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IBM EXAM 000-108 Enterprise Technical Support for POWER7 and AIX

Total Questions: 91

Question: 1

Which power reduction technology requires a software component in order to

be activated? A. Power capping B. Processor folding C. Static power saving D.

Processor core nap mode

Answer: A

Question: 2

Which of the following commands will enable the SEA accounting? A. chacct-dev ent14 -attr enable B. optimizenet -set accounting=enabled C. chsea -dev

ent14 -attr accounting=enable D. chdev -dev ent14 -attr accounting=enabled

Answer: D

Question: 3

A customer backs up a database using tools provided by the vendor. The

backup files are written to a filesystem that was initially created for use by

the database, but the backup takes an unexpectedly long time. Which of the

following methods will decrease the time required for backups? A. Use the

vmo command to increase WriteBehind. B. Switch on Concurrent I/O for

target filesystems. C. Switch off Concurrent I/O for target filesystems. D. Use

the backup tools provided with the operating system.

Answer: C

Question: 4

A company which sells books and DVDs runs their business on AIX Enterprise

Edition on a Power 795. They have LPARs running back-office applications and

other LPARs supporting their Internet based retail operations. They are

considering a policy of switching between TurboCore mode and MaxCore

mode, depending on workload. Which of the following considerations will

have the most impact on the customer's business? A. The managed system

will need to be restarted to change modes. B. There will be fewer cores

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available when using TurboCore mode. C. There will be less L3 cache

available per core when using MaxCore mode. D. The applications running on

the affected LPARs must support MaxCore and TurboCore modes.

Answer: A

Question: 5

A customer has an existing deployment of IBM i LPARs running on POWER6

hardware. The customer is planning to add new AIX and IBM i LPARs on the

same hardware. To avoid purchasing additional adapters, there is a

requirement for the new LPARs to be completely virtualized. What

virtualization options exist for hosting IBM i and AIX LPARs? A. Virtualization

Engine (VE) B. N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) C. Advanced Power

Virtualization (APV) D. Network Server Description (NWSD) and VIO Server

Answer: D

Question: 6

Which of the following commands traces a processes system calls, received

signals, and machine faults? A. prof B. topas C. truss D. mpstat

Answer: C

Question: 7

A system administrator must provide network access to a single VLAN for

multiple partitions on a Power 795 server. The Power 795 server has a pair

VIO Server (VIOS) partitions, with a Shared Ethernet Adapter (SEA) in each

one. Each SEA will use a single-port Ethernet adapter as a backing device.

Both SEAs must support network traffic so both adapters are used

simultaneously.Network service must be resilient. All client partitions must be

able to maintain network access to this VLAN through either VIOS partition if

the other VIOS partition fails or is taken out of service. Which of the followingconfigurations would satisfy this goal? A. The SEAs are both connected to the

same virtual switch. Both SEAs are configured for SEA failover. The client

LPARs are configured with one virtual Ethernet adapter B. The SEAs are each

connected to separate virtual switches. Both SEAs are configured for SEA

failover. The client LPARs are configured with one virtual Ethernet adapter. C.

The SEAs are both connected to the same virtual switch. Neither SEA is

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configured for SEA failover. The client LPARs are configured with NIB on two

virtual Ethernet adapters. D. The SEAs are each connected to separate virtual

switches. Neither SEA is configured for SEA failover. The client LPARs are

configured with NIB on two virtual Ethernet adapters.

Answer: D

Question: 8

An administrator attempts to migrate a running LPAR using the 'migrlpar'

command. : What task will help the administrator determine the cause of the

errors? A. Validate the configured attributes on the Properties tab of the LPAR

profile. B. Validate that the VIO servers have the Mover Service Partition

(MSP) attribute set. C. Validate that the required CPU entitlements are

available on the destination server. D. Validate that the Logical Memory Block

(LMB) size is consistent between both source and destination.

Answer: B

Question: 9

An administrator who manages systems in a remote 'lights-out' data center

has been sent a set of AIX device drivers for some storage arrays. The

software was sent by email from the third party manufacturer, in the form of

an ISO image. What is the quickest and easiest way to install the drivers? A.Using a PC, open a browser window onto the HMC 'updates' page Select the

ISO file on the PC and follow the on-screen instructions B. Write the ISO image

to a CD and place it in a drive on the server Follow the manufacturer's

documentation to complete the installation C. Transfer the ISO image to a

temporary directory on the AIX system cd into the directory and run 'inutoc'

followed by 'smitty installp' D. Copy the ISO image to AIX and mount it using

the 'loopmount' command Install from the mounted filesystem using the third

party guidelines

Answer: C

Question: 10

All Power 795 system racks must have door assemblies installed. Three

distinct door styles are available. One of the options - the acoustical door kit -

reduces the noise emissions from the system. What attributes are improved

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by the other 2 door styles? A. Weight, height B. Depth, security C. Depth,

temperature D. Height, temperature

Answer: C

Question: 11

After upgrading their HMCs to the V7R720 release, a customer was planning

to consolidate HMCs by taking advantage of the raised limit for maximum

managed LPARs. They have found two POWER6 570s on which the password

for both HMC and admin UserIDs has been forgotten. What ASMI UserID can

the customer use, when directed by IBM Support, to reset the forgotten

passwords? A. ibm B. root C. padmin D. celogin

Answer: D

Question: 12

A client is running a two node active/passive cluster on AIX 6.1 and needs to

migrate AIX versions while minimizing the time the cluster runs without a

failover node available. They plan to migrate the passive node, before

moving the resources off the active node to migrate it. Which of the following

options will minimize the time that the passive node is unavailable? A. Run a

network-boot NIM migration from the NIM master on the current passive

node. B. Run a local migration from assigned a DVD-RAM media to removeany network overheads. C. Run the migration using nimadm with cluster

services still running on the passive node. D. Run alt_disk_copy to create a

backup to a spare disk prior to initiating a NIM migration.

