IBM C1000-031 Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

IBM C1000-031 Online Questions & Answers

• Question 61:

  What is the main advantage of using dedicated donating cores for a Virtual Machine (VM) running a workload on a Power System E980 with multiple VMs?

  A. To reduce the cost of software licenses.
  B. To extend the processor pool with unused processor cycles.
  C. To reduce the cost of activated cores.
  D. To enable Elastic Capacity on Demand.
  B. To extend the processor pool with unused processor cycles.

• Question 62:

  Which of the following is an advantage of Power System Servers over Oracle Exadata solutions?

  A. Support for Flash Drives
  B. Ability to add cores and memory
  C. Can run Oracle 12C natively
  D. Offers a greater quantity of cores for enhanced scaling
  B. Ability to add cores and memory

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  Reference: https://www.slideshare.net/miguelnoronha/why-oracle-on-ibm-power7-is-better-than-oracle-exadata-the-advantages-of-ibm-power7-systems (slide 10)

• Question 63:

  A customer has a significant investment in open source software for performing in-memory analytics. This workload is currently deployed on Linux and recent x86 hardware. What advantage would a POWER9 processor-based server provide this customer?

  A. Faster ChipKill correction rate
  B. More cache per core
  C. More cores per socket
  D. Faster PCIe bandwidth
  C. More cores per socket

• Question 64:

  Which of the following RAS features is always enabled and functional on a Power System E950 / E980, regardless of configuration?

  A. Dynamic Memory Sparing
  B. Processor Instruction Retry
  C. Dynamic Processor Sparing
  D. System auto-restart
  B. Processor Instruction Retry

• Question 65:

  A customer wants to use Live Partition Mobility (LPM) to migrate an AIX 7.1 LPAR from their Power System E980 to some older Power servers in their existing environment.

  Assuming their processor mode is set correctly, they can use LPM to move from POWER9 to:

  A. POWER8 only.
  B. POWER5, POWER6, POWER7, or POWER8.
  C. POWER6, POWER7, or POWER8.
  D. POWER7, or POWER8.
  D. POWER7, or POWER8.

• Question 66:

  Which of the following statements is true regarding Power Enterprise Pools?

  A. The XML configuration file can be downloaded from the ESS (My Entitled Systems Support) web site.
  B. One Enterprise pool can contain the following machine types: Power Systems E870, E870C, E880C, and E980.
  C. Mobile activations can be moved within a pool at any time, without contacting IBM.
  D. A minimum of 75% of a system's memory activation can be mobile.
  C. Mobile activations can be moved within a pool at any time, without contacting IBM.

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  Reference: https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas8N1022430

• Question 67:

  A customer wants to transfer existing licenses for PowerHA from a Power System E880 to a new Power System E980.

  What service, if any, will allow the customer to do this?

  A. Customers cannot transfer the PowerHA licenses
  B. Entitled Systems Support
  C. FLRT
  D. FixCentral
  B. Entitled Systems Support

• Question 68:

  A customer with a Power System E880C is considering a model conversion to a Power System E980. They currently have Elastic CoD enabled. Which of the following steps will need to be completed to continue to use Elastic CoD on the Power System E980?

  A. Prepay for Elastic CoD usage when placing the upgrade MES order for the Power System E980.
  B. Reorder the Elastic CoD enablement features when placing the upgrade MES order for the Power System E980.
  C. Reorder the Utility CoD enablement features when placing the upgrade MES order for the Power System E980.
  D. Convert static activations to mobile activations when placing the upgrade MES order for the Power System E980.
  A. Prepay for Elastic CoD usage when placing the upgrade MES order for the Power System E980.

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  Reference: https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?htmlfid=899/ENUSLG18-0083andinfotype=ANandsubtype=CA

• Question 69:

  A customer's infrastructure is currently based on a Power System E870 managed by an HMC 7042-CR6 at V8.860 SW level. They are planning to upgrade their server to a new Power System E980. Which of the following will enable the customer to connect an HMC to the Power System E980?

  A. Install vHMC on a partition on the Power System E980.
  B. Order a new Power-based HMC (7063-CR1).
  C. Upgrade the software on the existing HMC.
  D. Use the existing HMC at the current SW level.
  C. Upgrade the software on the existing HMC.

• Question 70:

  Which of the following is a feature in PowerVM?

  A. Simultaneous Multithreading
  B. Hard capping of virtual machines
  C. Active Memory Expansion
  D. Storage Connectivity Groups
  B. Hard capping of virtual machines