IBM Power Systems with POWER8 Scale-out Technical Sales Skills V1 Set 11

Which system management tool could be used to deploy corrective service to multiple HMCs?

An administrator needs to determine if system microcode is at the most current level. Which tool will identify current microcode levels, and provide an output file which can be used by the IBM Microcode Discovery Service (MDS) for comparison?

An administrator was told to reverse the search order of a working DNS lookup. During application testing it was discovered that network resolution was not working for the end users. Given the following output, what is the most likely cause?

A system administrator needs to create a new volume group (VG) which will contain 100 physical volumes. The physical volumes are 10GB in size. The company plans to increase from 100 to 150 physical volumes over a two year period. To ensure the VG can meet initial demand and grow without requiring changes at later date, what type of VG should be created?

An AIX LPAR has virtual disks presented by a VIO Server and the administrator would like to determine the size of hdisk0. Which command will show this information?

A system is being taken from AIX 6 to AIX 7. Systems application and user data must be preserved. Which upgrade method will support this requirement?

Given the this output of the Iparstat -i' command from an LPAR, which statement is true?

Automated scripts on an AIX system require secure non-root access to another AIX instance. Secure Shell (SSH) was the method chosen and installed on both systems. How can an administrator use SSH to create secure automated jobs without storing passwords in the automated scripts?

A customer currently is running a POWER7 6-core 720 with 3 IBM i cores for production, and utilizing PowerHA to a POWER6 2-core server as their backup machine. The production machine also has unlimited users, IBM i Access users, SOL, and ILE Compilers. They are only using the backup machine to do backups, but it is not a CBU; it has only one IBM i and one licensed PowerHA core. The customer wants the backup server to have the same capacity as the production server so it can be a true high availability server. Which of the following is the correct course of action at the least cost?

What is the number of threads that can be processed for maximum throughput on a POWER8 core?