C4040-108 Exam Questions

After upgrading their HMCs to the V7R720 release, a customer was planning to consolidate HMCs by taking advantage of the raised limit for maximum managed LPARs. They have found two...

A client is running a two node active/passive cluster on AIX 6.1 and needs to migrate AIX versions while minimizing the timethe cluster runs without a failover node available. They...

A partition is running on a Power 770 using POWER7 mode and SMT4. The LPAR has 8.0 units of entitled capacity assigned, and has 10virtual processors configured. If the customer use...

What action does the following command perform for a new AIX hdisk, hdisk1 ? chdev -I hdisk1 -a pv=yes

A customer has a requirement for a single AIX LPAR to be highly available. The customer only has enough funding to purchase a single system. Which would be the most critical option...

A customer has a Power 770 and a Power 795 managed by a single HMC. The existing HMC has two network connections. The first adapter is connected to the general company network and...

A customer is upgrading a Power 595 to a Power 795 and wantsto know the estimated power usage of the upgraded system. What is the most comprehensive source for this information?

Acustomer is adding a second HMC to their two-enclosure Power 780 to provide redundancy. Which of the following is required?

A customer wants to consolidate 5 System p servers to a Power 780. Each of the 5 systems run as a single LPAR. Three systems run applications which are certified by the vendor for...

A system administrator would like to add a new LPAR to an existing Power 770 system thatcurrently hosts 4 other LPARs. The system has a total of 52 GB of RAM installed and is licen...

A customer needs to verify the resources allocated to an AIX 6.1 LPAR. The Operator Panel on the front of the physical system indicates it is managed by an HMC, however the custome...

While restoring a mksysb to a VIO client, the installation halts with a message indicating lack of space. The mksysb being used for the restore is 4GB in size. The client LPAR has...

A customer is planning 17 LPARs on a Power 795. All LPARs will run AIX 6.1 and use dedicated cores. The other 13 LPARs each have 4 cores and 12 GB RAM What is the minimumnumber and...

An administrator would like to create an account on anHMC that allows the Operations Team to activate and shutdown LPARs but with no other permissions. How could this be achieved?

Anadministrator has to restore a couple of servers using NIM. Unfortunately the installation always asks for input on the console. Which steps are required to automate the installa...

Which of the following features is unique to traditional Capacity on Demand servers when compared to Capacity Back Up servers?

A system administrator is installing a third-party monitoring agent on a security-hardened VIO server. The installation of the agent completes without errors, initializes, and netw...

An administrator is creating anLPAR that will employ N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) and Partition Mobility. The SAN administrator wants to see both virtual WWPNs for each virtual...

A dual port Ethernet PCI Express adapter has failed on a Power 780. The one port that is used is the backing device for an SEA (Shared Ethernet Adapter) on a VIO Server. The VIO Se...

An administrator wants to install a new VIO Server (VIOS) partition from a NIM server. When checking theVIOS media the administrator finds two files, mksysb_image and mksysb_image2...

An administrator configured IVE in their Power 570 with a multicore scaling (MCS) value of 8. After some time they decided to add more LPARs to the system. To allow more logical po...

A broken SAN LUN hdisk3 on VIO1 must be replaced. In the "lsmap -all" output the administrator identified the following entry for this disk: On which client LPAR ID is the broken S...

An administrator has been asked to configure all HMCs to log messages to thecompany wide syslog server. What is the supported method to accomplish this?

What is the minimum AIX level required for an LPAR on a Power 770 to run SMT4?

Which of the following statements regarding the Power Hypervisor is true?

A system administrator is implementing VIO Serveron Power 770 for network virtualization, and plans to use Shared Ethernet Adapters (SEA). A sizing exercise was performed to determ...

A customer is buying a new Power 795. It will contain 3 processor books, with all of the 96 cores activated. They are evaluating their requirements for AIX 7 licenses. Some of the...

A customer has locally cloned an existing AIX installation. Some files inthe /etc directory need to be edited on the new clone. How can this be achieved without booting the new clo...

An administrator is planning to relocate running workloads from a POWER 770 to an unused POWER5 570 in preparation for hardware maintenance. The POWER7 system has the following: Wh...

Which component is mandatory in LPAR migration?

A customer is ordering 10 Power 795 servers. Each system will be configured with 256 cores and 1TB RAM. Two hundred LPARs will be created on each system. Redundant HMCs are a manda...

A system administrator must create a mksysb image from one LPAR, and then install many other LPARs with that image. When the administrator attempts to load the mksysb into the seco...

An administrator has created a network link aggregation device on a VIO server using the mkvdev -lnagg command. When trying to diagnose problems with the device the administrator i...

A customer has a Power 770 with a single shared processor pool and 6 micro-partitions. The customer wants to ensure that a specific partition has priority to access more CPU resour...

A system administrator is adding storage to an AIX 6.1 LPAR that is a virtual SCSI client of a VIO Server LPAR. On the VIO Server, the administrator creates the new virtual target...

A system administrator notices that an AIX partition can't ping its default gateway. The LPAR is connected to the network using Shared Ethernet Adapter (SEA). A partial output from...

An administrator is managing a two node PowerHA cluster on AIX 7. The administrator needs to add a shared volume group made up of a single disk presented through redundant VIO Serv...

What is the main difference between VIO Server (VIOS) and Network Server Description (NWSD) hosting options?

An administrator has a request to populate a new IBM Power 750 with 50 LPARs. A redundant pair of VIO Servers has been installed and is online. Which option provides the most effic...

An administrator has been asked to collect usage information for a Shared Ethernet Adapter (SEA). How is this information collected?

Customer wants to consolidate POWER4, POWER5 and POWER6 systems on to a POWER7 server. What resource will indicate an appropriate POWER7 server?

A system administrator has configured a VIO Server to use a Shared Ethernet Adapter (SEA) that is built from a linkaggregation of gigabit Ethernet adapters. The administrator has d...

A customer is planning to mount NFS filesystems through a firewall. In addition to opening the correct port on the firewall, what change must be made in the NFS server?

Where can Power Saving mode on a Power 770 be enabled?

An administrator must add support for a new VLAN to a VIO Server that currently services multiple VLANs on a single SEA. No additional network ports are available. How can this be...

A Power 795 with 2 TB memory is dedicated to LPARs running production applications. The applications need more memory than is available in the system. All the memory slots are full...

A system administrator has a Power 770 with 12 cores. The following LPARs already exist: LPAR1 - 9 dedicated cores LPAR2 - 1 virtual processors with an entitled capacity of 0.2 LPA...

A customer is planning to convert vacant office space to a data center that will be populated with several standard Power 795 systems. During a pre-delivery site inspection, the cu...

After configuring a Shared Ethernet Adapter (SEA) on a VIO server, a client Linux LPAR has no network connectivity while client AIX LPARs configured on the same VLAN work fine. Whi...

What is a prerequisite for Live Partition Mobility?