IBM Assessment: Power Systems with POWER7 Common Sales Skills -v2 Sample Questions:
1. A customer has a Power 720 with an expansion unit. The disk slots in the CEC and the expansion drawer are full. The customer wants to add SSD capacity.
Which of the following is the most economical option for the customer?
A) Install a SAS RAID adapter and an optional disk riser in the CEC to support SSDs.
B) Install an SSD disk riser in the Power 720 CEC
C) Install an SSD enablement feature and a second expansion unit on the Power 720 to house the SSDs
D) Install PCIe SSD SAS adapter to support SSDs without using disk slots
2. Which of the following demonstrates the versatility of Power Systems Express servers?
A) Each server can be configured as a rack mount, deskside or PureFlex node and supports AIX, Linux and IBM i.
B) Capacity on Demand processors can be configured for workload growth.
C) Offered as commercial servers and technical workstations that are specifically designed to provide maximum performance.
D) Commercial and compute-intensive workloads can run on the same server hardware.
3. A customer has an 18-core POWER7 750 with 512GB of memory. The customer anticipates 100% growth in the next year and needs to add capacity. The customer has requested a proposal by the end of the week.
What is the next step in determining how much capacity needs to be added?
A) Engage the Benchmark Center to simulate the anticipated growth so the correct upgrade can be determined.
B) Use the AME tool to determine if additional cores and memory can be added to the existing system.
C) Conduct a study to determine how much processor, memory and disk storage is currently utilized.
D) Activate Trial Capacity on Demand processors to determine how much processing capacity will be needed.
4. 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) Processor Core Nap
B) EnergyScale for I/O
C) Power Capping
D) Dynamic Power Saver
5. What is the minimum HMC model required to manage POWER7 or POWER7+ servers?
A) 7310-CR2
B) 7310-CR3
C) 7310-CR4
D) 7042-CR5
Solutions:
| Question # 1 Answer: D | Question # 2 Answer: D | Question # 3 Answer: C | Question # 4 Answer: C | Question # 5 Answer: B |

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