C4040-124 Exam Questions

An IT Director needs a relational database but cannot hire a Database Administrator (DBA) to maintain it. How does IBM i address this challenge?

A 010 is concerned about systems security and transmission of confidential data across the internet. What capabilities of the IBM i platform can the sales executive highlight in th...

A POWERS 520 customer is running IBM i 54 and is moving to a POWER7 server. Which of the following is a valid migration plan?

What disaster recovery benefit is provided to a customer running IBM i applications when they are using PowerHA Asynchronous Geographic Mirroring?

An executive has expressed frustration about the inflexibility of reports from their IBM i system and is looking for a solution that supports more dynamic and flexible reports. How...

What capability of single level storage increases system administrator productivity?

A customer says that they cannot use IBM i for their chosen ERP solution as some of the application software is in Java and a Java development environment is also required. How can...

What is a benefit of using RAID-6 with IBM i?

An installed POWER6 520 customer running only IBM i is debating between an upgrade to a Power 720 compared to migrating to a new Power 720. Which of the following is a benefit of a...

A new 010 coming from a non-IBM background is being asked to approve the planned purchase of a new Power Systems server running IBM i, but is concerned about database and other sys...

Why are the integrated relational database, single level storage, and the technology independent machine interface (TIMI) business benefits of IBM i?

A customer is running IBM i 7,1 with storage provided by a Storwize V7000. ERP data is placed within an iASP. The customer needs to reduce the backup window as much as possible. Wh...

How is relative workload performance for IBM i benchmarked on Power Systems servers?

A customer is running SAP on IBM i and is considering replacing it with an x86 solution. What point should be discussed to encourage the customer to stay with IBM i?

A new Power 720 needs to be configured with 3 LPAR5. Each LPAR must have its own physical disk, physical LAN, physical tape attachment and access to a shared DVD drive. Which tool...

A Power 770 customer wants to purchase second Power 770 that would only be used in a disaster recovery (DR) situation. They have stated that the cost of purchasing the same number...

An IBM i customer plans to implement a High Availability solution that copies live data and program changes from an independent disk pool on internal disk to a second Power Systems...

A customer has several Power Systems servers running IBM i and needs browser-based self- service provisioning of virtualized workloads. Which software supports this request?

Which of the following best describes a unique characteristic of IBM i when compared to non-IBM platforms?

An IBM i customer needs 3 additional test environments to run IBM i, AIX and Linux. They currently have only one IBM i environment. Which of the following is the minimum needed to...

What is the purpose of the MES roadmap?

A customer with a POWER7+ 770 running IBM i has just merged with another company which utilizes older Intel technology to support an application environment that consists of PHP ap...

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

A client needs to dynamically move partitions from one server to another to reduce downtime for scheduled system maintenance. In addition to POWER7/7+ systems, which of the followi...

What upgrade options does a PQWER6 570 with some inactive cores have?

An IT Director plans the purchase of a new Power Systems server with IBM i. Due to a previous bad experience with a competitive product that was improperly sized, the IT Director i...

A Power 740 customer running IBM i recently installed a new query-based analytics tool. Since adding the tool, overall system performance has suffered due to dramatically increased...

A customer has IBM i, AIX and Linux on Power Systems and Linux on x86. The customer is refreshing their infrastructure and might drop IBM i as they cannot maintain management skill...

A retailer plans to introduce an internet-based ordering application for their customers. The retailer has stated that their order-entry green-screen RPG programs are antiquated an...

Which statement is correct for a customer moving from a POWERS 570 to a Power 770. both in the P30 software tier, and who wants to preserve their investment in IBM software?

A prospective customer states that few ISV5 invest in IBM i. How should this objection be addressed?

Which resource or tool can assist a sales representative in sizing an SAP installation on IBM i?

A POWER7 customer running IBM i 7.1 acquired another company. The acquired company uses a POWER4 model 825 running IBM i V5R4 with a small set of home-grown RPGIII applications. Th...

What is the advantage of purchasing a Solution Edition featuring Independent Software Vendor (ISV) software running on IBM i, compared to the ISV software running on non-IBM platfo...

A client requires a PureElex compute node model for a test IBM i workload. Which model supports IBM i workloads?

An existing IBM i customer with a POWER6 520 is planning to move to POWER7I but wants to understand the differences between running IBM i on a PureElex compute node compared to a n...

A customer is concerned that there have been no new releases to IBM i since 7.1 was announced in 2010. They are afraid that IBM is no longer investing in IBM i as a strategic opera...

Which of the following represents a unique characteristic of IBM i and DB2 that is designed to reduce the amount of time it takes to restart a system and database after an abnormal...

Which of the following describes IBM i DB2 reliability?

A POWER6 customer with an LTO-3 tape drive needs to encrypt their tape backups. They want to avoid the purchase of a different tape device. Which of the following solutions support...

A company has three sales regions, each with its own POWER6 server. The company plans to consolidate onto one POWER7 server and keep the regional workloads separate. How does IBM i...

How is data distribution managed on IBM i compared to other platforms?

A prospective customer with a very limited budget has stated that they are focused only on price. Before they evaluate application software, they have asked how a Power 720 with IB...

IBM i integrates many system functions including storage management, resource management and security in order to optimize management and system performance. Where is this integrat...

A prospective customer has decided to purchase a Power Systems server for a new business venture. What is necessary for the sales representative to accurately assess the size of th...

Which of the following is a correct statement about BladeCenter chassis?

Which of the following describes a key business benefit provided by the IBM i object-oriented architecture?

What information should be provided to a customer who wants to move from a 4-core POWER5 550 to a 4-core POWER7 system and keep the same serial number?

A customer has a Power 740 with 128GB of memory installed. There are 6 LPARs with dedicated memory implemented. Performance analysis shows that the usage of the memory in the diffe...

A Power 720 customer with IBM i and disk mirroring is afraid of being unprotected after a disk failure when waiting for IBM to replace it. They have asked whether there is a simple...