IBM Power E1050 Level 2 Quiz

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Question 1

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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. They can also be used to
remotely manage client systems. What Service processor is
used in the Power E1050 server to deliver this function?

BMC

BSP

FSP

eBMC 
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IBM Power E1050 offers different processor module options for

optimized performance, scale, and economics. What are the
different processor module offerings available in the Power
E1050?

8, 10, 12, and 20 cores

12, 20, and 24 cores

8, 10, 11, and 12 cores

12, 18, and 24 cores 

Question 3

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Pools 2.0 enables a group of Power E1050 systems 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)?

IBM Management Console

Integrated Virtualization Management (IVM)

Cloud Management Console (CMC) 

Hardware Management Console (HMC)

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With the Power E1050, IBM Power delivers a balance of

performance, scale, and IT economics to compete in the highly
competitive 4-8 socket server segment marketplace. Which of
the following features does the IBM Power E1050 deliver?

Up to 3x per socket performance of prior generation

systems

2x better memory reliability, availability, and serviceability

(RAS) when compared to industry standard x86 products

Standard 5-year warranty

2x better memory reliability, availability, and 

serviceability (RAS) when compared to industry
standard x86 products and up to 3x per socket
performance of prior generation systems

Question 5

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Your client is looking to do a technology refresh with a goal of

reducing their datacenter footprint, energy costs, and software
license costs. They are interested in consolidation to the Power
E1050 and ask how much reduction in core count they can
expect without loss of performance? What percentages do you
share with this client?

30% - 40%

20% - 40%

25% - 50% 

10% - 20%
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The cost of a mega data breach increased 10% between 2020

and 2021, the largest cost increase in the last seven years.
What was the cost of a mega-data breach reported in 2021?

$104 million (USD)

$401 million (USD) 

$410 million (USD)

$140 million (USD)

Question 7

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Many clients run traditional on-premises infrastructure.

However, IBM is seeing more and more clients taking
advantage of hybrid infrastructure (a combination of on-
premises and off-premises) 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 Hybrid Capacity

Power Private Cloud with Dynamic Capacity 

PowerSC
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You're talking to a client about how the Power E1050 delivers

unprecedented 4-socket performance in compute, java, and
SAP benchmarks. The client asks how many benchmarks the
Power E1050 has set? How do you respond?

The Power E1050 has set 5 benchmarks. 

The Power E1050 has set 10 benchmarks.

The Power E1050 has set 15 benchmarks.

The Power E1050 has set 1 benchmark.

Question 9

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As the world is set to deploy AI and machine learning (ML)

everywhere, attention is turning from how quickly and
accurately systems can train AI models to how rapidly built
models can be implanted and inferenced (scored) on those
systems. To support this shift, Power10 delivers faster business
insights by running AI “in place” with four new Matrix Math
Accelerator (MMA) units in each Power10 core. How much
faster AI inferencing per socket does Power E1050 provide over
Power E980?

4x faster

2x faster

5x faster 

3x faster
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Your client is currently running their workloads on a 2-node

POWER8 E870/E870C system with 80 cores total. They are
interested in moving those workloads to a new Power E1050
environment. What is the recommended Power E1050
configuration to sufficiently host their current workloads?

2-socket Power E1050 with 36c total

4-socket Power E1050 with 72c total 

3-socket Power E1050 with 36c total

4-socket Power E1050 with 96c total

Question 11

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You're talking to a client about the Power E1050 and how it can
reduce the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) within a datacenter
while providing the same performance with fewer processor
cores than previous generations of Power systems. The client
asks how much reduction in energy consumption could they
achieve by consolidating their POWER8 servers onto the Power
E1050? How do you reply?

Reduction by over 25%

Reduction by over 40%

Reduction by over 50% 

Reduction by over 10%

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

libraries so that AI tools can take advantage of the acceleration
provided by the Matrix Math Accelerator (MMA) units of
Power10. The client asks which usecases will benefit from
MMA? How do you reply?

Statistical deep learning and inferencing

Machine learning

Statistical machine learning and inferencing 

Deep learning and machine learning

Question 13

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The IBM Power E1050 features new and enhanced memory

modules for improved reliability, availability, and serviceability
(RAS) and provides 2x better memory RAS than the industry
standard DIMMs. What is the name of the memory module that
the Power E1050 supports?

ISDIMM

DDIMM 

ZDIMM

RDIMM
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IBM is bringing future capabilities to the Power10 platform

(Power E1050 server included) with the introduction of PCIe
Gen5 I/O support, which helps consolidate extreme IO
workloads without compromising performance. What is the
maximum number of PCIe Gen5 slots available in the Power

8

Question 15

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Which Power E1050 product configuration provides the best

performance per core?

18c

24c

8c

12c 
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What component(s) of the Power10 AI software stack provides

this capability for clients to train AI models anywhere and
deploy on Power without any changes?

ONNX runtime. 

ONNX runtime and MMA.

OMI interface.

MMA on-chip.

Question 17

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

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

Encryption is handled in the firmware

Encryption is handled in the hardware 

Encryption is handled in the hardware and software

Encryption is handled in the software

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You're talking to a client about how the Power E1050 offers

tremendous consolidation capabilities when transitioning from
x86 servers or migrating from earlier generations of IBM Power
servers. What do you tell the client are the maximum cores and
memory supported in the Power E1050 system?

96 cores, 8TB

96 cores, 16TB 

128 cores, 16TB

40 cores, 8TB

Question 19

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You're talking to a client about migrating to the new Power

E1050. As cost is always a concern, the client asks about the
average price performance improvements they can expect to
see if they migrate from their older E950 midrange servers to
the Power E1050? What percentage do you share?

40%

30% 

50%

20%
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The Power E1050 comes with support for a built-in hypervisor

for enterprise-class virtualization. What hypervisor(s) does the
Power E1050 support?

Xen

PowerVM 

KVM

PowerVM and KVM

Question 21

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According to “The Key to Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Strategy”- an

annual Forrester consulting study commissioned by IBM, what
percentage of organizations said that on-premises
infrastructure is a critical part of their firm's hybrid cloud
strategy?

64%

56%

46%

85% 
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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. Power E1050 can
sustain failures of up to how many power supply/supplies?

Up to 3 power supplies

Up to 4 power supplies

Up to 2 power supplies 

Up to 1 power supply

Question 23

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The Power 10 processor-based servers are designed with

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

Full Homogenous Encryption

Fully Homomorphic Encryption 

Fast Homomorphic Encryption

Frictionless Hybrid Encryption

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The world continues to grapple with a lasting pandemic, shifts

to work-from-home and back-to-office, and geopolitical
changes spawning a constant drone of mistrust. In 2021, IBM
Security X-Force saw how threat actors opportunistically used a
shifting landscape to adopt tactics and techniques to
successfully infiltrate organizations with cyber security attacks
across the globe. What type of cyber security attack was
observed as the top attack?

Denial-of-Service (DOS)

Phishing

Malware

Ransomware 

Question 25

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You’re talking to a client about the benefits of using an IBM

Power E1050 server for consolidation. They ask you what
operating systems it supports. What do you tell them?

IBM i

AIX and Linux 

AIX, Linux, and IBM i

Linux