Answer: C

Question: 13

A partition is running on a Power 770 using POWER7 mode and SMT4. The

LPAR has 8.0 units of entitled capacity assigned, and has 10 virtualprocessors configured. If the customer uses nmon to monitor processor

activity, how many processors will be shown on the summary screen? A. 8 B.

10 C. 32 D. 40

Answer: D

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Question: 14

In the following topas output, what does '%client' mean?

A. Percentage of memory that can be paged to paging space. B. Percentage

of real memory used by non-kernel processes. C. Percentage of virtual

memory currently allocated to cache JFS2 files. D. Percentage of real memory

currently allocated to cache JFS2 and NFS files.

Answer: D

Question: 15

Which was the first release of IBM i to support Multipath I/O (MPIO) at the

client LPAR level, when the same storage is served from redundant VIO

Servers? A. 6.1.0 B. 6.1.1 C. 7.1.0 D. 7.1.1

Answer: A

Question: 16

A customer has a Power 770 and a Power 795 managed by a single HMC . The

existing HMC has two network connections. The first adapter is connected to

the general company network and uses a static IP address. The second

adapter is connected to a network switch which also has connections to the

Flexible Service Processors (FSPs) of the managed systems and acts as aDHCP server. It has been decided to add a second HMC for resilience. Which

of the following is a supported method of configuring the new HMC, in

relation to the existing HMC? A. On the same public network on the same

private network, using a different DHCP range B. On a different public

network on the same private network, using the same DHCP range C. On the

same public network on a different private network, using the same DHCP

range D. On a different public network on a different private network, using a

different DHCP range

Answer: D

Question: 17

A customer is upgrading a Power 595 to a Power 795 and wants to know the

estimated power usage of the upgraded system. What is the most

comprehensive source for this information? A. Facts and Features B. Workload

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Estimator C. System Energy Estimator D. Server Specification Sheets

Answer: C

Question: 18

A customer is adding a second HMC to their two-enclosure Power 780 to

provide redundancy. Which of the following is required? A. Each HMC requires

different DHCP address ranges. B. The HMCs must be connected to the same

FSP port in different enclosures. C. Both HMCs must be connected to the

managed systems on the same private subnet. D. The primary HMC must be

configured as a DHCP host and the failover HMC must be a DHCP client.

Answer: A

Question: 19

A customer wants to consolidate 5 System p servers to a Power 780. Each of

the 5 systems run as a single LPAR. Three systems run applications which are

certified by the vendor for AIX 5.2 only. One system runs AIX 5.3, and the last

one runs AIX 6.1. Which of the following is a supported configuration for

consolidation? A. Create three AIX 5.2 LPARs, one AIX 5.3 LPAR, and one AIX

6.1 LPAR. B. Create one AIX 7.1 LPAR hosting three AIX 5.2 WPARs, one AIX

5.3 LPAR, and one AIX 6.1 LPAR. C. Create one AIX 7.1 LPAR hosting three AIX

5.2 WPARs, one AIX 5.3 WPAR, and one AIX 6.1 WPAR. D. Create one AIX 7.1LPAR hosting three AIX 5.2 WPARs, and one AIX 6.1 LPAR hosting one AIX 5.3

WPAR.

Answer: B

Question: 20

A system administrator would like to add a new LPAR to an existing Power

770 system that currently hosts 4 other LPARs. The system has a total of 52

GB of RAM installed and is licensed for Active Memory Expansion (AME). Thecurrent LPARs each have 12 GB of RAM allocated to them, and are tolerant of

varied response times. The new LPAR requires 8 GB of RAM, and requires

consistent response time. There is no money available to purchase additional

RAM. Which of the following options will support adding the new LPAR to the

system with minimal impact to the existing partitions? A. For each of the pre-

existing LPARs, configure AME . For the new LPAR, do not activate AME, and

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assign 8 GB of RAM. B. For each of the pre-existing LPARs, do not activate

AME . For the new LPAR, configure AME, and assign 4 GB of RAM. C. For each

of the pre-existing LPARs, activate and employ AME . For the new LPAR,

configure AME, and assign 4 GB of RAM. D. For each of the pre-existing LPARs,

configure AME, and reduce the physical RAM allocated. For the new LPAR, do

not activate AME, and assign 8 GB of RAM.

Answer: D

Question: 21

A customer needs to verify the resources allocated to an AIX 6.1 LPAR. The

Operator Panel on the front of the physical system indicates it is managed by

an HMC, however the customer is unaware of exactly which HMC . To avoid

the customer logging on to 25 HMCs, which AIX command can be used to

query the IP address of the managing HMC? A. lssrc -ls ctrmc B. grep -ri

hmc /var/ct/ C. lsrsrc IBM.ManagementServer D. HMC hostname is listed

within /etc/hosts

Answer: C

Question: 22

While restoring a mksysb to a VIO client, the installation halts with a message

indicating lack of space. The mksysb being used for the restore is 4GB in size.The client LPAR has an assigned 32GB LUN through the VIO Server. What is

wrong? A. The extracted files plus required temporary working storage

exceeds 32GB. B. The logical volumes defined in image.data, together require

more than 32 GB. C. The logical volumes defined in bosinst.data, together

require more than 32 GB. D. The PP_SIZE in bosinst.data value would make

the logical volumes > 32 GB combined.

Answer: B

Question: 23

A customer is planning 17 LPARs on a Power 795. All LPARs will run AIX 6.1

and use dedicated cores. The other 13 LPARs each have 4 cores and 12 GB

RAM What is the minimum number and type(s) of AIX licenses required? A.

AIX Enterprise Edition licenses for 96 cores B. AIX Express Edition licenses for

56 cores, and AIX Standard Edition licenses for 40 cores C. AIX Standard

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Edition licenses for 79 cores, and AIX Enterprise Edition licenses for 17 cores

D. AIX Express Edition licenses for 52 cores, AIX Standard Edition licenses for

27 cores, and AIX Enterprise Edition licenses for 17 cores.

