C4040-252 Exam Questions

A P0WER6 customer is considering an upgrade to a new Power System, and needs to ensure availability at a DR site. The recovery point must be as close to current as possible without...

Which of the following differentiates the capabilities of IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack from PowerVC?

A customer has a tape drive directly connected to a 8Gb FC adapter to one LPAR which now needs to be shared between four LPARs. Network and storage are being accessed through NPiV...

In addition to an S822L, what is a component of the IBM solution for Hadoop?

A managed service provider offering retail cloud services on E870 with DS8870 storage would like to use storage copy services to replicate data between a primary and secondary data...

A customer wants to provide storage to 16 partitions on a new E880. Each partition requires at least 10 individual LUNs. The customer has strong skills with SAN administration, but...

A customer has two Power E870 systems and requires Power Enterprise Pool implementation. What is required to implement the solution?

Which of the following describes a capability of PowerVC?

Which tool can help identify the appropriate firmware for a Power System?

A customer has an E880. They are considering using Power Enterprise Pools. What is the maximum percentage of installed memory that can have mobile activations?

What P0WER8 enhancement provides greater RAS compared to prior generations of Power Systems?

Which feature will help prevent a system outage in the event of an uncorrectable error in memory being used by the hypervisor?

Which interface supports connectivity between the POWER8 processor and the accelerator on the S824L?

How is the 19 inch PCIe Gen3 I/O Expansion Drawer connected on POWER8 systems?

A customer is running an internal cloud and would like to have the ability to activate and deactivate processor cores on their E880 for peak processing periods throughout the year...

Compared to x86, what feature of POWER8 processor technology permits more efficient processor core utilization to support highly threaded applications?

Which of the following is true for an IBM Power Enterprise processor pool?

Which benefit does PowerCare provide?

A customer has older generations of Power servers that they want to manage with their E870 server from the same 7042-CR8 HMC running V8R8.2.0. What is the earliest Power server gen...

Which Ethernet virtualization technique supports Live Partition Mobility on POVVER8?

What Power Systems Virtual Switch mode can be used to prevent LPAR to LPAR network traffic within the system?

Which E870 / E880 offering adds value to a POWER8 solution with IBM Cloud Orchestrator?

Which of the following RAS features was added to the POWER8 design?

A customer with several Power 770 systems runs a mixed production environment of Linux, AIX, and IBM i. They would like to purchase a single Power E880 for high availability, but a...

Which of the following applications is available on PowerLinux and not on AIX?

AIX licensing for a Power Systems server is based on which of the following factors?

A customer is purchasing a new POWER8 Server and will make a choice between PowerVM and PowerKVM. What is an advantage of PowerVM over PowerKVM?

A client would like to manage and monitor a group of servers as a system pool. Which VMControl Edition is required?

Comparing AlX and Linux, in which of the following situations should Linux on Power be suggested?

Which of the following is a design consideration for the E870 / E880?

What primary advantage does Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL) provide for the customer?

A new customer has a requirement to analyze the effects of activating two cores on an E870 and 32GB of memory for one month. What is the most cost-effective Capacity on Demand (CoD...

Which of the following RAS features is always enabled and functional on an E870 / E880, regardless of configuration?

When connecting a 12 slot PCIe Gen3 I/O Expansion drawer, how many CXP adapters are required?

Which P0WER8 processor feature was announced to deliver balanced system performance?

Which statement best describes the System Control Unit (SCU) in a two-node Power E870 / E880?

A retail customer has implemented the following at each store location: - A Linux-based POS (Point of Sale) application - A data collection application on an x86 system - An additi...

A customer is considering a Power Systems solution to provide in-memory table look-up for large volumes of unstructured data for their mobile and social applications. Which of the...

Which of the following documents is designed to mitigate risk as part of the acquisition of a new E880?

Which feature of the POWER8 processor can be used to improve performance in a Websphere Application Server environment compared to an x86 processor?

A client is considering the S824L system for development of a real time financial trading application. What is required to program the accelerator?

Which virtualization hypervisor provides an Open Source choice for Power virtualization with big data?

What is the minimum amount of rack space that an 80 core E870, without any I/O drawers, will take up in a 19 inch rack?

When utilizing dual VIO Servers, which of the following simplifies storage management for the system administrator in a Fiber Channel SAN environment?

A customer wants to minimize the number of Fibre Channel adapters located in a system node. Slots in a PCIe I/O expansion drawer are not available. Which supported adapter provides...

Which P0WER8 feature can provide increased system performance?

A client is considering deploying an HPC workload leveraging NVIDIA's K40 GPUs on the S824L. Which Linux distribution is supported?

A customer would like to add a second HMC to an environment which consists of multiple POWER7 and POWER8 systems. Which of the following is a requirement for both HMCs to be able t...

Which of the following describes the number and type of slots supported by each PCIe Gen3 I/O Expansion Drawer fan-out module?

Which of the following is the complete set of modes that can be configured on a POWER8 processor?