C1000-031 Online Practice Questions and Answers

Which of the following statements is true regarding Dynamic Logical Partitioning (DLPAR)?

A. In a disaster, it will immediately move active LPARs from a local system to a remote system, over the network with only a pause in service.

B. In a disaster, it will immediately move active LPARs from a local system to another local system, using a common SAN, with only a pause in service.

C. It enables the relocation of resources such as CPU and memory between LPARs as required, without an interruption in service.

D. It will automatically allocate an unlicensed processor to an LPAR to replace one that has reached the threshold for errors.

A customer would like to add a second HMC to an environment which consists of multiple POWER8 and POWER9 processor-based systems.

Which of the following is a requirement for both HMCs to be able to manage all the systems?

A. Both HMCs must be at the same version of HMC Code.

B. Both HMCs must be on the same HMC VLAN.

C. All the POWER8 processor-based systems must be at the same firmware level.

D. Each HMC must be on a dedicated HMC VLAN.

An IBM I customer has installed a Power System E980 with 32 installed and 20 active cores. They run

VIOS on four cores and three IBM i LPARS in capped mode.

LPAR A uses 8 cores.

LPAR B uses 6 cores.

LPAR C uses 2 cores.

The customer has a requirement to make LPARs A and B highly available and wants to use PowerHA for

IBM i to achieve this.

What is the minimum number of cores that need to be licensed for PowerHA on the primary server?

A. 20 cores

B. 16 cores

C. 14 cores

D. 32 cores

What is L4 cache?

A. Off-processor-chip buffering to provide faster main memory access in enterprise servers.

B. Allows for Active Memory Expansion of the main memory in enterprise servers

C. On-processor-chip buffering of GPU results

D. On-processor-chip buffering between L3 and POWER9 processor cores

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 with a Power System E870 with five IBM i licenses wants to replace it with a new Power System E980 for a new workload. They will require eight IBM i licenses.

What is the most cost-effective way for the customer to accomplish this?

A. Purchase 3 new IBM i licenses and transfer 5.

B. Purchase 2 new IBM i licenses and transfer 6.

C. Purchase 5 new IBM i licenses and transfer 3.

D. Purchase 8 new IBM i licenses.

A customer is using PowerVM to virtualize a Power Systems server.

Which software product will allow them to provision the entire hardware stack (host, storage and network)?

A. PowerVC

B. PowerVP

C. PowerKVM

D. PowerSC

Which tool is recommended to assist in the design and deployment of partitions?

A. System Planning Tool

B. IT Economics Study (Eagle Study)

C. Workload Estimator

D. e-config