1.

In a very competitive situation, a business partner requested the assistance of an

IBM Field Technical Systems Specialist (FTSS) to help differentiate an E880 against
HP. The team was successful and the client wants to acquire the proposed Power
solution.Who is required to perform the Technical Delivery Assessment (TDA) in this
situation?
A. The IBM FTSS.
B. The Business Partner with FTSS assistance, if requested.
C. Only the customer. A TDA is not required because the FTSS was involved.
D. The FTSS with the Business Partner assistance.
2. How does POWER8 technology contribute to lower TCO?
A. RAS features mean the cost of failover systems can be eliminated.
B. Software licensing and with Capacity on Demand allows software to be licensed to
the lowest core count
. Higher performance cores reduces software licensing.
D. The lower energy usage of Power Systems can reduce 20% of systems costs.
3. The executive summary of a proposal should:
A. provide the primary business objectives of the RFP.
. contrast the Power solution to the competitive offerings.
. state an overview of all of the elements of the proposal.
D. present the TCO of the proposal with financial details.
4. An IBM customer is implementing a very complex solution and is encountering
difficulty with the integration of the IBM Power System and storage.
What resource should the customer use for assistance?
A. IBM Knowledge Center
B. Support Line
C. Advanced Technical Support
D. Redbook planning guides
5. What benefit is provided by connecting FPGA cards to POWER8 via CAPI instead of
connecting FPGA cards to x86 via PCIe?
A. The offload processor in CAPI speeds up I/O transfers from the FPGA card.
. FPGA cards can be installed in PCIe or PCI-X slots on POWER8.
. There is no overhead from OS or drivers, providing improved response times and
increased throughput
D. FPGA card attached via CAPI on POWER8 comes pre-installed with specific drivers.
6. A customer has a BladeCenter S (BCS) with an 8-core POWER6 blade, 1.5TB of
storage and an external LTO tape drive installed. They want to upgrade to a
POWER8.
Which of the following is the lowest cost recommendation to satisfy their
requirement?
A. S814
B. S824
. POWER8 blade in the current BCS
D. Flex System and POWER8 node

7. A customer wants to use a virtualization technology that has a consistent interface

across both the x86 and Power platforms.
Which hypervisor for Power Systems will satisfy their requirement?
A. HyperV
. PowerVM
C. PowerKVM
D. VMware
8. What is the PVU value for an IBM two socket Scale-out system?
A. 120 PVUs per system
B. 100 PVUs per socket
C. 70 PVUs per core
D. 50 PVUs per processor
9. Which RAS feature is available only on Power Enterprise Systems?
A. Chipkill memory
. FFDC (First Failure Data Capture)
. Dual FSPs (Flexible Service Processor)
D. ECC memory
10. Due to new regulatory requirements, a Power Systems customer must set up a
disaster recovery site in a geographical location at least 120 miles (194 km) away
from the main site.
What is the minimum PowerHA solution that should be proposed?
A. Standard Edition
B. Express Edition
. Geographical Edition
D. Enterprise Edition
11. A small retailer has a 4-core S814 with one processor license to run the
production workload. During the busy holiday season in November and December, the
average daily workload is doubled.
Which solution will provide the required processing capacity for the busy season?
A. Purchase an additional processor license.
. Implement Elastic Capacity On Demand.
C. Enable Active Memory Expansion.
D. Purchase an additional processor activation.
12. Which PCI adapters is (are) supported in P0WER8?
A. PCIe Gen 3 only
. PCI-X, PCIe Gen 1, PCIe Gen 2, and PCIe Gen 3
. PCIe Gen 1, PCIe Gen 2, and PCIe Gen 3
D. PCI-X and PCIe Gen 3
13. A customer purchased a new P0WER8 Scale-out server and wants three years of
24 by 7 hardware maintenance.
Which option satisfies this request?
A. Upgrade from one year 24 by 7 to three years.
. The standard 24 by 7 warranty for three years.
. Upgrade from standard three years 9 by 5 to 24 by 7.
D. Upgrade from one year 9 by 5 to 24 by 7 and one year to a three year warranty
extension.

