C1000-031

C1000-031 practice questions, page 4 of 4, with answer review and explanations.

Question 16

A customer is considering a purchase of a Power System E950. One PCIe Gen3 I/O expansion drawer is required to meet the I/O adapter requirements. How many racks units (EIA) are required?

  1. 8
  2. 9
  3. 6
  4. 10

Question 17

A customer is comparing a Power Systems solution with an x86 solution for big data analytics. Which no-charge IBM analysis is available to justify the value of IBM Power Servers compared to x86 solutions?

  1. IT Economics Study (Eagle Study)
  2. Performance Navigator
  3. System Planning Tool
  4. Workload Estimator

Question 18

A customer would like to deploy a new application that requires 7 day by 24 hour availability. What advantage does the Power System E980 have versus the Power System S924 to satisfy their requirement?

  1. PCIe hot plug adapters
  2. Soft error protection, recovery and self-healing
  3. Active Memory Mirroring
  4. Chipkill memory

Question 19

Which of the following statements is true regarding Dynamic Logical Partitioning (DLPAR)?

  1. In a disaster, it will immediately move active LPARs from a local system to a remote system, over the network with only a pause in service.
  2. In a disaster, it will immediately move active LPARs from a local system to another local system, using a common SAN, with only a pause in service.
  3. It enables the relocation of resources such as CPU and memory between LPARs as required, without an interruption in service.
  4. It will automatically allocate an unlicensed processor to an LPAR to replace one that has reached the threshold for errors.

Question 20

A customer would like to add a second HMC to an environment which consists of multiple POWER8 and POWER9 processor-based systems. Which of the following is a requirement for both HMCs to be able to manage all the systems?

  1. Both HMCs must be at the same version of HMC Code.
  2. Both HMCs must be on the same HMC VLAN.
  3. All the POWER8 processor-based systems must be at the same firmware level.
  4. Each HMC must be on a dedicated HMC VLAN.