Question 1

A customer requires the ability to act rapidly on ideas by creating, consuming, and reconfiguring new solutions, experiences, and business models. Which HPE server platform best meets their needs?

Accepted Answer

A)   HPE ProLiant Rack Servers
B)   HPE Synergy
C)   HPE SimpliVity 380
D)   HPE BladeSystem C7000 A

Question 2

A customer has installed a D3940 storage module in an existing Synergy frame. However, none of the compute modules can access the shared storage. What is the problem?

Accepted Answer

A)   The storage module has not been initialized in the composer
B)   There are no SAS modules installed in bays 1 and 4
C)   There are no fibre channel modules installed in bays 1 and 4
D)   The I/O modules have not been initialized in the composer B

Question 3

During a presentation on Synergy fabric technology, a customer states that they would not purchase Virtual Connect modules because they would be paying for Fibre Channel technology that they have no intention of using. How should you handle this objection?

Accepted Answer

A)   Explain to the customer that the only Fibre Channel support is through FCoE and does not add to the module cost.
B)   Explain to the customer that HPE does not pass on the cost of including Fibre Channel support to the customer.
C)   Inform the customer that native Fibre Channel support is an optional, licensed feature.
D)   Inform the customer that native Fibre Channel support is provided through an optional daughterboard. D

Question 4

While preparing to implement a Synergy solution, you notice the uplinks are all rated at 10Gb/s and consume four of the HPE Virtual Connect SE 40Gb F8 Module ports. They want to maximize free ports for future growth. Which change would improve the design and increase customer satisfaction?

Accepted Answer

A)   Use a QSFP+ transceiver and AOC in place of the SFP+ DAC cables.
B)   Use a QSFP+ AOC, and remove the SFP+ DAC cables and QSFP+ to SFP+ adapters.
C)   Use a QSFP+ DAC splitter cable, and remove the SFP+ DAC cables and QSFP+ to SFP+ adapters.
D)   Use a MPO to Quad LC splitter cable in place of the SFP+ DAC cables.

Question 5

A customer uses VLANs for tenant network separation. However, they are not satisfied with the scalability limits of the setup. Which networking technology will help the service provider to overcome these performance limits?

Accepted Answer

A)   data center bridging (DC
B)  
B)   RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoC
E)  
C)   network virtualization generic routing encapsulation (NVGR
E)  
D)   remote direct memory access (RDM
A)

Question 6

A customer has a ProLiant DL based Gen10 server solution hosting an I/O intensive 2TB database. The customer needs to dramatically increase the performance of their existing system. Which solution will provide the maximum performance possible for their application?

Accepted Answer

A)   Install HPE Scalable Persistent Memory
B)   Move the OS to an M.2 SSD drive
C)   Upgrade the current processor to a Xeon-Platinum
D)   Install DD4 Smart Memory

Question 7

A customer completed a successful Synergy PoC consisting of a single frame with dual composers and dual Virtual Connect SE 40Gb F8 modules. The customer needs additional frames to allow for growth. They require 20GB to each compute module. How may additional frames can be added to the existing logical enclosure?

Accepted Answer

A)   1
B)   2
C)   3
D)   5

Question 8

A customer is expanding their blade based infrastructure with HPE Synergy platform. The customer is familiar with HPE Virtual Connect Manager and wants to know if the same management procedures can be used to manage HPE Synergy platform. How should you answer the customer's concern?

Accepted Answer

A)   HPE Synergy can be managed by HPE Composer, which is running an embedded version of the HPE OneView.
B)   HPE Synergy must be managed with HPE Systems Insight Manager
C)   HPE Synergy supports Virtual Connect modules, so it can be managed using Virtual Connect Manager
D)   HPE Synergy can be managed using Virtual Connect Manager as long as an additional license is purchased

Question 9

One of the DL380 Gen10 servers in your infrastructure has failed to boot after a 3 rd party PCle NIC was installed. What is the most likely cause of this issue?

Accepted Answer

A)   HPE does not allow 3 rd party PCle cards. HPE does not allow 3 party PCle cards.
B)   The latest Support pack for ProLiant must be used before accessing any additional 3 rd party products in the server. The latest Support pack for ProLiant must be used before accessing any additional 3 party products in the server.
C)   The manufacturer did not digitally sign the correct firmware and HPE Secure Boot halted the process.
D)   The iLO interface did not have a correct IP address provided from DHCP.

Question 10

A customer is expanding their blade based infrastructure managed by HPE OneView with an HPE Synergy platform. The customer is familiar with HPE OneView and wants to know if the same management can be used to manage HPE Synergy platform. How should you respond to this question?

