Which of the following is a benefit of the POWER9 processor with Power Enterprise Servers when compared to x86?
A. DDR4 Memory
B. More cores per socket
C. More threads per core
D. NVIDIA Tesla V100
A customer with an AIX in-house SMT2 application on POWER6 would like to upgrade to POWER9. The customer would like to know the relative performance of the servers.
Which resource provides the SMT2 performance of the two systems?
A. IBM Performance Management for Power Systems
B. IBM Power Systems Performance Report
C. IBM Power Systems Facts and Features
D. IBM Systems Workload Estimator
A customer is comparing a Power Systems solution with an x86 solution for big data analytics.
Which no-charge IBM analysis is available to justify the value of IBM Power Servers compared to x86 solutions?
A. IT Economics Study (Eagle Study)
B. Performance Navigator
C. System Planning Tool
D. Workload Estimator
A customer wants to provide storage to 16 partitions on a new Power System E980. Each partition requires at least 10 individual LUNs. The customer has strong SAN administration skills but only moderate VIOS skills.
Which technology satisfies the storage and skills requirements?
A. NPIV
B. MPIO
C. vSCSI
D. SVC
Which of the following needs to be taken into consideration when designing an IBM Power System E980 solution?
A. Each system node has eight PCI full-size Gen3 slots which are a mix of x8 and x16 PCIe slots.
B. A DVD drive must be included in either the system control unit or in a system node.
C. Redundant SAS controllers in each system node manage all six system node SAS bays.
D. Only low profile PCIe adapters are supported in the system node.
What would improve overall utilization of physical memory resources by allowing a group partitions to use a pool of physical memory resources?
A. Active Memory Sharing
B. Active Memory Expansion
C. Active Memory Mirroring
D. Active Memory Deduplication
A customer has two POWER8 processor-based servers with eight partitions on each system. They are upgrading to two POWER9 processor-based servers and want to improve their application uptime during the upgrade/migration to the new servers.
What feature should they implement?
A. Live Partition Mobility between servers
B. Remote Recovery on both servers
C. Active Memory Expansion on each server
D. Memory Deduplication between servers
What POWER9 processor capability has been enhanced, relative to POWER8, to enable more efficient processor utilization in support of some applications?
A. SMT8 Fused Core Optimization
B. SMT16 Simulation Mode
C. Direct Attached Memory Mode
D. AltiVec Instruction set
A customer wants to transfer existing licenses for PowerHA from a Power System E880 to a new Power System E980.
What service, if any, will allow the customer to do this?
A. Customers cannot transfer the PowerHA licenses
B. Entitled Systems Support
C. FLRT
D. FixCentral
A customer is designing a highly scalable cloud management and deployment solution using PowerVM NovaLink.
What does it mean when the HMC uses co-management mode?
A. Dual HMCs will be required to manage the system.
B. Novalink requires two connections to each PowerVM instance.
C. Both FSPs must be connected to the HMC.
D. Both the HMC and NovaLink can manage the system.
