C1000-031 Online Practice Questions and Answers

A customer has a significant investment in open source software for performing in-memory analytics. This workload is currently deployed on Linux and recent x86 hardware.

What advantage would a POWER9 processor-based server provide this customer?

A. Faster ChipKill correction rate

B. More cache per core

C. More cores per socket

D. Faster PCIe bandwidth

Which component of PowerSC monitors AIX systems, maintains security, and provides alerts when a change to the system violates a configuration policy?

A. Trusted Logging

B. Real Time Compliance

C. Security and Compliance Automation

D. Trusted Surveyor

A customer has ordered a Power System E980. The system has been built, but cannot be shipped.

What would prevent the system from being shipped?

A. The mandatory pre-install TDA has not been completed.

B. The IBM System Support representative has not completed the pre-install site visit.

C. The opportunity owner has not released it.

D. A pre-sale TDA discovered correctable issues that have not been corrected.

Which capability is used to reallocate memory from one LPAR to another?

A. Live Partition Mobility

B. Active Memory Expansion

C. Dynamic Logical Partitioning

D. Active Memory Sharing

A customer with a Power System 770 and direct SAN I/O is planning a migration to a Power System E980. The Power System 770 has four 8Gb PCIe 2-port full-height Fibre Channel adapters with all storage going through the SAN. The customer wants to keep the same WWPNs, and avoid a SAN reconfiguration.

What procedure should be recommended?

A. Order new HBAs, but keep using the existing, already configured SAN switches.

B. Order a PCIe Gen3 I/O Expansion Drawer and relocate the HBAs into the drawer.

C. Order new HBAs and modify the WWPNs in the ASMI.

D. Move the HBAs from the Power 770 and install them into the Power System E980 system node.

An IBM Power System E980 customer is allocating six processor cores to a shared processor pool where they intend to create four partitions as defined below: An IBM i partition with 1.75 processing units and 2 virtual processors ?uncapped An IBM i partition with .60 processing units and 1 virtual processors ?uncapped An IBM i partition with .40 processing units and 1 virtual processors ?uncapped A VIOS partition with 1.25 processing units and 2 virtual processors ?uncapped

How many IBM i licenses are required to support this configuration?

A. 2.75

B. 6.0

C. 4.0

D. 2.0

A customer needs to run a Linux database application that is supported on both x86 and Power System processors.

What is the advantage of selecting a POWER9 processor-based system for this application?

A. The ability to move live workloads without downtime.

B. More applications are compiled for Power Systems than for x86.

C. Better memory bandwidth on POWER9 processor-based systems.

D. More cores per socket on POWER9 processor-based systems.

An existing POWER8 client is requesting redundant hardware, service, and basic virtualization management for their new POWER9 Enterprise server. Their Systems Architect has included one 7063CR1.

Which of the following provides redundancy?

A. An existing 7042-CR8 with firmware at V8.

B. An Integrated Virtualization Manager (IVM).

C. An existing 7042-CR6 with firmware upgraded to V9.

D. An HMC Virtual Appliance

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

What is the minimum amount of rack space that an 80 core Power System E980, without any I/O drawers, will take up in a 19 inch rack?

A. 10U

B. 12U

C. 16U

D. 8U

Which open source technology forms the basis for PowerVC?

A. Linux

B. KVM

C. Hadoop

D. OpenStack

A customer's infrastructure is currently based on a Power System E870 managed by an HMC 7042-CR6 at V8.860 SW level. They are planning to upgrade their server to a new Power System E980.

Which of the following will enable the customer to connect an HMC to the Power System E980?

A. Install vHMC on a partition on the Power System E980.

B. Order a new Power-based HMC (7063-CR1).

C. Upgrade the software on the existing HMC.

D. Use the existing HMC at the current SW level.

A customer has a mission-critical IBM i application running on a POWER9 processor-based server that requires eight processor licenses. For High Availability, a POWER9 CBU server is synchronized with the production server using PowerHA for IBM i.

What is the minimum number of IBM i processor licenses required on the CBU server?

A. 2

B. 4

C. 1

D. 8

Which of the following is a feature exclusive to PowerVM Enterprise Edition?

A. PowerVC

B. PowerSC

C. Active Memory Sharing

D. HMC Virtual Appliance

A Technical Delivery Assessment (TDA), as part of the Solution Assurance is used to:

A. aggressively complete against competition.

B. resolve concerns about customer satisfaction.

C. expedite shipment of a server.

D. identify and assess risks.