IBM Power Systems with POWER7 and IBM i Technical Sales Skills -v2 Sample Questions:
1. A customer wants to replace their existing system with a POWER7+ server with Storwize V7000 and is considering Solid State Drives (SSDs) for performance reasons.
Which tool is needed to determine if SSDs could improve performance?
A) SSD Analyzer Tool for IBM i
B) Disk Magic
C) Performance Tools Upgrade Analyzer
D) SSD Candidate Screening
2. A customer with a 2-core POWER6 520 running IBM i 6.1.1 wants to move to a 4-core POWER7+
720. Which of the following is a consideration?
A) ANZOBJCVN must be run and any identified issues resolved prior to the move.
B) The system serial number will change.
C) Virtual tape images can be used to migrate from the 520 to the 720.
D) IBM i on the 520 must be upgraded to 7.1 with TR6 prior to the upgrade.
3. A customer wants to replace a POWER5 server with a POWER7+ system. The customer would like to re-use the SCSI attached TS3100 tape library.
What needs to be done to make this possible?
A) The SCSI adapter needs to be migrated to the POWER7+ CEC.
B) The tape drives in the TS3100 library need to be converted from SCSI to SAS.
C) An expansion drawer needs to be purchased to connect to the TS3100.
D) The TS3100 needs to be upgraded to a TS3200.
4. In what situation would VIO Server be preferable to IBM i as a hosting partition?
A) When directly connecting to Storwize V3700
B) When connecting to ProtecTierTS7620
C) When using NPIV for tape connectivity
D) When configuring Ethernet bridging between partitions
5. An IBM i 7.1 customer with a Power 720 needs to occasionally run a small test environment of IBM i. The environment doesn't require regular backups, availability isn't a factor, and consistent I/O performance isn't important.
The test environment needs to be deployed quickly, and must be redeployed with a fresh instance after testing.
Which of these following configurations supports these requirements?
A) Dedicated internal storage and network
B) IBM i as a client partition of IBM i
C) Storage and network managed with VIO Server
D) Storage managed with VIO Server, dedicated network
Solutions:
| Question # 1 Answer: A | Question # 2 Answer: B | Question # 3 Answer: B | Question # 4 Answer: C | Question # 5 Answer: B |
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