Test 000-979: Power Systems with POWER7 and IBM i Technical Sales Skills - v1

Deployment Planning (20%)

1. Describe factors which affect install/restore time
2. Develop appropriate migration and/or upgrade plan
3. Perform OS and hardware upgrade planning including obsolencence (example -> SAS vs. SCSI and IOP migration)
4. Determine Consolidation Strategy

Storage Sizing and Performance (17%)

1. Describe disk throughput considerations (arms, cache, etc)
2. Design suitable disk Subsystem (HBA, # of Disks, etc)
3. Choose appropriate IBM i disk protection scheme
4. Position SSD vs. HDD
5. Position Internal vs. External DASD
6. Explain Performance implications of iASP and DB/2 encryption methods

Backup needs analysis (12%)

1. Determine Recovery and Backup Requirements
2. Design tape Encryption Solution
3. Compare and Contrast Tape connectivity and interoperability options
4. Determine the need for and explain the implications of Switched disk - Independent ASP

Virtualization on i (10%)

1. Describe the role of VIOS in an IBM i environment
2. Explain Hosted Linux & windows environments
3. Explain hosting i on i
4. Describe virtual Tape and Image catalogs

Hardware Configuration and planning (24%)

1. Explain the use of SPT
2. Retrieve and Interpret Rack Configurations
3. Explain and apply card feature placement rules and performance implications # Analyze processor and memory requirements
4. Design switchable physical resources
5. Describe I/O and DASD Drawers, 12X Loops, IVE, SAS, Ethernet, and FC Cards and how they would apply in solutions.
6. Assess console and FSP issues and requirements
7. Determine networking requirements, including redundancy

Determine proper IBM I and related software Licensin (17%)

1. Determine OS release compatability
2. Explain software and hardware interdependency
3. Describe base IBM i licensing
4. Explain LPP licensing and compatibility
5. Choose appropriate HA feature for a given workload
6. Explain how sub capacity licensing applies to IBM i (Domino, Websphere, MQ) # Explain the Software License Requirements of CBU and HA editions