14. A customer has many x86 systems running Linux and has run out of server rack
space.
Which statement indicates how a Power Systems provides a solution to resolve the
space issue?
A. Power rack systems are four sockets and therefore can reduce the space
requirements by two times.
. Higher performance means fewer servers for same workload.
. Power rack systems are 2U and 4U and have a much smaller footprint than x86
systems.
D. Lower energy consumption means less HVAC and therefore increases available
datacenter space.
15. A customer requires two local redundant VIO servers on their E870.
What should be included with an E870 to satisfy the customer's requirement?
A. Dual SAS drives in the nodes
. Split backplane
. Dual Solid-State Drives in the nodes
D. EXP24S disk drawer
16. OpenPOWER Foundation is developing solutions for which environments?
A. AIX, IBM i, and Linux
B. AIX only
. AIX and Linux
D. Linux only
17. A customer running Linux with VMware on their x86 systems wants to add an
S822L into the environment using a consistent virtualization technology.
How can a Power option satisfy the requirement?
A. Implement Kimchi as the management interface to support both environments.
B. Implement the appropriate KVM base version on the Power and x86 systems.
. Convert VMware to PowerVM on the x86 systems for consistency with the Power
Systems.
D. Implement PowerVM and VMware since the functionality and management
interface are shared.
18. A customer is running an application that is licensed per core.
What advantage does POWERS have compared to x86 that could lower software costs?
A. Bandwidth performance
. Memory performance
. I/O performance
D. Processor performance
19. Which RAS feature is available on both the Scale-out and Enterprise systems?
A. Redundant power supplies
B. CoD memory and cores
. Redundant FSPs
D. CAPI

20. A client is looking for a high availability solution for their existing Power
environment. They have two locations, each with an E870 and DS8800.
What solution provides the best TCO?
A. Vision Solutions MIMIX
B. IBM PowerHA
. IBM Tivoli Manager for HA
D. IBM PowerVP
21. A customer offers mobile phone plans via a secure website. They requested a
meeting to evaluate what IBM has to offer in terms of a hybrid cloud infrastructure
and data analytics solution, which will allow them to increase sales of mobile phone
plans.
What solution can be proposed to satisfy the requirements?
A. S824, Cognos, IBM Cloud Orchestrator, PowerSC, and PowerVM
. S814, PowerVM, PowerHA, Worklite, and IBM Cloud Orchestrator
. S822, ProtecTIER, Websphere, and IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack
D. S822, PowerKVM, PowerHA, and Cloud Toolkit
22. A customer has a critical invoice application for which the system is mostly
underutilized. During the last week of the month, response times become
unacceptable due to growth. The customer does not want to pay for a system that is
idle most of the time.
What should be proposed?
A. Elastic Capacity On Demand
B. Capacity Upgrade On Demand
. Power Enterprise Pools
D. Active Memory Expansion
23. A customer is considering the purchase of three IBM POWER8 Scale-out systems to
run their AIX and IBM i applications. Their main concern is application uptime.
What feature of the POWER8 Scale-out systems should the IBM reseller discuss?
A. Hot swap memory and cores
B. RAS features eliminate disk and memory failures
. Live Partition Mobility
D. PowerVC
24. An existing IBM customer explains they cannot consider POWER8 because they
have a small application that requires AIX 5.2.
Which of the following capabilities will allow that application to run on a POWER8
server?
A. AIX binary compatibility allows applications created on earlier releases of AIX to
run unchanged and without recompilation on POWER8.
B. Little Endian support will allow AIX 5.2 to run on any POWER8 server.
. Logical Partitions (LPARs) enable different versions of AIX to run simultaneously on
one POWER8 system.
D. Versioned Workload Partitions (WPARs) for AIX 7.1 EE can allow workloads
dependent on AIX 5.2 to run on POWER8.

