C4040-250 Exam Questions

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...

What is a major differentiator with the IBM Solution for Hadoop - Power Systems Edition, compared to Hadoop on x86?

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...

Why is OpenPOWER strategically important for Power Systems customers?

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?

A customer has been using Systems Insight Manager to manage HP servers. What IBM offering provides similar capabilities and includes energy and virtualization management?

Which management function is provided by IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack?

A customer has a requirement for analytics with structured and unstructured data. They want to use Open source products. What will satisfy the requirement?

IBM is competing with Cisco for a large Oracle database opportunity. What advantage of POWER8 systems should an IBM Power reseller emphasize?

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...

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...

A customer wants to run multiple workloads, and is considering an S824 or an E870. Under which condition would the E870 be more appropriate?

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,...

Which P0WER8 RAS feature is available on all Scale-out and Enterprise systems?

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...

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...

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?

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?

What is a limitation of the 4-core S814 model once installed? Inability to change the:

Which resource is used to determine if an adapter can move from the 570 to the S824?

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?

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...

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...

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?

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?

A customer purchased a new POWER Scale-out server and wants three years of 24 by 7hardware. Which option satisfies this request?

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...

A customer is migrating from a POWER6 570 to a POWER8 S824. Which technology will have to be replaced?

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...

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...

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...

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...

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?

An environment for a popular ISV application used on Power Systems must be sized. Which IBM tool or resource should be used?

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...

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?

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...

Which tool can be used to determine the three-year TCO of a an S824 system compared to an HP DL580?

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...

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...

Customers benefit from the OpenPOWER Foundation because:

What is an advantage of a P0WER8 system compared to an x86 solution?

Which Power Systems feature or capability is a significant contributor in TCO analysis?

A prospective customer has a large quantity of x86 servers. What value is gained by consolidating onto Power Systems servers?

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...

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?

Which P0WER8 technology features contribute the most to lower TCO?

A customer states that they requ.re N_ Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) for storage attachment. Which adapter will satisfy their requirement?

What are key cost elements that should always be included in a POWER8 proposal?

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...