This customer certification validates the ability to plan, install, support, troubleshoot, and manage problems for a POWER 6 System p installation. The system administrator manages 000-223 and support projects and end users, and oversees day to day operations of an IBM System p.
Test information:
Number of questions: 65
Time allowed in minutes: 90
Required passing score: 70%
The successful certified candidate has a recommended 12 – 18 months administering an IBM System p. They are familiar with current and reasonably current operation environments (servers, operating systems, and features).
Section 1 – Planning
Determine resource needs, features and limitations of required and installed hardware and OS levels, and redundancy requirements.
Describe Virtualization
LPAR and DLPAR and Advanced Power Virtualization features, benefits, functions, and VIO capabilities)
Micropartioning and Virtual I/O
Differentiate between the methods used to assign resources to virtual and standard LPARs
Requirements for installing a virtual server and virtual client LPARs
LPAR resource requirements for processor, memory and disk
Partition mobility
Energy requirements and strategy