IBM System x Technical Expert V6 Sample Questions:

1. A customer is concerned about rising power costs, and the limited space they have left in the computer room. They have been doing some research into virtualization and would like to know if they should pursue this solution. Which of the following architectural features should be discussed with them?

A) x3650 M3 servers and racks
B) x3620 M3 servers and VMware
C) BladeCenter, blades and VMware
D) x3550 M3 servers, VMware and racks

2. A customer has a combination of fifteen Windows file servers with direct attached storage and three Power Systems with AIX database servers SAN attached to a DS4700. They would like to upgrade and plan for 40 TB capacity. The customer needs to move to a more scalable storage system to include all servers. Which of the following would be most appropriate to ask first?

A) How much space is available in the current storage systems?
B) WouldiSCSI meet your needs?
C) What are the plans for data migration?
D) What are the plans for Disaster Recovery?

3. A client requires that alerts generated from an IBM BladeCenter chassis and blade server be forwarded to their help desk for action. They do not use SNMP or a systems management program. How is the AMM configured so that the alerts will reach the client's help desk?

A) Send the alerts to the help desk via email
B) Send the alerts to the client's AMM
C) Forward Desktop Management Interface (DMI) alerts to the help desk
D) Send the alerts to the helpdeskv via instant message

4. A medical customer has a rack with four BladeCenter H chassis that have been operating normally
for several months. After installing a new rack of servers in the data center, the system
administrator notices the blowers in the BladeCenters have increased their speed.
Which of the following caused this problem?

A) One of the additional System X servers in theBladeCenter rack has failed.
B) A Blade within the chassis has been shut down.
C) The room temperature has reached 23C (73.4F).
D) The ambient temperature in the data center has increased

5. An eX5 client is concerned about the costperGB of the proposed SAS diskbased solution, and suggests using SATA disk technology in order to reduce costs for their 24x7 missioncritical Microsoft SQL Server application. Which of the following addresses the customer issues?

A) SATA storage is slower, has lower mean time between failure, and designed for a lower duty cycle compared with SAS
B) SATA drives require different, more expensive cables, and require more floor space compared with SAS
C) SAS drives supportFibre Channel attachment to eX5 servers, SATA does not
D) SAS drives support automatic rebuild upon failure, SATA must be rebuilt manually

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