EMT Practice Test

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Question1: An administrator added a prestart job entry to the QCMN subsystem using the following command:
ADDPJE SBSD(QCMN) PGM(PGMA) INLJOBS(350) THRESHOLD(250) ADLJOBS(150) MAXUSE (200) The entry is used extensively and many remote requests connect to the prestart jobs. After adding the entry, the administrator determines that the system periodically freezes and response time is slow.
What is the most likely cause of the problem?

Question2: What is the minimum set of special authorities required to save an entire IBM i system?

Question3: What is required to restore a Hardware Management Console (HMC) to the last working configuration?

Question4: A file PF1 exists in library XYZLIB, and FILE2 exists in IFS directory ABCDIR.
What are the minimum set of authorities to grant a user read-only access to XYZLIB/PF1 and /ABCDIR/ FILE2?

Question5: What is the purpose of the SAVSECDTA command?

Question6: An administrator needs to back up changes to a large physical file that is always exclusively locked by an application These changes need to be sent to another IBM i system.
Which option will allow the administrator to send the changes in the least amount of time?

Question7: Which tool is appropriate to determine if Solid State Drives will improve disk performance in an environment?

Question8: An upgrade from IBM i 6.1 to IBM i 7.2 is being planned. The system is currently configured to use an Operations Console Direct (Async) Connection.
What must be done prior to upgrading to ensure the console session will work?

Question9: When will Expert Cache be most effective with an unconstrained CPU?

Question10: At the end of an *ALLUSR library save the system issues the following message:
"CPF3777631 libraries saved, 1 partially saved, 0 not saved."
The library QPFRDATA missed saving the *MGTCOL objects.
Taking which action will avoid the problem in the future?

Question11: An administrator notices that the QEZJOBLOG output queue has an unusually high number of entries. The same job name which runs many times throughout the day, and always ends normally, is associated with the output queue entries.
Which job description change can be made to limit the number of job logs created?

Question12: An administrator has just completed replacing IBM System i Access for Windows with IBM i Access Client Solutions on all users systems. Users report they now have Console and Management options that they did not have when using IBM System i Access for Windows.
What can be done to fix this?

Question13: Which PTF type contains newly released PTFs that resolve severe issues that can impact IBM i operations?

Question14: Which product gives MacBook users 5250 emulation and allows for native spooled file copy to the laptop?

Question15: Which TCP/IP ports are valid when used to remotely connect via SSL or non-SSL to the HMC for 5250 console access?

Question16: An administrator has noticed that the number of security audit journal receivers on the system is getting unmanageable.
How can the administrator adjust the journal to still capture and retain the required journal entries but generate fewer receivers?

Question17: An administrator is working on a hardware replacement for a current system.
Which tool should be used to determine if the current LIC, OS, and existing adapters may be migrated to the new system?

Question18: Which option represents the complete list of parameters for defining an interface with a static address for IPv6 in addition to the line description name?

Question19: An administrator wants to determine the remaining life of cache batteries in disk controllers. Where is this information presented?

Question20: An administrator needs to automatically terminate interactive user jobs when they are idle for more than 15 minutes.
Which two system values should the administrator use to complete this task?

Question21: An installation has been running the production system with system value QSECURITY set to 30.
Management has been advised by a security consultant to change the system value QSECURITY to 40.
What is the consequence of implementing this change?

Question22: An administrator on a POWER8 machine needs to create a second partition. It has only one physical Ethernet adapter.
How can the administrator provide Ethernet connectivity to the second partition after creating a Virtual Ethernet adapter in both the Server partition and the Client partition?

Question23: A system administrator has just changed the password of the QSECOFR user profile. After verifying the new password with a successful login to the operating system, the administrator attempts a login to System Service Tools with STRSST. All Service Tools login attempts fail with the error CPF225D:
Requesting service tools ID password not correct.
Why is the administrator unable to login to System Service Tools with the new QSECOFR password?

Question24: An administrator has been notified that company auditors will need access to a system for 14 days from the current date. The profiles are created but there is a well-defined company policy about inactive profiles.
What can be done in each profile to insure the policy is enforced?

Question25: Which report in the Security Tools menu is used to find user profiles whose password is the same as the user profile and to take an action against the profiles?

Question26: Given the following code sample:

What will happen when user CARLA starts the program in interactive mode?

Question27: The administrator is given the task to secure specific tables in a library by granting specified users access.
Which security action is needed to accomplish the task?

Question28: An administrator has multiple, geographically separated, IBM i systems to manage. The administrator must monitor system performance and run performance analysis on an as-needed basis, from web browsers inside and outside the corporate network.
Which web-based tool will support the requirements?

Question29: What does this display from a WRKSYSSTS screen tell the administrator about the system?

Question30: A system is configured with U.S. English as the primary language and Spanish as a secondary language.
Where is the language specified when setting up a new user profile for a Spanish speaking user?

Question31: During a system reload, the RSTDLO command is mistakenly canceled. When the restore is reattempted, message CPF9032 "Document interchange session not started" is returned.
Which step(s) will resume the restore?

Question32: A programmer ran a database purge over files in LIB1 and deleted a large number of records.
An administrator now needs to remove the deleted records from files with the greatest number of deleted records.
How can the administrator achieve this?

Question33: An administrator is installing a release upgrade using the automatic process. The LIC, base OS, and all licensed program products have installed except for 5770-SS1 option 3 (Extended Base Directory Support).
What is necessary to complete the process and install 5770-SS1 option 3 assuming the system is still in a restricted state?

