HPE0-S54 Designing HPE Server Solutions

01. You are developing a proposal for a new HPE customer that is concerned about managing
mixed server vendors in their environment.
Which feature should you highlight in your proposal to address the customer’s concern?

A. Redfish API
B. OneView RESTful API
C. Intelligent Provisioning
D. System Management Homepage

Answer: A

02. 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?

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

Answer: C

03. A customer has an existing Hadoop installation built on DL380 Gen9 24SFF servers. You need
to review their existing installation and provide recommendations on how to achieve their stated
storage density goal of over 5PB per server cabinet.
Which HPE solution should you recommend?

A. HPE DL580 Gen10

B. HPE Apollo 6500
C. HPE Apollo 4510
D. HPE ML350 Gen10

Answer: C
04. A customer needs to migrate their current c7000 network and Fibre Channel infrastructure
to a converged network.
Which interconnect module should the customer use?

A. HPE Flex10
B. HPE 8Gb Fibre Channel pass-through
C. HPE FlexFabric 20/40 F8
D. HPE 16Gb/24-port Fibre Channel switch

Answer: C

05. A customer is planning an expansion and they are considering iLO Amplifier as their future
firmware management tool. They need to plan their budget and learn which additional licenses
will be required.
What is the minimum license that will meet this customer’s upgrade path needs?

A. iLO Advanced Premium Security Edition

B. iLO Advanced license
C. Insight Control server provisioning license
D. Insight Cluster Management Utility license

Answer: B

06. A customer uses VLANs in their network. They recently acquired another company and need
to extend the number of VLANs to 7400 to accommodate the growth.
What should you advise?

A. Implement an IPv6 only environment

B. Edit the /etc/network/config file, and set VLAN_LIMIT=7401
C. Upgrade the NICs to models that support RoCE
D. Transition to a VXLAN or NVGRE network configuration

Answer: D

07. A customer has c7000 enclosures with Virtual Connect 20/40 F8 interconnect modules
providing Ethernet and Fibre Channel connectivity. They are starting a proof of concept (PoC) to
evaluate using a Synergy with the HPE Virtual Connect SE 40Gb F8 interconnect module as the
next generation infrastructure.
Which additional component is required to enable the proof of concept solution to match the
connectivity functionality of the current solution?

A. Image Streamer
B. a Fibre Channel license
C. OneView Advanced
 D. iLO Advanced Premium Security

Answer: B

08. A solution architect wants to verify compatibility between a CNA and a 3PAR system. The
Solution Architect is looking for reference material on SAN components, configuration support,
and best practices.
What should you use?

A. HPE Storage Sizer

B. Brocade Network Advisor (BNA)
C. Single Point of Configuration Knowledge (SPOCK)
D. HPE OneView Deployment and Management Guide

Answer: C

09. A customer that runs a database server needs high speed access to the database files.
Which internal storage technology offers the best performance?

A. SAS Nearline
B. NVMe
C. SAS HDD
D. SATA HDD

Answer: B

10. 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.)

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

Answer: BC
11. What is required to enable Jitter Smoothing technology? (Choose two.)

A. HPE Apollo
B. ProLiant Gen 10
C. HPE Synergy
D. HPE Cloudline
E. iLO5 Advanced

Answer: BE

12. You need to demonstrate the runtime firmware verification scan functionality on a ProLiant
DL380 Gen10 server. You find that the option is not available in the UEFI interface.
What is the most likely cause of the problem?

A. The server boot mode is set to UEFI

B. The Onboard Administrator has not been initialized
C. The file firmware-ilo5-1.10.1.1.x86_64.rpm is the incorrect version
D. The required iLO license has not been installed

Answer: D

13. You want to form a Synergy management ring.

Which component is required?

A. HPE Synergy Image Streamer

B. HPE Synergy Frame Link Module
C. HPE Synergy Composer
D. HPE Synergy 10 Gb Interconnect Link Module

Answer: B

14. A customer purchased HPE ProLiant Gen10 servers. The customer is transitioning from a
physical to a virtual environment.
Which feature should be enabled to ensure that they get the optimal performance from their
new servers?

