000-123 Power Systems with POWER7 and AIX & … IT manager would like to be able to move workloads between POWER6 and POWER7 systems and also perform multiple concurrent migrations

000-123 Power Systems with POWER7 and AIX & Linux Sales Skills -v2

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Exam Name: 000-123 Power Systems with POWER7 and AIX & Linux Sales Skills -v2Exam Type: IBMExam Code: 000-123

Test information:

- Number of questions: 42- Time allowed in minutes: 60- Required passing score: 61%- Test languages: English

Exam A

QUESTION 1A CIO is questioning why a purchasing agent has ordered a POWER7+ 770 rather than a POWER7+740. Whatcustomer requirement would prompt this buying decision?

A. To support at least 1TB of memoryB. To enable High Availability failoverC. To support Active Memory ExpansionD. To implement CoD cores and memory

Correct Answer: DSection: (none)Explanation

Explanation/Reference:

QUESTION 2A 16-core Power 730 running Red Hat Linux is being considered as a platform for a high performance, big dataapplication and needs 7TB of disk space.Which storage option will provide the highest overall performance and use the least amount of rack space?

A. V7000 using EasyTierB. SONAS using Active Cloud EngineC. DCS3700 using Dynamic Disk PoolingD. EXP30 using AIX Logical Volume Mirroring



QUESTION 3Three healthcare organizations have merged and consolidated into a single location. The IT director stated thatthe company would like to establish offsite data vaulting.Which storage product will support this requirement?

A. V3700B. N3000C. TS3500D. EXP2500

Correct Answer: CSection: (none)Explanation


QUESTION 4A financing firm has multiple offices. The firm needs to reduce current operational costs and manage financialregulation compliance and its associated security risks.Which action can help this business support their objectives?

A. Install PowerHA in each locationB. Implement PowerVM in Trusted modeC. Incorporate VMControl exposure policiesD. Integrate PowerSC into their environment



QUESTION 5A customer wants to support AIX and Linux on a single system with VLAN support and end-user Cloudprovisioning. In addition to AIX Enterprise Edition and Linux, what is the optimal product to support thisenvironment?

A. PowerVMB. IBM CloudburstC. SmartCloud StandardD. IBM Service Delivery Manager (ISDM)

Correct Answer: ASection: (none)Explanation


QUESTION 6What condition qualifies the use of AIX Express Edition within the Power Systems hardware product line?

A. The maximum number of active partitions is limited to 3 partitions of any type.B. Licensing is restricted to specific system models.C. Processor allocations must be assigned in whole core increments.D. Supported platforms are limited to servers with up to 2 sockets.

Correct Answer: BSection: (none)Explanation


QUESTION 7Which of the following business issues provides an opportunity to discuss the competitive advantages on AIXbased system using Capacity on Demand?


A. Government regulations to improve the security of personal data are causing a significant increase in ITspending.

B. Plans to open new operating facilities has generated interest in creating a business continuity plan betweenmultiple sites.

C. Mobile workers are complaining there is not adequate bandwidth for running business applications on theirmobile devices.

D. Monthly and quarterly reporting requirements are causing other web applications to negatively impactcustomer response time.



QUESTION 8A customer states that Power Systems servers are too expensive to purchase when compared to other servers.What is an appropriate response?

A. The high cost of Power Systems is offset by their reliability.B. The true measure of system cost is TCO and not acquisition price.C. Power Systems servers offer twice the performance of x86 systems for the same acquisition cost.D. The added value of a 3 year hardware warranty offsets the higher acquisition cost when compared to x86

systems.



QUESTION 9Which statement accurately describes the advantage provided by the Active System Optimizer (ASO) feature inAIX?

A. ASO improves the speed of multi-site cluster failover.B. ASO decreases the amount of time required for an I/O operation.C. ASO increases application performance by improved affinity of cores and memory.D. ASO provides a higher level of virtualization performance by eliminating the need for PowerVM.



QUESTION 10What function of PowerVM is not available in VMware?

A. Multiple Virtual I/O ServersB. I/O devices dedicated to a single partition

C. Data deduplication for directly attached storageD. Move partitions between systems without reboot



QUESTION 11A customer with multiple Power Systems servers running AIX has an application that needs maximumavailability.Which solution will support the requirement?

A. PowerHA SystemMirrorB. Tivoli High Availability ManagerC. PowerVM with Suspend/ResumeD. PowerVM utilizing Live Partition Mobility



QUESTION 12Which security software package manages threats to devices such as servers, mobile devices and internetconnected laptops?