Answer: B

Question: 24

An administrator would like to create an account on an HMC that allows the

Operations Team to activate and shutdown LPARs but with no other

permissions. How could this be achieved? A. \Create a new user and assign

the hmcviewer role. Modify the new user removing all but the Activate

Partition and Deactivate Partition objects. B. Create a new resource role with

Activate Partition and Deactivate Partition permissions. Create a new HMC

user and assign the new resource role. C. Create a new managed task role

with Activate Partition and Deactivate Partition permissions. Create a new

HMC user and assign the new task role. D. Create a new user and assign the

hmcoperator role. Modify the new user removing all but the Activate Partition

and Deactivate Partition permissions.

Answer: C

Question: 25

An administrator has to restore a couple of servers using NIM. Unfortunatelythe installation always asks for input on the console. Which steps are required

to automate the installation process? A. Prepare a nim_script file with

CUSTOMIZE = no. Define the nim_script file as a NIM resource and allocate it

to the clients. B. Prepare a image_data file with NO_PROMPT = yes. Define

the image_data file as a NIM resource and allocate it to the clients. C. Prepare

a bosinst_data file with PROMPT = no. Define the bosinst_data file as a NIM

resource and allocate it to the clients. D. Prepare a customization_file file with

all settings. Define the customization_file file as a NIM resource and allocate it

to the clients.

Answer: C

Question: 26

Which of the following features is unique to traditional Capacity on Demand

servers when compared to Capacity Back Up servers? A. Capacity Upgrade on

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Demand: the ability to permanently activate inactive cores. B. Processor

Sparing: the replacement of cores reporting certain errors with inactive cores.

C. On/Off Capacity on Demand: the ability to turn a certain number of cores

on for a temporary period. D. Utility Capacity on Demand: the ability to have

the system automatically determine how many additional temporary core

resources to activate.

Answer: A

Question: 27

A system administrator is installing a third-party monitoring agent on a

security-hardened VIO server. The installation of the agent completes without

errors, initializes, and network routing is correct, but the monitoring server

cannot communicate with the agent installed on the VIO server. What action

is necessary to fix this situation? A. Open appropriate ports in the firewalls for

the monitoring server. B. Register the monitoring agent in the inetd.conf and

run 'startnetsvc'. C. Add the monitoring server to the known_hosts and

authorized_keys2 files. D. Ensure that the monitoring agent is installed as a

user with the PAdmin role.

Answer: A

Question: 28

An administrator is creating an LPAR that will employ N_Port ID Virtualization

(NPIV) and Partition Mobility. The SAN administrator wants to see both virtual

WWPNs for each virtual fibre channel adapter log into the SAN fabric in order

to zone them.In order to activate the secondary virtual WWPNs the

administrator attempts to migrate the inactive LPAR to a target server. The

migration fails. Which of the following is a valid reason for the failure? A.

Partition Mobility is available only for active partitions. B. The partition was

not enabled as a Mover Service Partition. C. A partition must be booted to the

SMS menu at least once before the migration will succeed. D. A partition

cannot be migrated until its operating system verifies that PowerVM

Enterprise Edition has been licensed.

Answer: C

Question: 29

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A dual port Ethernet PCI Express adapter has failed on a Power 780. The one

port that is used is the backing device for an SEA (Shared Ethernet Adapter)

on a VIO Server. The VIO Server only has this one Ethernet adapter, no other

network adapters are allocated. Which devices must be in a 'Defined' state in

AIX on the VIO Server prior to using the Hot Plug task from the 'diagmenu'

command? A. Two Ethernet adapters, one PCI bus. B. Three Ethernetadapters, one PCI bus. C. Two Ethernet adapters, one SEA interface, two PCI

buses. D. Three Ethernet adapters, one SEA interface, three PCI buses.

Answer: B

Question: 30

An administrator wants to install a new VIO Server (VIOS) partition from a NIM

server. When checking the VIOS media the administrator finds two files,

mksysb_image and mksysb_image2. Which of the following is the correct

sequence of actions to prepare the mksysb resource for NIM installation of

the VIOS partition? A. Copy both mksysb_image files to hard disk. Define NIM

mksysb resources. B. Copy the mksysb_image file to hard disk. Define a NIM

object. Create a SPOT using mksysb_image2 as source. C. Copy the

mksysb_image2 file to hard disk. Define a NIM object. Create a SPOT using

mksysb_image2 as source. D. Copy both mksysb_image files to hard disk.

Combine the two files to create a third file and define this as a NIM object.

Answer: B

Question: 31

An administrator configured IVE in their Power 570 with a multicore scaling

(MCS) value of 8. After some time they decided to add more LPARs to the

system. To allow more logical ports for the new LPARs, the administrator

changed the MCS value in the HMC to 4. When configuring the new LPAR

profiles, the administrator does not see the extra ports. Which of the

following is the most likely reason? A. Decreasing the MCS value reduces the

number of ports available. B. Changing MCS value requires the managed

system to undergo a power cycle C. The VIO server must have the "cfgdev"

command run to discover the new ports. D. The Host Ethernet configuration

(available ports) must be changed to match the IVE configuration.

Answer: B

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Question: 32

A broken SAN LUN hdisk3 on VIO1 must be replaced. In the "lsmap -all"

output the administrator identified the following entry for this disk: On which

client LPAR ID is the broken SAN LUN? A. LPAR ID= 10 B. LPAR ID= 12 C. LPAR

ID= 14 D. LPAR ID= 16

Answer: D

Question: 33

An administrator has been asked to configure all HMCs to log messages to

the company wide syslog server. What is the supported method to

accomplish this? A. Use pesh / root access. B. Use chhmc -c syslog command.

C. Use rmtlog -event.syslog command. D. Use the Manage Connection

Monitoring panel in the HMC E. Use the Manage Serviceable Event

Notification panel in the HMC

Answer: B

Question: 34

What is the minimum AIX level required for an LPAR on a Power 770 to run

SMT4? A. AIX 5.3 TL9 B. AIX 6.1 TL2 C. AIX 6.1 TL4 D. AIX 7.1 TL1

Answer: C

Question: 35

Which of the following statements regarding the Power Hypervisor is true? A.