A. UEFI optimized boot

B. Integration with an HPE OneView for VMware vCenter
C. Performance optimization using the workload profiles
D. OneView OS Build Plan

Answer: C
15. A customer is using HPE Smart Update Manager (SUM) for firmware update. They plan to add
100 Gen10 ProLiant servers, and they are concerned about whether HPE SUM will be able to
support this size of installation.
What other option could the customer use for firmware updates that has increased scalability?

A. iLO Advanced Premium Security Edition

B. Insight Control server provisioning
C. Insight Cluster Management Utility
D. iLO Amplifier Pack

Answer: D

16. A customer plans to expand in the future to an HPE Synergy installation with SAS connectivity.
What should you explain to the customer regarding SAS connectivity?

A. External storage devices can be connected to the SAS Synergy switches only if they
were installed prior Composer configuration
B. SAS connectivity will require additional licenses
C. It will be not possible to add SAS connectivity to the existing environment if the logical
enclosure is configured
D. SAS connectivity is supported only in the first fabric, so it should not be used for any
other connections

Answer: D

17. Your customer is interested in Synergy and composable infrastructure. They are concerned
that operational savings may not meet expectations since operating system installation
consumes a great deal of time.
Which feature should you highlight to overcome the objection?

A. The Synergy Composer provides HTTPS boot services

B. The Synergy Frame Link modules provide PIXE operating boot partitions
C. The Synergy Composer can provision operating systems in seconds
D. The Synergy Image Streamer can provision operating systems in seconds

Answer: D
18. A c7000 customer wants to expand their server environment. You want to encourage them
to move to Synergy to prepare them for the future.
Which question-should you ask?

A. Is there a requirement for enhanced security on the management network?

B. Do they want to maximize the memory footprint of their servers?
C. Does their application workload benefit from persistent memory?
D. Are they planning to purchase ProLiant Gen10 servers as part of the project?

Answer: A

19. What is a benefit of NVMe technology?

A. optimized SMB workloads

B. minimized network bandwidth
C. lower application costs
D. low latency data access

Answer: D

20. A customer has 10 HPE BladeSystem enclosures managed by HPE OneView. They want to add
three HPE Synergy frames.
What is a proper procedure to manage a new HPE Synergy installation?

A. Use HPE Composer for HPE Synergy frames management

B. Deploy HPE Global Dashboard for HPE Synergy management
C. Add all frames to the existing HPE OneView appliance
D. Deploy a dedicated HPE OneView appliance for HPE Synergy frames

Answer: B

While installing a three frame Synergy solution, only two of the frames are identified during the
discovery process. What should you do to get resolution?

A. Issue a refresh command to the enclosure

B. Open the front panel of the Composer, and read the error message.
C. Remove and re-insert the standby Composer.
D. Validate Frame Link Module topology.

Answer: D
21. Refer to the exhibit.

You are installing three Synergy frames for a customer PoC in the configuration shown. The
composer is unable to discover the frames.
What is the most likely cause of the problem?

A. Another composer is needed Frame 3

B. Composer 2 is in the wrong frame
C. The management network should be connected to the top and bottom frames
D. The management ring should be connected using the FLM link ports

Answer: A

22. You have a customer who has thousands of ProLiant servers spanning Gen8, Gen9, and Gen10
across multiple server models (Rack, Tower, Blade, Apollo), all licensed with iLO Advanced. The
customer needs an effective way to inventory and update the firmware across the environment.
Which tool should you recommend?
 A. iLO Amplifier Pack
B. OneView
C. Intelligent Provisioning
D. SUM (System Update Manager)

Answer: A

23. 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?

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

Answer: A

24. A customer needs a Synergy Proof of Concept (PoC) using Image Streamer.
What is the minimum number of Synergy frames needed for this PoC?

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

Answer: C

25. What are features of the HPE Synergy Planning Tool? (Choose two.)

A. It creates a REST configuration file based on configuration created

B. It recommends the best top-of-rack switch
C. It provides estimated power consumption and weights of the solution
D. It runs on the Partner Ready Portal
E. It aids configuration of rack, Frames, compute, storage, fabric and power

Answer: CE
26. A customer needs a VDI solution. The amount of compute per U of rack space will be a key
point in their solution selection.
Which HPE product would be an ideal solution as part of your RFP response?

