Appendix C. Sample AIS Exam | HP ProLiant Servers AIS: Official Study Guide and Desk Reference

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What is the function of the ALU in a microprocessor?
1. It decodes instructions.
2. It is used to address local units.
3. It assists in the fetching of instructions.
4. It performs basic mathematical operations.
Which processors support the EPIC architecture? Select two.
1. Alpha
2. Itanium
3. ItaniumII
4. Pentium III
5. PowerPC
You are upgrading an HP ProLiant server with hot-plug mirrored memory. How should you configure the memory?
1. Using RBSU
2. Using ORCA
3. Using switch settings on the memory boards
4. Using switch settings on the system board
Which storage device category must be terminated manually during installation of a ProLiant server?
1. USB
2. SCSI
3. ATAP
4. ATA/IDE
5. IEEE 1394
A customer using SmartStart 5.xx wants to install Red Hat Linux 8.0 on an HP ProLiant ML330 G1 server. Which installation path must the customer choose?
1. Remote installation
2. Manual installation
3. Replicated installation
4. Assisted installation
You want to optimize the consolidation of multiple applications onto one SMP server. Which ProLiant Essentials Foundation Pack should you use?
1. Performance Management Pack
2. Workload Management Pack
3. Recovery Server Option Pack
4. Rapid Deployment Pack
5. Integrated Lights-Out Advanced Pack
You recommend that your customer use the Survey Utility to initiate the collection of data following each restart. Which options should the customer use to initiate the data collection? Select two.
1. User initiated
2. Periodic capture
3. Scheduled intervals
4. Object intervals
5. Data capture
A disk array consists of 4 identical drives in a RAID 0 configuration. What is the recommended average disk queue length for this disk array?
1. 1
2. 2
3. 4
4. 8
5. 16
Which Windows monitoring tool enables you to view hardware resources consumed by installed hardware components?
1. Device Manager
2. Event Viewer
3. System Monitor
4. Task Manager
When installing your Windows server, you installed the Insight Management agents with SmartStart. You decide that you do not need to monitor the NIC subsystem. What method can you use to disable the NIC agents?
1. Edit the Insight.reg file.
2. Edit the Agentset.txt file.
3. Run the Insight agents setup file.
4. Use the HP Management agents applet.
You selected the Trust by Name option during the Version Control Repository Manager (VCRM) installation. However, you inadvertently clicked the Finish button before adding names. How will this affect the security level of the VCRM?
1. You will not be able to access the VCRM because the trust mode is in an unstable state.
2. The device will not trust any other Insight Manager 7 server.
3. The device will trust all other Insight Manager 7 servers.
4. You will be able to access the VCRM, but you will not be able to configure the repository.
You need to upgrade the operating system on an HP ProLiant server. What should you update on the server before installing the new operating system?
1. Diagnostics utilities
2. System firmware
3. HP Management agents
4. Smart components
You are asked to explain the benefits of PCI-X enhancements over conventional PCI technology. Which are benefits of PCI-X enhancements? Select two.
1. Increased bus frequency
2. Support for more devices per bus
3. Split transactions
4. Capability of additional buses to move 64 bits at 33MHz
You want the best data protection and performance for your drives. Cost is not a factor. Which RAID level would you use?
1. RAID level 0
2. RAID level 1+0
3. RAID level 5
4. RAID level 1
Which technology provides the highest data transfer speed?
1. Ultra ATA/133
2. Ultra SCSI-3
3. Wide-Ultra3 SCSI-3
4. 100MB Fibre Channel
What is an advantage of a differential SCSI interface over the standard SCSI controller?
1. Termination is not required.
2. It has greater noise immunity.
3. Signal voltage is carried on a single line.
4. Both single-ended and differential devices can share the bus.
You are installing two SCSI controllers on a single bus. How should each SCSI controller ID be set?
1. One SCSI controller ID is 7, and the other ID is 6.
2. The SCSI controller ID in both systems is set to 7.
3. One SCSI controller ID is 0, and the other ID is 15.
4. The SCSI controller ID in both systems is set to ID 15.
Theoretically, which system architecture should have the greatest performance?
1. Multi-peer PCI buses
2. Bridged PCI buses
3. Multi-peer PCI-X buses
4. Bridged PCI-X buses
What is a function of the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)?
1. Provides an encrypted channel of communications between the server and the browser
2. Provides a secure management communication between SNMP and TCP
3. Provides a protocol layer that lies between SMTP and TCP that allows secure e-mail to be sent from a management agent to a centralized management console
4. Provides a protocol layer that lies between DLL and TCP
What is a major limitation of parallel ATA?
1. Bulky ribbon cables
2. Only two devices supported per channel
3. Slower speed
4. Smaller drive capacity
Where can you find the HP Solution Sizer tools?
1. Support Software CDs
2. SmartStart CD
3. Gartner TCO/ROI Web site
4. HP Enterprise Configurator Web site
How can you access the Integrated Management Log Viewer on a Linux server running X Windows?
1. Open the cpqimlview Web page.
2. Go to a shell prompt and type cpqmgmt.
3. Go to a shell prompt and type cpqimlview.
4. Look for the Integrated Management Log Viewer under System > Tools > cpqimlview.
During configuration of the ProLiant Support Paq deployed by the Remote Deployment Utility to a server, you are asked to set the device authentication relationship. Which relationship is the most secure?
1. Trust All
2. Trust by Name
3. Trust by Certificate
4. Trust Administrator
You are using NetIQ to resolve alerts in your enterprise. Where can you find the Management Information Base (MIB) for ProLiant servers?
1. OnSite Agents Reference Set
2. MIB directory on the SmartStart CD
3. ProLiant Essentials NetIQ Integration Pack
4. Compaq directory of the NetIQ distribution CD
5. Management Toolkit Directory on the Management CD
Which feature of HP Remote Insight Lights-Out Edition (RILOE) enables you to initiate a cold reset and bring the host server back online after the operating system has become unresponsive?
1. Remote reset
2. Graphical remote console
3. Server failure alerting
4. Reset and failure sequence replay
When memory is the only component to be tested, which diagnostic option should you select?
1. QuickCheck
2. Automatic
3. Prompted
4. CPQSET+
What is the problem when you receive only audible codes (beeps) during POST?
1. The monitor signal cable is not connected.
2. The system sees intermittent memory parity errors.
3. No memory modules are present.
4. The monitor is in power-saver mode.
You have installed additional memory in an HP ProLiant server. The server fails to recognize the new memory. What should you try first?
1. Replace the new memory modules.
2. Replace the system board.
3. Reseat the memory modules.
4. Run the Server Setup Utility.
Which Windows 2000 System Monitor counter reports the percentage of processing time the system spends executing the kernel and I/O?
1. % Kernel Time
2. % Privileged Time
3. % Processor Time
4. % User Time
You have 10GB of data on your system on a single disk. Approximately less than 100MB of data is modified daily. Backup routines are run each day, using different tapes. You are using a 12/24GB internal DAT drive.
Which backup method will use the least number of tapes and provide the fastest restore if the disk fails?
1. Full
2. Full + Incremental
3. Full + Differential
4. GFS

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