Accepted Answer

A)   HPE Synergy can be managed using the same HPE OneView instance that is used to manage HPE BladeSystem platform.
B)   HPE Synergy can be managed using HPE OneView as long as a separate, dedicated HPE OneView appliance is deployed for HPE Synergy management.
C)   HPE Synergy can be managed by HPE Composer, which is running an embedded version of the HPE OneView
D)   HPE Synergy must be managed with HPE Systems Insight Manager

Question 11

A customer needs to maximize Hyper-V Live Migration performance. What technology will meet the customer's requirement?

Accepted Answer

A)   virtual extensible LAN(VXLAN) 
B)   Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCo
E)  
C)   network virtualization using generic routing encapsulation (NVGR
E)  
D)   RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoC
E)

Question 12

A customer is considering installing a Synergy frame in an existing rack where their c7000 chassis is currently installed. Which question should you ask to ensure the new frame will be supported in the rack?

Accepted Answer

A)   Are there any third party servers installed?
B)   How deep is the existing rack?
C)   Is there a UPS installed in the rack?
D)   How wide is the existing rack?

Question 13

You need to consolidate multiple BOMs, power requirements, and changing criteria of a Converged System due to the review of multiple reference architectures on Microsoft Exchange Server 2016. Which tool should you use?

Accepted Answer

A)   HPE Sizer for Microsoft Exchange Server 2016
B)   HPE Converged Infrastructure Solution Sizer Suite
C)   HPE Sizer for Server Virtualization
D)   Single Point of Connectivity Knowledge (SPOCK)

Question 14

A customer needs a new high frequency trading cluster. Their current cluster has non-deterministic performance and undesirable latency. Because high frequency trades are extremely time-sensitive transactions, the customer cannot tolerate the microseconds of delay that can randomly occur on their current cluster. Which iLO 5 Gen 10 feature can you propose to address this technical requirement?

Accepted Answer

A)   Turbo Cores
B)   Jitter Smoothing
C)   Persistent Memory
D)   NVMe Drives

Question 15

A customer is planning a new virtualization project and requests assistance with preparing a proposal for his management team. Which financial information can be generated using the Alinean toolset? (Choose two.)

Accepted Answer

A)   licensing costs
B)   payback period
C)   cash flow
D)   bill or materials
E)   roles and responsibilities

Question 16

Your customer boots to the HPE Smart Scripting toolkit via PXE to automatically configure their new systems. They are moving to a new data center which has a policy that PXE boot will not be allowed in the environment. What is the closest alternative to use when deploying Gen10 in their new data center?

Accepted Answer

A)   iLO Federation running the Smart Scripting Toolkit scripts
B)   iLO RESTfull API running the Smart Scripting Toolkit scripts
C)   Insight Control server provisioning running the Smart Scripting Toolkit scripts in a build plan
D)   HTTP/HTTPS Boot to the Smart Scripting Toolkit

Question 17

A financial customer has a remote office that requires a significant amount of computing resources, but has no local IT staff. They need simple and affordable management and disaster recovery of their site. Which solution should you recommend to meet this customer's needs?

Accepted Answer

A)   HPE ConvergedSystem 300
B)   HPE SimpliVity 380
C)   HPE StoreOnce 5100
D)   HPE Serviceguard for Linux

Question 18

A customer received their three frame Synergy system. However, they are missing a link cable that connects the frame link module between the frames. Which type of cable do they need?

Accepted Answer

A)   DAC
B)   MPO
C)   CAT6A
D)   AOC

Question 19

A customer wants to use iLO Federation to manage firmware deployments with HPE SUM. Which options are included? (Select two.)

Accepted Answer

A)   Automatically discover iLO Federation groups on the same management network
B)   Apply updates to all members of iLO Federation group with an iLO standard license
C)   iLO federation is leveraging ICsp functionality to update firmware
D)   Update all applicable firmware on HPE ProLiant servers through the iLO using offline deployment
E)   Update the iLO firmware and system ROM offline through the iLO Federation group

Question 20

A customer has a traditional physical server environment and would like to run an on-site proof of concept (PoC) to evaluate OneView's ability to manage their ProLiant DL380's and their c7000 blades. What does the customer need to implement this PoC?

Accepted Answer

A)   Synergy composer
B)   iLO Amplifier Pack
C)   a supported hypervisor
D)   Synergy Image Streamer

Exam 4: Architecting Advanced HPE Server Solutions