IBM PureApplication System Technical Sales Mastery Test v1 Sample Questions:

1. The Guided Service Tasks panel is a step by step process to be used solely by IBM service to troubleshoot virtual system deployment issues. Is this statement True or False?

A) False
B) True

2. ACME Financial is developing new products for its partners to leverage their in-house transaction processing services. The products are built on top of WebSphere MQ Hypervisor Edition and WebSphere Application Server Community Edition and also include some third-party products. ACME Financial wants to quickly build out and replicate these new patterns and deploy them in their private cloud for consumption by their partners. What would be the best way for them to achieve that goal?

A) Leverage the extend and capture functionality in IBM PureApplication System to create a custom image with all the required components for future deployment to the private cloud
B) IBM PureApplication System does not have the necessary hooks to achieve this goal
C) Leverage Tivoli Service Automation Manager to capture the running environment for future deployment to the private cloud
D) Leverage IBM Image Construction and Composition Tool (ICCT) to create a custom image with all the required components and capture it in IBM PureApplication System for future deployment to the private cloud

3. XYZ Corp is a large SI that offers a packaged financial services solution built on top of IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS). They must support several versions and levels of this package and be able to concurrently test fixes and changes to any of these combinations at any time. What would be the best deployment recommendation for this business partner?

A) A shared service pattern with plugins supporting various versions and levels of WAS
B) A WebSphere cluster pattern with multiple nodes at various versions and levels of WAS
C) A Java application pattern with integration points to multiple backends supporting various versions and levels of WAS
D) Multiple web application workload patterns supporting various versions and levels of WAS

4. 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 Monitoring panel allows you to query middleware specific usage stats such as heapsize, connection pools, response times, etc.
C) The Logging panel allows you to check the middleware specific logs such as the SystemOut or FFDC logs for problems
D) 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
E) All of the above

5. how many management nodes are included with IBM PureApplication System?

A) Six Management Nodes total - Two PureApplication System Management Nodes, Two VM Management Nodes, and Two PureFlex Management Nodes
B) Four Management Nodes total - Two PureApplication System Management Nodes and Two VM Management Nodes
C) One Master PureApplication System Management Node.
D) Two Management Nodes total - One PureApplication System Management Nodes and One VM Management Nodes

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