IBM C4040-250 Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

IBM C4040-250 Online Questions & Answers

• Question 31:

  What resource should be used to assemble the sales material for a competitive opportunity?

  A. Knowledge Center
  B. ibm.com
  C. InfoCenter
  D. FindIt
  D. FindIt

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  FindIt ends the problem of matching sources to objects in a busy production environment. FindIt locates sources or objects on a single AS/400 (System i) or across a network of many AS/400 systems, and lets you instantly match the correct version of a source against that live object. On a command line simply enter FIND followed by the name of the source member, and FindIt displays a complete list of all versions of that source, showing where the source is located, giving source files, libraries and iSeries systems.

• Question 32:

  A customer has a BladeCenter S (BCS) with an 8-core POWER6 blade, 1.5TB of storage and an external LTO tape drive installed. They want to upgrade to a P0WER8. Which of the following is the lowest cost recommendation to satisfy their requirement?

  A. Flex System and POWER8 node
  B. S824
  C. POWER8 blade in the current BCS
  D. S814
  B. S824

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  With new innovations, Power Systems provide the ability to:

  Gain faster insights with the POWER8 processor and smart acceleration enabled by CAPI (Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface) technologies such as FPGA accelerators for key workloads Achieve lower latency and smaller footprint

  with CAPI Flash Move data in and out of systems more quickly with twice the memory and I/O expansion

  Achieve greater speed and efficiency for database, transactional and other highly multi-threaded applications with transactional memory supported by 50 percent more cores and 2x the number of simultaneous threads per core Reference:

  http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/s824/

• Question 33:

  A customer is running an application that is licensed per core.

  What advantage does POWER8 have compared to x86 that could lower software costs?

  A. Memory performance
  B. Bandwidth performance
  C. Processor performance
  D. I/O performance
  C. Processor performance

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  Explanation: Power8 unique processor features provide lower software costs compared to x86 processor infrastructure. Topic 3, Value Proposition (29%)

• Question 34:

  A customer is running a critical and large Oracle Database on x86 servers in an 8-node RAC cluster. The client has regular outages and poor performance.

  Which POWER8 advantage is most relevant to the customer?

  A. Near linear scaling
  B. Service Processor
  C. ECC memory
  D. License savings
  A. Near linear scaling

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  Explanation: There are some algorithms that scale nearly perfectly to thousands (or hundreds of thousands) of threads

• Question 35:

  Which product enables cloud functionality and is included in the AIX Enterprise Edition at no additional cost?

  A. IBM Cloud Orchestrator
  B. WebSphere
  C. IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack
  D. Cloud Network Security
  A. IBM Cloud Orchestrator

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  Explanation: IBM SmartCloud Orchestrator includes services contract for IBM Implementation Services for Power Systems AIX?V6.1 and IBM Migration Services for Power Systems AIX V6.1. Reference: http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias? infotype=anandsubtype=caandappname=gpateamandsupplier=897andletternum=ENUS213-375

• Question 36:

  Which P0WER8 RAS feature is available on all Scale-out and Enterprise systems?

  A. Dual System Clocks
  B. Hot Plug PCIe adapters
  C. CoD cores
  D. DualFSPs
  B. Hot Plug PCIe adapters

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  Take a look at the following ras features: Processor instruction retry Alternate processor recovery Selective dynamic firmware updates Chip kill memory Error correcting code (ECC) L2 cache, L3 cache Service processor with fault monitoring Hot-swappable disk bays Hot-plug concurrent maintenance PCIe slots Hot-plug and redundant power supplies and cooling fans Dynamic processor deallocation Extended error handling on PCI slots Reference:http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/s824/specs.html

• Question 37:

  A customer wants to run multiple workloads, and is considering an S824 or an E870. Under which condition would the E870 be more appropriate?

  A. If the customer needs hot plug PCIe adapters.
  B. If the customer expects to grow beyond 2TB of memory and more than 24 cores.
  C. If the customer needs to support more than 1TB of memory.
  D. If the customer needs to run AIX, IBM i, and Linux using internal disk.
  D. If the customer needs to run AIX, IBM i, and Linux using internal disk.

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  The Power S814 and Power S824 are ideal for mid-sized business customers consolidating AIX, IBM i, and Linux workloads and for virtualized application servers. The database can run on the same server. Gain faster insights with the IBM POWER8 processor and smart acceleration that is enabled by CAPI technologies, and reduce energy consumption by using advanced energy control.

  Reference:http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpapers/pdfs/redp5097.pdf

• Question 38:

  A customer has an E870 and is installing IBM software products in a Red Hat partition. What PVU will the customer be charged per core?

  A. 70PVUs
  B. 100PVUS
  C. 120PVUs
  D. 80PVUs
  C. 120PVUs

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  You need 120 PVUs per core for Red Hat Partition.

• Question 39:

  A customer with no in-house IT support needs to implement a solution that includes a relational database, industry leading security, standards based internet technology, networking and storage management capabilities. Which Operating System will satisfy the customer's requirements?

  A. LINUX
  B. AIX
  C. Windows
  D. IBM i
  D. IBM i

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  Explanation: IBM i integrates a trusted combination of a DB2 relational database, industry- leading security, standards-based Internet technology, networking, and storage management capabilities. For example, IBM installs and integrates the SQL standards-based DB2 database for IBM i with advanced database management utilities, plus additional middleware components such as multiple file system options, directory capability, an HTTP web server powered by Apache, a web application server, and a web-services environment.

  Reference: http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias? subtype=caandinfotype=anandappname=iSourceandsupplier=897andletternum=ENUS214-154

• Question 40:

  What is a limitation of the 4-core S814 model once installed? Inability to change the:

  A. disk controller from non-cache to cache
  B. operating system from AIX to Linux.
  C. attached tape drive from LTO-5 to LTO-6.
  D. rack mount to deskside covers
  B. operating system from AIX to Linux.

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  Reference: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/s814/specs.html