25. An installed HP Superdome / Oracle database customer is consider migrating to

POWER8. The customer has significant concerns because of the multiple partitions
and high Oracle licensing cost of their HP solution.
What features, capability of POWER8 should be discussed with this customer?
A. PowerVP and PowerSC
B. Shared Storage and Processor roadmap
. CUoDandCAPI
D. Processor pooling and high performance cores
26. A prospective IBM POWER8 customer is worried about the longevity of RISC
processors.
Which response should help the customer be less concerned about their investment in
a Power System?
A. IBM has guaranteed the OpenPOWER Foundation that IBM will continue POWER chip
development for the next 10 years.
B. The IBM OS and Power technology roadmaps emphasize IBMs technology
commitment.
. Even if POWER is discontinued, all IBM applications and middleware have been
ported to Linux.
D. With IBM's support for Little Endian, AIX and IBM i will run on x86.
27. Which P0WER8 servers are NEBS (Network Equipment Building System) compliant?
A. S824L and S824
B. S814 andS822
C. S822L and S822
D. S822L and S812L
28. A customer is currently booting a 770 with internal storage, and wants to
maintain a local boot option on an E870.
What local boot option is valid for the E870?
A. Storage in the disk expansion drawer
B. Storage in the System Control Unit
. Storage in the CEC
D. Storage on the SAN
29. A customer wants to deploy a new private cloud infrastructure and is evaluating
both x86 and Power System technologies.
What benefit can be achieved by IBM Power Systems Solution Edition for Cloud?
A. It is pre-built and pre-installed based on customizable configurations.
B. It is pre-installed with fixed configurations.
. It is packaged as an appliance for fast time to value and minimal risk.
D. It provides reference configurations so a customer can implement a solution with
minimal risk.
30. A customer needs to support an HPC cluster, and needs the maximum number of
cores in a standard 19 inch rack. The customer can run either AIX or Linux.
Which P0WER8 server best satisfies the requirement?
A. S824
B. S824L
. S822L
D. S822

31. A customer with no in-house IT support needs to implement a solution that

includes a relational database, industry leading security, standards based internet
technology, networking and storage management capabilities.
Which Operating System will satisfy the customers requirement?
A. LINUX
B. IBM i
. Windows
D. AIX
32. Which feature is available on POWER8 Scale-out systems?
A. Processor Capacity on Demand
B. Redundant service processors
. Memory Capacity on Demand
D. Solid-State disk drives
33. A customer is running critical and large Oracle Database on x86 servers in an 8node RAC cluster. The client has regular outages and poor performance.
Which POWER8 advantage is most relevant to the customer?
A. Near linear scaling
. ECC memory
C. Service Processor
D. License savings
34. A customer asks why they might be interested in open source developed
software. Which statement accurately describes the benefit?
A. Open Source projects share the same terms and conditions.
. Open Source uses the community development model.
. Open Source provides binary compatibility applications with AIX.
D. Open Source code is free of security issues.
35. An existing customer wants to migrate the risk of replacing their HP system
running an Oracle database with IBM Power Systems.
Which resource should be review with the customer?
A. IBM Migration Factory
B. IBM's participation in the OpenPOWER Foundation
. IBM Power System's ranking on the RPE website
D. IBM Power Systems Roadmap
36. An existing P0WER8 customer with an E870 recently acquired a small company
with an x86 Linux server running a scripting Java application. They would like to run
that application on their E870, but are concerned about the porting effort.
How should the salesperson respond?
A. IBM Bluemix is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering that creates a hybrid
OpenStack environment of AIX, IBM i and Linux.
. POWER8 systems come with Nvidia coprocessors designed specifically to run most
x86 Linux applications in their native modes.
C. PowerKVM is an open-source virtualization solution designed to run Linux-only
applications written in C++ and Java applications from x86.
D. Well-written Linux on x86 applications written in scripting Java or most
interpretive languages will run as is, with no changes.

