Test 000-106: Power Systems with POWER7 Common Technical Sales Skills - v1

Power Systems Product Knowledge (19%)

1. Describe the range and capabilities of the Power Systems portfolio.
2. Describe I/O Drawers, SSD, NAS, SAN, DASD Drawers, 12X Loops, IVE, SAS, Ethernet, and FC Cards and how they would apply in solutions.
3. Compare and Contrast IBM i, AIX and Linux

Power Systems Architecture (11%)

1. Describe the benefits of POWER6 and POWER7 chips
2. Describe RAS Feature of the Power Systems
3. Differentiate between AME and AMS

Design Solution to Customer Requirements (34%)

1. Design HMC to FSP connectivity network including multiple HMC and Systems and redundant FSPs for resiliancy and backup
2. Design VIOS configuration and implementation
3. Evaluate storage requirements and recommend available options. # Determine Physical requirements
4. Determine HA, DR, recovery requirements
5. Specify networking solutions to manage redundancy, VLAN, security, bandwidth, sharing
6. Describe the use of SPT, especially system plans from HMC and for documentation
7. Identify Technical & Delivery Assessment (TDA) process and requirements # Describe design considerations for HMC, Power Systems & Blades
8. Re-Utilize appropriate existing hardware in a new configuration

Competition (3%)

1. Compare and contrast IBM offerings with competitive offerings including Servers, Operating Systems, Processors, Virtualization, Systems Management

Virtualization (18%)

1. Describe Power Systems' ability to share resources including processors, IO and memory.
2. Describe the business value of Virtualization
3. Differentiate capabilities of PowerVM editions
4. Describe the requirements for a partition and the LPAR profile options # Differentiate NPIV and VSCSI under VIOS

System Management (13%)

1. Describe the capabilities of IBM Systems Director editions, HMC and IVM # Explain Energy Management, Monitoring and Controls (Director, Active Energy Manager, TPMD etc)
2. Describe available management functionality of the Hardware Management Console (HMC) and Integrated Virtualization Manager (IVM)