The Hypervisor will consume approximately 0.05% of a core for each LPAR. B.

The consumption of the Hypervisor is included in the published rPerf figures.

C. The Flexible Service Processor (FSP) is automatically allocated to run the

Hypervisor. D. The Hypervisor allocates between 5% and 10 % of the number

of core entitlements used by the partitions.

Answer: B

Question: 36

A system administrator is implementing VIO Server on Power 770 for network

virtualization, and plans to use Shared Ethernet Adapters (SEA). A sizing

exercise was performed to determine the resource requirements for the VIO

Server hosting the SEA, assuming an MTU of 9000. Sometime after the

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completion of the sizing exercise, the requirements are revised and the MTU

is now expected to be 1500 instead of 9000.Which of the following

statements is true? A. The processor requirements will be smaller, and the

receive buffer requirements will be smaller. B. The processor requirements

will be smaller, and the receive buffer requirements will be greater. C. The

processor requirements will be greater, and the receive buffer requirementswill be smaller. D. The processor requirements will be greater, and the receive

buffer requirements will be greater.

Answer: C

Question: 37

A customer is buying a new Power 795. It will contain 3 processor books, with

all of the 96 cores activated. They are evaluating their requirements for AIX 7

licenses. Some of the LPARs will be using AIX Enterprise Edition and some will

be using AIX Standard Edition. In this configuration, what is the maximum

number of cores which can be allocated to an individual LPAR? A. 16 for

Standard Edition, 32 for Enterprise Edition B. 32 for Standard Edition, 32 for

Enterprise Edition C. 32 for Standard Edition, 96 for Enterprise Edition D. 96

for Standard Edition, 96 for Enterprise Edition

Answer: B

Question: 38

A customer has locally cloned an existing AIX installation. Some files in the

/etc directory need to be edited on the new clone. How can this be achieved

without booting the new clone? A. alt_rootvg_op -W B. alt_rootvg_op -O C.

alt_disk_install -X D. alt_disk_install -S

Answer: A

Question: 39

An administrator is planning to relocate running workloads from a POWER

770 to an unused POWER5 570 in preparation for hardware maintenance. The

POWER7 system has the following: Which of the following is the supported

method for accomplishing the relocation? A. Relocate all of the WPARs using

Workload Partition Mobility B. Relocate all of the LPARs and their associated

WPARs using Live Partition Mobility C. Relocate all of the LPARs via Live

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Partition Mobility and the WPARs using Workload Partition Mobility D. Relocate

the application WPARs via Workload Partition Mobility and the system WPARs

using Live Partition Mobility

Answer: A

Question: 40

Which component is mandatory in LPAR migration? A. WPM - WPAR Manager

B. PLM - Partition Load Manager C. eWLM - Enterprise Workload Manager D.

RMC - Resource Monitoring and Control

Answer: D

Question: 41

A customer is ordering 10 Power 795 servers. Each system will be configured

with 256 cores and 1TB RAM. Two hundred LPARs will be created on each

system. Redundant HMCs is a mandatory requirement for the customer. What

is the minimum number of HMCs necessary to support the customer

requirement? A. 2 B. 4 C. 6 D. 8

Answer: B

Question: 42

A system administrator must create a mksysb image from one LPAR, and then

install many other LPARs with that image. When the administrator attempts

to load the mksysb into the second of the virtual optical devices, the

following error is displayed: The specified virtual disk is not read-only, and

cannot be loaded into multiple devices simultaneously. What command will

allow the administrator to resolve this error, and proceed as planned? A.

chmod B. chrep C. chdev D. chvopt

Answer: D

Question: 43

An administrator has created a network link aggregation device on a VIO

server using the mkvdev -lnagg command. When trying to diagnose problems

with the device the administrator is advised by the network department to

ensure that Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) has been configured.

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Which of the following actions will ensure that LACP will work? A. Change the

mode to 802.1q B. Change the mode to 802.3ad C. Change the mode to

standard D. Change the mode to round_robin

Answer: B

Question: 44

A customer has a Power 770 with a single shared processor pool and 6 micro-

partitions. The customer wants to ensure that a specific partition has priority

to access more CPU resources at any time, without user intervention. Which

of the following will support this requirement? A. Use Temporary Capacity on

Demand to add capacity B. Allocate additional virtual processors to the

partition. C. Increase the weight of the partition within its Profile in the HMC .

D. Schedule DLPAR operations to move processing resources at critical times.

Answer: C

Question: 45

A system administrator is adding storage to an AIX 6.1 LPAR that is a virtual

SCSI client of a VIO Server LPAR. On the VIO Server, the administrator creates

the new virtual target device on the existing virtual SCSI host adapter for the

client LPAR, but is presented with a warning that the client LPAR must be

rebooted in order to see the new virtual device. Which of the following is themost likely the cause for this warning? A. The number of physical partitions

for the new device is too large. B. The maximum queue depth for the vSCSI

client adapter has been exceeded. C. The memory available for the existing

vSCSI host adapter has been exhausted. D. The maximum transfer size of the

new device is greater than the existing devices.

Answer: D

Question: 46

A system administrator notices that an AIX partition can't ping its default

gateway. The LPAR is connected to the network using Shared Ethernet

Adapter (SEA). A partial output from the entstat command displays:

Based on the output, what is the probable cause of the problem? A. The Trunk

Adapter parameter is set to True. B. The Port VLAN ID and VLAN Tag ID are

different. C. IEEE 802.1Q support is disabled in the profile of the VIO Server.

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D. VLAN 812 is missing from the network switch configuration.

