What is a key customer benefit of a Technology Refresh?

• A. A Technology Refresh replaces the need to install PTF5.
• B. A Technology Refresh may provide new functions, performance improvements and I/O support.
• C. A Technology Refresh includes IBM engineer services for implementation, reducing risk to customers upgrade processes.
• D. A Technology Refresh requires no system down time to implement.

A POWER6 customer with an LTO-3 tape drive needs to encrypt their tape backups. They want to avoid the purchase of a different tape device.
Which of the following solutions supports the requirement for encryption without needing to acquire a different tape technology?

• A. Encrypted data can be saved to tape with key management services provided by IBM Tivoli Key Lifecycle Manager software.
• B. BRMS can perform software-based encryption and can be used with any type of tape drive.
• C. Column encryption may be accomplished by using a new database feature called field procedures, available in IBM i
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• D. IBM i offers Encrypted ASP Enablement which encrypts data when written out to disk or tape.

An IT Director plans the purchase of a new Power Systems server with IBM i. Due to a previous bad experience with a competitive product that was improperly sized, the IT Director is concerned that processor, memory and storage I/O of the solution accurately reflect the company's needs.
Which IBM tool would the sales representative use and discuss with the IT Director to help ensure correct sizing?

• A. System Performance Guide
• B. eConfigurator
• C. Workload Estimator
• D. Systems Planning Tool

A new DBA from a non-IBM background plans to make numerous database changes to a production PQWER7 server running IBM i, but is concerned about how to identify which DB2 indexes will require rebuilding.
What should be explained to the DBA?

• A. IBM Systems Director Navigator for i offers a graphical interface for performing basic DB2 tasks
• B. DB2 for IBM i rebuilds indexes automatically
• C. DB2 for IBM i provides continuous data spreading and automatic storage allocation for indexes
• D. IBM i offers automatic Systems Managed Access Path Protection (SMAPP)

A customer has a Power Systems server with IBM i installed and must reduce the run time of a read-intensive batch job. Why does the use of Solid State Drives (SSDs) support this request?

• A. IBM i single level storage improves the performance of SSDs.
• B. IBM i supports multiple file types which leverage the use of SSDs.
• C. IBM i automatically moves the most active files to the SSDs.
• D. IBM i performance is improved with SSDs due to on-board cache.