C9010-251 Online Practice Questions and Answers

A customer has a 4-node cluster serving a few different applications. The storage requirements are not clearly defined and would be very unpredictable.

How would shared storage pools benefit this customer?

A. They reduce the total required storage by half.

B. They eliminate the need for multiple repository disks.

C. They reduce I/O bandwidth by sharing the LUNs.

D. They reduce the time and effort needed to allocate storage.

A customer would like to consolidate their five AIX servers to one S822 server, in a virtual environment with two VIO Servers for boot drives.

What is the minimum requirement?

A. IVM

B. ASMI

C. PuTTY

D. HMC

What does the numeral "4" represent in a model S824?

A. The number of power supplies

B. The number of installed cores

C. The number of PCIe slots

D. The number of rack EIA units.

What feature of IBM i prevents editing object code?

A. Single level storage

B. Integrated antivirus

C. Authorization lists

D. Object-Oriented Architecture

A customer consolidated several environments running IBM i, Linux and AIX into an S824. Now the system's installed memory is insufficient. The customer believes that the Active Memory Expansion feature may resolve the memory issue.

Which of the following operating systems is capable of using the compression and decompression technology to resolve the issue?

A. AIX

B. IBM i

C. Red Hat

D. SUSE

Which tape backup option is supported for migration from a POWER6 520 with a SCSI attached external LTO-3 tape drive to a POWER8 S814, and is read compatible with LTO-3?

A. Migrate the SCSI adapter to the S814 and attach it to an existing LTO-3 tape drive.

B. Add an SAS adapter and external LTO-5 tape drive.

C. Add an internal LTO-4 tape drive in the CEC.

D. Add an SAS adapter and external LTO-6 tape drive.

Which of the following statements is true regarding CAPI?

A. CAP1 allows for adapters like FPGAs and GPUs to bypass the CPU and access the memory directly, allowing for faster data access and reduced CPU utilization

B. CAPI enabled servers use general purpose accelerators that increase the processor clock without compromising stability and RAS.

C. CAPI allows supported third party CPUs (Oracle, Intel, AMD, etc.) to be installed to speed up processing of specific workloads such as big data, compression or Java.

D. CAPI is designed for High-Performance Computing only. Commercial workloads cannot benefit from CAPI acceleration

Which power option is provided with the S822?

A. (1)1400 Watt 200-240 Volt

B. (2) 1400 Watt 200-240 Volt

C. (2)1400 Watt 125-240 Volt

D. (1)1400 Watt 125-240 Volt

How can system software charges be reduced when migrating from POWER6 to a POWER8 Scale-out server?

A. Only activate the necessary cores.

B. Select the per-socket licensing model.

C. Configure the system with POWER8 Dual-Core Modules (DCM)

D. Disable all un-needed cores with Processor Deconfiguration.

An AIX customer is running AIX 5.3 on a POWER7 machine and wants to run this workload on a POWER8 server without upgrading their operating system.

What is their best option to migrate their workload?

A. Power HA failover

B. Live Partition Mobility

C. Power VC

D. Versioned WPAR

A customer wants to be able to automatically failover their Power System nodes that are running AIX in the event of a disaster. The customer will place the servers in No data centers that are in different geographies

Which IBM product will satisfy the customer's requirement?

A. IBM Metro Mirror

B. Power HA System Mirror for AIX Enterprise Edition

C. Geographic Logical Volume Manager

D. General Parallel File System (GPFS)

Customers to migrate to the 6-core Power6 520 S814, Which backplane RAID 5 provides the best performance ?

A. detachable back with 6 + 6 SFF-3 bracket and the second SAS controller

B. with ( 12 ) SFF-3 bracket and integrated SAS storage controller backplane C. with ( 18 ) SFF-3 bracket and dual SAS controllers and write cache storage backplane

D. detachable back with PCIe3 12GB Cache RAID SAS adapter and EXP24S of

Which of the following features are unique to PowerKVM ?

A. vTPM

B. SR-IOV

C. Support Ubuntu

D. Factory Integration Linux

A customer will be purchasing a POWER8 Scale-out server, and will be launching a heavy database application.

Which operating system is unified with a database?

A. AIX

B. IBM i

C. Windows

D. Linux

A customer recently installed a new 6-core S824 with the (18) SFF-3 bay storage backplane fully populated with HDDs. They want to include (4) SSDs to improve hot data performance. The customer wants to avoid the cost of adding an EXP24S I/O drawer to place the SSDs.

Which of the following will satisfy the customer's requirement to improve the hot data performance?

A. A PCIe RAID and SSD SAS adapter

B. A USB-attached SSD cage

C. An SSD SAS bay PCIe riser

D. An 8-bay 1.8-inch SSD cage in the backplane