37. A customer is running a large application on x86 Linux with an Oracle Enterprise
database.
Which of the following can be used to financially justify migrating the application to
POWERS and DB2?
A. POWER8 hardware and software maintenance costs are lower.
B. POWER8 cores exploit SMT6.
. POWER8 Active Memory Expansion reduces the cost of memory.
D. POWER8 requires fewer cores to run the same workload.
38. A customer needs a 4-core S814 server with 1TB available disk space to run an
ERP application. The customer wants to achieve the lowest TCA while minimizing the
rack space used.
Which disk storage technology meets the requirements?
A. Internal hard disk
B. SAN
C. Internal Solid-State disk
D. Flash
39. Which POWERS feature is available only on E870 and E880 models?
A. Dual HMCs
B. Hot Swap PCIe adapters
. Concurrent firmware updates
D. Enterprise Pool
40. Upon meeting in an elevator, a customer's senior executive asks an IBM sales
agent to explain in one sentence why P0WER8 systems are superior to x86 solutions.
Which statement best represents the Power Systems value proposition?
A. IBM POWER8 servers deliver a lower TCO with unparalleled system reliability.
B. x86 technology is reaching chip design limitations and x86 performance has not
increased proportionally to the chip core count, which results in higher software
costs.
C. The IBM POWER8 processor is Purpose Built resulting in premium performance over
x86 which results in lower TCA and TCO.
D. Regardless of the benchmark used, IBM POWERS has proven to be the fastest
performing server chip in the industry.
41. Which IBM resource is devised to help with design and installation of a Power
Systems SmartCloud solution?
A. Redbook Planning Guides
B. Lab Services
. Advanced Technical Support
D. Local Field Technical Sales Support
42. What elements of Power8 technology can be exploited by software developers to
optimize performance on an E870?
A. Hypervisor and Thermal Power Management Device (TPMD)
B. Transactional memory and SMT
C. Active Memory Expansion and storage keys
D. First Failure Data Capture (FFDC) and Service processor

43. What are key cost elements that should always be included in a POWER8
proposal?
A. Software and hardware
. Staffing and energy
. RAS and financing
D. Rack space and DR
44. Which analytic solution is supported on Cognos?
A. Business intelligence
B. Cognitive data analysis
C. Predictive analytics
D. Stream computing
45. A retail customer has variable processing requirements. The processor and
memory requirements are not constant and represent a significant cost element of
the E870.
What feature should be presented to provide a solution for this situation?
A. Capacity on Demand
B. PowerVM
. Active Memory Sharing
D. Active Memory Expansion
46. What resource should be used to assemble the sales material for a competitive
opportunity?
A. Knowledge Center
B. InfoCenter
. Findit
D. ibm.com
47. A customer has a quote for running an Oracle database on a HP Itanium server.
What POWER8 competitive advantage should an IBM reseller discuss?
A. The Oracle database cost has a multiplier of .5 on POWER8.
. Oracle no longer supports Itanium on Oracle's latest versions of their database.
. HP Itanium only supports Oracle database with Windows.
D. POWER8 requires fewer cores resulting in fewer Oracle licenses.
48. What is an advantage of the Power8 Scale-Out systems compared Oracle T5
offering?
A. The ability to connect to a SAN.
. The option to run multiple partitions.
C. The option to run SUSE Linux.
D. The ability to support internal drives.
49. A customer has a requirement for analytics with structured and unstructured
data. They want to use Open source products.
What will satisfy the requirement?
A. Netezza on an S824
. Cloudera on a POWER8IFL on an E870
. Veristorm on a Linux on Power cluster
D. HortonWorks on a Linux on Power cluster