Answer: B

Question: 47

An administrator is managing a two node PowerHA cluster on AIX 7. The

administrator needs to add a shared volume group made up of a single disk

presented through redundant VIO Servers to each node. Running cfgmgr, one

node configures the new disk as hdisk9 while the other node configures the

same disk as hdisk10. The company has a naming standard which requires

cluster disk to be configured with the same device names on all nodes. A

number of scripts have been coded for this standard and will fail as a result of

the different hdisk names. Which of the following is the quickest way to fix

this? A. Update any scripts to determine the cluster disk automatically. B. Use

the rendev command to rename the disks before they are used. C. User

migratepv to reorder the disks on the second node to match the first. D.

Remove the other disks and add one by one using DLPAR in the correct order.

Answer: B

Question: 48

What is the main difference between VIO Server (VIOS) and Network Server

Description (NWSD) hosting options? A. NWSD can only host IBM i or AIX,whereas VIOS can only host AIX and Linux. B. VIOS can host either AIX or IBM

i LPARs, whereas NWSD can only host IBM i. C. VIOS can virtualize both

storage and network, whereas NWSD can only virtualize storage. D. NWSD

can only virtualize local storage, whereas VIOS can virtualize local and SAN

storage.

Answer: C

Question: 49

An administrator has a request to populate a new IBM Power 750 with 50

LPARs. A redundant pair of VIO Servers has been installed and is online.

Which option provides the most efficient method for creating new LPARs? A.

mksyscfg using the HMC command line B. mklparcfg using the HMC

command line C. 'Deploy System Profiles' panel using the HMC web interface

D. 'Create Logical Partition' panel using the HMC web interface

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Answer: A

Question: 50

A customer is considering consolidating multiple stand-alone systems on to asingle Power 795. The systems to be consolidated run AIX 5.3, AIX 6.1, and

AIX 7.1. What is the maximum number of cores which may be allocated to

LPARs at each level of AIX? A. AIX 5.3 64AIX 6.1 64AIX 7.1 256 B. AIX 5.3

16AIX 6.1 64AIX 7.1 256 C. AIX 5.3 32AIX 6.1 64AIX 7.1 256 D. AIX 5.3 32AIX

6.1 128AIX 7.1 256

Answer: A

Question: 51

Which feature is unique to the Power 770, Power 780, and Power 795, as

compared to other models in the POWER7 processor family, and increases the

availability of these servers? A. Dual system clocks B. Dual operator panels C.

Redundant service processors D. Redundant power supply units/controllers

Answer: C

Question: 52

A Tivoli administrator would like to monitor the HMC using SNMP Traps. The

AIX administrator has been asked to configure SNMP on the HMC . Which of

the following statements is correct? A. SNMP is configured using the chhmc -c

snmp command. B. SNMP is configured using Systems Director with the Tivoli

plugin. C. SNMP configurations require a pesh password obtained from IBM

Service. D. SNMP configuration is available using the SNMP Trap Configuration

panel on the HMC .

Answer: D

Question: 53

An LPAR running on a Power 795 uses a PCI cryptographic coprocessor for

high speed encryption of data. The administrator plans to: 1) Use DLPAR to

remove the card from the OS 2) Hot swap the adapter into a target machine

3) Use Live Partition Mobility to move the LPAR to the target machine. Which

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of these statements is correct? A. The slots are 'hot-swap', so the card can be

removed without running AIX commands. B. The cryptographic coprocessor

must be in the VIO server and virtualized to the client LPAR. C. A new profile

with the cryptographic coprocessor must be manually created on the target

machine. D. The cryptographic coprocessor should be 'desired' in the active

LPAR configuration on the source machine.

Answer: D

Question: 54

A system administrator is planning to load AIX onto 30 LPARs on a new Power

795 server that already has VIO Server LPARs in place. Due to security policy,

Network Install Manger (NIM) servers are not allowed in this environment. The

Power 795 server has one DVD-RAM installed. Which of the following methods

would provide the most rapid deployment of AIX onto the 30 LPARs? A. Use

DLPAR to move the DVD-RAM and its controlling adapter from one LPAR to the

next. B. Create one virtual target device backed by the DVD-RAM from one

VIO server to each client LPAR in the system. C. For each additional target

LPAR, use alt_disk_copy to clone the rootvg of the first manually installed

client LPAR D. Create a virtual target device on a file-backed optical device for

each LPAR, and create a virtual optical device from the DVD-RAM.

Answer: D

Question: 55

An architect is preparing to deploy a three-tier application on a new Power

795 system that has 64 activated cores.The solution is licensed by the

number of cores used by the application server LPARs. The same number of

cores may be used, without charge, for the database manager. There is no

limitation on the number of cores used by the web server LPARs. The

company has purchased a license allowing the use 32 cores of the Power 795

system for the application server LPARs. Which of the following Shared

Processor Pool configurations supports these requirements? A. Change

SharedPool01 to set Reserved Processing Units = 32 and Maximum

Processing Units = 64.Change SharedPool02 to set Reserved Processing Units

= 0 and Maximum Processing Units = 64 B. Change SharedPool01 to set

Reserved Processing Units = 0 and Maximum Processing Units = 32.Change

SharedPool02 to set Reserved Processing Units = 0 and Maximum Processing

Units = 32. C. Change SharedPool01 to set Reserved Processing Units = 32

and Maximum Processing Units = 32.Change SharedPool02 to set Reserved

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Processing Units = 32 and Maximum Processing Units = 64 D. Change

SharedPool01 to set Reserved Processing Units = 32 and Maximum

Processing Units = 32.Change SharedPool02 to set Reserved Processing Units

= 0 and Maximum Processing Units = 32.

Answer: B

Question: 56

A customer plans to use Live Partition Mobility (LPM) to move an LPAR

running AIX 7 from a Power 770 to a POWER6 570.In which CPU preferred

compatibility mode should the LPAR be before migration begins? A. Auto B.

