IBM PureApplication System Technical Sales Mastery Test v1 Sample Questions:

1. The IBM CE is only person allowed to perform certain system level operations on IBM PureApplication System. Name some of those operations. (Choose two.)

A) The IBM CE has full administrative permissions to the system
B) The IBM CE needs to request a special password tied to the system from IBM Support
C) The Client Hardware Administrator will need to enable login for the IBM CE
D) The IBM CE uses a special user id named "ibmce" which is hidden from the user console

2. There are two ways to create an application pattern between Rational Application Developer (RAD) and IBM PureApplication System (IPAS). You can create a new skeletal application pattern in RAD based upon a selection of Java enterprise, Web, or OSGi application projects in your workspace and publish it to IPAS. Alternatively, you can create an application pattern in IPAS and import it into your RAD workspace. Are the two alternatives correct?

A) Yes
B) No

3. The solution architect at ABC Enterprises is comparing the small and medium offerings for the IBM PureApplication System. Among their top priorities are performance, storage capacity, and high availability. Which of the following factors would best influence one offering over the other?

A) The small form factor does not contain the storage controller expansion unit
B) The medium form factor has twice the amount of memory and CPU as the smaller one
C) The medium form factor has twice the number of PDUs as the smaller one
D) The small form factor has no redundancy in the VM and IBM PureApplication System Management nodes

4. Name one advantage that IBM Image Construction and Composition Tool (ICCT) has over the traditional virtual image Extend / Capture functionality in IBM PureApplication System.

A) ICCT allows you to define input parameters in configuration scripts which can be exposed at deployment time
B) ICCT only stores metadata for your virtual images and software bundles making the image synchronization and capture process a lot faster
C) ICCT allows you to reuse a single virtual image for a number of different deployment scenarios
D) ICCT allows you to create virtual images based on any operating system

5. The essence of virtual applications in IBM PureApplication System (IPAS) is that is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution in which your application takes center stage and IPAS takes care of the deployment and configuration of the underlying middleware components for you. With all that transparency at the infrastructure level what system and middleware health check options are possible from the deployed virtual application instance?

A) The Configuration panel allows you to dynamically enable additional traces for debugging purposes
B) The Logging panel allows you to check the middleware specific logs such as the SystemOut or FFDC logs for problems
C) The Monitoring panel allows you to query middleware specific usage stats such as heapsize, connection pools, response times, etc.
D) All of the above
E) The Configuration panel allows you to upload a new or update an SSH public key to the target environment in order to log in directly to the system for troubleshooting

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