50. A customer wants to run an Oracle application that is available for POWER8 and
other competitive platforms. The Oracle application is licensed per core.
Which POWER8 processor advantage provides a competitive TCO advantage?
A. Core performance
B. Processor Instruction Retry
. 8 cores per processor
D. Level 3 memory cache
51. Which management function is provided by IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack?
A. End-user self-service provisioning and automation
B. Electronic Service Agent for proactive hardware reporting
. Resource pooling and dynamic VM placement
D. Ongoing optimization and VM resilience
52. A customer with AIX and IBM i based applications is considering a move to open
source Linux applications on x86 systems.
Which benefit should be highlighted for the customer to stay with the Power
platform?
A. The PowerLinux system is more powerful and will cost less than the x86 systems,
thereby saving costs.
B. The Power system uses x86 allowing Linux to run unchanged on Power.
C. The customer can recompile the AIX and IBM i applications and continue with Linux
on their existing Power System.
D. The Power system they are running on can support the exsisting applications and
the new Linux applications at the same time.
53. A customer has 4U remaining in their rack. Adding a second rack is not an option.
They will run a number of small instances of WebSphere Application Servers. It has
been determined that the application will require a total of 38 cores and 1TB of
memory.
What is the lowest cost Linux option that will satisfy the requirement?
A. Two S812Ls
B. One S824L
. Two S824s
D. Two S822s
54. A customer has a 6TB database that needs a very high performance solution at
the lowest cost. Which system is the more cost effective solution?
A. An E870 with internal disk drives and SSDs.
B. The S824 with integrated SSDs and V5000.
C. The S824 with attached FlashSystem 840.
D. The S824 with internal disk drives and SSDs with Easy Tier.
55. A customer states that up time is very critical in their environment.
What should the IBM reseller tell the customer?
A. Power Systems are the most reliable non-mainframe systems.
. IBM's POWER8 Enterprise systems offer a fault tolerant solution.
. IBM POWER8 technology offers concurrent maintenance on all components.
D. IBMs high availability solution has instant failover resulting in zero down time.

56. A customer is considering the E880 server with PowerVC to simplify virtualization
management.
Which software product includes PowerVC?
A. AIX 6 Express Edition
B. PowerVM Enterprise Edition
. AIX 7 Standard Edition
D. AIX 7 Enterprise Edition
57. Which product enables cloud functionality and is included in the AIX Enterprise
Edition at no additional cost?
A. WebSphere
B. IBM Cloud Orchestrator
C. IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack
D. Cloud Network Security
58. A customer wants to replace their existing x86 server farm running Domino,
Websphere Application Server, file serving, print serving, Cognos and DB2 database.
Which Operating System offers an integrated solution to satisfy the customers
requirements?
A. IBM i
B. SUSE
. Red Hat
D. AIX
59. A customer is implementing a new mission critical SAP landscape and requires a
Power system with the highest level of RAS support.
Which of the following will satisfy the requirement?
A. E880 only
B. S824, E870, or E880
. Any POWER8 system
D. E870 or E880
60. A customer wants to run multiple workloads, and is considering an S824 or an
E870. Under which condition would the E870 be more appropriate?
A. If the customer needs to support more than 1TB of memory.
. If the customer needs hot plug PCIe adapters.
. If the customer needs to run AIX, IBM i, and Linux using internal disk.
D. If the customer expects to grow beyond 2TB of memory and more than 24 cores
61. A customer is running an E870 and is considering running Linux in a partition.
What should be proposed to the customer to satisfy the requirement?
A. Red Hat free edition
B. SUSE with KVM
. Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL)
D. Ubuntu
62. Which customer requirement would lead to a proposal of a 6-core S814 instead of
a 4-core S814 server?
A. 96GB memory
. Large cache disk controllers
. Fibre attached disk
D. High speed Ethernet adapters

63. A customer has an application that requires the following:

21 cores

24 by 7 operation

High I/O bandwidth

Lowest TCO
Which solution will satisfy the requirements?
A. Two S824s
. One E870 with two client partitions
C. Two S822s
D. Two S814s
64. An IT manager has several POWER5 servers and wants to consolidate them into a
new POWER8 server. The CFO (Chief Financial Officer) is asking for a financial
justification for the project.
Which resource can be used to provide a rapid high-level financial data overview?
A. Alinean tool
. Eagle study
. IBM Global Financing
D. Scorpion study
65. A credit card company is going to implement a new application for which security
is a major requirement. The company has been quoted a solution running in
Windows.
Why should the company consider a Power Systems solution?
A. IBM has superior firewalls.
. Starting with POWERS, security is built into the processor.
. PowerSC includes templates for PCI compliance.
D. IBM AIX and IBM i have security check points that make it nearly impossible to be
hacked.
66. A customer has a fully virtualized scale out Linux environment with 26 x86
servers, each with 16 cores. You are proposing to move all Linux partitions to eight
Power S824 servers, each with 24 cores.
What coat reduction should be included in tie TOO documentation?
A. Partition monitoring
. Linux patching
. Application maintenance
D. Network infrastructure
67. A client running Oracle databases is considering a Power solution. They want the
highest level of reliability, performance, and support.
Which operating system on Power should be recommended?
A. SUSE
B. Red Hat
C. AIX
D. IBM i

