IBM C4040-250 Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

IBM C4040-250 Online Questions & Answers

• Question 21:

  A credit card company is going to implement a new application for which security is a major requirement. The company has been quoted a solution running in Windows. Why should the company consider a Power Systems solution?

  A. IBM has superior firewalls.
  B. IBM AIX and IBM i have security check points that make it nearly impossible to be hacked.
  C. Starting with POWER8 security is built into the processor.
  D. PowerSC includes templates for PCI compliance
  C. Starting with POWER8 security is built into the processor.

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  POWER8's secure-key cryptographic accelerator and cryptographic coprocessor functions combined with FlashSystems' enterprise ready extreme performance and application latency reductions capability provides an infrastructure that is critical to the success of today's core banking application environments."

  Reference: http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/43702.wss

• Question 22:

  A customer has a quote for running an Oracle database on a HP Itanium server. What POWER8 competitive advantage should an IBM reseller discuss?

  A. Oracle no longer supports Itanium on Oracle's latest versions of their database.
  B. HP Itanium only supports Oracle database with Windows.
  C. The Oracle database cost has a multiplier of .5 on POWER8.
  D. POWER8 requires fewer cores resulting in fewer Oracle licenses.
  C. The Oracle database cost has a multiplier of .5 on POWER8.

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  Explanation: HP Itanium doesn't support IBM power8. It only supports Oracle Database with Windows.

• Question 23:

  A customer needing an analytics solution is comparing POWER8 with x86 servers for their infrastructure. What makes Power Systems a better value than the x86solution?

  A. More supported analytic solutions providing more choices
  B. Higher performance and faster response times
  C. Greater storage capacity with encrypted data.
  D. Stronger encryption capabilities and proprietary analytics algorithms
  B. Higher performance and faster response times

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  X86 solutions cannot provide high performance and faster response times during to their architecture. Power8 processor is much faster and provide consistent performance throughout the service lifecycle.

• Question 24:

  Which RAS feature is available on both the Scale-out and Enterprise systems?

  A. CoD memory and cores
  B. CAPI
  C. Redundant power supplies
  D. Redundant FSPs
  C. Redundant power supplies

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  Explanation: The Redundant power supplies are available for both scale-out and enterprise systems.

• Question 25:

  A customer is evaluating infrastructure options in order to deploy IBM DB2 BLU. What is a benefit of running DB2 BLU on POWER8?

  A. It exploits large caches and memory bandwidth, delivering better performance
  B. It takes full advantage of 16 threads per core, delivering better performance.
  C. It can be managed with PowerVP to simplify deployment of new images.
  D. It minimizes the number of support contracts that the customer needs.
  A. It exploits large caches and memory bandwidth, delivering better performance

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  Moving data from memory to disk and back again impacts query performance. But if data stays in memory, the response time is much faster. DB2 10.5 introduces BLU Acceleration for next generation in-memory computing. BLU Acceleration provides breakthrough performance by delivering instant insight from operational data and historical data. IBM Power Systems, with the new POWER8 processor, provides industry-leading capability to keep high volumes of data in memory because of its large cache sizes and memory bandwidth. Power Systems are designed to optimize analytics performance for big data. Reference: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/db2/power-systems/

• Question 26:

  Which POWER8 servers are NEBS (Network Equipment Building System) compliant?

  A. S824L and S824
  B. S822L and S812L
  C. S822L and S822
  D. S814 and S822
  C. S822L and S822

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  Explanation: S822 and S822L conform to the Network Equipment Building Systems (NEBS) Level 3 and the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) standard.

  Reference: http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias? subtype=WHandinfotype=SAandappname=STGE_PO_PO_USENandhtmlfid=POW03132USENandatt achment=POW03132USEN.PDF

• Question 27:

  A customer is evaluating POWER8 and competitive servers to run multiple workloads in a dynamic environment. What should be emphasized in the Executive Summary of a proposal?

  A. Energy consumption report details
  B. Faster processors reduce software licensing expenses
  C. Ability to run AIX. LINUX, and IBM i applications concurrently.
  D. Acquisition cost details
  A. Energy consumption report details

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  If the customer is looking for multiple workloads being run in a dynamic environment, you can emphasize the ability of Power8 to run AIX, Linux and IBM I application concurrently.

• Question 28:

  A customer offers mobile phone plans via a secure website. They requested a meeting to evaluate what IBM has to offer in terms of a hybrid cloud infrastructure and data analytics solution, which will allow them to increase sales of mobile phone plans.

  What solution can be proposed to satisfy the requirements?

  A. S814, PowerVM, PowerHA, Worklite, and IBM Cloud Orchestrator
  B. S824, Cognos. IBM Cloud Orchestrator, PowerSC, and PowerVM
  C. S822, ProtecTIER, Websphere, and IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack
  D. S822, PowerKVM, PowerHA, and Cloud Toolkit
  B. S824, Cognos. IBM Cloud Orchestrator, PowerSC, and PowerVM

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  Explanation: With availability beginning June 10, the new scale-out S Class servers include two systems that run Linux exclusively the Power Systems S812L and S822L servers. The three additional offerings, the Power Systems S814, S822 and S824 servers, provide clients the choice of running multiple operating systems including Linux, AIX and IBM i. Available in 1 and 2 socket and 2U and 4U configurations, the starting price of the new servers

  Reference: https://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/43702.wss

• Question 29:

  In a very competitive situation, a business partner requested the assistance of an IBM Field Technical Systems Specialist (FTSS) to help differentiate an E880 against HP. The team was successful and the client wants to acquire the proposed Power solution.

  Who is required to perform the Technical Delivery Assessment (TDA) in this situation?

  A. The FTSS with the Business Partner assistance.
  B. The IBM FTSS.
  C. Only the customer. A TDA is not required because the FTSS was involved.
  D. The Business Partner with FTSS assistance, if requested.
  D. The Business Partner with FTSS assistance, if requested.

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  Explanation: IF the sales is successful, you can get business partner with FTSS assistance, however, FTSS is not necessary.

• Question 30:

  An IBM customer is implementing a very complex solution and is encountering difficulty with the integration of the IBM Power System and storage. What resource should the customer use for assistance?

  A. Advanced Technical Support
  B. Redbook planning guides
  C. Support Line
  D. IBM Knowledge Center
  A. Advanced Technical Support

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  Reference: http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/en/it-services/technical-support-services/