Exam A
QUESTION 1
An environment for a popular ISV application used on Power Systems must be sized. Which IBM tool or resource should be used?
A. Techline
B. eConfigurator
C. Facts and Features
D. System Planning Tool
Correct Answer: A QUESTION 2
What is the benefit of using the Active Memory Expansion feature in Power Systems servers?
A. Memory capacity will virtually be doubled.
B. Memory will be disk-cached to improve performance.
C. Memory will be allocated to an LPAR to improve performance.
D. Memory contents are compressed to allow for greater utilization.
Correct Answer: D QUESTION 3
A customer is moving a small application from an existing POWER7 server to a new system in a new location. They will be moving an existing 12X I/O drawer to the new server. Which of the following configuration will support a 12X PCI-X expansion drawer?
A. A4-corePower710
B. A 4-core Power 720
C. A 6-core Power 730
D. A 6-core Power 720
Correct Answer: D QUESTION 4
When moving an HP-UX based application workload from an HP Superdome onto a Power Systems server, which operating system will provide the easiest transition’?
A. AIX
B. IBM i
C. Red Hat Enterprise Linux
D. SuSe Linux Enterprise Server
Correct Answer: A QUESTION 5
Which of the following Power Systems design functions allows the system to identify situations which can result in a system outage?
A. Light Path Diagnostics
B. Electronic Service Agent
C. First Failure Data Capture
D. Alternate Processor Recovery
Correct Answer: C QUESTION 6
A prospective customer is running a database application that cannot be upgraded. They plan to replace it with a DB2-based server environment that can scale in the future. The prospect has asked why anyone would choose Power Systems servers when Intel-based servers cost less. Which of the following is an effective response?
A. DB2 on Power Systems delivers more than ten times the throughput per core than on Intel due to exploitation of SMT.
B. Core for core, Intel-based servers have more expensive DB2 software licensing costs when compared to Power Systems.
C. Power Systems servers offer a lower TCO due to greater processor power, virtualization technologies and both horizontal and vertical growth.
D. Power Systems servers offer superiority in energy-management technologies and use dramatically less energy while generating much less heat.
Correct Answer: C
QUESTION 7
What is a unique RAS characteristic of Power Systems Enterprise servers compared to Power Systems Express servers?
A. Dynamic Processor Sparing
B. Dynamic Processor Deallocation
C. Dynamic Processor Error Recovery
D. Dynamic Service Processor Failover
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION 8
What energy capability of Power Systems can be used in data centers to restrict server energy consumption, especially in cases where the data center might be nearing the limit of the energy it can provide?
A. Power Capping
B. EnergyScale for I/O
C. Processor Core Nap
D. Dynamic Power Saver
Correct Answer: A
QUESTION 9
What is a reason that POWER7 technology can provide higher throughput than Xeon x86 technology? IBM 000-122 Exam www.selftestengine.com 4
A. POWER7 supports more DIMM slots than x86.
B. POWER7 has higher redundancy of registers than x86.
C. POWER7 supports more virtualization technologies than x86.
D. POWER7 supports 4 threads per core, while Xeon supports only 2.
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION 10
A customer has two production IBM POWER7+ 750s in the same data center. The customer has an application in an LPAR that needs to run 24×7. What is required to allow the planned migration of that LPAR to the second system?
A. A shared Hardware Management Console One dedicated core on each Power 750
B. PowerVM Enterprise Edition on both systems
SAN storage accessible to the VIO Servers on each Power 750
C. Systems Director Enterprise Edition A common shared processor pool on each Power 750
D. PowerVM Standard Edition Dual system accessibility to virtual SCSI or virtual Fibre Channel
Correct Answer: B