A. HPE Apollo 4510 Gen10

B. HPE Apollo 4200 Gen9
C. HPE SY480 Gen10
D. HPE DL580 Gen10

Answer: C

27. A customer recently purchased HPE ProLiant Gen10 servers, but finds that their application
does not appear to benefit from the newest Xeon processors.
Which features should be configured in the BIOS to overcome the issue?

A. Server Profile Templates

B. iLO CNSA Mode
C. Workload Profiles
D. High Precision Event Timer

Answer: C -----A

28. A customer needs a solution to support Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) and database
workloads.
Which Gen10 technology would optimize the environment for the customer?

A. REST API
B. Silicon Root of Trust
C. workload profiles
D. OneView

Answer: C

29. 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?

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

Answer: A
30. A customer wants to implement a large Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct environment.
Which protocol should the customer use?

A. VXLAN
B. RDMA
C. OSPF
D. NVGRE

Answer: D

31. Your customer has completed a successful Synergy Proof of Concept (PoC) consisting of a
single frame with dual composers and dual Virtual Connect SE 40Gb F8 modules.
The customer wants to:
. add a second frame before they move into production
. have unified management
. have a separate logical enclosure for each frame
What are the basic steps to add the second frame? (Choose three.)

A. Move the standby composer to the second frame.

B. Disconnect the existing management ring, and then cable the FLM (frame link module)
in the first frame to the FLMs in the second frame.
C. Install a satellite module in the first frame.
D. Move the bottom VC module from the first frame to the second.
E. Move one of the uplinks from the FLM in the first frame to a FLM in the second.

Answer: ABE

32. A customer is installing multiple racks of DL380 Gen10 servers in a datacenter. They need to
configure each one with identical BIOS settings.
Which tools are available to solve the situation? (Choose two.)

A. HPE Active Health System

B. HPE Smart Update Manager
C. HPE OneView
D. HPE ICsp
E. HPE Intelligent Provisioning
F. Bios Restful API

Answer: EF
33. 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?

A. HPE ConvergedSystem 300

B. HPE SimpliVity 380
C. HPE StoreOnce 5100
D. HPE Serviceguard for Linux

Answer: B

34. 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?

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

Answer: B

35. Which iLO 5 feature allows a customer to directly, physically connect to a ProLiant server to
troubleshoot issues?

A. iLO Federation
B. iLO Amplifier Pack
C. iLO mobile app
D. iLO Service Port

Answer: D

36. Your customer is building out their own object-based storage solution. They initially
developed the object store using DL380 Gen9 servers but are now looking for a solution that is
purpose built to provide the additional storage.
Which solution should you recommend?

A. DL580 Gen10
B. Apollo 4510 Gen10
C. ML350 Gen10
 D. DL560 Gen10

Answer: B

37. An environmentally sensitive customer has a data center that operates with fresh air cooling.
Which feature of HPE ProLiant Gen10 servers makes them suitable to operate in this
environment?

A. HPE 1600W Flex Slot Platinum Hot Plug Low Halogen Power Supply Support
B. Intel® Xeon-Platinum 8180M Support
C. ASHRAE A4 compliance
D. ACPI 6.1 Compliance

Answer: C

38. A retail customer’s real-time analytics application requires the fastest possible data access
and over 768GB of database capacity. Their current HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen9 servers are not
meeting the performance requirements.
What should you recommend? (Choose two.)

A. iLO5 Advanced licenses

B. HPE Scalable Persistent Memory
C. HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 servers
D. PCle Workload Accelerator

Answer: CD

39. 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?

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.

Answer: D
40. A customer has thousands of ProLiant and Apollo servers in their datacenter. The customer
needs a tool that will help them with firmware and driver updates.
Which iLO Amplifier Pack feature should you emphasize during a conversation with this
customer?

A. support for 3Par and StoreVirtual

B. support for iLO Federation
C. firmware management for Integrity servers
D. integration with System Center and vCenter Server

Answer: B

41. 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?

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?

Answer: B

42. 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?

