IBM Assessment: Power Systems with POWER7 and AIX & Linux Sales Skills -v2 - A4040-123 FREE EXAM DUMPS QUESTIONS & ANSWERS]

Question 1

The IT director of a data center has servers from Dell, IBM and Sun:
-The Dell servers run Linux -The Sun Servers run Solaris -The IBM servers run AIX.
Consolidation to fewer platforms is being considered.
What competitive advantage does the purchase of a new POWER7 server have over a new Sun T5 server for this customer environment?

A. Linux and AIX run natively on Power Systems servers. B. A POWFR7 system supports twice the number simultaneous threads per clock cycle of Dell and Sun systems. C. Capacity on Demand resources can be activated in increments of one tenth of a processor core. D. WPAR5 can be implemented on an AIX system to support both of the UNIX and Linux workloads.

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Question 2

A brokerage company has four Power 770 systems running their environment. Due to an acquisition, three non-IBM storage systems will be consolidated into the same data center. The company would like to integrate these non-IBM storage units into their environment with a single management interface.
What IBM storage product can provide a solution for this company?

A. V7000 B. SONAS C. N3000 D. XIV

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Question 3

A research university is planning the addition of a Hadoop based environment using PowerLinux servers. What IBM Software Group product should be considered?

A. FileNet Content Manager B. PureData for Operational Analytics C. InfoSphere Biginsights D. Lotus Domino

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Question 4

Which statement accurately describes the advantage provided by the Active System Optimizer (ASO) feature in AIX?

A. ASO increases application performance by improved affinity of cores and memory. B. ASO provides a higher level of virtualization performance by eliminating the need for PowerVM. C. ASO improves the speed of multi-site cluster failover. D. ASO decreases the amount of time required for an I/O operation.

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Question 5

Which option is supported for a customer that needs to run Linux applications natively on their Power Systems server?

A. Red Hat, SuSe and AIX in Linux compatibility mode B. Red Hat, SuSe, and Oracle Enterprise Linux C. Red Hat and SuSe D. Red Hat, SuSe, Debian, and AIX Toolbox for Linux

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Question 6

Which of the following are advantages of AIX compared to Windows?

A. Extensive list of ISV applications supported B. Number of certified engineers and developers C. Supports multiple virtualization technologies D. Architecture provides an improved security model

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Question 7

What customer requirement does Active Memory Expansion satisfy?

A. Additional memory is needed to implement a new application but maximum memory is already installed B. Fluctuating memory demands and the need to automatically activate and deactivate memory as required C. Hot-add support of new memory DIMMs to satisfy increasing memory demands. D. Need to upgrade the DIMMs from 32 GB to 64GB.

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Question 8

A manufacturing company has two facilities, located 200 miles apart, which require failover capability, The systems have WebSphere applications and Oracle databases, running on Power 770 servers with EMC storage.
The customer would like to implement high availability using PowerHA between the two sites.
What form of data replication integrates best with PowerHA?

A. GlobalMi rror B. MetroMirror C. EMCSRDE D. Oracle Data Guard

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Question 9

A customer is budgeting for the cost of the next AIX version release. What should be discussed?

A. Version upgrades are significantly discounted with the purchase of SWMA and a new system. B. Version upgrades are included in the cost of the Power Systems server. C. Version upgrades are available for download at no charge to AIX customers running POWER hardware D. Version upgrades are available at no charge to customers with a current SWMA contract.

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