C1000-038 Exam Questions

A security administrator would like to know more details about Coupling Facility Encryption. Their main concern is with Coupling Facility CPU overhead once encryption has been impl...

Which statement regarding IT Economics Studies is correct?

A customer runs production on one z14, with a zEC12 as a backup. The customer is planning a 50% capacity increase on both machines. Which of the following will satisfy the requirem...

Which of the following best describes the term "RPO"?

A z14 ZR1 is configured for Capacity Marker W06 and 6 IFLs. At the time of purchase, the customer had not expected growth. Therefore, the CPC was configured as a Max12 (FC#0637). H...

A client has a production data center and disaster recovery data center separated by more than 300 km. What level of recovery can they achieve by using GDPS/GM (Global Mirror)?

A z/OS customer is concerned about complying with privacy rules. How is the concept of Pervasive Encryption a potential solution to address the concern?

What customer records are required to quickly assess system performance in a z/OS environment?

In an environment with one IBM z14 and one z/OS LPAR, what component would contribute to higher availability?

When planning a new disk unit to populate the reserved 16U space on a z14 ZR1, what could prevent installation?

A customer currently owns a z13s. The customer decides to purchase a z14 ZR1 and connect it to the z13s in a Parallel Sysplex. The two IBM Z machines will be 200 meters apart. Whic...

What is the maximum amount of memory and IFLs on a LinuxONE Rockhopper II?

Which IBM Z I/O adapter can connect to an IBM storage device?

What is Pervasive Encryption running z/OS on IBM Z?

Which solution will affect the ability of the business to continue to run if a disaster should strike?

A customer with a z14 has FICON16S+ defined as native FICON wants to optimize the execution of requests to their Storage DS88XX device. Which technology should be implemented for o...

The IBM z14 has an Integrated Firmware Processor (IFP), which is used to manage native PCle features. Which groups of native features are managed by the IFP?

A client from the banking industry operates its IBM Z environment in two data centers with a database of 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). Each data center has one IBM z14 and one DS8K st...

A client is concerned about their x86 database I/O response time. Further analysis reveals significant I/O wait delay. How is the IBM Z architecture better equipped than the x86 ar...

Why are IBM Db2 z/OS customers uniquely positioned to take advantage of hybrid transactional and analytical processing (HTAP)?

What can a general purpose CP on the LinuxONE Rockhopper II or Emperor II be used for?

Which of the following is used to consolidate host channels on an IBM z14?

A potential client has never had any exposure to IBM Z architecture. You were told that the client is working on a project to deploy a non-structured type database into x86 servers...

A client with a fully depreciated production zBC12 would like to upgrade to a z14 ZR1 of equal capacity. At the same time, they would complete a data center move to a location acro...

What is needed to enable dataset encryption for z/OS?

A customer is running a z14-702 with two zIIPs. They started noticing that the zIIP utilization during peak hours was averaging about 85% due to a new Java application. After exami...

Prior to shipping a new IBM Z system or an upgrade, which is listed in the Designated Product List for a Pre-Sale and Pre-Install Expert Level TDA, what is necessary? A. B. C. D.

A customer has multiple IBM Z servers in their z/OS environment. Which of the following is designed to provide 99.999% application availability?

A customer wants to replace two zEC12 processors in different locations with two z14 processors. The customer has the following requirements: - Full redundancy within a z14 and in...

An account you cover has received media attention. A disgruntled administrator had root access to a Linux x86 financial server, altered the boot process, and deactivated all of the...

A customer starts using z/OS Encryption Readiness Technology (zERT) to gather knowledge about the state of encrypted network traffic in their system. They also use Sysplex Distribu...

Due to recent data protection legislation, your client has asked how to protect the integrity of their z/OS audit records. What system function should be recommended?

Which IBM Cloud offering relies on Secure Service Container (SSC) for its security?

A customer has a new z14 and would like Container Pricing for the z/OS system based on their monthly usage. How will the pricing be based through Resourcelink tables?

A customer purchased a new z14 3906-M02. They want the ability to add temporary CP capacity on short notice for a spike in production work. What authorization feature should be con...

A customer purchased a z14 M02 (two drawer) 710 with 1TB of active memory and 2TB of pre- planned memory installed. They are planning for the release of a new product which will re...

Which of the following planning considerations is required when ordering the 16U reserved feature?

A z14 customer has expressed interest in deploying firmware and software appliances on IBM Z. What feature will enable the customer to achieve their goal?

A customer is interested in IBM LinuxONE as a platform for their new cloud-based application infrastructure. A sizing exercise has shown that one LinuxONE Emperor II machine (in LM...

What IBM Z technology can be used to securely deploy application services using IBM Cloud Private, without having to change the application code to exploit the secure environment?

A client wants to add the Live Guest Relocation (LGR) feature to their IBM Z environment. Which of the following actions supports this requirement?

A z13s customer is excited about the prospect of acquiring a z14 ZR1. They are very interested in the 16U Reserved component space within the z14 ZR1 CPC. Which of the following is...

How was zBNA improved to support the latest driver level for the z14 server (GA2 in October 2018)?

A customer is considering upgrading a z13s processor currently used as a Coupling Facility (CF). The customer wants to upgrade to a z14 ZR1 Max12, but also wants to install additio...

A customer is running Coupling Facility Control Code (CFCC) Level 20 on a z13, and is upgrading to a z14 at CFCC Level 22. What risk does this introduce to the sysplex?

IBM Container Pricing is designed to improve the cost of deploying z/OS applications. The New Application Solution offering allows client defined workloads to be tightly integrated...

A z14 ZR1 will support which of the following processor configurations?

Which Linux distribution is priced based on the number of CPU drawers instead of CPUs?

A customer is running a Java workload in a z/OS LPAR on a z14. Which specialty processor can help reduce the general-purpose central processor (CP) consumption of this LPAR?

A customer has two z14 CPCs and a z14 ZR1 standalone coupling facility, all at the latest driver level. They have discovered the ICA links between the z14 and the z14 ZR1 are at ca...