C4040-250 Exam Questions
118 real C4040-250 exam questions with expert-verified answers and explanations. Page 1 of 3.
- Question #1
An installed HP Superdome / Oracle database customer is consider migrating to POWER8 . The customer has significant financial concerns because of the multiple partitions and high O...
- Question #2
What is a major differentiator with the IBM Solution for Hadoop - Power Systems Edition, compared to Hadoop on x86?
- Question #3
A department chain IT manager stated that their E870 processing requirements can experience unexpected short peaks throughout the day. They need to automatically activate cores and...
- Question #4
Why is OpenPOWER strategically important for Power Systems customers?
- Question #5
A customer with a 15TB data base needs very fast data access to approximately 15% of that data. Which storage solution below supports the customer requirements?
- Question #6
A customer has been using Systems Insight Manager to manage HP servers. What IBM offering provides similar capabilities and includes energy and virtualization management?
- Question #7
Which management function is provided by IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack?
- Question #8
A customer has a requirement for analytics with structured and unstructured data. They want to use Open source products. What will satisfy the requirement?
- Question #9
IBM is competing with Cisco for a large Oracle database opportunity. What advantage of POWER8 systems should an IBM Power reseller emphasize?
- Question #10
An IT manager has several P0WER5 servers and wants to consolidate them into a new P0WER8 server. The CFO (Chief Financial Officer) is asking for a financial justification for the p...
- Question #11
A customer is running a large application on x86 Linux with an Oracle Enterprise database. Which of the following can be used to financially justify migrating the application to PO...
- Question #12
A customer wants to run multiple workloads, and is considering an S824 or an E870. Under which condition would the E870 be more appropriate?
- Question #13
A customer has a fully virtualized scale out Linux environment with 25 x86 servers, each with 16 cores. You are proposing to move all Linux partitions to eight Power S824 servers,...
- Question #14
Which P0WER8 RAS feature is available on all Scale-out and Enterprise systems?
- Question #15
An application has a high availability requirement and is implemented with two local partitioned POWER8 servers and one remote partitioned POWER8 server. One local server runs prod...
- Question #16
A customer needs to support an HPC cluster, and needs the maximum number of cores in a standard 19 inch rack. The customer can run either AIX or Linux. Which POWER8 server best sat...
- Question #17
A customer has an E870 and is installing IBM software products in a Red Hat partition. What PVU will the customer be charged per core?
- Question #18
A customer has a 6TB database that needs a very high performance solution at the lowest cost. Which system is the more cost effective solution?
- Question #19
What is a limitation of the 4-core S814 model once installed? Inability to change the:
- Question #20
Which resource is used to determine if an adapter can move from the 570 to the S824?
- Question #21
A customer is close to maximum energy consumption in their data center and wants to measure an predict energy use. Which POWER8 feature will provide the required function?
- Question #22
A customer told the IBM reseller that they are reviewing proposals from several different computer manufacturers. What should the IBM reseller emphasize as a Power Systems infrastr...
- Question #23
A client running Oracle databases is considering a Power solution. They want the highest level of reliability, performance, and support. Which operating system on Power should be r...
- Question #24
A customer is evaluating POWERS and competitive servers to run multiple workloads in a dynamic environment. What should be emphasized in the Executive Summary of a proposal?
- Question #25
A customer believes that virtualized x86 solutions offer a lower TCA than Power solutions. Which of the following Power solutions generally has the lowest TCA?
- Question #26
A customer purchased a new POWER Scale-out server and wants three years of 24 by 7hardware. Which option satisfies this request?
- Question #27
A customer has a critical invoice application for which the system is mostly underutilized. During the last week of the month, response times become unacceptable due to growth. The...
- Question #28
A customer is migrating from a POWER6 570 to a POWER8 S824. Which technology will have to be replaced?
- Question #29
A customer offers mobile phone plans via a secure website. They requested a meeting to evaluate what IBM has to offer in terms of a hybrid cloud infrastructure and data analytics s...
- Question #30
A small retailer has a 4-core S814 with one processor license to run the production workload. During the busy holiday season in November and December, the average daily workload is...
- Question #31
When implementing a 40TB NoSQL in-memory database on an x86 platform, a customer needs 24 servers. The same database requirement can be satisfied on POWER with a CAPI connected Fla...
- Question #32
A customer has 40 Power 520 servers and is concerned about the ongoing operational cost, space, and high availability. Which solution should be discussed in order to satisfy the re...
- Question #33
A customer asks why they should investigate Open Source solutions as opposed to single vendor proprietary solutions. Which statement best summarizes the benefit of the solutions?
- Question #34
An environment for a popular ISV application used on Power Systems must be sized. Which IBM tool or resource should be used?
- Question #35
An IT manager is concerned that all components required for a working system are included in the price quotation. Which resource insures that all the features required for a workin...
- Question #36
A customer with an AS/400 running S/36 code needs to migrate to a new P0WER8 system. They require a deskside solution. Which solution will satisfy the customer's requirements?
- Question #37
A client is looking for a high availability solution for their existing Power environment. They have two locations each with an E870 and DS8800. What solution provides the best TCO...
- Question #38
Which tool can be used to determine the three-year TCO of a an S824 system compared to an HP DL580?
- Question #39
A credit card company is going to implement a new application for which security is a major requirement. The company has been quoted a solution running in Windows. Why should the c...
- Question #40
A customer has 4U remaining in their rack Adding a second rack is not an option They will run a number of small instances of WebSphere Application Servers. It has been determined t...
- Question #41
Customers benefit from the OpenPOWER Foundation because:
- Question #42
What is an advantage of a P0WER8 system compared to an x86 solution?
- Question #43
Which Power Systems feature or capability is a significant contributor in TCO analysis?
- Question #44
A prospective customer has a large quantity of x86 servers. What value is gained by consolidating onto Power Systems servers?
- Question #45
A customer has a BladeCenter S (BCS) with an 8-core POWER6 blade, 1 5TB of storage and an external LTO tape drive installed. They want to upgrade to a P0WER8. Which of the followin...
- Question #46
A customer needing an analytics solution is comparing POWER8 with x86 servers for their infrastructure. What makes Power Systems a better value than the x86 solution?
- Question #47
Which P0WER8 technology features contribute the most to lower TCO?
- Question #48
A customer states that they requ.re N_ Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) for storage attachment. Which adapter will satisfy their requirement?
- Question #49
What are key cost elements that should always be included in a POWER8 proposal?
- Question #50
In a competitive situation, a customer wants to compare virtualization capabilities of POWER8 systems and x86 systems. Which response describes a competitive advantage of PowerVM c...