Which of the following represents a unique characteristic of IBM i and DB2 that is designed to reduce the amount of time it takes to restart a system and database after an abnormal end, such as a power interruption?

• A. Disk Mirroring
• B. Adaptive Query Processing
• C. SMP Parallelism
• D. System Managed Access Path Protection

A prospective customer is considering a Power Systems solution with IBM i and PowerVM.
Other possible solutions being proposed to this customer are:
-x86 with Linux, Oracle, and VMware -x86 with Windows, SQL Server, and VMware
How does the acquisition cost and TOO of the Power Systems solution compare with the x86
solutions?

• A. Acquisition costs are slightly higher for the Power Systems solution, but the significantly reduced operational costs result in a lower TOO over 3 years.
• B. Acquisition costs are similar for all solutions, but the software maintenance costs for database and VMware raise the 3 year TOO of the x86 solutions
• C. The acquisition and 3 year operational costs are lower than the Windows solution, and the Oracle maintenance fees result in a higher 3 year TOO compared to Power.
• D. With POWER7, the acquisition cost is lower than for both Windows and Linux offerings resulting in a lower 3-year TOO.

A new Power 720 customer running IBM i has complained that they are required to make daily adjustments to their system memory pools to accommodate changing application workloads.
What should be discussed?

• A. Extended Adaptive Cache should be used to create a system cache, reducing the physical I/O requests for the disk
• B. IBM i offers Active Memory Expansion to make better use of system memory.
• C. IBM POWER7 models offer an optional TurboCore mode which allows the processor cores to manage shared memory pools.
• D. IBM i has the ability to automatically manage shared memory pools and will adjust the storage and activity levels as needed

A 010 has ordered a new POWER7 server with IBM i 7.1. The technical staff is unhappy as there is no money left to purchase a file server for a growing Windows application on their network.
What solution should be reviewed with the Windows staff?

• A. Independent auxiliary storage pools can be configured under IBM i to identify a collection of disk units intended to support Windows file systems.
• B. IBM i supports remote SQL access and other database file serving functions that are intended to support attached Windows network clients.
• C. IBM i Access for Windows provides direct access to Windows files, stored as IBM i database files, eliminating the need to program proprietary database interfaces.
• D. The IBM i Integrated File System enables attached POs to interact with Windows directories on Power storage as if they were stored locally on the P