C1000-031 IBM Power Systems Scale-Up Technical Sales

Number of questions: 61
Number of questions to pass: 39
Time allowed: 90 mins
Status: Live

This exam consists of 5 sections described below.

Power Systems Architecture and Product Family 26%
Compare and position enterprise with scale-out models in order to satisfy customer needs.
Recognize POWER9 compatibility with prior generations of Power Systems when planning to upgrade or migrate a customer’s installed hardware and/or software.
Describe reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) features of the Power Systems product family, especially those exclusive to enterprise servers.
Describe enterprise pools prerequisites, capabilities and benefits, including mobile and static activations and conversions.
Design solutions with expansion drawers, adapter cards, traditional disk, Solid State Drives (SSDs), attached SAN and tape into a POWER9 solution.
Describe the benefits of POWER9 processor architecture, including SMT, L4 cache, balanced performance, clock speed, EnergyScale, Workload Optimized Frequency, memory bandwidth, I/O bandwidth (PCIe Gen4), CAPI, etc. relative to prior Power Systems and competition.
Identify rack best practices for enterprise servers (e.g. I/O drawer placement, spacing, and cabling implications, “deracking”, horizontal PDUs, IBM manufacturing options, etc.).
Differentiate memory optimization technologies for Power Systems (e.g. Active Memory Expansion (AME), Active Memory Sharing (AMS)) and configuration requirements.
Identify the appropriate planning tools and information resources to confirm that requirements of a solution have been met (e.g. e-config, System Planning Tool (SPT), Workload Estimator (WLE), Sizing Guides, System Storage Interoperation Center (SSIC), Energy Estimator and System Performance Reports).
Evaluate networking requirements needed to manage redundancy, virtualization, security, bandwidth (i.e., CPU resources and network settings), and determining the correct adapters and quantities.
Identify environmental considerations (e.g. power, PDUs, UPS, space, racks, etc.).

Virtualization 21%
Match hardware connectivity (e.g. Fibre Channel, SAS, iSCSI) with the types of virtualization (e.g. NPIV, vSCSI, SR-IOV, SEA).
Determine when shared storage pools (SSP) are appropriate for an enterprise solution.
Identify the capabilities of Live Partition Mobility (LPM).
Identify resource sharing capabilities of Power Systems, including processors, memory, and I/O (e.g. micropartitioning, shared processor pools (SPP), dedicated and shared-dedicated processors).
Design an appropriate virtualization system management solution (e.g. HMC, PowerVC, PowerVM NovaLink).
Given customer requirements, design a single or dual VIO Server (VIOS) solution (e.g. NPIV and vSCSI to host storage). Consider requisites, corequisites and limitations which may impact future requirements.

Software and Operating System Considerations 15%
Articulate the unique characteristics and different advantages offered by each operating system (AIX, IBM i, and Linux).
Describe Power Systems licensing considerations with regard to transfers, sub-capacity licensing, etc. (operating systems, PowerVM, etc.).
Recognize the basic security strengths of AIX, Linux, IBM i, and PowerVM and discuss PowerSC offerings. Given a customer’s requirements, describe which Power Systems Software product(s) and Edition(s), is/are appropriate (e.g., PowerHA, PowerVM, and PowerVC).
Given a customer’s requirements, describe which Power Systems Software product(s) and Edition(s), is/are appropriate (e.g., PowerHA, PowerVM, and PowerVC).

Design Solution to Customer Requirements 23%
Given customer requirements, design an appropriate solution, including HMC, enterprise pools, remote restart, performance and capacity management, virtualization management/co-management, redundant FSPs, redundant HMCs, and secure networking.
Incorporate appropriate existing hardware to a new configuration (e.g., adapters, disk drives, I/O drawers, etc.).
Compare and contrast the I/O and storage options for Power Systems Enterprise servers.
Describe the role of the Technical and Delivery Assessment (TDA) and how it is used to document customer requirements and minimize risk.
Differentiate, position, and recommend Capacity on Demand (CoD) offerings (e.g. CUoD, Utility, Elastic and Trial). Identify key IBM cloud management offerings available for Power Systems (e.g. PowerVC, IBM Cloud PowerVC Manager) and the benefits that are associated with having a cloud infrastructure based on Power Enterprise servers (e.g. configuration flexibility, Dynamic Resource Optimization, Capacity on Demand).
Identify technical advantages that POWER9 Enterprise servers provide for Linux workloads in terms of performance, reliability, price/performance and workload migration and consolidation.
Identify methods available to maintain hardware and software (e.g., Fix Central, FLRT, etc.).
Given a client’s availability requirements (RTO/RPO), design an appropriate solution for business continuity and/or Disaster Recovery (e.g., PowerHA, Geographically Dispersed Resiliency, backup/restore).
Compare POWER8 to POWER9 migration considerations and requirements.