A. AppScanB. PowerSCC. Tivoli Endpoint ManagerD. Rational Development Suite



QUESTION 13A client is running a customized COBOL application that includes WordPerfect Version 3 for AIX4.3 running onan old pSeries server. The client is reluctant to upgrade due to concerns that the application may not work onmore current AIX and hardware versions. Cost and implementation time must be kept low.What is the most cost-effective option?

A. IBM Rapid PortB. IBM Migration FactoryC. IBM Binary GuaranteeD. IBM Rational Software Suite

Correct Answer: C

Section: (none)Explanation


QUESTION 14A customer is budgeting for the cost of the next AIX version release. What should be discussed?

A. Version upgrades are included in the cost of the Power Systems server.B. Version upgrades are available at no charge to customers with a current SWMA contract.C. Version upgrades are significantly discounted with the purchase of SWMA and a new system.D. Version upgrades are available for download at no charge to AIX customers running POWER hardware



QUESTION 15A customer states that the performance of x86 systems and Power Systems are basically equal, thereforePower Systems with AIX has no advantage overx86 systems running Windows. What product feature providesan advantage that is unique to Power Systems running AIX, and supports better system performance?

A. SMT4B. PowerVMC. Active Memory MirroringD. Active Memory Expansion



QUESTION 16An engineering firm continues to need more storage space and is concerned about high costs of acquiring andmanaging storage. They currently have several Power Systems servers running Red Hat Linux and use NetAppstorage systems to share data.What storage product can help reduce the amount of storage capacity they will need?

A. SONASB. Tivoli Storage ManagerC. Real-Time Compression applianceD. ProtecTIER Deduplication Gateway



QUESTION 17A customer is considering a purchase of a PowerLinux 7R1 server. The customer has concerns about thenumber of partitions that can be supported, since there are a limited number of internal adapter card slots.What topic should be discussed to help alleviate this concern?

A. VIO ServerB. Multipath I/OC. Workload PartitionsD. Shared Processor Pools



QUESTION 18The AIX operating system release and service strategy offers customers which of the following benefits?

A. Three years of support for each AIX Technology LevelB. One year of on-site support for any AIX defect that causes downtimeC. Lifetime Technology Level support for AIX during the life of the hardwareD. One time no-charge upgrade of AIX while system has a maintenance contract in place.



QUESTION 19Which statement describes how AIX encryption improves data security?

A. JFS files can be encrypted.B. Media backups can be encrypted.C. Internal disk data sets can be encrypted.D. SAN storage data sets can be encrypted



QUESTION 20A customer with an Oracle Database on a POWER5 server needs to understand the performancecharacteristics and determine the appropriate POWER7 model for a planned upgrade. Which tool will provide adetailed list of the resources necessary to achieve equivalent performance on the POWER7 server?

A. NMONB. TOPASC. IBM Insight

D. Tivoli Productivity Center



QUESTION 21A company with POWERS servers running manufacturing applications would like to upgrade both theapplications and the servers. The application vendor has published guidelines for sizing a POWER7 740 serverwith AIX. The IT manager wants to ensure optimum performance during peak workloads. Which additionalresource or feature will provide the most significant benefit in this environment?

A. Additional memoryB. Additional I/O adaptersC. Active Memory MirroringD. Active Memory Expansion



QUESTION 22Which of the following are advantages of AIX compared to Windows?

A. Extensive list of ISV applications supportedB. Supports multiple virtualization technologiesC. Architecture provides an improved security modelD. Number of certified engineers and developers



QUESTION 23Which of the following is a reason why AIX is a leader in the UNIX marketplace?

A. AIX development is outsourced worldwide to attract the best developers.B. AIX primarily works with the Open Source community to extend its functionally.C. AIX binary compatibility enables customers to run programs originally compiled for HP-UX and Oracle/

Solaris.D. AIX is jointly developed with Power Systems hardware and provides improved support for new technologies.



QUESTION 24An SAP environment is experiencing high paging rates and degraded performance. Which virtualization featurewill improve the situation?

A. Live Partition MobilityB. Shared Processor PoolsC. Workload Partitions (WPAR)D. Active Memory Expansion (AME)



QUESTION 25What is the value of AIX binary compatibility?

A. Applications can run on either AIX or Linux.B. Applications can run on any release of AIX or IBM i.C. Applications can run on the next release of AIX after recompiling.D. Applications will run on the next release of AIX without recompiling.



QUESTION 26The IT director of a data center has servers from Dell, IBM and Sun:- The Dell servers run Linux- The Sun Servers run Solaris- The IBM servers run AIX.Consolidation to fewer platforms is being considered.What competitive advantage does the purchase of a new POWER7 server have over a new Sun T5 server forthis customer environment?