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

Answer: D

43. 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?

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

Answer: B or C

44. A customer wants to implement HPE Synergy with 20Gb connectivity.

What should an architect emphasize during a meeting with this customer?

A. A maximum of 3 frames can be stacked together when 20 Gb connectivity is required.

B. SAS connectivity will be supported only on third fabric.
C. A Composer must be installed in each frame.
D. 20Gb connectivity will require additional licenses applied to the downlink ports.

Answer: A

45. What must a customer consider when adding an uplink set to a Logical Interconnect Group?
(Choose two.)

A. Additional Logical Interconnects will need to be created

B. The associated Logical Interconnects will be flagged as inconsistent
C. Logical Interconnects will need to be updated from the group
D. Logical Interconnects will automatically be restarted
E. Logical Interconnects will need to be restarted

Answer: BC

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

A. HPE does not allow 3rd party PCle cards.

B. The latest Support pack for ProLiant must be used before accessing any additional 3rd
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.

Answer: C
47. Your customer has 500 SY480 Gen10 compute nodes running a variety of physical and virtual
workloads. They are looking for a way to get a unified view of the entire environment.
Which product should you recommend?

A. HPE OneView for VMware vCenter

B. HPE OneView Global Dashboard
C. HPE OneView for Microsoft System Center
D. HPE OneView for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

Answer: B

48. 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?

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

Answer: B

49. A customer asks for a network technology that will maximize throughput and minimize
latency and CPU utilization across servers using SMB Direct and 10Gb Ethernet.
Which technology should you propose?

A. TCP/IP Offload Engine

B. RDMA
C. virtual extensible LAN (VXLAN)
D. InfiniBand

Answer: B

50. Where can you find customer-ready HPE content to describe the benefits of a solution you
are recommending?

A. HPE Proposal Web

B. HPE OneConfig Advanced
C. HPE Synergy Planning Tool
D. HPE Single Point of Connectivity Knowledge

Answer: A
51. Your customer needs to provide an automated, energy-aware environment that will
automatically track power usage and document configurations.
Which HPE technology will meet your customer’s needs?

A. Smart Storage Battery

B. Thermal Discovery Services
C. Intelligent Power Discovery
D. Intelligent System Tuning

Answer: C

52. A customer has a two frame Synergy setup with two Virtual Connect SE 40Gb F8 modules and
two 20Gb Interconnect Link Module interconnect modules. The customer needs to expand into
a third frame.
Which interconnect modules should be used to extend the logical enclosure?

A. 2 x 20Gb Interconnect Link Modules

B. 1 x Virtual Connect SE 40Gb F8 Interconnect Link Modules and 1 x 20Gb Interconnect
Link Modules
C. 2 x Virtual Connect SE 40Gb F8 Interconnect Link Modules
D. 4 x Virtual Connect SE 40Gb F8 Interconnect Link Modules

Answer: A

53. 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?

A. data center bridging (DCB)

B. RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE)
C. network virtualization generic routing encapsulation (NVGRE)
D. remote direct memory access (RDMA)

Answer: C
54. A customer wants a highly available storage solution inside HPE Synergy that is comparable
via OneView and also accessible outside the enclosure to a DR site at another location.
Which product fits the customer’s needs?

A. HPE StoreVirtual VSA

B. VMware vSAN
C. SEPH SUSE
D. HPE 3PAR StoreServ

Answer: A

55. A hospital has an HPE ProLiant environment consisting of G7 and Gen8 servers. They have a
new regulatory requirement to improve security of the management interface.
What should the customer do to meet their requirements?

A. Install iLO Advanced Premium Security Edition licenses

B. Upgrade the network cards to ones that support TLS 1.2
C. Integrate iLOs with Active Directory
D. Combine data and networks in a DMZ

Answer: C

56. A customer needs to update the system bios on their DL380 Gen10. They are unable to
download the latest Service Pack for ProLiant.
What is the most likely cause of the problem?