68. What is a competitive advantage of a Power System compared to an Oracle

Exadata system?
A. Availability of SSD drives
. Granularity of cores and memory
. Integration of processors and storage
D. Number of available cores
69. As a virtualization host, what is an advantage of VIOS compared to IBM i?
A. Virtual SCSI
B. V3700 external disk virtualization
. Virtual Ethernet
D. Dual (redundant) management partitions
70. A customer wants to simplify virtualization management and specifically wants
the ability to capture and deploy virtual images.
In addition to PowerVM, which software product will satisfy the requirement?
A. PowerVC
. PowerHA
. PowerVP
D. PowerKVM
71. Which P0WER8 technology features contribute the most to lower TCO?
A. CAPI and transactional memory
. First Failure Data Capture and Thermal Power Management Device
. PCIe Gen3 support and Hot Plug adapters
D. High performance cores and SMT
72. A customer is migrating from a P0WER6 570 to a POWER8 S824.
Which technology will have to be replaced?
A. FCoE
B. SCSI
. SAS
D. Fibre Channel
73. A client wants a proposal for a POWER8 server to support deployment of a new
mobile application.
What information is most valuable to configure the new server?
A. Security requirements
. Programming language
C. Types of mobile devices
D. Expected transaction volume
74. What P0WER8 availability feature is unique to the E870 and E880 models?
A. First failure data capture
B. PowerVM Live Partition Mobility
C. Redundant service processors
D. Hot swap I/O adapters

75. A customer is evaluating POWER8 and competitive servers to run multiple

workloads in a dynamic environment.
What should be emphasized in the Executive Summary of a proposal?
A. Acquisition cost details
. Energy consumption report details
. Ability to run AIX, LINUX, and IBM i applications concurrently
D. Faster processors reduce software licensing expenses
76. A customer has an E870 installed in one location and is going to upgrade a Power
770 to an E870 in a second location.
Which option describes whether a Technical Delivery Assessment (TDA) is required on
the Power 770 to E870 upgrade?
A. A TDA is only required on the first POWER 770 to E870 upgrade at a customer
location.
B. Since the customer already has an E870 installed in the enterprise, a TDA is not
required.
C. A TDA is not required on a POWER 770 to E870 upgrade.
D. A TDA is required on all POWER 770 to E870 upgrades.
77. A customer plans to implement a web-based solution that requires 34 Power
cores. They want to acquire a POWER8 solution with the best TCA.
Assuming all other configuration requirements are equal, which solution provides the
best TCA?
A. One S822
B. Two S824s
. Three S814s
D. One E870
78. In a competitive situation, a customer wants to compare virtualization
capabilities of POWER8 systems and x86 systems.
Which response describes a competitive advantage of PowerVM compared to VMware?
A. PowerVM can run dual VIO servers to provide higher availability.
B. PowerVM has the ability to virtualize memory while VMware does not.
C. PowerVM provide higher system utilization because it is implemented in the
processor logic.
D. PowerVM runs in a secure address space while VMware runs in application state.
79. Why is OpenPOWER strategically important for Power Systems customers?
A. To support IBM i solutions for hybrid clouds.
B. To enable community development of AIX and PowerVM.
C. To collaborate with companies and develop new Power solutions.
D. To help integrate IBM Cloud with OpenStack for private cloud.
80. What is an advantage of a POWER8 system compared to an x86 solution?
A. Supports PCIe Gen 3
. More cores per socket
. Lower PVU cost
D. Greater memory bandwidth