A. Linux and AIX run natively on Power Systems servers.B. Capacity on Demand resources can be activated in increments of one tenth of a processor core.C. WPAR5 can be implemented on an AIX system to support both of the UNIX and Linux workloads.D. A POWFR7 system supports twice the number simultaneous threads per clock cycle of Dell and Sun

systems.



QUESTION 27

A customer needs to quickly provision new workloads. Which product can capture an image of an existingpartition and use it for future workload provisioning?

A. AIX Workload ManagerB. Tivoli Enterprise ManagerC. VMControl Standard EditionD. PowerHA Enterprise Edition



QUESTION 28An IT manager would like to be able to move workloads between POWER6 and POWER7 systems and alsoperform multiple concurrent migrations. What product provides this capability?

A. Partition Load ManagerB. PowerVM Enterprise EditionC. Integrated Virtualization ManagerD. Systems Director Standard Edition



QUESTION 29A petroleum company is considering the purchase of a Power 795 to run a large environment, requiring 7x24operations. They are interested in a technology that provides high availability for Hypervisor. What is the nameof this function?

A. Active Memory MirroringB. Alternate Instruction RetryC. Predictive Failure AnalysisD. Concurrent Firmware Maintenance



QUESTION 30What business requirement can be satisfied by implementing PowerSC on a virtualized Power 750?

A. The primary production database requires 24x7 availability even when there is a failover to a remote site.B. Performance must be maintained once a new partition is created for a new business intelligence

application.C. A new Service Oriented Architecture environment is about to go live and potential threats must be

prevented.D. Data files that exist on Windows file servers, Linux file servers and within the AIX filesystems must be

shared.



QUESTION 31Which statement describes an advantage of running Linux on a PowerLinux server?

A. It supports over 200 virtual machines per system.B. It supports six threads per core for optimum performance.C. It allows up to three AIX LPARs to be configured in addition to Linux.D. It is the most effective Power Systems server for Linux workloads.



QUESTION 32What is a key advantage of running Linux on Power Systems as opposed to Linux on x86 systems?

A. Linux on Power is priced lower than Linux on x86, creating lower overall acquisition cost.B. Linux on Power has a larger user base than Linux on x86, reducing the need for staff training.C. Linux on Power is supported by PowerVM, providing higher system utilization over VMware and KVM.D. Linux on Power has higher performance than Linux on x86 in SpecInt benchmarks, for faster application

performance.



QUESTION 33Which feature can alleviate a CIO's concern about costs related to core-based software licensing?

A. License Metric ToolB. Shared Processor PoolsC. Trial Capacity on DemandD. Dynamic Processor Sparing



QUESTION 34After an initial meeting with the client, which tool should be used to design a system that supports the clienthardware requirements?

A. InsightB. eConfigC. AlineanToolD. Workload Estimator



QUESTION 35A data center manager has been tasked with improving service, utilization, and availability of the enterprise.The manager is interested in finding a management utility product, but wants to have a no-charge trial periodbefore going to the effort of securing funding approval.Which product or service supports the requirement?

A. Tivoli Endpoint ManagerB. AIX Performance ToolboxC. Health Advisor Plug-in for Power SystemsD. Performance Management for Power Systems



QUESTION 36The new CIO of a financial firm has expressed a concern that a PowerLinux server should not be consideredbecause it would be too expensive.What should be articulated to show the value proposition a PowerLinux server?

A. IBM's distribution of Linux and PowerVM Entry Edition at no charge significantly reduces the total price.B. Low cost 2U space saver and 4U high performance models offer consolidation and virtualization

opportunities.C. Commodity components such as memory, disks and adapters are used to provide prices comparable to x86

servers.D. 2U rack mount and PureFlex nodes are available, with zero charge and reduced price features to make

them very price competitive.



QUESTION 37The IT Director of a company has raised a concern to the CIO that the system administrators do not havesufficient skill to maintain an AIX environment. Training costs have led to a budgetary challenge.What can be used to reduce the budgetary issue?

A. Education PackB. Account AdvocateC. Solution Central ServicesD. Tuition Assistance Initiative



QUESTION 38A manufacturing company has two facilities, located 200 miles apart, which require failover capability. Thesystems have WebSphere applications and Oracle databases, running on Power 770 servers with EMCstorage. The customer would like to implement high availability using PowerHA between the two sites. Whatform of data replication integrates best with PowerHA?

A. MetroMirrorB. EMCSRDEC. GlobalMirrorD. Oracle Data Guard



QUESTION 39What feature of AIX, that is unsupported in competitive virtualization technologies, supports memoryvirtualization?