A. Embedded remote support is not enabled on that server

B. There is no valid SAID contract associated with their HPE passport
C. The maximum number of servers supported by the agreement has been exceeded
D. An iLO5 Advanced Premium Security Edition license has not been installed

Answer: B

57. What is required to implement Core Boosting? (Choose two.)

A. HPE Cloudline
B. HPE Apollo
C. ProLiant Gen 10
D. iLO5 Advanced
E. HPE Synergy

Answer: CD
58. A customer plans to replace their c7000 equipment with Synergy.
What is the most important thing to consider about installing Synergy in the existing rack
environment?

A. A Synergy frame is physically deeper than a c7000

B. A Synergy frame is taller than the 10 U required for a c7000
C. A Synergy frame requires more power feeds than a c7000
D. A Synergy composer requires 2 additional rack units

Answer: A

59. A customer needs a server that: supports their in-memory database is oriented towards
business critical workloads
Which questions should you ask before you make a recommendation? (Choose two.)

A. How much memory will the application require?

B. How will the operating systems and application be deployed?
C. How important is it for the server to support ASHRAE A3/A4 standards?
D. How many cores are required to optimize the application?
E. How will the datacenter provide backup power in the event of failure

Answer: AD

60. A customer is designing an infrastructure and plans to host multiple tenants in the
environment. The customer needs several thousand network segments to be used on a single
physical network.
Which solution should the customer use?

A. Remote Direct Memory Access

B. Virtual Connect FlexFabric
C. Overlay networks
D. Data Center Bridging

Answer: C

61. Which product automatically generates reports on collected lifecycle management events?

A. HPE ONEView Global Dashboard

B. HPE OneView
C. Insight Online
D. Insight Control

Answer: C
62. A customer exceeded the number of available VLANs on their network. To resolve this issue,
they enabled VXLAN. They inquire about upgrading their servers with the FlexFabric 650 series
NIC after this change.
What is the benefit of tunnel offload?

A. supports data deduplication when VXLAN is enabled

B. decreases memory load caused by VXLAN
C. supports data inflight encryption when VXLAN is enabled
D. decreases CPU load caused by VXLAN

Answer: D

63. You prepared a proposal for a customer that plans to deploy Hyper-V clusters that include
network adapters with RoCE support. The customer would like to know why this specific adapter
was included in the proposal.
How would you explain your choice?

A. RoCE adapters offer Secure Encryption functionality that can help to secure migration
traffic
B. RoCE adapters are the only adapters certified to use in Hyper-V based cluster
C. RoCE adapters can use 100 Gb/s speed for internal virtual machine migrations
D. RoCE adapters will improve performance for live migration and Microsoft SMB Direct
environments

Answer: D

64. A customer wants to use the automated zoning feature of HPE OneView. A customer
complains that this functionality does not work, even if 3PAR and CPGs are added to HPE
OneView.
Which other steps must be performed before automated zoning can be used? (Choose two.)

A. Enable Data Center Bridging functionality on VC modules

B. Apply extended FC licenses to Virtual Connect downlink ports using HPE OneView
C. Activate WBEM Providers on supported 3Par arrays
D. Add the supported SAN Manager to HPE OneView
E. Associate managed SANs with a FC or FCoE network

Answer: DE
65. 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?

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.

Answer: C

66. A health care customer is running out of space in their small on-site data center. They need a
solution for their next generation infrastructure for their hospital and clinics. Proposed
infrastructure needs the ability to run ESXi 6.5 with around 100 medium sized VMs customer has
five remote clinics each clinic needs to be able to run approximately 10 VM’s locally all of the
VM’s in the clinics need to be fully backed up every night
What is the most appropriate solution to lead with?

A. HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10

B. HPE DL380 Gen10
C. HPE Apollo AR4200
D. HPE Synergy populated with SY480 Gen10 Compute

Answer: A

67. A customer is experiencing high latency in an Apollo r2200 Gen9 SFF system. They want to
upgrade performance with new units.
Which servers in the Apollo line will increase performance while maintaining similar architecture?
(Choose two.)

A. Apollo 6000 Gen10

B. Apollo r2800 Gen10
C. Apollo 4510 Gen10
D. Apollo r2200 Gen10
E. Apollo r2600 Gen10

Answer: BE
68. A customer has adopted the RESTful API standard for managing an HPE server’s
infrastructure. They need to have a single location to monitor all Synergy and BladeSystem
resources.
Which HPE solution accomplishes this task?

