Test 000-107: Power Systems with POWER7 and AIX Technical Sales Skills - v1

Power Systems Product Knowledge (36%)

1. Describe the applicability of Infiniband/12X and converged network adapters # Identify features and benefits of System Software such as PowerHA SystemMirror, GPFS, the HPC stack, DB2 pureScale
2. Identify the benefits of AIX and Linux on Power Systems
3. Differentiate the AIX Editions
4. Recognize AIX Technology Level (TL) release strategy
5. Identify benefits of using multiple application environments using WPARs and LPARs
6. Explain system software licensing models
7. Describe storage options for Power Systems
8. Illustrate benefits of storage keys

Design Solutions to Customer Requirements (18%)

1. Determine application licensing requirements (partial core rounding, multiple shared pools, et al)
2. Determine appropriate usage of HA components in a solution
3. Compare and contrast relative performance metric (rPerf) with other industry benchmarks
4. Discuss when to employ Active Memory Expansion

Competition (3%)

1. Compare features of AIX to other Operating Systems

Pre-Sales Technical Support Resources (9%)

1. Recommend solutions based on customer requirements using available resources such as FLRT - Fix Level Recommendation Tool, System Planning Tool, Facts & Features Guide, AIX Flyers, Info Center, White Papers, Developer Works wiki

Virtualization (24%)

1. Describe characteristics and requirements of Active Memory Expansion
2. Indicate of the features and benefits of NPIV
3. Explain the business value of Power Systems Virtualization as it relates to AIX # Explain benefits of active memory sharing
4. Explain the process and benefits of live partition mobility
5. Evaluate benefits of application mobility
6. Differentiate partition technologies (LPAR & WPAR)

Systems Management (9%)

1. Identify systems management, performance management & evaluation tools for AIX
2. Identify tools for specific systems management tasks