A. Active Memory SharingB. Active Memory MirroringC. Active Memory ExpansionD. Active Memory Deduplication



QUESTION 40What is an advantage of PowerVM on Power Systems compared to VMware on x86 systems?

A. Memory can be shared between running partitions.B. Partitions can be created using a fraction of a core.

C. Active partitions can be moved from one system to another.D. Both SuSe and Red Hat Linux can run in separate partitions.



QUESTION 41A customer with Oracle, Cisco, and IBM systems wants to have a single management tool. Which of thefollowing products are appropriate for this environment?

A. IBM SmartCloud ManagerB. IBM Service Delivery ManagerC. IBM Systems Management DirectorD. IBM Systems Management Console



QUESTION 42A customer is ordering a PowerLinux 7R2 and requires virtualization capabilities. Which of the followingsupports the customer requirement?

A. SuSe with XENB. SuSe with KVMC. SuSe with PowerVMD. SuSe with VMControl



QUESTION 43A firm has a very little time to apply maintenance to their systems. Which product provides the capability tomove work from one server to another, so that the first server is free for maintenance?

A. AIX Enterprise EditionB. PowerVM Enterprise EditionC. Systems Director Enterprise EditionD. Tivoli Service Manager Enterprise Edition



QUESTION 44A single Power based server has two AIX partitions. One partition needs all of the system resources to meetService Level Agreements at monthly closing. What PowerVM function can make all system resourcesavailable to the critical application?

A. Suspend/ResumeB. Live Partition MobilityC. Shared System PoolsD. Partition Load manager



QUESTION 45An existing customer with a POWER5 server would like to compare the performance differences for a newPower Systems server. Which resource provides the information in the most concise format?

A. PM for Power SustemsB. Commercial Processing WorkloadC. Competitive Performance AnalysisD. Power Systems Performance Report



QUESTION 46Which of the following statements about AIX Editions is correct?

A. Standard Edition is included on all server orders.B. Enterprise Edition is intended for Enterprise class servers.C. Express Edition is limited to Power Systems Express servers.D. All editions are available on all models of Power Systems servers.



QUESTION 47What is an advantage of AIX that is unavailable in Solaris or HP-UX?

A. There are various AIX Editions at different price points.

B. AIX can support applications compiled for Solaris or HP-UX.C. Unlike HP-UX and Solaris, AIX is based on Open Standards.D. AIX, like Linux, has a Community Supported Edition to create a low cost UNIX operating system.



QUESTION 48How is Red Hat Linux licensed on Power Systems servers?

A. By the coreB. By the socketC. By the socket and LPAR countD. By the server class (Small, Medium or Large) and LPAR count



QUESTION 49A brokerage company has four Power 770 systems running their environment. Due to an acquisition, three non-IBM storage systems will be consolidated into the same data center. The company would like to integrate thesenon-IBM storage units into their environment with a single management interface. What IBM storage productcan provide a solution for this company?

A. XIVB. V7000C. N3000D. SONAS



QUESTION 50Which IBM Software Group product provides an environment for creating, maintaining, and migrating or portingapplications to Power Systems servers running AIX or Linux?

A. xCode IDEB. Rational DeveloperC. alphaWorks ToolkitD. InfoSphere DataStage

Correct Answer: BSection: (none)

Explanation


QUESTION 51A customer has a large Oracle database partition that requires 28 cores and 412 GB of memory. The customerexpects to grow 25% over the next year and wants to buy a server that will handle the growth, without overbuying.Which server should be recommended?

A. Power 740B. Power 750C. Power 770D. Power 795



QUESTION 52A research university is planning the addition of a Hadoop based environment using PowerLinux servers. WhatIBM Software Group product should be considered?

A. Lotus DominoB. InfoSphere BiginsightsC. FileNet Content ManagerD. PureData for Operational Analytics



QUESTION 53Which of the following are customer support options for the SuSe or Red Hat Linux distributions for PowerSystems servers?

A. IGS Support ServicesCommunity support

B. IBM PowerLinux SWMAIGS Support Services

C. Red Hat and SuSe supportOS Support Services

D. Red Hat and SuSe supportCommunity support



QUESTION 54A prospective client is planning a server consolidation project which relies heavily on virtualization technologies.The client showed some SPEC benchmark numbers that made POWER7 and Xeon performance appear to beequivalent.Which response articulates the advantage of Power Systems when used in benchmarks?

