1.A customer purchased a p5 570 with no plans to partition.  The customer plans to use the ASMI interface to power on and off the machine.  How can ASMI be accessed without a HMC?
 
A: By typing diags and then going to the ASMI menus
B: Through SSH from a TCP/IP connection on the server
C: Through WebSM which is connected to a system Ethernet port
D: By connecting through a web browser to an HMC Ethernet port
Correct Answers:  D
 
2.A customer has seven days of vmstat data on four p5 590 production LPARs of four processors each.  The data shows that all four LPARs have periodic utilizations of 90-95% lasting several minutes in duration.  However, the average utilizations of the four LPARs were between 15-30%.  The vmstat data shows that the peak utilizations of each LPAR do not occur at the same time.  Which of the following should be set up?
 
A: A shared pool with four capped LPARs
B: A shared pool with four uncapped LPARs
C: Four dedicated LPARs and use DLPAR to manage resources effectively
D: The server in SMP mode and use WLM to manage resources effectively
Correct Answers:  B
 
3.A customer will be using Virtual IO Server to share Ethernet adapters.  What can be done to prevent network failure of the client if a Virtual IO Server goes down?
 
A: Create two virtual adapters on the client, each one from a separate Virtual IO Server
B: Enable dead gateway detection on the client so that the network traffic can be rerouted
C: Have a spare network card on standby in the client in case the Virtual IO Server goes down
D: Create an etherchannel adapter on the client using one Virtual Ethernet adapter from two separate Virtual IO Servers
Correct Answers:  A
 
4.A system administrator wants to control the HMC from their workstation.  Microsoft Windows 2000 is running and the HMC graphical user interface is being used remotely.  Which of the following actions will accomplish this task?
 
A: Use any Windows 2000 to graphically access the HMC
B: Load, install, and configure WebSM on the workstation
C: Telnet to the HMC using Exceed or a GUI emulator product from the workstation
D: Load, install, and configure OpenSSH or SSH on the workstation and access the HMC through the GUI interface
Correct Answers:  B
 
5.A customer has just installed a p5 595 with four uncapped LPARs in a shared processor pool.  The system and profile settings are still in their default states.  One of the LPARs has an application that is consuming all of the available shared processor resources.  Users of this application are complaining about response time.  Which of the following changes to the slow LPAR would improve response time?
 
A: Enable SMT
B: Reduce the weight
C: Renice the process
D: Increase the weight
Correct Answers:  D
 
6.During the Solution Assurance for a p5 590, a customer states there is a plan to install OEM Emulex cards in the p5 590.  The customer assumes there will be no problem with the plan since IBM resells the Emulex cards.  What is the correct response for the customer?
 
A: The IBM CE will install the card
B: The card will not be supported by IBM
C: The AIX device driver should work fine
D: The customer is correct, there should be no problem
Correct Answers:  B
 
7.A customer wants the application server LPAR to communicate with the database LPAR on a p5 590 without using network adapters. What does the customer need to install?
 
A: VIO Server
B: AIX 5.2 ML4
C: Shared Ethernet Adapter
D: AIX 5.3 with Advanced Power Virtualization
Correct Answers:  D
 
8.A customer has a p690 server with unused fiber (HBA) host bus adapters (feature code 6228) that they would like to reuse.  They are interested in implementing Advanced Power Virtualization features particularly Virtual IO.  What is the best way to proceed?
 
A: Upgrade the p690 to a p5 590 server running AIX 5.3
B: Upgrade the p690 server to AIX 5.3 and implement Advanced Power Virtualization
C: Purchase a p5 590 with minimum resources and simply reuse the p690 unused fiber HBA adapters
D: Purchase a p5 590 that has all the needed resources and adapters for Advanced Power Virtualization
Correct Answers:  D
 
9.In addition to the partition profile backup, how should the HMC be backed up to provide bare-metal restore capabilities?
 
A: Backup critical console data
B: Backup a bootable image to tape
C: Create mksysb image and store on a NIM server
D: Create mksysb image and store on an NFS server
Correct Answers:  A
 
10.A customer has a system running AIX 5.2 and wants to upgrade to AIX 5.3.  What method would provide the quickest recovery if the upgrade failed?
 
A: Use alt_disk_install
B: Backup image to NIM server
C: Backup using mksysb to DVD-RAM
D: Apply the upgrade and do not commit
Correct Answers:  A