A customer requires that each client partition have access to two different VLANs. VLAN tagging will NOT

be used in the environment.

There will be four client partitions, each of which will be connected to VLAN1 and VLAN2.

There will be two VIOS.

Redundant Ethernet connections will be accomplished using the Shared Ethernet Adapter (SEA) and dual

VIOS.

What is the minimum number of Ethernet ports that will be required in each VIOS?

A. 8

B. 4

C. 6

D. 2

A customer has four AIX VMs, each running a different application that needs simultaneous read/write

access to the same files.

Which of the following products should be recommended?

A. Power HA Enterprise Edition

B. Spectrum Scale

C. Spectrum Protect

D. Power HA Standard Edition

A customer with an AIX in-house SMT2 application on POWER6 would like to upgrade to POWER9. The customer would like to know the relative performance of the servers.

Which resource provides the SMT2 performance of the two systems?

A. IBM Performance Management for Power Systems

B. IBM Power Systems Performance Report

C. IBM Power Systems Facts and Features

D. IBM Systems Workload Estimator

What is an advantage of running Linux on Power compared to x86 technology?

A. Extended Error Handling

B. Docker containers

C. Chipkill memory

D. Partition mobility

A customer runs POWER7+ processor-based servers managed by 7042-CR4 HMCs with V7R7.9.0 firmware.

The customer will purchase a Power System E980 and wants to manage all servers from the same HMCs.

How can this be accomplished, if necessary?

A. Upgrade the code on the 7042-CR4 HMCs V9R9.1.0.

B. Purchase two 7063-CR1 HMCs.

C. The current HMCs already satisfy the customer requirements.

D. MES the existing 7042-CR4 HMCs to 7042-CR9 HMCs.

A customer with critical up-time requirements is comparing POWER9 processor-based servers.

Which RAS feature is found only on the Power System E980?

A. Redundant Service Processors

B. Hot swap fans

C. Chipkill memory

D. Split backplane

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.

A Technical Delivery Assessment (TDA), as part of the Solution Assurance is used to:

A. aggressively complete against competition.

B. resolve concerns about customer satisfaction.

C. expedite shipment of a server.

D. identify and assess risks.

What is a characteristic of POWER9 processor-based virtualized environments?

A. Processors are assigned per whole core.

B. Greater virtualization increases the cost of computing.

C. Greater virtualization reduces workload costs.

D. Resources must be dedicated at the PCIe card level.

A customer has older generations of Power System servers that they want to manage with their Power System E980 server from the same HMC running V9R1.910.

What is the oldest Power Systems generation that is supported with this HMC level?

A. POWER6

B. POWER7

C. POWER7+

D. POWER8