A. Benchmarks do not utilize SMT and will show less positive results than can actually be obtained.B. Benchmarks on x86 systems exclude VMware overhead but the POWER Hypervisor is always included.C. Benchmarks for POWER7 do not recognize that execution speeds will increase as performance improves

over time.D. Benchmarks run on x86 architecture servers use different rules and generally show better results over

POWER7 systems.



QUESTION 55A customer has memory constraints and has maximum amount of memory installed on the system. Thecustomer asks if there are functions or products available to solve the problem without purchasing a secondserver.Which function should be discussed?

A. Active Memory Duplication is a feature of PowerVM and will double the size of the memory pages.B. Active Memory Expansion is a hardware feature that will double the memory DIMM slots for additional

memory support.C. Active Memory Mirroring is available as a hardware option and will mirror the memory to disk, doubling the

amount available.D. Active Memory Sharing is a PowerVM feature that will allow increased memory utilization and provide

additional logical memory.



QUESTION 56A company is purchasing a new Power Systems server and plans to support several AIX partitions. They areunsure about their total memory requirements.Which of the following describes a resource management technology that can be used to provide maximummemory utilization and flexibility?

A. The HMC can be scheduled to dynamically reallocate memory resources among the partitions.B. Logical Volume Manager allows the system administrator to reconfigure the memory resources for each

partition.C. Active Memory Deduplication permits the allocation of memory resources to be dynamically changed as

needed.D. Active Memory Sharing avoids having to assign a dedicated amount of physical memory to each logical

partition.



QUESTION 57A client that is considering server consolidation needs to perform an AIX nightly backup using fiber attachedtape. Which solution supports this requirement?

A. PowerVM & NPIVB. PowerVM & iSCSIC. PowerVM & Virtual TapeD. PowerVM Virtual Media Library



QUESTION 58Which of the following is an advantage of AIX on Power Systems compared to Linux on x86 systems?

A. Ability to scale beyond four sockets with multi-core processorsB. Memory can be expanded beyond the physical limits of the serverC. Permits processors to perform both integer and floating point operationsD. Enhanced drivers for PCIe adapters can produce up to 4X more bandwidth



QUESTION 59Which feature of AIX increases availability for mission critical applications?

A. Storage keysB. Workload partitionsC. Active Memory SharingD. Shared dedicated processors



QUESTION 60

Which product s advantage of n threads of the POWER architecture?

A. NetezzaB. DB2PureScaleC. WebSphere DataPowerD. Tivoli Endpoint Manager



QUESTION 61A customer is considering consolidating 15 Power 520 servers running both AIX and Linux applications onto 2Power 760 servers. The primary concern is finding a maintenance window for a server that is running severalkey applications.What product or feature will remove this concern?

A. VMControlB. Systems DirectorC. Live Partition MobilityD. Tivoli Service Automation Manager



QUESTION 62Which of the following AIX 7 product features is intended to simplify the configuration and management ofhighly available clusters and high availability products?

A. Intelligent ClusterB. Cluster Aware AIXC. SmartCluster for AIXD. Cluster Systems Management



QUESTION 63What requirement would make Tivoli Storage Manager a better fit on Power Systems when compared to x86?

A. Support for more file typesB. More cost effective solutionC. Ability to connect different mediaD. Large number of adapters required



QUESTION 64A prospective customer plans to implement a Linux application, but believes that the Linux distribution forPower Systems is a secondary development focus of the Open Source Community. Which statement is acorrect response to the customer?

A. Linux for x86 and Linux for Power are identical except in the name.B. The Linux for Power distribution is only one version behind the x86 distribution.C. Red Hat and SuSe make sure the distributions of x86 and Power have the same functionality.D. The Open Source community develops only one kernel and IBM adds extensions for Power Systems

architecture.



QUESTION 65A hospital has several Power 750 servers, each using PowerVM Standard Edition with VIO Server (VIOS)connected to a SAN.The customer plans to add a Power 770 and wants to use Live Partition Mobility (LPM) to move commonworkloads from some of the Power 750 systems to the Power 770.What should be proposed to support the customer requirement?

A. PowerVM Standard Edition on the Power 770Systems Director LPM Agents for each server using VIOS.

B. Partition Load Manager on the Power 770One license of Partition Load Manager for each Power 750.

C. PowerVM Enterprise Edition on the Power 770PowerVM Enterprise Edition upgrades on the Power 750 systems.

D. VMControl Enterprise Edition on the Power 770PowerVM Enterprise Edition for each server running VIOS.




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000-123 Power Systems with POWER7 and AIX & … IT manager would like to be able to move workloads between POWER6 and POWER7 systems and also perform multiple concurrent migrations