Question34: An additional DNS server has been configured on the local network. Given the following menu:
1. Work with TCP/IP interfaces
2. Work with TCP/IP routes
3. Change TCP/IP attributes
4. Work with TCP/IP port restrictions
5. Work with TCP/IP remote system information
10. Work with TCP/IP host table entries
11. Merge TCP/IP host table
12. Change TCP/IP domain information
20. Configure TCP/IP applications
21. Configure related tables
22. Configure point-to-point TCP/IP
Which action is necessary for the additional server to be used?

Question35: Which statement is correct about installing system firmware on a single image system that has no HMC?

Question36: The HMC is backed up in two different ways for different purposes.
Which identifies the correct tasks and usage?

Question37: Using the Run SQL Scripts dialog in IBM System i Navigator, the following error is produced:

The SQL statement is valid and works from the green screen SQL dialog.
Why does it fail in this case?

Question38: An administrator needs to set up and configure a monitor for CPU usage under Management Central > Monitors.
Given the image below:

What is used to set up this monitor?

Question39: Which sequence of actions will ensure that private authorities are correctly assigned to the objects after restoring the operating system?

Question40: An administrator is trying to restore a journal receiver to a different system. The journal receiver library does not exist on the new system.
What is the result of restoring this journal receiver?

Question41: A POWER8 system with a single FSP is running firmware SV830_048. When the administrator goes to Fix Central, the latest firmware is SV830_068_050.
What is the effect of installing this software?

Question42: Specific Network Server Storage Spaces (NWSSTG) are being saved in order to be moved from one system to another. Both systems are running IBM i 7.2. The target system has never hosted any other type of system.
What is required to successfully prepare the target system for the restore of the Network Storage Spaces from the system currently hosting the IFS?

Question43: Several printers were moved from one IP subnet to another overnight. The printers are accessed by their Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN). The FQDNs were changed to resolve to the new addresses the following morning, but the IBM i will still not print to the new printers. The printers can be pinged by their IP addresses.
What is the cause of this problem?

Question44: Which step is required before an upgrade to IBM i 7.2 from another supported version?

Question45: What are the steps to access the configuration for IBM i NetServer file and print shares?

Question46: Programmers working on a software development project frequently need to save their development library (LIBX) at the prior release level of the operating system.
The administrator needs to change the default value of the SAVLIB command parameter to accommodate the programmers' prior release save requirement.
The default value before the change: SAVLIB LIB(LIBX) TGTRLS (*CURRENT) The default value after the change: SAVLIB LIB(LIBX) TGTRLS (*PRV)
What should the administrator do to facilitate the change?

Question47: An administrator has bean directed to configure DDM using TCP/IP between two systems: "SYSTEM1" and "SYSTEM2". Both systems are in the site DNS. Applications on both systems require DDM access to files on the other system.
The administrator has made sure that the Remote Database Directory has the *LOCAL entry configured correctly on both systems.
What is additionally required so the communications will function correctly between the systems?

Question48: An administrator is trying to determine why the remote journal is not receiving any new entries.
What should the status of the remote journal be after pressing F16 on the WRKJRNA command for the journal?

Question49: A new application is being deployed to production. The application has separate libraries for physical files, logical files, journals, journal receivers, and other journaled objects.
After saving the journal receiver libraries, which sequence should be used to save the other libraries, so that the restore will correctly re-establish the journaling environment and file relationships, without using the DFRID (name) parameter of the RSTLIB command and the RSTDFROBJ command?

Question50: After performing a full system restore, an administrator reviews the system and determines that some
*CMD, *PGM, *SRVPGM, *SQLPKG, and *MODULE objects are missing from certain libraries.
Which system value could cause the problem?

Question51: When creating a new journal environment, what allows for a significant performance increase if a program makes a large number of changes to a journaled file?

Question52: Two HMCs manage the same server. An administrator recently upgraded the HMC firmware from level V8 R8.2 0 to V8 R8.3.0 on one of the consoles. Shortly after, a connection error "Version Mismatch..." appeared on the second console.
Which process will resume the functionality for the second console?

Question53: A CL program that runs after an IPL must complete and errors will be researched at a later time. How can all CPF massages be acknowledged so the program continues running?

Question54: Which parameter of the RSTOBJ command can improve the efficiency of a restore operation when restoring individual objects from a tape that contains a full system save?

Question55: An administrator needs to secure a physical file that will have an exclusive lock by an application job.
Which object-level security will allow adding and removing private authorities without causing downtime for the application?

Question56: An administrator is recovering a single image system after a crash. The administrator has placed the latest SAVSYS into the external SAS TS2900 LTO tape drive and performed a D-Mode IPL.
Why is the system failing to find the SAVSYS media?

Question57: An auditor needs an administrator to show the differences between a file as it currently exists and as it existed in the past.
Which command can help the administrator determine the differences assuming that journaling for the file was active and the receivers for the timeframe in question exist?

Question58: What is an advantage of creating and using customized distribution media from the GO LICPGM menu to install licensed programs on multiple systems in a network?

Question59: An IBM i guest LPAR is hosted by another IBM i LPAR. The administrator wants to save the virtual storage spaces.
Which command is used to save the virtual storage spaces?

Question60: A Power Systems server with SAN attached disk has redundant fibre HBAs and two paths provisioned through the SAN fabric.
One fibre HBA has been replaced, but the redundant path shows a failed status.
What is the most likely cause of this problem?

Question61: PTFs have been downloaded from IBM Fix Central directly to the system.
Which command is used to load and apply these PTFs?

Question62: A scheduled cleanup job runs every day at 6 a.m., but the system is down at 6 a.m.
Which setting will ensure that the job runs as soon as the system comes back up?

Question63: A subsystem description is configured as shown in the following screens:

Users are assigned to each job queue to run their batch work. The users assigned to the ACCOUNTING job queue are complaining that their batch jobs are occasionally not running. Other users do not experience this issue.
Why are ACCOUNTING users experiencing this problem?