerVM and KVM

KVM

Xen

PowerVM 

Question 11 Reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) is an

Correct IBM Power systems central design point. Its goal is
to provide maximum uptime for critical client
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operations. This is accomplished by providing
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redundant components like cooling and power, as
well as other external methods of protection. Power
E1050 can sustain failures of up to how many
power supply/supplies?

Up to 4 power supplies

Up to 1 power supply

Up to 2 power supplies 

Up to 3 power supplies
Question 12 The Power 10 processor-based servers are
Correct designed with security in mind, for now, and the
future. This includes encryption techniques that
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permit computations on encrypted data without
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decrypting the data first. What is this capability Back Next
referred to as?

Full Homogenous Encryption

Frictionless Hybrid Encryption

Fast Homomorphic Encryption

Fully Homomorphic Encryption 

Question 13 What component(s) of the Power10 AI software

Correct stack provides this capability for clients to train AI
models anywhere and deploy on Power without any
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changes?
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MMA on-chip.

OMI interface.

ONNX runtime. 

ONNX runtime and MMA.

Question 14 Pools 2.0 enables a group of Power E1050 systems
Incorrect to be defined as the pool of collective Base
Capacity (purchased) resources. Additional capacity
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over and above the pool’s aggregate Base
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(purchased) resource is charged as Metered Back Next
Capacity by the minute. Which application enables
clients to monitor their Base and Metered Capacity
across the pool, providing summary and
sophisticated drill-down views of real-time and
historical resource consumption by the virtual
machine (VM)?

Hardware Management Console (HMC)

IBM Management Console

Cloud Management Console (CMC)

Integrated Virtualization Management 

(IVM)

Question 15 IBM Power E1050 offers different processor

Correct module options for optimized performance, scale,
and economics. What are the different processor
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module offerings available in the Power E1050?
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12, 20, and 24 cores

8, 10, 12, and 20 cores

12, 18, and 24 cores 

8, 10, 11, and 12 cores

Question 16 Hardware-based service processors, also known as
Correct management processors, work with hardware
instrumentation and systems management
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software and are important for problem notification
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and resolution. They can also be used to remotely Back Next
manage client systems. What Service processor is
used in the Power E1050 server to deliver this
function?

eBMC 

BMC

FSP

BSP

Question 17 As the world is set to deploy AI and machine

Correct learning (ML) everywhere, attention is turning from
how quickly and accurately systems can train AI
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models to how rapidly built models can be
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implanted and inferenced (scored) on those
systems. To support this shift, Power10 delivers
faster business insights by running AI “in place”
with four new Matrix Math Accelerator (MMA) units
in each Power10 core. How much faster AI
inferencing per socket does Power E1050 provide
over Power E980?

4x faster

2x faster

3x faster

5x faster 
Question 18 The IBM Power E1050 features new and enhanced
Correct memory modules for improved reliability,
availability, and serviceability (RAS) and provides 2x
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better memory RAS than the industry standard
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DIMMs. What is the name of the memory module Back Next
that the Power E1050 supports?

DDIMM 

ISDIMM

ZDIMM

RDIMM

Question 19 With the Power E1050, IBM Power delivers a

Correct balance of performance, scale, and IT economics to
compete in the highly competitive 4-8 socket server
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segment marketplace. Which of the following
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features does the IBM Power E1050 deliver?

Up to 3x per socket performance of prior

generation systems

2x better memory reliability, availability, 

and serviceability (RAS) when compared to
industry standard x86 products and up to
3x per socket performance of prior
generation systems

Standard 5-year warranty

2x better memory reliability, availability, and

serviceability (RAS) when compared to industry
standard x86 products
Question 20 Your client is currently running their workloads on a
Correct 2-node POWER8 E870/E870C system with 80
cores total. They are interested in moving those
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workloads to a new Power E1050 environment.
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What is the recommended Power E1050 Back Next
configuration to sufficiently host their current
workloads?

3-socket Power E1050 with 36c total

2-socket Power E1050 with 36c total

4-socket Power E1050 with 72c total 

4-socket Power E1050 with 96c total

Question 21 Many clients run traditional on-premises

Correct infrastructure. However, IBM is seeing more and
more clients taking advantage of hybrid
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infrastructure (a combination of on-premises and
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off-premises) using the IBM Power flexible
consumption offering that provides cloud-like
efficiency while maintaining the advantages of on-
premises infrastructure. Which IBM offering
provides this?

PowerSC

Power Private Cloud with Dynamic Capacity 

PowerVC

Power Private Cloud with Hybrid Capacity

Question 22 The world continues to grapple with a lasting
Correct pandemic, shifts to work-from-home and back-to-
office, and geopolitical changes spawning a
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constant drone of mistrust. In 2021, IBM Security
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X-Force saw how threat actors opportunistically Back Next
used a shifting landscape to adopt tactics and
techniques to successfully infiltrate organizations
with cyber security attacks across the globe. What
type of cyber security attack was observed as the
top attack?

Malware

Denial-of-Service (DOS)

Phishing

Ransomware 

Question 23 You're talking to a client about how the Power

Correct E1050 offers tremendous consolidation capabilities
when transitioning from x86 servers or migrating
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from earlier generations of IBM Power servers.
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What do you tell the client are the maximum cores
and memory supported in the Power E1050
system?

128 cores, 16TB

40 cores, 8TB

96 cores, 8TB

96 cores, 16TB 
Question 24 You're talking to a client about the Power E1050
Correct and how it can reduce the Total Cost of Ownership
(TCO) within a datacenter while providing the same
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performance with fewer processor cores than
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previous generations of Power systems. The clientBack Next
asks how much reduction in energy consumption
could they achieve by consolidating their POWER8
servers onto the Power E1050? How do you reply?

Reduction by over 25%

Reduction by over 40%

Reduction by over 50% 

Reduction by over 10%

Question 25 You're talking to a client about how the Power

Correct E1050 delivers unprecedented 4-socket
performance in compute, java, and SAP
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benchmarks. The client asks how many
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benchmarks the Power E1050 has set? How do you
respond?

The Power E1050 has set 10 benchmarks.

The Power E1050 has set 1 benchmark.

The Power E1050 has set 5 benchmarks. 

The Power E1050 has set 15 benchmarks.