IBM Assessment: Power Systems with POWER7 and IBM i Sales Skills -v2 Sample Questions:

1. A new 010 coming from a non-IBM background is being asked to approve the planned purchase of a new Power Systems server running IBM i, but is concerned about database and other systems programs missing from the proposal that might need to be purchased later.
What should be explained?

A) IBM i includes a runtime for AIX applications enabling UNIX applications to be ported to the system.
B) IBM Power servers come with PowerCare which is a set of deployment-ready software products that can be tailored to customer requirements.
C) Power Systems servers running IBM i can support a number of other databases including, Informix, Oracle, and Sybase.
D) IBM i includes database, security, storage management and networking functions.

2. A prospective customer is comparing an IBM i solution to an Intel-based solution. They have expressed a concern about recent virus attacks upon others in their industry.
Which of the following is a correct statement about IBM i that may make the customer feel better about an IBM i solution?

A) Virus Scanning Enablement provides an open set of API is that allow anti-virus business partner products be used to protect IBM i.
B) Anti-virus utilities are built into IBM i and virus scan enablement is provided automatically.
C) Because IBM i is a proprietary, object-oriented architecture, it is not susceptible to virus attacks.
D) The unique architecture of IBM i makes it unlikely that a virus could be written to attack it.

3. A customer has a specific application that needs the highest levels of availability and site disaster recovery, while other applications are not as critical.
Which statement supports this requirement?

A) Capacity Backup (CBU) systems can provide temporary use of inactive processors which can be activated in the event of an outage.
B) IBM i is cluster proven, and can switch an application and networking from one system to another and automatically restart it.
C) IBM i supports independent ASPs, which automatically switch eligible applications to a second system to provide continuous availability in the event of a system outage.
D) DB2 for IBM i has commitment control support and can automatically restart the application on another system with the most recent transaction.

4. A customer has IBM i, AIX and Linux on Power Systems and Linux on x86. The customer is refreshing their infrastructure and might drop IBM i as they cannot maintain management skills for all their different virtualization software.
How can this issue be addressed?

A) The PowerVM roadmap shows virtualization solutions for IBM i, AIX and Linux on Power Systems and Linux on x86.
B) The IBM i roadmap offers FSM, providing a single point of management for IBM i, AIX and Linux on Power Systems and Linux on x86.
C) IBM i can host and manage AIX and Linux partitions, eliminating the need for virtualization skills on x86.
D) Fewer virtualization skills are required on IBM i because LPAP creation and management are integrated into the operating system.

5. Under which conditions would adding SSD5 be an appropriate technical and financial solution for a customer?

A) When memory is constrained but disk I/O and processor are not constrained
B) When disk I/O is constrained but disk capacity and memory are not constrained
C) When processor is constrained but memory and disk I/O are not constrained
D) When disk capacity is constrained but processor and disk I/O are not constrained

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