81. An application has a high availability requirement and is implemented with two
local partitioned P0WER8 servers and one remote partitioned POWER8 server. One
local server runs production and replicates data to the backup local server. The
backup local server replicates data to backup remote server.
What is the minimum number of HMCs required to support the sites?
A. 4
B. 1
C. 3
D. 2
82. What is a performance monitoring product that is available on the E880?
A. PowerVP
. PowerVM
. PowerSC
D. PowerVC
83. Which tool can be used to determine the three-year TCO of a an S824 system
compared to an HP DL580?
A. Power Systems Speed Sheet
B. Quick Pricer
C. Alinean TCO tool
D. TCO Cost Estimator
84. In addition to one System Node, what is (are) the minimum E880 hardware
feature(s)?
A. One System Control Unit
. Two I/O drawers and one disk expansion drawer
. One System Control Unit and two I/O drawers
D. One I/O drawer
85. A department chain IT manager that their E870 processing requirements can
unexpected short peaks throughout the day. They need to automatically activate
cores and give them back when the processing requirements decrease.
Which Capacity on Demand offering will satisfy the customers requirements?
A. Trial
. Utility
. Capacity Upgrade on Demand
D. Elastic
86. A customer is evaluating infrastructure options in order to deploy IBM DB2 BLU.
What is a benefit of running DB2 BLU on POWER8?
A. It can be managed with PowerVP to simplify deployment of new images.
. It exploits large caches and memory bandwidth, delivering better performance.
. It takes full advantage of 16 threads per core, delivering better performance.
D. It minimizes the number of support contracts that the customer needs.
87. Which resource is used to determine if an adapter can move from the 570 to the
S824?
A. AlineanTool
. Sales Manual
C. Workload Estimator
D. Fix Central

88. A customer states that they require N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) for storage
attachment. Which adapter will satisfy their requirement?
A. 8Gb Fibre Channel adapter
B. 40GbE Infiniband adapter
. 4Gb Fibre Channel adapter
D. 12Gb Cache RAID SAS quad-port6Gb adapter
89. PowerVM Enterprise Edition provides which availability function?
A. Live Partition Mobility
. High availability failover
. Policy based workload relocation
D. Live Application Mobility in case of a system failure
90. You are proposing a PowerHA solution to your customer who wants installation
assistance.
What resource can be proposed to perform the installation?
A. Local Field Technical Sales Support
. Lab Services
. Advanced Technical Support
D. IBM Development team
91. Which POWER8 RAS feature is available on all Scale-out and Enterprise systems?
A. CoD cores
. Dual System Clocks
C. Hot Plug PCIe adapters
D. Dual FSPs
92. A customer is running an Oracle database on Solaris and needs to replace their
systems. They are considering offerings from both Oracle and IBM. Oracle is leading
with M5.
What advantage should the IBM reseller discuss to demonstrate the value of POWER8?
A. Number of threads per core
. Core performance
. License cost per core
D. Total cores on a single systems
93. A customer with an AS/400 running S/36 code needs to migrate to a new P0WER8
system. They require a deskside solution.
Which solution will satisfy the customer's requirements?
A. S812L running IBM i 6.2
. S822 running IBM i 7.2
C. S814 running IBM i 7.1
D. S814 running IBM I 6.1
94. IBM is competing with Cisco for a large Oracle database opportunity.
What advantage of POWER8 systems should an IBM Power reseller emphasize?
A. They can be virtualized.
. They offer greater scalability.
. They run Linux.
D. They are managed by a single pane of glass.

