EMT Practice Test

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Question1: A customer acquired a local rival year that had two existing POWER6 570s: each with 16-cores running in an active/active cluster with IBM i and PowerHA. They are ready to refresh the solution using an active/ passive cluster with a minimum of 26 cores for their production partition. The customer has a limited budget.
For the least cost, which option should the Power Seller propose?

Question2: A customer wants to make use of a public cloud solution for applications that run on Linux on Power.
Which of the following can accommodate the customer requirement?

Question3: Which of the following RAS features is available on POWER8 Scale-out servers?

Question4: A client wants to replace their current AIX-based WebSphere server. Budget is an issue.
What is the lowest cost option?

Question5: A PowerHA solution is being proposed to a customer who wants installation assistance.
What resource can be proposed to perform the installation?

Question6: A customer has invited an IBM sales representative to discuss running their application of WAS ND on Linux. They are concerned about the overall cost of the solution, especially with the ongoing cost of the software. The sizing guide is requiring 72-cores of Ivy Bridge EX System (4-socket servers processors.) To lower their cost, the sales representative discussed the option of running WAS ND on a POWER8 E870
40-core systems using IFLs. The customer mentioned that the TCA would be lower for x86.
What TCO factors should be addressed for purchasing POWER8 instead of the x86?

Question7: A customer is nearing maximum energy consumption in their data center and wants to measure and predict energy use.
Which POWER8 feature will provide the required function?

Question8: A customer is contemplating either a pair of S824s or a pair of E870s to run their critical workloads, utilizing live partition mobility to rebalance workloads as necessary. The customer will also want the ability to relocate active CPUs between systems.
Which offering might help the customer to favor the E870 solution?

Question9: Which Power Systems software product provides virtualization management and integrates with other higher-level cloud managers based on OpenStack technology?

Question10: A retail customer wants to expand their analytic capabilities to improve profit margins. They want to use an in-columnar database for fast reporting, dash-boarding for end-user business intelligence, and then add predictive analytics.
Which software solution stack would satisfy all of their requirements?

Question11: A customer wants to run multiple workloads and is considering an S824 and an E850.
Under which condition will the E850 be more appropriate?

Question12: A customer asks about the business value of open source-developed software.
Which statement accurately describes the benefit?

Question13: A customer is purchasing a new POWER8 Scale-out server and desires three years of hardware maintenance with 24 hour by 7 day coverage.
Which option satisfies this request?

Question14: 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?

Question15: A customer has determined that it is time to refresh their existing server infrastructure. The CIO's strategic direction of the organization is to utilize public cloud providers. The applications are currently running on Power Systems with Linux operating systems.
What justification can promote on-premises Power Systems?

Question16: A customer requires redundant VIO Servers booting from local disk on their E870.
What should be included with an E870 to satisfy the customer's requirement?

Question17: In a very competitive situation, a business partner requested the assistance of an IBM Client Technical Specialist (CTS) 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?

Question18: Which of the following is true concerning SAP HANA on POWER8?

Question19: A customer will order a POWER8 hardware solution that was proposed.
Which of the following should be used to create and submit the appropriate hardware solution to IBM manufacturing?

Question20: A customer needs to update their Linux application and is comparing Power to x86 solutions.
What benefit can be highlighted to demonstrate the value that POWER8 offers compared to x86 solutions?

Question21: What elements of POWER8 technology can be exploited by software developers to optimize performance on an E870?

Question22: What POWER8 features are exploited by DB2 with BLU Acceleration to optimize performance?

Question23: Which open source database company offers Postgres Advanced Server on POWER8 systems and has Oracle compatibility?

Question24: An existing IBM Power Systems customer has POWER7 servers and an older HMC. They want to add an E870.
What is the minimum HMC hardware version they must be running for the latest HMC code to support their new server?

Question25: The OpenPOWER Foundation is developing solutions for which environment(s)?

Question26: A customer is considering purchasing DB2 and WebSphere, and will determine whether to run it on POWER8 or x86. Both servers are licensed at 70 PVUs.
What is a reason that they should choose POWER instead of x86 to help reduce licensing cost?

Question27: A customer is considering migrating from a large Solaris environment to an AIX solution. They want help with their migration planning and some private training.
Which IBM solution will provide the most efficient help?