A. HPE Systems Insight Manager

B. HPE Intelligent Provisioning
C. HPE Global Dashboard
D. HPE OneView

Answer: C

69. A customer is considering deploying a significant number of HPE BladeSystem Gen10 servers
with an HPE 3Par storage solution for a new cloud solution. You propose HPE OneView as the
management platform.
Which HPE OneView feature should you emphasize during conversations with the customer?

A. patch deployment for operating system and storage components

B. operating system deployment through Image Streamer
C. servers and storage firmware upgrades
D. volume presentation from the 3Par and automated zoning

Answer: D

70. 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.)

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

Answer: BC
71. Match each Synergy component with the description of the functionality it provides.

Virtual Connect SE 40GB F8 ----->>>>>> Module that provides a composable fabric

Frame Link Module ----->>>>>> Provides services such as power, cooling
auto-discovery and inventory of all
installed components
Composer ----->>>>>> Management appliance responsible for
assembling and re-assembling compute
storage, and fabric resources
Image Streamer ----->>>>>> Management appliance responsible for
operating system provisioning that enables
true stateless computing

72. A customer needs to install Red Hat 7.2 on a few DL380 Gen10 systems. Which tool should
be used for this deployment?

A. Image Streamer
B. Insight Control server provisioning (ICsp)
C. Intelligent Provisioning
D. OneView

Answer: C

73. A customer has seven HPE Proliant servers. They need to reduce time to problem resolution.
Which HPE service should you recommend?

A. Insight Online Direct Connect

B. Insight Remote Support Central Connect
C. Insight SW Ops and Performance Review
D. OneView Log Insight

Answer : A
74. You are configuring a new server for a customer. The customer has given you the following
information regarding their environment: -2 processors with 22 cores - 256 GB RAM - 600GB of
usable internal storage - 10GB network, dual connections - iLO Advanced - 3 years of 7X24 basic
support. Which additional information do you need to determine the best option for internal
storage?

A. Does the application require a large memory footprint?

B. Does the application require RoCE capable adapters?
C. Is the application workload sensitive to I/O latency?
D. Will a Fiber Channel card be required?

Answer : C

75. Match each HPE technology solution to the customer's business need that it can fulfill.

HPE Simplivity • • Dedicated storage with a one-to-one

server-to-storage ratio
HPE SB300c Tape Blade • • High Availability and Disaster Recovery
HPE D2220sb Storage Blade • • Mission Critical Workloads
HPE Converged Systems 500 • • One button Disaster Recovery

Answer :

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78. Which options does a customer have for managing a datacenter with HPE Smart Update
Tools? (Select two)

A. Full functionality with HPE Systems Insight Manager

B. HPE Insight Control server provisioning
C. HPE OneView Advanced for full infrastructure management
D. iLO Amplifier Pack for leveraging iLO Federation
E. Service Pack for ProLiant (SPP) automatic downloads from HPE.com

Answer: CD

79. A customer is running an Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) application that requires high-
speed access to the application files with a minimal latency. Which internal storage technology
offers highest performance?

A. AM2 SATA
B. NVMe SSD
C. SAS SSD
D. SATA SSD

Answer: B

80. A customer wants to migrate their existing datacenter operations from 2U DL380 G7 servers
to a 1U Gen10 server with equivalent sockets available.

A. DL386 Gen10
B. DL360 Gen10
C. DL560 Gen10
D. DL380 Gen10

Answer: B
81. A customer temporarily needs to add an additional network connection to a provisioned
server that is being actively managed by OneView. The server is currently powered down. Which
top level option should they click as the first step?
82. A customer wants to use iLO Federation to manage firmware deployments with HPE SUM.
Which options are included? (Select two.)

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

Answer: B,C

83. You are introducing Synergy to a new customer. Which tool can you use to demonstrate the
physical components of the Synergy frame and how they connect?

A. HPE PartSurfer
B. HPE Synergy Planning Tool
C. HPE Product Bulletin
D. HPE Product Tour

Answer: B

84.