C4040-250 Exam Questions

What is a competitive advantage of a Power System compared to an Oracle Exadata system?

You are proposing a PowerHA solution to your customer who wants installation assistance. What resource can be proposed to perform the installation?

As a virtualization host, what is an advantage of VIOS compared to IBM i?

A customer has an E870 installed in one location and is going to upgrade a Power 770 to an E870 in a second location Which option describes whether a Technical Delivery Assessment...

A customer plans to implement a web-based solution that requires 34 Power cores. They want to acquire a POWER8 solution with the best TCA. Assuming all other configuration requirem...

What P0WER8 availability feature is unique to the E870 and E880 models?

A customer is concerned about Power Systems security in a virtualized environment. They want real time monitoring and a trusted firewall between LPARs. Which IBM product should be...

In addition to one System Node, what is (are) the minimum E880 hardware feature(s)?

PowerVM Enterprise Edition provides which availability function?

A customer is considering the purchase of three IBM POWER8 Scale-out systems to run their AIX and IBM i applications. Their main concern is application uptime. What feature of the...

A customer needs to purchase a server to run their large Tivoli Storage Manager environment What POWER8 capability should they consider compared to an x86 solution?

A customer is evaluating infrastructure options in order to deploy IBM DB2 BLU. What is a benefit of running DB2 BLU on POWER8?

A client wants a proposal for a POWER8 server to support deployment of a new mobile application. What information is most valuable to configure the new server?

What is a performance monitoring product that is available on the E880?

What is the benefit of using the Active Memory Expansion feature in Power Systems servers?

An existing Power Systems customer wants to run Java programs, and they know that Java is now owned by Oracle. The customer has asked how they can run Java programs on a Power Syst...

A customer has an application that requires the following: - 21 cores - 24 by 7 operation - High I/O bandwidth - Lowest TCO Which solution will satisfy the requirements?

A customer is running an Oracle database on Solaris and needs to replace their systems. They are considering offerings from both Oracle and IBM. Oracle is leading with M5. What adv...

A POWERS customer with disk expansion drawers needs a non-disruptive solution to improve the disk performance at the lowest cost. What should be proposed to satisfy the customer's...

A customer wants to simplify virtualization management and specifically wants the ability to capture and deploy virtual images. In addition to PowerVM, which software product will...

Which feature is available on POWER8 Scale-out systems?

OpenPOWER Foundation is developing solutions for which environment(s)?

Due to new regulatory requirements, a Power Systems customer must set up a disaster recovery site in a geographical location at least 120 miles (194 km) away from the main site. Wh...

What is the PVU value for an IBM two socket Scale-out system?

A customer needs a 4-core S814 server with 1TB of available disk space to run an ERP application. Which disk storage technology meets the requirements?

Which IBM resource is devised to help with the design and installation of a Power Systems SmartCloud solution?

What resource should be used to assemble the sales material for a competitive opportunity?

Which customer requirement would lead to a proposal of a 6-core S814 instead of a 4-core S814 server?

A customer asks why they might be interested in open source developed software. Which statement accurately describes the benefit?

A customer with no in-house IT support needs to implement a solution that includes a relational database, industry leading security, standards based internet technology, networking...

A customer states that up time is very critical in their environment. What should the IBM reseller tell the customer?

Upon meeting in an elevator, a customer's senior executive asks an IBM sales agent to explain in one sentence why POWER8 systems are superior to x86 solutions. Which statement best...

A customer is running a critical and large Oracle Database on x86 servers in an 8-node RAC cluster. The client has regular outages and poor performance. Which POWER8 advantage is m...

In a very competitive situation, a business partner requested the assistance of an IBM Field Technical Systems Specialist (FTSS) to help differentiate an E880 against HP. The team...

Which POWER8 servers are NEBS (Network Equipment Building System) compliant?

A customer is considering the E880 server with PowerVC to simplify virtualization management. Which software product includes PowerVC?

An existing customer wants to mitigate the risk of replacing their HP system running an Oracle database with IBM Power Systems. Which resource should be reviewed with the customer?

A customer wants to use a virtualization technology that has a consistent interface across both the x86 and Power platforms. Which hypervisor for Power Systems will satisfy their r...

A prospective IBM POWER8 customer is worried about the longevity of RISC processors. Which response should help the customer be less concerned about their investment in a Power Sys...

An existing POWER8 customer with an E870 recently acquired a small company with an x86 Linux server running a scripting Java application. They would like to run that application on...

A customer running Linux with VMware on their x86 systems wants to add an S822L into the environment using a consistent virtualization technology. How can a Power option satisfy th...

The executive summary of a proposal should:

A retail customer has variable processing requirements. The processor and memory requirements are not constant and represent a significant cost element of the E870. What feature sh...

How does POWER8 technology contribute to lower TCO?

A customer has a quote for running an Oracle database on a HP Itanium server. What POWER8 competitive advantage should an IBM reseller discuss?

A customer is running an application that is licensed per core. What advantage does POWER8 have compared to x86 that could lower software costs?

An IBM customer is implementing a very complex solution and is encountering difficulty with the integration of the IBM Power System and storage. What resource should the customer u...

A customer wants to run an Oracle application that is available for POWER8 and other competitive platforms. The Oracle application is licensed per core. Which POWER8 processor adva...

A customer purchased a new POWER8 Scale-out server and wants three years of 24 by 7 hardware. Which option satisfies this request?

Which RAS feature is available on both the Scale-out and Enterprise systems?