Question28: A customer wants to simplify virtualization management and specifically wants the ability to capture and deploy images of the virtual environment.
In addition to PowerVM, which software product will satisfy the requirement?

Question29: A customer has a BladeCenter S (BCS) with a POWER6 blade. They want to upgrade to POWER8 with 8 cores, 12 internal drives with room for growth, and an external LTO tape drive.
Which of the following is the lowest recommendation to satisfy their requirement?

Question30: A customer system environment is composed of multiple generations of older Power Systems servers and third party servers.
The customer wants to refresh the environment with current technology hardware, and implement private cloud technologies that will also allow the customer to move in the direction of hybrid cloud and off- premises cloud solutions.
Which of the following would enable a salesperson to engage to make a comprehensive TCO argument for POWER8 based servers that is focused on the customer's specific environment?

Question31: What virtualization capability is an advantage of PowerVM over VMware?

Question32: A customer would like to know if they can move a PCI-X Ethernet adapter from their existing 8233-E8B Power 750 server to a new POWER8 processor-based Power System that they plan to purchase by the end of the quarter.
What is the appropriate response that should be provided to the customer?

Question33: 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?

Question34: A customer is concerned about Power Systems security in a virtualized environment. They want real-time monitoring and trusted firewall between LPARs.
Which IBM product should be proposed?

Question35: A customer wants to acquire a server that can run Linux. The customer is interested in the active memory mirroring feature for the hypervisor.
Which of the following offers the best price/performance option for the customer?

Question36: A 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?

Question37: A customer has many x86 systems running Linux and has run out of server rack space.
Which statement indicates how Power Systems provides a solution to resolve the space issue?

Question38: A customer requires eight virtual machines.
Which of the following operating system choices will provide the greatest advantage in Total Cost of Acquisition for POWER8 hardware and software?

Question39: A customer running Linux with KVM 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?

Question40: A customer's POWER8 system has disk expansion drawers and needs to non-disruptively install a solution to improve the disk performance at the lowest cost.
What should be proposed to satisfy the customer's requirement?

Question41: A customer agrees that the proposed POWER8 server would best meet their short and long term growth requirements. However, due to a reduced capital budget, they cannot make a purchase.
What action is most appropriate?

Question42: A customer is running an E870 and is considering adding an IBM middleware workload that will run on any available operating system. IBM software costs are based on processor cores and PVUs.
Assuming that processor and memory requirements are comparable, which of the following will provide the most cost-effective solution?

Question43: Which of the following is supported on the S812LC?

Question44: Which of the following can be used to estimate the three-year TCO of a Power S824 compared to an HP DL580?

Question45: Which RAS feature is available on both the Scale-out and Enterprise systems?

Question46: Which systems can be members of the same Power Enterprise Pool?

Question47: Which of the following is an advantage of POWER8 architecture over HP-x86 architecture?

Question48: POWER8 systems introduced a feature to keep it running under power and thermal limits. This improves performance and energy management, while providing additional system reliability and availability.

Question49: A customer is running SAP HANA on Intel x86 servers. Workload requirements have outgrowth the current environment.
The customer is considering replacing their Intel x86 environment with IBM POWER8 processor-based servers.
What are some major reasons that the customer should consider Power Systems over x86?

Question50: A customer is migrating from a POWER6 570 to a POWER8 S824.
Which technology will have to be replaced?

Question51: A customer is considering migrating from x86 to Power Systems servers with PowerVM virtualization.
Which of the following is a compelling reason to consider the Power solution?

Question52: An existing customer wants to minimize the risk of replacing their HP system running an Oracle database with IBM Power Systems.
Which resource should be reviewed with the customer?

Question53: A customer wants to know how CAPI can benefit their operations.
What is a CAPI benefit?

Question54: A client is considering acquiring an E850.
What is the minimum number of physical cores that can be proposed?

Question55: IBM is competing with Cisco for a large Oracle database opportunity.
What advantage of POWER8 systems should an IBM Power reseller emphasize?

Question56: 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?

Question57: Which analytics solution is supposed on Cognos?

Question58: A potential AIX customer is interested in deploying an on-premises cloud offering for their users. They need to deploy quickly and are asking for help to address anticipated management challenges such as scalability, security and resource optimization.
Which of the following should be presented to the customer?

Question59: Which POWER8 feature is available only on 870 and E880 models?

Question60: Which of the following is required to run IBM Cloud PowerVC Manager?