95. A customer needing an analytics solution is comparing POWER8 with x86 servers
for their infrastructure.
What makes Power Systems a better value than the x86 solution?
A. More supported analytic solutions providing more choices.
. Higher performance and faster response times.
. Stronger encryption capabilities and proprietary analytics algorithms.
D. Greater storage capacity with encrypted data.
96. Customers benefit from the OpenPOWER Foundation because:
A. OpenPOWER Foundation-developed solutions run on all POWER6, POWER7, and
POWER8.
. OpenPOWER Foundation-developed solutions are all developed to utilize CAPI for
optimal performance.
OpenPOWER-developed solutions by the Foundation are provided at no charge.
D OpenPOWER Foundation-development teams creating new solutions for Power
architecture.
97. A customer is concerned about Power Systems security in a virtualized
environment They want real-time monitoring and a trusted firewall between LPARs.
Which IBM product should be proposed?
A. PowerVM
. IBM Security Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign-On
. Tivoli Security Policy Manager
D. PowerSC
98. What is a major differentiator with the IBM Solution for Hadoop - Power Systems
Edition, compared to Hadoop on x86?
A. IBM hardware and software components are customizable for best
price/performance.
. The IBM solution provides fixed configurations for hardware and software for easy
deployment.
. The IBM solution uses SSDs and faster interconnects.
D. The IBM solution uses MapReduce for scalability to thousands of servers.
99. A P0WER8 customer with disk expansion drawers needs a non-disruptive solution
to improve the disk performance at the lowest cost.
What should be proposed to satisfy the customer's requirement?
A. 840 Flash Storage
B. DS5000 SAN Disk
C. V7000 SAN Disk
D. SSD drives
100. A customer has 40 Power 520 servers and is concerned about the ongoing
operational cost, space, and high availability.
Which solution should be discussed in order to satisfy the requirements?
A. Purchase one E870 with PowerVM and PowerHA.
. Purchase one S824 with PowerVM and PowerHA.
. Purchase four S812L servers with PowerVM and PowerHA.
D. Purchase two S824 servers with PowerVM and PowerHA.

101. What is a limitation of model once installed?

Inability to change the:
A. attached tape drive from LTO-5 to LTO-6
. operating system from AIX to Linux
C. disk controller from non-cache to cache
D. rack mount to deskside covers
102. When implementing a 40TB NoSQL in-memory database on an x86 platform, a
customer needs 24 servers. The same database requirement can be satisfied on
POWER with a CAPI connected FlashSystem 840.
How many Power S822L(s) is (are) needed?
. 8
B. 16
. 1
D. 24
103. A customer asks why they should investigate Open Source solutions as opposed
to single vendor proprietary solutions.
Which statement best summarizes the benefit of the solutions?
A. The open community develops to all operating systems standards.
. The open community development model provides greater flexibility for
application functional expansion.
C. Open Source solutions are certified to execute on all operating systems since they
are developed in Java.
D. Open Source solutions are not susceptible to security flaws due to peer review
process.
104. A customer is close to maximum energy consumption in their data center and
wants to measure and predict energy use.
Which POWER8 feature will provide the required function?
A. Power core nap mode
B. Power trending
. Power capping
D. Power saver mode
105. A customer told the IBM reseller that they are reviewing proposals from several
different computer manufacturers.
What should the IBM reseller emphasize as a Power Systems infrastructure ad
advantage?
A. IBM offers a lower price than their competitors.
. IBM systems scales to a greater number of cores and memory.
. IBM integrates their systems at the factory to minimize start up time.
D. IBM owns and validates the entire hardware and system software stack.
106. A customer needs to purchase a server to run their large Tivoli Storage Manager
environment What POWERS capability should they consider compared to an M
solution?
A. Higher system bandwidth
B. Dual FSPs ensure system availability
C. Chipkill memory reduces program errors
D. Active Memory Expansion

107. A customer believes that virtualized x86 solutions offer a lower TCA than Power
solutions. Which of the following Power solutions generally has the lowest TCA?
A. S824L
B. S824
. S822
D. S812L
108. A customer has an E870 and is installing IBM software products in a Red Hat
partition. What PVU will the customer be charged per core?
A. 70PVUs
B. 100PVUS
C. 120PVUs
D. 80PVUs
109. The customer believe that virtualization x86 solution offer a lower TCA than
Power solution.
A.
B.
C.
D.

S822
S824
S812L
S824L

110. What is a limitation of the 4-core S814 model once installed?

A.
B.
C.
D.

Disk controller from non-cache to cache

Operating system from Linux to AIX
Attach tape drive from LTO-5 to LTO-6
Rack mount to deskside covers

111 A customer needs a 4-core S814 server with 1TB available disk space to run an
ERP application. Which disk technology meets the requements?.
Which disk storage technology meets the requirements?
A. Internal hard disk
B. SAN
C. Internal Solid-State disk
D. Flash