C4040-224 Exam Questions

A customer is managing a Power 720 with dual VIO Servers with a 7310-CR4 HMC. A PS701 blade which requires Active Memory Expansion (AME) will be added to the environment. Existing...

A customer is running AIX and IBM i partitions on a POWER7+740 attached to a Storwize V7000 and needs both High Availability and Disaster Recovery. Which of the following pars of a...

What is a technical advantage of a POWER7+ system compared to a POWER7 system?

A customer is interested in upgrading their POWER6 570 with 32 cores. The customer has the following requirements for the upgraded system: - CEO Hot Add and Repair Maintenance (CHA...

A customer has a requirement for a new Power Systems server with one core for the operating system and 12 HDD5 (disks). Which of the following Power 720 configurations will support...

A client wants to create shared storage pools to extend storage virtualization in their environment. What is the minimum version of PowerVM required?

A customer wants to have 2 AIX development LPARs on a POWER7 720 server. Cost must be kept as low as possible, while being able to use VIO Server and NPIV storage for the AIX LPARs...

Compared with POWER7 what is the main benefit of POWER7+ Active Memory Expansion?

A customer is comparing RAS features between a POWER7+750 and a Power 760. Which of the following are available only for a Power 760?

A customer is considering server consolidation and I/O virtualization in the DMZ environment. Servers on multiple VLAN5 will be consolidated onto a single physical server, and will...

As compared to Intel, what feature of POWER7 processor technology permits more efficient processor core utilization to support highly threaded applications?

How many times can a standard request for Trial Capacity on Demand be performed for a Power 770?

An IBM i customer wants to purchase a POWER7+ 720 with all internal disk. To support future requirements, eight 300GB disks in a RAID-5 array are needed. Performance of these disks...

A customer is evaluating solutions for IT service management, cloud and virtualization management, asset and facilities management. Which of the following IBM software brands shoul...

The POWER7+ processor offers Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) which provides the processor the ability to transmit instructions from more than one hardware thread context. What is...

A customer wants to implement 8 LPARs, 4 of IBM i and 4 of AIX. The customer wants the new systems to be modular, configured to support their needs, and have room to expand if need...

Which of the following will cause Live Partition Mobility validation to fail?

A customer is interested in virtualizing their environment. PowerVM and VMware are the products whose hypervisors are best suited for their existing infrastructure. Which advantage...

Which is one of the advantages of the 6-core Power 720 when compared to the 4-core Power 720?

A customer wants to implement Linux on Power with dual VIO Servers on internal disk controllers. Which of the following systems should be suggested?

A customer is considering running Linux in a virtualized environment and is evaluating the differences between PowerVM and VMware. Which of the following would be an advantage of P...

A customer would like to consolidate their AIX and IBM i workloads that are currently running on several POWER6 servers. They also want to consolidate storage and use Live Partitio...

A customer plans to implement 3 production partitions on a Power 720, one each of AIX, IBM i, and Linux. The customer does not want to purchase an HMC, and will use IVM. Which of t...

The micropartitioning technology changed with the announcement of POWER77+. Due to this change, what is the new minimum number of processing units required for an LPAR?

A customer has installed an EXP30 disk expansion unit. Of the positions available for disks, what is the maximum that can be used for SSD?

A client is interested in running a Big Data Analytics solution, such as Apache Hadoop, on a POWER7+ system. Which operating system best supports a Big Data Analytics solution?

A customer who has a POWER6 server would like to buy a POWER7+ server and wants to use one 1 2X PCI-X drawer. Which POWER7+ models will meet customer requirement?

A customer wants to monitor energy consumption for all of their IBM systems. What part of the IBM Systems Director family supports this function?

What is a key ability of IBM Systems Director Enterprise Edition as compared to Standard Edition?

On a POWER7 processor based server what is the minimum number of cores used by the Hypervisor to run four threads?

A Technical and Delivery Assessment (TDA) is a structured technical inspection of a completed solution design. After the inspection is complete, what deliverable can the customer e...

Which POWER7 design feature improves processor performance by reducing processor idle times?

What distinguishes the Power 760 from Power 770, Power 780 and Power 795 systems?

Assuming that necessary requirements have been satisfied, which RAS feature can ensure that critical workloads can remain active in the event of a processor core failure?

Which of the following is required for two HMC5 to be in a redundant-HMC configuration, managing Power Systems servers?

A system is being planned with three processor pools: the base pool, plus two user defined pools with limits to meet software licensing. All partitions will be uncapped. Which of t...

A customer purchased a 6-core POWER7 740 to run a new ERP solution. Three IBM i partitions are planned: one each for production, test, and development. Capacity entitlement for eac...

When utilizing dual VIO Servers, what protocol simplifies management for the system administrator in a Fibre Channel SAN environment?

A customer wants to replace their POWERS system with a new POWER7+ system, and wants to run an additional Lotus Domino server on the new system. Which tool should be used to size t...

A potential customer is interested in a single application Power System solution that utilizes a tightly integrated operating system and database. Which operating system should be...

A customer is migrating to a Power 720. They want to use 8 SAS disks with RAID-5 and 1.8GB Cache RAID SAS Adapters. Which of the following is the minimum hardware needed to support...

When comparing Power Systems servers with HP Integrity servers, which of the following makes Power Systems a better choice?

A customer needs to perform a disruptive server firmware upgrade, and plans to move partitions to another server. What benefit of virtualization is being utilized?

A client wants to purchase a POWER77+ server with the following requirements: - Two PCIe 12X I/O drawers - Partition scalability to 320 LPAPs Which system supports the client needs...

A customer wants to install the operating system on a new partition from the optical media pool of the virtual I/O server. What needs to be configured to be able to use this media...

A customer is evaluating the consolidation of several standalone servers with variable workloads onto a single Power server with multiple LPARs. Uncapped logical partitions would b...

Which of the following is an advantage of Shared Ethernet Adapter (SEA) failover over Network Interface Backup (NIB) in a dual VIO Server environment?

A customer wants a 4-core POWER7 + 720 with dual VIO Servers, each controlling three SAS disks. In addition to 6 SAS drives, which of the following needs to be included in the conf...

A customer is interested in a POWER7+ server that offers Capacity Upgrade on Demand processors. Which is the minimum model that supports this requirement?

When migrating from POWER6 to POWER7 which model can support PCI-X adapters without the need for an external I/O drawer?