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IBM Power E1080 Level 2 Quiz

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Question 1

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You're talking to a client about how Power10 offers a

compelling value proposition for clients who are looking to
further infuse and operationalize AI within their business. As
your talk continues, you start to talk about the benefits of "AI at
the point of data". The client pauses you to ask what you meant
by "AI at the point of data". What is the best point to use in your
response?

Perform inferencing where data is generated, such as at

point-of-sale systems and Internet-of-Things (IoT)
devices.
Train your models directly on GPU-enabled servers that
are also hosting your transactional systems of record.

Bring your own models and run inferencing where 

your operational data resides.

Use of models implemented as user-defined functions

that run against historical data in data warehouses.

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Question 2

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The E1080 server offers tremendous consolidation capabilities

for clients, regardless of whether they are transitioning from
x86 servers or migrating from earlier generations of IBM Power
servers. What is the maximum number of cores (total)
supported on an E1080 system?

96

192

240 

288

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Question 3

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Your client has been talking to you about their recently

announced corporate sustainability initiatives and their goal to
become a "greener" company. IT is expected to be a major
contributor in helping achieve this goal, but they are concerned
about the practicality of doing so. The majority of their servers
are POWER8 E880C. What do you say to them?

Explain how all IBM servers since POWER7 are EcoSaver

Certified and suggest that they keep their existing E880C-
based workloads in place, but move all of their x86-based
workloads onto new E1080 servers.

POWER9-based servers and Power10-based servers have

similar energy consumption numbers for a given
workload. Suggest that they move their workloads to
E980 servers now and then E1080 servers when the
POWER9 servers go out of support.

Explain to them how they can cut their energy 

consumption in half when consolidating their existing

POWER8-based workloads onto new Power E1080
servers.

Make the recommendation to move all of their workloads

to IBM Cloud. They will easily meet their energy reduction
targets because the energy costs are incurred by the
cloud vendor and not by them.

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Question 4

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Power10 and the E1080 are ushering in a new era of

performance for enterprise workloads. Proof of this is the world
record result for an 8-socket server running the SAP SD two-tier
standard application benchmark. How many SAPS did the
E1080 server achieve?

955,050 

768,420

1,005,200

477,800

Question 5

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With Power10, IBM remains committed to providing clients

with the most secure platform on which to run their business.
Which of the following is a type of application domain
vulnerability that Power10 helps defend against?

Indirect region overlay

Cross-cipher substitution

Code stack imposter

Return-oriented programming 

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Question 6

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Which of the following operating systems are supported on the

E1080 server?

AIX and IBM i

AIX, SLES, and RHEL

AIX, IBM i, and SLES

AIX, IBM i, SLES, and RHEL 

Question 7

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Based on IBM testing, how does the containerized throughput

(per core) of Red Hat OpenShift running on the E1080 server
compare to a competitive x86-based server?

5.6x more throughput

2.7x more throughput

4.1x more throughput 

1.9x more throughput

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Question 8

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What minimum version of the Hardware Management Console

(HMC) is required to manage Power10 servers?

V11 R1

V10 R1 

V9 R2

V9 R1

Question 9

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In an IBM Institute for Business 2021 CEO Study, enhancing

operational agility and flexibility was found to be the clear top
priority for CEOs. What percentage of CEOs considered this a
priority?

41%
73%

56% 

36%

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Question 10

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What is the maximum amount of memory supported (total) on

an E1080 system?

32 TB

128 TB

96 TB

64 TB 

Question 11

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In addition to securing clients from today's major security

threats, Power10 is built to protect from future threats by
supporting upcoming cryptography techniques. What is an
example of this support?

Distributed mesh cryptography

Quantum-safe cryptography 

Matrix inversion cryptography

Converged order cryptography

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Question 12

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Built into the Power10 processor core are matrix math

accelerator (MMA) engines. What is the function of these MMA
engines?

They speed up data encryption and decryption

operations, which rely heavily on algorithms that benefit
from matrix math acceleration.

They are high-speed memory interfaces that provide

increased memory speeds and bandwidth compared to
POWER9 and earlier servers.

They provide an alternative to external accelerators, 

such as GPUs, for execution of statistical machine
learning and inferencing workloads.

