C4040-122 Exam Questions

Which of the following key element should be included in an executive summary?

A prospective customer is considering a Dell x86 server running Windows, VMware, and WebSphere versus a Power System running IBM i, AIX, PowerVM and WebSphere. Which value proposit...

Why is a Power System 760 an excellent platform for server consolidation?

In which situation would PowerHA Enterprise Edition be a fit for a customer environment?

What is the value of a pre-implementation Technical Delivery Assessment for a customer?

Which software product ships with the Business Intelligence Solution Edition pre-installed and tested on Power 710 through Power 740 servers?

A prospect has 10 Dell servers with Microsoft Windows and SQL Server installed. They plan to move to Power Systems with DB2 and have asked for guidance on how their applications mi...

A customer wants a Power Systems server because of the I/O performance and reliability needed to support an Oracle database. Which operating system should be recommended?

When comparing PowerVM to VMware, what differentiating statement can be made?

A Power 740 customer with 4 cores licensed to AIX is planning to add 4 additional cores and a partition for IBM i. They have sized the new IBM i workload at 1.7 cores and AIX will...

A customer has let their Software Maintenance (SWMA) expire and needs to activate additional processors on their Power 770. What does the customer need to purchase?

A sales professional is engaged in a competitive sales situation against a non-IBM solution that is unfamiliar to them. Which resource should be engaged first?

A customer has several dedicated LPARs. The key application in one LPAR temporarily needs more processing power. How can performance be improved?

Which of the following can be used to provide a basis for proving that Power Systems have a lower cost of ownership than x86 systems?

An existing IBM customer needs to acquire a new Power Systems server with the following characteristics: - Must support 12 processor cores - Must accommodate the largest number of...

What energy capability of Power Systems can be used in data centers to restrict server energy consumption, especially in cases where the data center might be nearing the limit of t...

What is the minimum HMC model required to manage POWER7 or POWER7+ servers?

A Chief Financial Officer (CFO) has requested a brief review of an IBM Power proposal before providing final approval. Which of the following are key topics that should be included...

Which of the following features demonstrate the versatility of Power Systems?

A customer is concerned that the Power 720 cannot be used in distributed retail locations due to physical space constraints. Which of the following is an appropriate response?

A customer with a single Power Systems Express server want to use virtualization technology including Live Partition Mobility. What is the minimum required to achieve this goal?

A financial corporation is running their core Windows applications on several x86 servers. Due to headlines regarding attacks on banks they are considering migrating onto a more se...

A customer calls and states that they have a 20-year old midrange IBM system running only home-grown RPG II applications. They plan to migrate their applications to a new Power Sys...

A customer needs to decrease energy costs in their data centers. How can Power Systems servers support this requirement?

A customer needs a Power Systems server to be initially configured with 8 active cores and 256GB of memory, and upgrade at a later date to 16 cores and 512GB of memory. Which model...

A customer has an 18-core POWER7 750 with 512GB of memory. The customer anticipates 100% growth in the next year and needs to add capacity. The customer has requested a proposal by...

A customer needs to add 768GB of memory and 18 cores to their PureElex environment in a single node. Which model supports these requirements?

Which of the following statements is true regarding IBM PowerLinux servers?

Which of the following measures, monitors, and manages electrical and thermal components of IBM servers, storage and networking equipment?

A CIO has asked for a comparison of the performance between Power Systems servers running AIX and HP-UNIX servers. Which benchmark should be discussed?

What is a function found in PowerVM that has no equivalent function in VMware?

An AIX customer who has a POWER6 570 with PowerVM Enterprise Edition plans to upgrade to a POWER7+ 770. Applications moving from the POWER6 570 to the POWER7+ 770 must remain avail...

A prospective customer who is considering Power Systems has a very small staff and wants to run a CRM application. What operating system should be proposed?

What is a key benefit of SmartCloud offerings?

What functional characteristic is common between the PureFlex p260 compute node and the Power 720 server?

Which of the following elements should be included in an executive summary?

What IBM Power Systems resource is available to customers for obtaining information related to system warranty, planning, installation, replacement, configuration, and upgrades?

A retail business is considering the purchase of a Power 780 and is concerned about downtime. The customer only needs local failover capabilities. In addition to a second Power Sys...

Due to changes in management structure, a Power customer is questioning the cost effectiveness of Power Systems servers as compared to HP ProLiant servers. Which response addresses...

Which product will enable higher quality services and improved security capabilities for a customer with an AIX environment?

A customer has a Power 570 server with a 3582 Tape Library and LTQ-4 drives. The customer is buying a Power 740 server and wants the highest performance tape drive which will enabl...

Which statement describes how Active Memory Mirroring contributes to RAS?

Which of the following is a unique competitive strength that the POWER Hypervisor has when compared to x86 server hypervisors such as vSphere, Xen, KVM and Hyper-V?

Systems Director simplifies IT systems administration by reducing which of the following?

A pre-sales Technical Delivery Assessment is required for which of the following systems?

Which of the following Power Systems design functions allows the system to identify situations which can result in a system outage?

Which of the following models is offered in either a tower or rack-mounted configuration?

Why would a customer choose a Power Systems Express Server over a non-Express server?

How does Instruction Retry help a customer achieve maximum reliability?

Which tool will help create a strong ROI case for a server consolidation opportunity?