POWER6 C. Default D. POWER6 enhanced

Answer: B

Question: 57

After installing WebSphere Application Server on AIX 6.1 the administrator

noticed that more memory was needed for the Java heap. The previous heap

size was 2048MB. After increasing the value in the WebSphere parameters it

began to crash unexpectedly. What is the most probable cause and how could

they avoid WebSphere crashing? A. The Application server has become

memory constrained. More RAM should be allocated to the LPAR. B. Larger

heap sizes require large memory pages to be enabled. The LPAR profile needsto be updated. C. A 32-bit Java Virtual Machine is configured. The

administrator should configure a 64-bit version. D. Large heap size support

was introduced at AIX 7.1. Increase the number of simultaneous Java Virtual

Machines or upgrade to AIX 7.1.

Answer: C

Question: 58

A client has been using Live Partition Mobility to move partitions betweenexisting POWER6 frames. They have recently deployed a number of POWER7

frames managed by new HMCs and would like to take advantage of Remote

Live Partition Mobility to move partitions between the frames. After verifying

network connectivity between HMCs, what is the next step to enable Remote

Live Partition Mobility? A. Configure an RMC connection between them. B.

Configure SSH authentication between them. C. Import the Kerberos host

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principals for each HMC to authenticate using a KDC. D. Test RMC connections

from the source HMC to the destination mover service partition.

Answer: B

Question: 59

An administrator is writing scripts that will recreate virtual SCSI mappings on

a VIO Server, but is concerned that the mapping between device names and

backing devices may change if the administrator needs to re-run the script.

Which options of the mkvdev command can be used in combination to

overcome this issue? A. dev and vdev B. vdev and dplc C. vadapter and aplc

D. vadapter and dplc

Answer: D

Question: 60

An administrator has been asked to collect usage information for a Shared

Ethernet Adapter (SEA). How is this information collected? A. Enable SEA

accounting on VIO LPARs. B. Enable nmon recording on each client LPAR. C.

Run xmquery from /etc/inetd.conf on each client LPAR. D. Run the entstat

command on VIO LPARs and all client LPARs.

Answer: A

Question: 61

Customer wants to consolidate POWER4, POWER5, and POWER6 systems on

to a POWER7 server. What resource will indicate an appropriate POWER7

server? A. Power Systems Performance Report B. Power System Consolidation

Handbook C. Power Systems Hardware Information Center D. Power Systems

Hardware Server Specification sheet

Answer: A

Question: 62

A customer is concerned with software licensing costs and maximizing

throughput per core on the system. Which of the following system

configurations supports these requirements? A. A Power 770 configured for

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MaxCore Mode B. A Power 780 configured for MaxCore Mode C. A Power 770

configured for TurboCore Mode D. A Power 780 configured for TurboCore Mode

Answer: D

Question: 63

A new VIO Server has been installed from media and the administrator wants

to ensure that a NIM server is at the correct AIX level to support it as a NIM

client. Which of the following IOS commands provides the minimum amount

of information required to determine this? A. lssw B. lslparinfo C. updateios

-level D. oem_platform_level

Answer: D

Question: 64

A system administrator must configure NPIV for 15 AIX clients on a Power

770. Each AIX client must have one path to its SAN disk through both of the

VIO Servers. Which of the following describes the correct procedure for

configuring each VIO Server? A. Create one virtual fibre channel host device

per AIX client.Run vfcmap for each AIX client. B. Create one virtual fibre

channel host device per AIX client.Run mkvdev -npiv for each AIX client. C.

Create one virtual fibre channel host device per physical Fibre Channel

adapter.Run vfcmap for each AIX client. D. Create one virtual fibre channelhost device per physical Fibre Channel adapter.Run mkvdev -npiv for each AIX

client.

Answer: A

Question: 65

A customer is ordering new Power 780 and 795 hardware. Within their data

center, existing HMCs already manage POWER5 and POWER6 deployments.

These existing HMCs are 7310-CR2, 7042-CR4 or 7042-CR5 models. Whatmust be considered with regard to the management of POWER7 hardware? A.

Only their 7042-CR5 HMCs can run the minimum required Version 7 Revision

720 HMC code. B. All their existing HMCs will need to be upgraded to at least

Version 7 Revision 720 HMC code. C. Only their 7042-CR4 and 7042-CR5 can

run the minimum required Version 7 Revision 720 HMC code. D. 7042-CR6 is

the only supported rack-mounted HMC which can run Version 7 Revision 720

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and later HMC code.

Answer: C

Question: 66

A customer has implemented a PowerHA cluster using fully virtualized LPARs.

They notice that after a cable failure the cluster didn't move the resource

group to another LPAR. What change will prevent such failures in the future?

A. Reduce the Dead Man Switch timer interval. B. Enable an alternate address

for the virtual Ethernet adapter. C. Configure a second virtual network

interface and implement Etherchannel. D. Add an IP address in the cluster

configuration file to test connectivity.

Answer: D

Question: 67

How can a system administrator determine if an existing LPAR is correctly

configured for Live Partition Mobility? A. Use the "migrlpar" command on the

HMC with "-o v" option. B. Use the "lslparmig" command on the HMC with the

"-r lpar -t" option. C. Activate an LPAR on the target system using the same

LUNs and network. D. Create a sysplan on the source system and deploy it on

the target system.

Answer: A

Question: 68

Which of the following is the correct method to rename hdisk11 to testdisk1?

A. rendev -l hdisk11 -n testdisk1 B. mv /dev/hdisk11 /dev/testdisk1 C. chdsk

-dev hdisk11 -id testdisk1 D. chdev -l hdisk11 -a name=testdisk1

Answer: A

Question: 69

An administrator uses the nmon monitoring program on AIX LPARs and wants

to use it on a newly installed LPAR running SLES11.Where can the

administrator obtain nmon for the Linux LPAR? A. From PowerVM LX86 B.

