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Question 1

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Pools 2.0 enables a group of Power10 scale-out servers to be

defined as the pool of collective Base Capacity (purchased)
resources. Additional capacity over and above the pool’s
aggregate Base (purchased) resource is charged as Metered
Capacity by the minute. Which application enables clients to
monitor their Base and Metered Capacity across the pool,
providing summary and sophisticated drill-down views of real-
time and historical resource consumption by the virtual
machine (VM)?

Hardware Management Console (HMC)

Integrated Virtualization Management (IVM)

IBM Management Console

Cloud Management Console (CMC) 

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Question 2

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What is the maximum number of peripheral component

interconnect express (PCIe) Gen5 capable slots available in the
Power10 scale-out server?

8 

Question 3

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What is the IBM trademarked name for Power10’s advanced

error checking and correcting (ECC) computer memory
technology?

Active Memory Mirroring

Chipkill 

Transparent Memory Encryption

Matrix Math Accelerator (MMA)

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IBM Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D) can be used to provide an

efficient and agile data fabric solution to clients. Based on IBM
internal testing of Db2 Warehouse running in CP4D hosted on
the Power10 scale-out S1022 server, executing a sample
analytics workload, clients can achieve lower solution costs
over 3 years when compared with leading x86 solutions. How
much percent lower solution costs can clients achieve?

43%

10%

40%

34% 

Question 5

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Hardware-based service processors, also known as

management processors, work with hardware instrumentation
and systems management software and are important for
problem notification and resolution. Clients can also use them
to remotely manage their systems. What Service Processor is
used in the Power10 scale-out servers?

Enterprise baseboard management console (eBMC) 

Baseboard management console (BMC)

Flexible service processor (FSP)

Hardware management console (HMC)

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Question 6

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Many clients run traditional on-premises infrastructure.

However, IBM is seeing more and more clients taking
advantage of a hybrid infrastructure using the IBM Power
flexible consumption offering that provides cloud-like efficiency
while maintaining the advantages of on-premises
infrastructure. Which IBM offering provides this?

PowerVC

Power Private Cloud with Dynamic Capacity 

Power Private Cloud with Hybrid Capacity

PowerSC

Question 7

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Which one of the following Power10 memory technologies do

NOT help improve Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability
(RAS)?

Transparent Memory Encryption 

Active Memory Mirroring (AMM)

Chipkill

Differential DIMM (DDIMM)

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Question 8

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You're talking to a client about how the IBM Power10 scale-out

servers provide enhanced performance and scale with six 1 and
2-socket, 2U, and 4U height server models. Combinedly, they
provide the value pillars around Digital Transformation, RAS,
Security, and Data Fabric. This client asks what percentage of
application migration and modernization cost savings can they
achieve by moving to Power10 scale-out servers. What
percentage do you share?

34% 

40%

30%

43%

Question 9

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The IBM Power10 scale-out servers feature new and enhanced

memory modules for improved reliability, availability, and
serviceability (RAS) and provide 2x better memory RAS than the
industry standard dual in-line memory module (DIMM). What is
the name of the memory module that the Power10 scale-out
servers support?

Industry standard DIMM (ISDIMM)

Registered DIMM (RDIMM)

Differential DIMM (DDIMM) 

Dual-in line memory module

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Question 10

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The Power10 scale-out servers come with support for a built-in

hypervisor for enterprise-class virtualization. What
hypervisor(s) do the Power10 scale-out servers support?

PowerVM 

KVM

Xen

PowerVM and KVM

Question 11

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Workloads on Power10 benefit from cryptographic algorithm

acceleration, thanks to the blazing fast hardware-accelerated
crypto engines, allowing encryption algorithms like AES, SHA2,
and SHA3 to run significantly faster on Power10 than they did
on POWER9-based systems (on a per-core basis). How many
more crypto engines are available in every Power10 core?

5x

2x

3x

4x 

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Question 12

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Which of the following is NOT a benefit of Transparent memory

encryption?

No performance impact

Quantum-safe encryption 

Zero management setup

No application recoding needed

Question 13

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As the world is set to deploy AI everywhere, clients are having

to expand from how quickly and accurately they build and train
AI models to include how rapidly they can implement those
models and gain insights, deliver scoring, and make inferences.
Operationalizing AI inferencing directly on the Power10
processor-based system brings AI closer to data. What is this
capability referred to as?

