IBM Power Systems with POWER7 Common Sales Skills - v1 Set 2

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A prospective customer has made a strategic decision to consolidate all ERP applications to SAP or Oracle ERP Suite and will publish an RFP. HP and Dell are currently installed and support their existing applications. What key strategy should be considered when responding to the RFP?

Emphasize DB2 performance benefits when running Oracle and SAP on Power. ✘ Use a three-tier approach with Web, application, and database on separate servers. ✘ Focus on reliability, availability, scalability and I/O bandwidth of Power Systems. ✘ Lead with VMControl for consolidated management of diverse applications on Power Systems. ✔

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The CIO of a large hospital stated they plan to move all their applications to Linux running on Nehalem-EX processor based HP servers. What should the Power Systems sales representative explain to the CIO about POWER7 versus Nehalem-EX?

POWER7 offers a greater number of cores per socket. ✘ Several Linux distributors do not support Nehalem-EX. ✘ Power Systems servers have greater reliability and scalability. ✘ Nehalem-EX supports only 64 bit applications, POWER7 supports both 32 and 64 bit. ✔

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A regional health care provider must expand the size of their data center to address adequate floor space and cooling issues. The CFO is directly involved with all plans which identify ways to cut energy costs in order to meet overall budget constraints. What cost saving features of a Power Systems solution should be discussed with the CFO?

EnergyScale, Active Energy Manager, Rear Door Heat Exchanger, PowerVM ✘ POWER7 Power Saver modes, Power Trending and Reporting, Rear Door Heat Exchanger ✘ Intelligent Power Distribution Unit, Advanced System Management Interface, Systems Director ✘ Thermal Power Management Device, VMControl, Energy Estimator, Intelligent Power Distribution Unit ✔

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A prospective customer currently uses HP Itanium systems and is concerned about HP reliance on Intel for future chip enhancements. How can the salesperson differentiate POWER versus Itanium?

IBM Power Systems includes a subset of the Itanium chip and customers can always migrate to Power Systems and run HP-UX. ✘ IBM and Intel are co-developers of the Itanium chip architecture and as such both POWER and Itaniumhave a guaranteed future. ✘ IBM makes chips for the game console manufacturers and embedded automotive applications whichinsures POWER architecture futures in Power Systems. ✘ Customers have more assurance that IBM will deliver on its roadmap because IBM manages both thedevelopment of the POWER architecture and Power Systems. ✔

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What key topic should be reviewed with a CFO to help differentiate the benefits of implementing WebSphere on Power Systems versus the competition?

Passport Advantage ✘ IBM financing options ✘ Total Cost of Ownership ✘ Processor Value Unit pricing ✔

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A small business customer wants to install a Power Systems server because of its reliability and energy characteristics. The customer has relatively low IT skills and wants to implement an inventory management application. Which operating system will address the customer's needs?

AIX ✘ IBM i ✘ Linux ✘ Windows ✔

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While visiting a client with a large number of x86 servers, what areas of the client's infrastructure should be reviewed to determine Power Systems advantages?

Number of Servers Development language(s) IndustryPlug types ✘ Number of Servers Wiring Topology Size of IT Staff Applications ✘ Number of Servers x86 processor type Applications Number of end users ✘ Number of Servers Data Center Square footage Type of Telephone Switch Warehouse locations ✔

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A CIO asked what possible relevance the comparative market share of IBM vs. Sun and HP has to the decision making process, since both and HP each still command over 25% of the UNIX market. Which of the following responses address this statement?

Market share is a key indicator of technology superiority which results in lower cost to customers. ✘ Growing market share ensures larger open source development to expand the UNIX capabilities of AIX. ✘ Marker momentum is a good predictor that IBM is most is most likely becoming the sole provider of theUNIX environment ✘ Higher market share often results in a larger pool of skilled workers and the availability of more applications. ✔

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A customer is complaining that intermittent hardware failures are causing significant lost productivity in their non- Power Systems servers. Which IBM technology used in Power Systems can avoid this situation?

Memory Chipkill ✘ Light path diagnostics ✘ ECC/retry on PCI busses ✘ First Failure Data Capture ✔

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Which IBM storage products will directly attach to both IBM i and AIX partitions?

DS6000, DS8000, XIV ✘ DS5000, DS8000, XIV ✘ DS5000, DS6000, DS8000 ✘ DS3000, DS4000, DS5000 ✔

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