Oracle on IBM Power Level 1 Quiz
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1 - Which of the following statements about Oracle’s plans for their SPARC/Solaris
platform is correct (as of August 2022)?
Oracle has not published a futures roadmap in several years. They have laid off
their development team, effectively leaving SPARC and Solaris with no future.
Oracle have successfully pivoted the SPARC platform from Unix-based Solaris to
Linux on SPARC.
2 - For virtualization and the licensing implications for Oracle software, what
type of virtualization technologies are IBM Logical Partitions (LPAR) and Dynamic
LPAR (DLPAR) categorized as?
Hard-partitioning
3 - A potential client has expressed a desire to move off their SPARC/Solaris
servers. However, given the perceived modern capabilities in Linux, they believe
that Oracle's Unbreakable Linux on an x86 server is the best alternative to host
their Oracle Database systems. How should you respond to this client?
The move to AIX on IBM Power has been done by thousands of clients over the years
and is safe and well established. The knowledge that they will be able to work with
the actual developers that wrote and own the code in the event of a failure
provides a level of comfort that these clients have become accustomed to.
4 - Which one of the following statements best describes Oracle Database software
and hardware costs in the context of Total Cost of Acquisition (TCA) and Total Cost
of Ownership (TCO)?
Oracle software costs are typically much higher than the cost of the hardware, and
with yearly software maintenance fees the software ends up being approximately 80%
of the overall TCO.
5 - Some comments the client makes or topics they want to discuss should set off
warning bells in your heads. Which of the following might be an opportunity, but
not necessarily cause for worry?
Our Oracle licensing and support costs are too high.
Licensing per core on x86 is only 0.5, that must be less expensive.
6 - Which one of the following statements reflects Oracle’s sales strategy with
respect to hardware and their database software?
Oracle remains primarily a software company and hardware is used to drive software
sales and maintenance.
7 - According to the US Government’s National Vulnerability Database (NVD), as of
September 2022, how many vulnerabilities have been reported against IBM PowerVM?
9
8 - Your client tells you that they’re thinking about replacing their old IBM
POWER9 servers running Oracle Database because the Intel core factor is 0.5.
How
do you respond?
With Power’s combination of more powerful processors, the ability to drive
utilization of systems well above 80% guaranteed, and the ability to cap
environments without having to pay for all cores in a socket can save on Oracle
licensing costs.
9 - Your client is looking for ways to reduce overall IBM Systems and AIX costs.
They ask if they can utilize the IBM Power Systems Private Cloud Solution with
Dynamic Capacity (Enterprise Pools 2.0) to reduce costs. How do you reply?
Enterprise Pools 2.0 can reduce the cost of the IBM Power/AIX environment and if
properly designed (i.e. use of properly managed shared processor pools for Oracle)
can maintain the benefits of Oracle hard partitioning and associated licensing
costs.
10 - IBM offers a performance utilization guarantee for a number of different IBM
Power10-based servers. What is the guaranteed system utilization rate for High End
Power servers?
80%
11 - IBM Power includes a capability that allows virtual machines to dynamically
share CPU resources from a set of processors, limiting software licensing to the
pool’s capped capacity. This is a very effective way to keep Oracle Database
license costs under control. What is this unique capability called?
Shared Processor Pools
12 - Which of the following statements about IBM Power Virtual Server (PowerVS) is
NOT correct?
Oracle treats PowerVS as a public cloud and doesn’t support their software running
on it.
13 - Which of the following statements about Oracle Exadata is correct?
Exadata is an engineered system that only supports database workloads.
Exadata is a cluster of SPARC servers, built for High Performance Computing (HPC)
workloads.
14 - IBM Power ranked #1 for the 13th year in a row in the Information Technology
Intelligence Consulting (ITIC) annual report of hardware and server operating
system reliability report. What was the unplanned downtime for AIX on IBM Power?
1 minute
15 - Reducing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is a key value proposition for running
Oracle on IBM Power. What is the best way to reduce TCO for the client?
Leverage IBM Power benefits to reduce the number of Oracle licenses required since
Oracle software (SW) represents 80% of the TCO of an Oracle deployment.
16 - What is AIX Live Kernel Update?
It is a capability of AIX that lets clients apply operating system updates without
a system restart (nor a database shutdown in the case of Oracle deployments).
17 - Which of the following is NOT an Oracle licensing metric?
Per Terabyte
18 - IBM published a paper to demonstrate the benefit of upgrading Oracle Database
on IBM POWER8 to IBM Power10.
What was the throughput improvement for an Online
Transaction Processing (OLTP) environment running on IBM Power10 compared to IBM
POWER8?
100%
250%
19 - You’re talking to a client that asks you which operating systems (OS) are
supported on Exadata? What do you share with this client?
Oracle Linux only
SPARC OS, Solaris, and Oracle Linux
20 - Like many other clients that have moved to running Oracle on IBM Power, Copel
has significantly reduced their Oracle license requirements by running on IBM
Power. What portion of Copel’s licenses were freed for other use?
49%
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21 - Approximately how many joint clients do IBM and Oracle have?
80,000
22 - What percentage of Oracle’s software revenue is derived from UNIX platforms?
32%
23 - Which one of the following is NOT a security-related feature or capability of
IBM Power10?
Trusted AIX
Data Guard
24 - What is an important differentiator for demonstrating investment protection
for clients?
IBM Power offers tremendous flexibility with Oracle Database versions 11g, 12c, 18c
and 19c. They are all available on IBM Power10 and with a common AIX version that
clients can leverage to perform upgrades of platform or database version.
25 - What can help you get you pre-sales resources more quickly when needed for
Oracle on IBM Power deals, and help IBM make the right types of investments for
Oracle on IBM Power business?
Include an Oracle tag in your opportunity in IBM Sales Cloud.