They accelerate cryptographic algorithms, allowing

algorithms like AES, SHA2, and SHA3 to run significantly
faster on Power10 than they did on POWER9-based
systems

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Question 13

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Your client is currently running their workloads on a 2-node

E880C system with 96 cores total. They are interested in
moving those workloads to a new E1080 environment. What is
the minimal E1080 configuration to sufficiently host their
current workloads?

1 node with 48 cores

1 node with 60 cores 

2 nodes with 80 cores total

2 nodes with 96 cores total

Question 14

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Power10 uses a new memory interface that contributes to its

incredible memory bandwidth of over 400 Gigabytes per
second (400 GB/s) per socket. What is the name of this new
memory interface?

Open Memory Interface (OMI) 

Extreme Flash Architecture (EFA)

Accelerated Slot Coupling (ASC)

Memory Agnostic Interconnect (MAI)

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Question 15

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Which of the following is *not* a way that the E1080 can reduce
a client's total cost of ownership (TCO)?

Reduced carbon footprint

Reduced energy and cooling costs

Increased core performance, leading to lower software

maintenance costs

Reduced training times of deep learning models 

through the use of GPUs

Question 16

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The Power10 processor used in the E1080 uses a glueless, 16-

socket, 2 hop design. What is meant here by the term "2 hop"?

Access from the processor to attached peripherals

requires going through two adapter cards.

Every chip is either directly, or through 1 other chip, 

connected together.

Memory access from the processor requires going through

the cache first and then to main memory.

When doing matrix math for inferencing, data is first

pulled from main memory into the MMA engine and then
into the processor.

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Question 17

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Which machine learning model portability standard allows

model development on commodity hardware but deployment
on enterprise servers, such as E1080?

Mobile Model Advanced Interchange (MMAI)

Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX) 

Transportable Machine Learning Model (TMLM)

Artificial Intelligence Portability Model (AIPM)

Question 18

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The E1080 enterprise server brings significant benefits to both

high-end and mid-range markets. This means there are major
opportunities for sellers in this space. What is expected to be
the approximate annual market opportunity for 4 or more
socket servers by 2025?

$20B 

$10B

$500M

$1B

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Question 19

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What E1080 product configuration provides the best

performance per core?

15-core

12-core 

10-core

8-core

Question 20

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For years, IBM has repeatedly pushed the size limits of

processor technology in order to improve density and reduce
power requirements. With the Power10-based E1080 server,
IBM becomes the first vendor to offer an enterprise server with
4 or more sockets at what size?

14 nanometers (nm)
10 nanometers (nm)

7 nanometers (nm) 
2 nanometers (nm)

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Question 21

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Every generation of IBM Power raises the bar for performance,

availability, security, and many other important factors that
clients care about. Which one of the following statements is
*not* correct when comparing an E880C server to an E1080
server?

The E1080 supports twice the memory capacity as the

E880C.

The E1080 has twice the number of PCIe Gen 3 slots 

as the E880C.
The E1080 supports 25% more (and faster!) cores than
the E880C.
The E1080 has over twice the IO bandwidth as the
E880C.

Question 22

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What core configurations are available for Power E1080?

10, 12, 15 

6, 8, 12

12, 15, 18

8, 16, 24

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Question 23

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With the release of the E1080 server came a world record

SPECint performance benchmark result for 8-socket servers.
Compared to the previous record holder, a 224-core HPE
Superdome Flex 280 server, how much more performance per
core did the 120-core E1080 server achieve?

1.9x
2.7x

2.5x 
3.2x

Question 24

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What is one benefit of IBM's partnership with Samsung for chip

manufacturing?

Processor manufacturing costs have been reduced by

over 80% when compared to previous generations of
Power servers.
There is an opportunity to explore the inclusion of Power-
based chips in Samsung's mobile devices starting in
2023.
Samsung's unique manufacturing technology has allowed
for a doubling of clock speed between POWER9 and
Power10 processors.
Chip yields have increased, meaning that there is 
more capability to deliver higher core processors than
previous generations.

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Question 25

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The E1080 is the world's first server with the fifth generation
(Gen) of the PCIe interconnect. PCIe Gen 5 is rated at how
many gigatransfers per second?

32 

16
96

64

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