IBM Assessment: Power Systems with POWER7 and IBM i Sales Skills -v2 Sample Questions:

1. A customer running IBM i 7.1 has an Independent ASP (iASP) that contains their ERP data. The customer needs to reduce the backup window required for their scheduled nightly tape backup. Available disk storage space is limited.
Which option will reduce the backup window without requiring additional purchases?

A) Modify daily backups to use image catalogues.
B) Adopt a save while active policy during the day for tape backup.
C) Use compression with IBM i save files and save to tape during the day.
D) Implement Flash Copy with IBM i Copy Services Toolkit.

2. Under which conditions would adding SSD5 be an appropriate technical and financial solution for a customer?

A) When disk capacity is constrained but processor and disk I/O are not constrained
B) When disk I/O is constrained but disk capacity and memory are not constrained
C) When memory is constrained but disk I/O and processor are not constrained
D) When processor is constrained but memory and disk I/O are not constrained

3. A new Power 720 customer running IBM i has complained that they are required to make daily adjustments to their system memory pools to accommodate changing application workloads.
What should be discussed?

A) IBM POWER7 models offer an optional TurboCore mode which allows the processor cores to manage shared memory pools.
B) Extended Adaptive Cache should be used to create a system cache, reducing the physical I/O requests for the disk
C) IBM i offers Active Memory Expansion to make better use of system memory.
D) IBM i has the ability to automatically manage shared memory pools and will adjust the storage and activity levels as needed

4. What is the biggest 3-year TOO benefit for Power Systems servers compared to x86 servers?

A) Hardware maintenance costs
B) Facilities and energy costs
C) Personnel costs
D) Software support costs

5. A customer has a specific application that needs the highest levels of availability and site disaster recovery, while other applications are not as critical.
Which statement supports this requirement?

A) IBM i supports independent ASPs, which automatically switch eligible applications to a second system to provide continuous availability in the event of a system outage.
B) DB2 for IBM i has commitment control support and can automatically restart the application on another system with the most recent transaction.
C) IBM i is cluster proven, and can switch an application and networking from one system to another and automatically restart it.
D) Capacity Backup (CBU) systems can provide temporary use of inactive processors which can be activated in the event of an outage.

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