单选题 A bank is interested in technology that will enhance competitiveness and flexibility in the financial trading market by harnessing the typically unused power of idle machines.  The pSeries technical specialist should make the customer aware of which IBM offering？（）

单选题 AIX 5L v5.3 provides initial support for which of the following new features？（）

单选题 A company has a large data center with hundreds of AIX and Linux OS images on both stand-alone and LPARed machines.  They are likely to undergo some downsizing in the near future.  The IT Director is concerned with their ability to manage the environment with fewer staff members. What software should the pSeries technical specialist recommend to the customer to provide for more efficient management， quicker provisioning， and monitoring？（）

单选题 A commercial customer will soon send out a Request For Pricing （RFP） for a new large database server.  Why would a pSeries technical specialist try to influence the customer to base the requirements on performance （TPC-C， Ideas International Relativity， Oracle Applications Standard Benchmark， etc.） rather than on numbers of processors？（）

单选题 The account team is putting together a very complex solution for the customer.  During the solution design phase， many of the customer’s requirements have changed and additional requirements are being identified.  What should the pSeries technical specialist do to ensure the greatest possible customer satisfaction？（）

单选题 A customer is purchasing a 12-way p5-570 to run light development workloads on eight AIX 5.3 partitions with two network adapters each.  When the current network configuration was reviewed， it was discovered that they only have four Ethernet ports available on their network switch.  Which of the following solutions would prevent them from having to buy another network switch or hub？（）

单选题 A university researcher needs a large server with high numeric computing capacity to do computational fluid dynamics calculations.  The pSeries technical specialist has a recent pSeries and RS/6000 Performance Report.  Which of the following tables should be consulted to advise the customer concerning relative performance of various models？（）

单选题 A customer had been given a proposal for a p5-570 6-way 32GB system running in Full Partition mode.  After review， the customer asked that the configuration be modified to enhance the reliability and availability of the solution.  However， the customer does not want to pay for HACMP or additional machines.  What change would be most likely to improve the reliability of the solution？（）

单选题 A global container shipping company has a new application that they are going to deploy on a p5-570 at their corporate data center.  The Chief Information Officer indicates that， if the application is down for more than 36 hours， the cost of downtime is very high.  For the initial 36 hours of downtime， the company has a manual process they can execute without significant additional cost. Which of the following products best mitigates the major business risk to the company？（）

单选题 A customer plans to purchase a p5-570 that will run in SMP mode to host a large financial database on AIX 5.2.  The application is sized for an 8-way 1.65-GHz machine.  They do not currently have an existing HMC that supports p5 machines. This organization experiences unpredictable short-term spikes in processor utilization.  To mitigate the risk to their business， they are interested in IBM’s CoD offering.  In addition to the 8-way system， what else should the pSeries technical specialist recommend to the customer？（）