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Question 1 You're talking to a client about how the IBM Power10

Correct scale-out servers provide enhanced performance and
scale with six 1 and 2-socket, 2U, and 4U height
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server models. Combinedly, they provide the value
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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% 

43%

40%

30%

Question 2 Which one of the following Power10 memory

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technologies do NOT help improve Reliability,
Availability, and Serviceability (RAS)?
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Transparent Memory Encryption

Differential DIMM (DDIMM)

Chipkill

Active Memory Mirroring (AMM) 

Question 3 Respondents of the ITIC annual report of hardware

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

700%

2700% 

100%

1000%
Question 4 The past couple of years (2019 – 2022) have
Correct highlighted the need for flexible IT that does not
sacrifice performance or operational efficiency. Many
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companies accelerated their digital
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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?

IBM Power Virtual Servers

RedHat OpenStack

RedHat OpenShift 

OpenShift Container Storage

Question 5 You're talking to a client about flexible support

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

Basic and Premium

Bronze and Gold

Basic, Advanced, and Premium 

PowerVM

Question 6 The Power10 scale-out servers offer tremendous

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

40 cores, 8TB

48 cores, 8TB 

48 cores, 2TB

40 cores, 4TB
Question 7 As the world is set to deploy AI everywhere, clients
Correct are having to expand from how quickly and accurately
they build and train AI models to include how rapidly
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they can implement those models and gain insights,
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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 data gravity

AI at the point of data 

AI inferencing

AI scoring

Question 8 What is the IBM trademarked name for Power10’s

Correct advanced error checking and correcting (ECC)
computer memory technology?
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Chipkill

Transparent Memory Encryption

Matrix Math Accelerator (MMA)

Active Memory Mirroring

Question 9 What component(s) of the Power10 AI software stack

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

MMA on-chip

ONNX runtime 

OMI interface

ONNX runtime and MMA

Question 10 What is the maximum number of peripheral

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component interconnect express (PCIe) Gen5 capable
slots available in the Power10 scale-out server?
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7

8 

5
Question 11 Workloads on Power10 benefit from cryptographic
Correct algorithm acceleration, thanks to the blazing fast
hardware-accelerated crypto engines, allowing
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encryption algorithms like AES, SHA2, and SHA3 to
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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?

2x

4x 

5x

3x

Question 12 You're talking to a client about IBM Power10 and they

Correct ask what operating systems the new Power10 scale-
out server supports. How do you reply?
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AIX, IBM i, and Linux

AIX and Linux

PowerVM

AIX and IBM i

Question 13 Power10 introduces a new memory interface called

Correct Open Memory Interface (OMI). What benefits does
OMI provide?
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Transparent memory encryption and flexibility for
future memory technologies

50% reduction in power consumption and

transparent memory encryption

Higher bandwidth and 50% reduction in power

consumption

Higher bandwidth and flexibility for future 

memory technologies

Question 14 The Power10 scale-out servers come with support for

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

Xen

PowerVM and KVM

PowerVM 
Question 15 Which of the following is NOT a benefit of Transparent
Incorrect memory encryption?

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No performance impact
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No application recoding needed

Quantum-safe encryption

Zero management setup 

Question 16 IBM Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D) can be used to provide
Correct an efficient and agile data fabric solution to clients.
Based on IBM internal testing of Db2 Warehouse
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running in CP4D hosted on the Power10 scale-out
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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?

34% 

10%

43%

40%

Question 17 According to the IBM Institute for Business value

Correct (IBV) study “COVID-19 and the future of business”,
what percentage of organizations shifted to cloud-
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based business activities in response to COVID-19?
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56%

85%

46%

64% 

Question 18 You're talking to a client about how IBM Power10

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

Encryption is handled in hardware 

Encryption is handled in firmware

Encryption is handled in software

Encryption is handled in hardware and software

Question 19 Reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) is an
Correct IBM Power systems central design point. Its goal is to
provide maximum uptime for critical client operations.
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This is accomplished by providing redundant
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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 1 power supply

Up to 4 power supplies

Up to 3 power supplies

Question 20 The IBM Power10 scale-out servers feature new and

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

Dual-in line memory module

Registered DIMM (RDIMM)

Differential DIMM (DDIMM) 

Industry standard DIMM (ISDIMM)

Question 21 The Power10 processor-based servers were designed

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

Fast Homomorphic Encryption

Fully Homomorphic Encryption 

Frictionless Hybrid Encryption

Full Homogenous Encryption

Question 22 Many clients run traditional on-premises
Correct infrastructure. However, IBM is seeing more and more
clients taking advantage of a hybrid infrastructure
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using the IBM Power flexible consumption offering
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that provides cloud-like efficiency while maintaining
the advantages of on-premises infrastructure. Which
IBM offering provides this?

Power Private Cloud with Dynamic Capacity 

PowerVC

PowerSC

Power Private Cloud with Hybrid Capacity

Question 23 Pools 2.0 enables a group of Power10 scale-out

Correct servers to be defined as the pool of collective Base
Capacity (purchased) resources. Additional capacity
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over and above the pool’s aggregate Base (purchased)
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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)?

Cloud Management Console (CMC) 

Integrated Virtualization Management (IVM)

Hardware Management Console (HMC)

IBM Management Console

Question 24 Hardware-based service processors, also known as

Correct management processors, work with hardware
instrumentation and systems management software
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and are important for problem notification and
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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)

Flexible service processor (FSP)

Hardware management console (HMC)

Baseboard management console (BMC)

Question 25 You're talking to a client about how IBM has optimized
Correct math libraries so that AI tools can benefit from the
acceleration provided by Power10's Matrix Math
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Accelerator (MMA) units. This client asks how they can
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benefit from MMA. How do you reply?

Statistical deep learning and inferencing

Deep learning and machine learning

Statistical machine learning and inferencing 

Machine learning