IBM Power Systems with POWER7 Common Technical Sales Skills - v1 Sample Questions:

1. A customer has shut down an LPAR after using DLPAR to add or remove processor and memory resources. When the partition is reactivated, the desired changes are missing.What action, or sequence of actions, will immediately and permanently solve this problem?

A) Add or remove the resources using DLPAR and change the partition profile.
B) Add or remove the resources in the profile, click 'apply', then 'save'.
C) Add or remove the resources in the system profile and reboot the managed system.
D) Add or remove the resources using DLPAR, then shutdown and reactivate the LPAR.

2. A customer has an HMC-managed Power Systems server with 6 partitions. Four production partitions are subject to varying workloads throughout the day, and two are used for development and testing. The production applications have different licensing limitations on the number of physical cores that may be used. The development partitions can use no more than 1 core. The customer would like to dynamically optimize processor utilization within the licensing limits, with minimal operator intervention. Which of the following meets the customer requirement?

A) Define the production partitions' maximum CPU to the licensing limitations.
Define the development/test partition maximums to one core. Configure each partition to be
uncapped.
B) Create a shared processor pool for each production partition, with the maximum processor limit
set to the licensing limit for the application in the pool. Assign the development and testing
partitions to a processor pool with a maximum of 1 core. Configure each partition to use uncapped
processing.
C) Define the production partitions' maximum CPU to the licensing limitations.
Define the development/test partitions to use no more than one core. Configure the HMC
scheduler to dynamically assign processors among the pools over a day.
D) Define the production partitions' maximum CPU to the licensing limitations.
Define the development/test partition maximums to one core. Configure each partition to be
capped.

3. A customer would like to create a shared processor partition with 16 virtual processors. What is the minimum number of processing units required in the partition profile?

A) 0.16
B) 0.80
C) 0.10
D) 1.60

4. The Power 720 is offered with how many cores?

A) 4, 6, or 8
B) 2, 4, or 8
C) 2, 4, or 6
D) 1, 2, or 4

5. A customer has been using PowerVM Express Edition with a single VIO Server. They would like to implement dual VIO Servers to improve the availability and multiple shared processor pools for flexibility. What is necessary to implement these features?

A) Upgrade Express Edition to the latest level
B) Install latest VIO Server fixes
C) Upgrade PowerVM to Standard Edition
D) Upgrade to AIX Enterprise Edition

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