IBM Power Systems with POWER7 Common Technical Sales Skills - v1 Sample Questions:
1. A customer is considering consolidating several stand alone x86 systems. The following two options are being considered:
1) A larger x86 processor than is currently installed using VMWare
OR
2) A POWER7 processor-based system using PowerVM.
They have reliable benchmark data for the proposed systems in a single workload environment comparing the proposed x86 and
Power Systems.
How should the processing demand of the target system be calculated?
A) Combine the raw performance ratings of the individual workloads.
B) Combine the raw performance ratings of the individual workloads, and add overhead for VMWare on the x86 platform.
C) Combine the raw performance ratings of the individual workloads, and add overhead for PowerVM on the Power Systems platform.
D) Combine the raw performance ratings of the individual workloads, and add overhead for both VMWare and PowerVM on their respective platforms.
2. Which of the following has an integrated database?
A) VIO Server
B) Linux
C) IBM i
D) AIX
3. A customer is evaluating PowerVM capabilities for dynamically allocating resources without rebooting LPARs. Which features of PowerVM support the customer requirement?
A) DLPAR and Active Memory Sharing
B) CoD and PCI hot-plug
C) Hot node add and hot node repair
D) Dynamic processor failure and processor instruction retry
4. A customer has an LPAR with 4 dedicated cores on a POWER7 server with SMT4 enabled. How many logical processors are presented to an application running on this LPAR?
A) 8
B) 16
C) 32
D) 4
5. A data center includes a Power 750 server running AIX and Linux, and PS700 Blades running AIX. What can the customer use to update AIX and Linux, create and deploy LPARs, and set energy caps for both servers from a single console?
A) PowerVM Standard Edition
B) Hardware Management Console
C) VMControl Standard Edition
D) IBM Systems Director Standard Edition
Solutions:
| Question # 1 Answer: B | Question # 2 Answer: C | Question # 3 Answer: A | Question # 4 Answer: B | Question # 5 Answer: D |

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