IBM C4040-252 Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

IBM C4040-252 Online Questions & Answers

• Question 21:

  A customer has a 6-core Power 720 installed in a rack. The Power 720 has all internal disk bays populated.

  The customer is considering adding Solid State Drives (SSDs) in a 12X I/O drawer.

  Assuming the I/O drawer will fit in available rack space, what else must be considered?

  A. Number of cores
  B. Type of backplane
  C. Adapter height profile
  D. Number of PCI slots in the system
  D. Number of PCI slots in the system

• Question 22:

  Which of the following differentiates the capabilities of IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack from PowerVC?

  A. Deploys images within the image repository with policy based placement.
  B. Provides virtual machine relocation.
  C. Captures existing virtual machines as images within the image repository.
  D. Generates custom expiration policies for each virtual machine.
  D. Generates custom expiration policies for each virtual machine.

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  Reference:

  https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/servicemanagement/cvm/sce/i/IBMCloudManagerwithOp enStack.pdf (See Page #33, 3rd point).

• Question 23:

  Which hardware can be moved from a 770 to an E870 when doing a migration?

  A. PCIe 5802/5877 I/O drawer
  B. EXP24S SFF Gen2-bay drawer
  C. Memory DIMMs
  D. EXP30SSD I/O drawer
  B. EXP24S SFF Gen2-bay drawer

• Question 24:

  A customer has a Power Systems server with storage attached in two EXP24 expansion units. Each EXP24 is populated with 10 disks and is attached to its own SAS RAID adapter. The usable storage is approximately 80% full across the 20 units and currently uses RAID-5 for disk protection.

  The customer is concerned about the time required between a drive failure and when disk protection is restored. Which of the following should the customer consider to minimize the recovery time and minimize additional hardware costs?

  A. RAID-1
  B. RAID-10
  C. RAID-5 with hot spare
  D. RAID-6 with hot spare
  C. RAID-5 with hot spare

• Question 25:

  A managed service provider offering retail cloud services on E870 with DS8870 storage would like to use storage copy services to replicate data between a primary and secondary data center located 200 miles (322 km) apart. Which product is required?

  A. FlashCopy
  B. Metro Mirror
  C. Global Mirror
  D. Snapshot
  B. Metro Mirror

• Question 26:

  In addition to an S822L, what is a component of the IBM solution for Hadoop?

  A. DCS3700
  B. Flash System 840
  C. ESS D. DS8870
  B. Flash System 840

• Question 27:

  Which interface supports connectivity between the POWER8 processor and the accelerator on the S824L?

  A. PCI-Express
  B. RoCE
  C. RDMA
  D. Infiniband
  A. PCI-Express

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  Reference: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpapers/pdfs/redp5139.pdf Explanation: The Power S824L systems have internal I/O connectivity through Peripheral Component Interconnect Express Gen3 (PCI Express

• Question 28:

  Which of the following RAS features was added to the POWER8 design?

  A. Processor Affinity
  B. First Failure Data Capture
  C. Error Correction Codes (ECC)
  D. Memory Controller Replay Buffer
  B. First Failure Data Capture

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  Reference: https://www950.ibm.com/events/wwe/grp/grp037.nsf/vLookupPDFs/02%20Architecture%20Matters%20BP %203.8%20NC%20Deck%203/$file/02%20Architecture%20Matters%20BP%203.8%20NC%20 Deck%203.pdf (See the Page #25).

• Question 29:

  A customer is implementing redundant HMCs for managing multiple Power Systems servers using the following requirements: 2 HMCs 5 managed systems DLPAR will be used on the managed systems HMCs must be accessible on an open network FSPs are only accessible by a private network

  What is the minimum number of Local Area Networks needed?

  A. 2
  B. 3
  C. 4
  D. 5
  B. 3

• Question 30:

  When connecting a 12 slot PCIe Gen3 I/O Expansion drawer, how many CXP adapters are required?

  A. 1
  B. 4
  C. 2
  D. 3
  C. 2

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  Reference: http://www.cutaiwan.com/uploads/IBM_201421222438.pdf