IBM Power10 Scale-out L2 Quiz

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Question 1 What component(s) of the Power10 AI software

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

ONNX runtime 

ONNX runtime and MMA

MMA on-chip

OMI interface

Question 2 IBM Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D) can be used to

Correct provide an efficient and agile data fabric solution to
clients. Based on IBM internal testing of Db2
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Warehouse running in CP4D hosted on the Power10
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scale-out 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% 

40%

43%

10%
Question 3 The past couple of years (2019 – 2022) have
Correct highlighted the need for flexible IT that does not
sacrifice performance or operational efficiency.
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Many companies accelerated their digital
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transformation/modernization plans during the Back Next
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 OpenShift 

RedHat OpenStack

OpenShift Container Storage

Question 4 The IBM Power10 scale-out servers feature new

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

Industry standard DIMM (ISDIMM)

Registered DIMM (RDIMM)

Dual-in line memory module

Differential DIMM (DDIMM) 

Question 5 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
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POWER9-based systems (on a per-core basis). How
many more crypto engines are available in every
Power10 core?

4x 

2x

3x

5x

Question 6 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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85%

56%

46%

64% 

Question 7 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?

48 cores, 8TB 

40 cores, 8TB

40 cores, 4TB

48 cores, 2TB
Question 8 Many clients run traditional on-premises
Correct infrastructure. However, IBM is seeing more and
more clients taking advantage of a hybrid
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infrastructure using the IBM Power flexible
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consumption offering that provides cloud-like Back Next
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 9 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.
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The client asks which service tiers Power Expert
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Care provides. How do you reply?

Basic and Premium

PowerVM

Bronze and Gold

Basic, Advanced, and Premium 

Question 10 Power10 introduces a new memory interface called

Correct Open Memory Interface (OMI). What benefits does
OMI provide?
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Higher bandwidth and 50% reduction in power
consumption

Higher bandwidth and flexibility for future 

memory technologies

50% reduction in power consumption and

transparent memory encryption

Transparent memory encryption and flexibility

for future memory technologies
Question 11 You're talking to a client about how IBM has
Correct optimized math libraries so that AI tools can benefit
from the acceleration provided by Power10's Matrix
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Math Accelerator (MMA) units. This client asks how
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they can benefit from MMA. How do you reply? Back Next

Deep learning and machine learning

Machine learning

Statistical machine learning and inferencing 

Statistical deep learning and inferencing

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

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

Encryption is handled in software

Encryption is handled in hardware and

software

Encryption is handled in hardware 

Encryption is handled in firmware

Question 13 You're talking to a client about how the IBM
Correct Power10 scale-out servers provide enhanced
performance and scale with six 1 and 2-socket, 2U,
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and 4U height server models. Combinedly, they
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provide the value pillars around Digital Back Next
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?

43%

40%

30%

34% 

Question 14 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

Active Memory Mirroring

Matrix Math Accelerator (MMA)

Question 15 Which of the following is NOT a benefit of

Correct Transparent memory encryption?

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No performance impact

Quantum-safe encryption 

Zero management setup

Question 16 What is the maximum number of peripheral
Correct component interconnect express (PCIe) Gen5
capable slots available in the Power10 scale-out
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server?
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Question 17 You're talking to a client about IBM Power10 and

Correct they ask what operating systems the new Power10
scale-out server supports. How do you reply?
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PowerVM

AIX and Linux

AIX and IBM i

AIX, IBM i, and Linux 

Question 18 The Power10 scale-out servers come with support

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

Xen

KVM

PowerVM and KVM

Question 19 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
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class. According to ITIC's 2021 report, up to how
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much more unplanned downtime do common x86 Back Next
based servers have when compared against IBM
Power servers?

700%

100%

2700% 

1000%

Question 20 Which one of the following Power10 memory

Correct technologies do NOT help improve Reliability,
Availability, and Serviceability (RAS)?
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Chipkill

Transparent Memory Encryption 

Differential DIMM (DDIMM)

Active Memory Mirroring (AMM)

Question 21 Hardware-based service processors, also known as

Correct management processors, work with hardware
instrumentation and systems management
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software and are important for problem notification
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and resolution. Clients can also use them to
remotely manage their systems. What Service
Processor is used in the Power10 scale-out
servers?

Hardware management console (HMC)

Flexible service processor (FSP)

Baseboard management console (BMC)

Enterprise baseboard management console 

(eBMC)
Question 22 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
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how rapidly they can implement those models and
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Operationalizing AI inferencing directly on the
Power10 processor-based system brings AI closer
to data. What is this capability referred to as?

AI scoring

AI inferencing

AI data gravity

AI at the point of data 

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
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(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)?

Integrated Virtualization Management (IVM)

Hardware Management Console (HMC)

Cloud Management Console (CMC) 

IBM Management Console

Question 24 The Power10 processor-based servers were
Correct designed with security in mind for now and the
future. This includes support for upcoming
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cryptography techniques that permit computations
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on encrypted data without decrypting the data first.
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What is this capability referred to as?

Frictionless Hybrid Encryption

Fast Homomorphic Encryption

Full Homogenous Encryption

Fully Homomorphic Encryption 

Question 25 Reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) is an

Correct IBM Power systems central design point. Its goal is
to provide maximum uptime for critical client
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operations. This is accomplished by providing
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redundant 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 1 power supply

Up to 4 power supplies

Up to 2 power supplies 

Up to 3 power supplies