IBM Power Systems with POWER7 and IBM i Technical Sales Skills -v2 Sample Questions:
1. A P0WER7 customer wants IBM i to host the storage for client IBM i partitions but is concerned about a single hosting partition being a single point of failure.
Which of the following would address the customer's concern?
A) Use external storage on the hosting partition and multipath I/O
B) Create a second hosting partition and use adapter-level mirroring in the client partitions.
C) Mirror IBM i hosting partition to a second hosting partition, using the split backplane feature
D) Mirror the storage spaces of each client partition using NPIV
2. A customer has a 1-core POWER6 520 running 7.1 TR6, with 6 internal 3,5 inch 70GB drives all in the system ASP.
The customer has just purchased a 4-core POWER7+ 720. The customer has an HMC attached to both machines.
Which of the following upgrade methods is supported?
A) Perform a full system save of the POWER6 520 Restore the saved data to the POWER7+ 720
B) Remove the 6 disks from the POWER6 520 CEO Install the disks into the POWER7+ 720 CEO IPL the POWER 7+ 720
C) Install an EXP12S on the POWER7+ 720 and move the POWER6 520 disks to the expansion unit Use the HMO change the POWER7+ 720 to IPL from the EXPI2S
D) Save ASP Data on the current machine Migrate the Load Source from the POWER6 520 to the POWER7+ 720 Restore ASP Data on the new machine.
3. A POWER6 customer with IBM i is migrating to POWER7 and is concerned about system performance. Which of the following tools can provide a system recommendation based on the customer's performance requirements?
A) System Planning Tool
B) Systems Workload Estimator
C) nmon analyzer tool
D) Quick Sizer
4. A customer needs to permanent, archive multiple terabytes of data on a daily basis. The data cannot be overwritten and needs more than a software-based enforcement method. Which product supports this need most economically?
A) Optical platters
B) DVD-ROM
C) LTO WORM media
D) Secure USB
5. A customer needs external storage attached to their Power Systems server. They are limited in regard to the amount of floor space and energy/cooling that can be provided for the external storage device.
Which IBM Systems Storage product will work best with this customer's limitation?
A) D58899
B) Storwize V7000
C) D58870
D) XIV
Solutions:
| Question # 1 Answer: B | Question # 2 Answer: A | Question # 3 Answer: B | Question # 4 Answer: D | Question # 5 Answer: B |
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