AI scoring

AI data gravity

AI at the point of data 

AI inferencing

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Question 14

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You're talking to a client about flexible support options offered

as part of a scale-out server purchase over and above the base
warranty period. The client asks which service tiers Power
Expert Care provides. How do you reply?

Basic, Advanced, and Premium 

PowerVM

Bronze and Gold

Basic and Premium

Question 15

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You're talking to a client about how IBM has optimized math

libraries so that AI tools can benefit from the acceleration
provided by Power10's Matrix Math Accelerator (MMA) units.
This client asks how they can benefit from MMA. How do you
reply?

Deep learning and machine learning

Machine learning

Statistical deep learning and inferencing

Statistical machine learning and inferencing 

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Question 16

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Reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) is an IBM Power

systems central design point. Its goal is to provide maximum
uptime for critical client operations. This is accomplished by
providing redundant components like cooling and power, as
well as other external methods of protection. Power10 scale-
out servers can sustain failures of up to how many power
supply/supplies on 4U systems?

Up to 2 power supplies 

Up to 4 power supplies

Up to 3 power supplies

Up to 1 power supply

Question 17

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The Power10 processor-based servers were designed with

security in mind for now and the future. This includes support
for upcoming cryptography techniques that permit
computations on encrypted data without decrypting the data
first. What is this capability referred to as?

Frictionless Hybrid Encryption

Fully Homomorphic Encryption 

Full Homogenous Encryption

Fast Homomorphic Encryption

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Question 18

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You're talking to a client about IBM Power10 and they ask what
operating systems the new Power10 scale-out server supports.
How do you reply?

AIX and Linux

AIX and IBM i

PowerVM

AIX, IBM i, and Linux 

Question 19

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The Power10 scale-out servers offer tremendous consolidation

capabilities for clients, regardless of whether they are
transitioning from x86 servers or migrating from earlier
generations of IBM Power servers. Your client asks what the
maximum cores and memory supported in a Power10 scale-out
system is. How do you reply?

48 cores, 2TB

40 cores, 4TB

48 cores, 8TB 

40 cores, 8TB

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Question 20

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Power10 introduces a new memory interface called Open

Memory Interface (OMI). What benefits does OMI provide?

Higher bandwidth and flexibility for future memory 

technologies

Higher bandwidth and 50% reduction in power

consumption

50% reduction in power consumption and transparent

memory encryption

Transparent memory encryption and flexibility for future

memory technologies

Question 21

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According to the IBM Institute for Business value (IBV) study

“COVID-19 and the future of business”, what percentage of
organizations shifted to cloud-based business activities in
response to COVID-19?

56%

85%

46%

64% 

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Question 22

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The past couple of years (2019 – 2022) have highlighted the

need for flexible IT that does not sacrifice performance or
operational efficiency. Many companies accelerated their digital
transformation/modernization plans during the pandemic to
ensure they could stay competitive and meet their customer's
evolving needs. Which offering from IBM helps client accelerate
their digital transformation?

RedHat OpenStack

IBM Power Virtual Servers

OpenShift Container Storage

RedHat OpenShift 

Question 23

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Respondents of the ITIC annual report of hardware and server

operating system reliability consistently rate IBM Power as the
most reliable server in its class. According to ITIC's 2021
report, up to how much more unplanned downtime do common
x86 based servers have when compared against IBM Power
servers?

700%

2700% 

1000%

100%

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Question 24

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You're talking to a client about how IBM Power10 provides

simplified encryption and supports end-to-end security without
impacting performance for a seamless user experience. This
client asks how IBM Power10 achieves this without impacting
performance. How do you reply?

Encryption is handled in firmware

Encryption is handled in hardware and software

Encryption is handled in hardware 

Encryption is handled in software

Question 25

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What component(s) of the Power10 AI software stack provides

the capability to train AI models on x86 or other platforms and
deploy on Power without any changes, giving clients the ability
to build on commodity hardware but deploy on enterprise
servers?

OMI interface

ONNX runtime 

ONNX runtime and MMA

MMA on-chip

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