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

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

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

2. A system is being designed with many LPARs which will be clients of dual VIO Servers. The VIO Servers must be redundant so that, in the event of scheduled maintenance, the clients do not need to be shut down. Which of these strategies could be used to ensure that the client LPARs continue to be able to use the network in the event of a VIO Server being shut down?

A) Implement Shared Ethernet Adapter failover and have all client partitions access the network through the shared adapters.
B) Implement PowerHA SystemMirror on both VIO servers.
C) Configure Etherchannel between the client LPARs and the two VIO servers
D) Configure Network Interface Backup between the two VIO servers and use each VIO server to access the network.

3. A customer plans to consolidate two 8-core POWER6 systems with a total of 8 PCI-X adapters, 6 PCIe adapters, and a PCI-X I/O drawer into a 16-core Power 750. Which action allows the most efficient use of existing equipment?

A) Populate the Power 750 first then add 2 GX+ adapters to support PCI-X and PCIe I/O drawer loops.
B) Populate the Power 750 first then add GX+ and GX++ adapters to support PCI-X and PCIe I/O drawer loops.
C) Populate the Power 750 first then add a GX+ adapter to support PCI-X and PCIe I/O drawer loops.
D) Populate the Power 750 first then add a GX++ adapter to support PCI-X and PCIe I/O drawer loops.

4. Using the following information:
-Performance data from an existing system that a new system will replace
-Performance estimates that anticipate future workloads
-Micro-partitioning and logical partitioning implementations
Which of the following allows a technical sales representative to create a system design which can be imported into an HMC?

A) IBM eConfig
B) IBM System Planning Tool (SPT)
C) IBM Performance Monitor
D) IBM Workload Estimator (WLE)

5. What describes the difference between NPIV and vSCSI in the way fibre-channel attached disk and tape are presented when VIO Server is used?

A) NPIV presents virtual HBA addresses with generic device information for SCSI based disk and tape devices.vSCSI presents vendor specific information for disk and tape device devices attached via SCSI hardware interfaces.
B) NPIV presents Virtual HBA addresses and vendor specific information for disk and tape devices.vSCSI presents generic disk and tape device interfaces.
C) NPIV presents generic disk and tape device interfaces on virtual HBA addresses.vSCSI presents HBA addresses as SCSI with vendor specific information for disk and tape devices.
D) NPIV presents HBA addresses and vendor specific device information directly to the client partition.vSCSI presents vendor specific disk information and generic tape device interfaces through VIO server.

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