Competition 15%
Identify the advantages of POWER9 processor-based technology compared with x86 processors.
Describe the business advantages of virtualization from a technical perspective.
Compare and contrast the value proposition of solutions running on Power Systems (e.g., SAP HANA) compared with competitive platforms (e.g., Dell, HP, Oracle, etc.).
Position the advantages of PowerVM virtualization and Capacity on Demand (CoD) relative to competition (e.g., Oracle, HP, Hyper-V, VMWare, KVM).
Discuss a customer’s requirements with regards to TCA and TCO (e.g., software licensing relative to cores).

Related Certification
IBM Certified Specialist – Power Systems Scale-Up Technical Sales
IBM Systems : Power Systems
PartnerWorld Code: C0001603

Related Certifications
IBM Certified Specialist – Power Systems Scale-Up Technical Sales

Overview
PartnerWorld Code: C0001603
Replaces PW Code: 03006802

Status: Live
Recommended Experience:

Candidates must have experience in IBM Power Systems sales and/or sales support roles. The successful candidate structures solutions for customers based on their business requirements, has detailed product knowledge of the Power Systems portfolio, and has 12-18 months of experience assessing customer needs, especially with regard to the mission critical workload demands and advanced infrastructure capabilities that are often required of Scale-Up Enterprise Power Systems.

The IBM Certified Specialist – Power Systems Scale-Up Technical Sales assumes a technical leadership role in developing solution proposals.

The candidate will have participated in at least 10-12 system and solution design opportunities including:

At least five Power Systems opportunities in a technical leadership role

At least five upgrades or migrations from older Power Systems hardware
Recommended Prerequisite Skills

Successful candidates will demonstrate the following specific skills when proposing AIX, Linux, or IBM i solutions:
Assess customer requirements in order to identify and propose an appropriate solution.
Articulate the capabilities and benefits of IBM Power Systems servers, solutions, and technologies.
Demonstrate knowledge about Power Systems: Servers, storage, software and services.
Provide pre-sales technical assistance to sales and account teams by utilizing solution design tools and resources (e.g., knowledge center).
Understand the components of a TCO analysis, including how to effectively assess and present TCA vs the competition.
Based on customer requirements, size and determine appropriate solutions for scenarios such as growth or server consolidation/virtualization.
Position Power Systems products against competitive products and solutions.
Design the solution considering best practices and other implementation considerations.
Ensure that the proposed solution design will work as intended after installation is complete (Solutions Assurance).
Respond to customer objections.

Requirements
This certification requires 1 exam

Exam Required:
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C1000-031 – IBM Power Systems Scale-Up Technical Sales

QUESTION 1
A customer’s infrastructure is currently based on a Power System E870 managed by an HMC 7042-CR6 at V8.860 SW level. They are planning to upgrade their server to a new Power System E980.
Which of the following will enable the customer to connect an HMC to the Power System E980?

A. Install vHMC on a partition on the Power System E980.
B. Order a new Power-based HMC (7063-CR1).
C. Upgrade the software on the existing HMC.
D. Use the existing HMC at the current SW level.

Answer: C

QUESTION 2
Which of the following statements is true regarding Dynamic Logical Partitioning (DLPAR)?

A. In a disaster, it will immediately move active LPARs from a local system to a remote system, over the network with only a pause in service.
B. In a disaster, it will immediately move active LPARs from a local system to another local system, using a common SAN, with only a pause in service.
C. It enables the relocation of resources such as CPU and memory between LPARs as required, without an interruption in service.
D. It will automatically allocate an unlicensed processor to an LPAR to replace one that has reached the threshold for errors.

Answer: D

QUESTION 3
Which component of PowerSC monitors AIX systems, maintains security, and provides alerts when a change to the system violates a configuration policy?

A. Trusted Logging
B. Real Time Compliance
C. Security and Compliance Automation
D. Trusted Surveyor

Answer: C

QUESTION 4
A customer has four AIX VMs, each running a different application that needs simultaneous read/write access to the same files.
Which of the following products should be recommended?

A. Power HA Enterprise Edition
B. Spectrum Scale
C. Spectrum Protect
D. Power HA Standard Edition

Answer: A

QUESTION 5
A customer would like to deploy a new application that requires 7 day by 24 hour availability.
What advantage does the Power System E980 have versus the Power System S924 to satisfy their requirement?

A. PCIe hot plug adapters
B. Soft error protection, recovery and self-healing
C. Active Memory Mirroring
D. Chipkill memory

Answer: C

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