From the SLES11 distribution C. From the SourceForge website. D. From the

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AIX Toolbox for Linux Applications E. From AIX as a Common Object File

Format (COFF)

Answer: C

Question: 70

A system administrator is preparing to restore a VIO Server (VIOS) partition

with a backup that resides on a Network Install Manager (NIM) server. The

VIOS backup image ioslevel is FP24 (2.2.0.10-FP24). The NIM server has an

lpp_source at oslevel 6100-05-06-1034, and a SPOT at the same level. In

addition to the VIOS backup image, which of the following NIM resources will

be required in order to properly restore the VIOS backup image? A. The

existing lpp_source and SPOT B. A SPOT created from the existing VIOS

backup C. A SPOT created from the the existing lpp_source D. The existing

lpp_source and a SPOT created from the existing VIOS backup

Answer: B

Question: 71

An administrator has configured a system to provide resilient networking

through the use of SEA failover. The administrator wants to know if the SEA

for one VIO server, ent10, is the active adapter. Which of the following

commands could the administrator use to determine the status of ent10? A.entstat -net ent10 B. lsmap -net -dev ent10 C. seastat -liststat ent10 D.

netstat -cdlistats ent10

Answer: C

Question: 72

Which of the following supports Active Memory Sharing (AMS)? A. POWER6,

AIX 7.1, and PowerVM Basic Edition B. POWER7, AIX 7.1, and PowerVM

Express Edition C. POWER7, AIX 6.1, and PowerVM Standard Edition D.

POWER6, AIX 6.1, and PowerVM Enterprise Edition

Answer: D

Question: 73

A system administrator has configured a VIO Server to use a Shared Ethernet

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Adapter (SEA) that is built from a link aggregation of gigabit Ethernet

adapters. The administrator has determined that not all ports in the link

aggregation are being used. The administrator verifies that aggregation mode

for the Etherchannel is 802.3ad, which is the corporate standard, and that the

Ethernet ports on the server are connected to the correct ports on the

network switch. The administrator then runs the entstat command againstthe SEA (ent28), and receives the following output.$ entstat -all ent28Real

Adapter: ent26ETHERNET STATISTICS (ent26) :Device Type: IEEE 802.3ad Link

AggregationHardware Address: 00:14:5e:e9:25:81...Statistics for every

adapter in the IEEE 802.3ad Link

Aggregation:------------------------------------------------------------------Number of

adapters: 2Operating mode: Standard mode (IEEE 802.3ad)IEEE 802.3ad Link

Aggregation Statistics: Aggregation status: Negotiating LACPDU Interval: Long

Received LACPDUs: 0 Transmitted LACPDUs: 62498 Received marker PDUs: 0

Transmitted marker PDUs: 0 Received marker response PDUs: 0 Transmitted

marker response PDUs: 0 Received unknown PDUs: 0 Received illegal PDUs:

0Hash mode: Destination IP addressBased on this output, how can the

administrator correct the configuration?

A. Enable LACP on the network switch ports. B. Select the correct mode for

the Etherchannel. C. Enable Jumbo Frames on the physical adapters. D. Select

the correct hash_mode for the Etherchannel.

Answer: A

Question: 74

A customer is planning to mount NFS filesystems through a firewall. In

addition to opening the correct port on the firewall, what change must be

made in the NFS server? A. Add nfsd port usage in /etc/services B. Add

mountd port usage in /etc/services C. Add nfsd port usage in /etc/inetd.conf

D. Add mountd port usage in /etc/inetd.conf

Answer: B

Question: 75

Where can Power Saving mode on a Power 770 be enabled? A. HMC and ASMI

B. ASMI and Operator Panel C. Intelligent PDU and HMC D. Operator Panel and

Operating System.

Answer: A

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Question: 76

An administrator must add support for a new VLAN to a VIO Server that

currently services multiple VLANs on a single SEA . No additional network

ports are available. How can this be achieved without interrupting the SEA? A.

Use DLPAR to add a new virtual ethernet adapter to the VIO Server. Use the

chdev command to add the new virtual adapter to the SEA B. Use DLPAR to

add a new virtual ethernet adapter to the VIO Server. Use the chgsea

command to add the new virtual adapter to the SEA C. Use DLPAR to enable

802.1Q and add the VLAN to the virtual ethernet adapter. Use the chdev

command to add the new virtual adapter to the SEA D. Use DLPAR to enable

802.1Q and add the VLAN to the virtual ethernet adapter. Use the chgsea

command to add the new virtual adapter to the SEA

Answer: A

Question: 77

A Power 795 with 2 TB memories is dedicated to LPARs running production

applications. The applications need more memory than is available in the

system. All the memory slots are full and there are spare CPU cycles. Which

action will solve the problem at the least cost? A. Implement Shared Memory

Pools. B. Implement Active Memory Expansion. C. Trade in existing memory

DIMMs for ones with higher capacity. D. Use Active Memory scheduling to

allocate memory according to peak usage periods.

Answer: B

Question: 78

A system administrator has a Power 770 with 12 cores. The following LPARs

already exist: LPAR1 - 9 dedicated cores LPAR2 - 1 virtual processors with an

entitled capacity of 0.2 LPAR3 - 1 virtual processors with an entitled capacity

of 0.8 The administrator wants to create a fourth LPAR. What is the maximumentitled capacity and virtual processors which can be allocated? A. 1 virtual

processor with an entitled capacity of 2.0 B. 2 virtual processors with an

entitled capacity of 2.0 C. 1 virtual processor with an entitled capacity of

12.0. D. 20 virtual processors with an entitled capacity of 2.0. E. 12 virtual

processors with an entitled capacity of 2.0. F. 20 virtual processors with an

entitled capacity of 12.0.

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Answer: D

Question: 79

A customer is planning to convert vacant office space to a data center thatwill be populated with several standard Power 795 systems. During a pre-

delivery site inspection, the customer is told by the Installation Planning

Representative that the data center is inadequately equipped to receive the

systems. Which of the following situations will prevent proper installation? A.

The computer room does not have the required raised floor. B. The computer

room does not have the required overhead cable racks. C. The computer

room does not have the required emergency power off switch. D. The

computer room does not have the required uninterruptable power supply

infrastructure.

Answer: A

Question: 80

After configuring a Shared Ethernet Adapter (SEA) on a VIO server, a client

Linux LPAR has no network connectivity while client AIX LPARs configured on

the same VLAN work fine. Which of the following is the most likely cause? A.

SEA is not configured with a control adapter B. VLAN ID is not set

appropriately in the VIO client LPAR profile on the HMC C. The version of the

ibmveth kernel module provides by the Linux distribution is outdated. D. TheEthernet adapter definition provided by the Linux distribution is missing the

required VLAN ID functionality.

Answer: B

Question: 81

What is a prerequisite for Live Partition Mobility? A. Source and destination

hardware must be the same model/type. B. All network and storage resources

of the LPAR must be virtual. C. Only a single shared-processor pool may exist

on the source and destination hardware. D. An LPAR with the same name

must be present on the destination server prior to the move.

Answer: B

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Question: 82

After enabling 16 MB memory pages, a customer determined that more

memory was needed for nightly batch jobs. The customer decided to use

Active Memory Sharing (AMS) to dynamically adjust memory usage between

LPARs on the system. What must the customer consider before implementingActive Memory Sharing (AMS)? A. PowerVM Standard Edition is required. B.

The maximum memory page size supported by AMS C. Solid state drives are

required to support AMS. D. Collaborative Memory Manager Loan policy is

disabled

Answer: D

Question: 83

An administrator installed a new HMC and connected several managedsystems to it. According to company policy the open network, used for user

access to HMC, should be firewalled. Which service must be permitted

through the firewall to enable DLPAR operations? A. SSH B. DNS C. RMC D.

LDAP

Answer: C

Question: 84

A customer uses NIM for OS and software deployment on 64 LPARs divided

into three groups: development, test and production. What is the quickest

way to install fixes on the test servers only? A. Create an install script that

lists only the test serversDefine this as a 'script' NIM resourcePerform a

'maint' operation using the created resource. B. Create a new lpp_source

containing the required fixesCreate a mac_group NIM resource containing the

test machinesPerform an 'update_all' operation across the created group. C.

Create a new lpp_source containing the required fixesCreate a mac_group

NIM resource and populate with only the test serversPerform a 'maint'

operation across the created group. D. Update corresponding lpp and spot

resources on the NIM masterCreate a res_group NIM resource and populatewith only the test serversPerform an 'update_all' operation across that

created group.

Answer: B

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Question: 85

An administrator tries to start an LPAR, but it stalls without any diagnostic

LED code shown on HMC . The administrator wants to review last LED codes,

which were shown. Which of the following HMC commands will show the

codes? A. lsledcode B. lsrefcode C. lsdiagcode D. lssysstate

Answer: B

Question: 86

A Power 770 is running in a dual VIO Server (VIOS) environment with Active

Memory Sharing configured. There are two shared memory partitions. The

managed server is called FRED.LPAR_1 is using VIOS1 as the paging VIOS

partition.LPAR_2 is using VIOS2 as the paging VIOS partition.VIOS1 had been

rebooted, so a failover to VIOS2 has occurred. How would the administratorfailback paging VIOS partition LPAR_1 back to VIOS1? A. Issue the command

'chps -asm -vio VIOS1' on LPAR_1. B. Issue the command 'chhwres -r mem -m

FRED -p lpar1 -o so' on the HMC . C. Select VIOS1 as the primary host for

LPAR_1 in the LPAR properties to initiate failback. D. Select the managed

server FRED and then the 'Failover Paging VIOS' menu option on the HMC .

Answer: B

Question: 87

A VIO Server is installed on the mirrored disks hdisk0 and hdisk1. During an

update the VIO Server crashed. After rebooting, the administrator detects

that hdisk1 is broken. The administrator decided to restore a previously made

backup from the NIM server, and removed the damaged hdisk1.What step is

required to restore the VIO Server on only hdisk0 from the NIM Server? A. The

VIO Server must be installed with a modified image.data resource. B. Run the

nim command on the mksysb resource using the mirror=no option. C. The

VIO Server must be installed with a modified bosinst.data resource. D. During

the startup procedure the admin has to set the 'Shrink File Systems' option to

'yes'.

Answer: A

Question: 88

An administrator updated tunable virtual memory parameters using vmo -p.

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When the system was rebooted the tuning was lost. Which of the following is

the most likely reason? A. The /etc/objrepos/nextboot file was removed. B.

Only non-restricted tunables can be changed permanently. C. The bosboot

command must be run to make changes permanent. D. The tunables entry is

missing or is incorrectly defined in the /etc/inittab file.

Answer: D

Question: 89

A regional data center has experienced a disaster requiring the shared-

processor LPARs running AIX on Power servers to be temporarily restored to

Power servers in the disaster recovery data center (DRDC). The administrator

has been asked to prepare an estimate of the number of cores that will need

to be activated via Capacity on Demand on the target DR systems. The

administrator has access to recently-collected vmstat data for each of the

LPARs as well as the hardware configuration of the servers that hosted the

LPARS, but does not have access to the individual LPAR profile configurations.

Which of the following CPU elements from the vmstat output will allow the

administrator to make an estimation of the core activation requirements? A.

us B. sy C. wa D. ec E. pc

Answer: E

Question: 90

An administrator is attempting to diagnose a reported performance issue

within a volume group. When trying to use the lvmstat command against a

logical volume within the volume group, the following error is reported :0516-

1309 lvmstat: Statistics collection is not enabled for this logical device. The

administrator does not want to enable collection across the whole volume

group. How can collection be enabled on a single logical volume? A. chlv -s

[lvname] B. lvmo -L [lvname] -a C. lvmstat -l [lvname] -e D. chdev -l [lvname]

-a stat=true

Answer: C

Question: 91

An administrator has logged into his HMC via ssh and is the only person using

the HMC at this moment. When trying to open a terminal session to one of his

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LPARs using the vtmenu command, but only receives the error message: A

terminal session is already open for this partition. Only one open session is

allowed for a partition. Which command must be run in order to solve this

problem? A. rmvterm B. termtask C. vtmenu -k D. mkvterm -f

Answer: A