Many companies have very large groups of physical servers in a central
location. Which of the following describes those large groups of servers?
A. IBM mainframes
B. Remote distributed processing
C. zBX
D. Server farms - ANSWER D
Which of the following is the most common business application
mainframe workload?
A. Batch and online transaction processing
B. Printing and distribution processing
C. Backup and archiving processing
D. Restoration and recovery processing - ANSWER A
In addition to the z/OS and z/VM operating systems, which of the
following operating systems run on IBM System z excluding zBX?
A. Windows, Linux on z, z/TPF
B. AIX, z/VSE, Linux on z
C. Windows, Linux on z, AIX
D. z/VSE, Linux on z, z/TPF - ANSWER D
Which of the following describes the major difference between and
FICON or ESCON channels?
A. ESCON channels are faster, FICON channels are slower
B. ESCON channels use hard copper connections, FICON channels use
fibre connections
C. ESCON channels are more secure than FICON channels
,D. FICON channels have higher capacity than ESCON channels -
ANSWER D
IBM mainframe offers specialty processors (zIIP, zAAP, SAP and IFL).
Which of the following accurately describes a function of one of these
specialty processors?
A. zAAP processors automatically turns off unnecessary computing
components.
B. IFL is used by a Linux LPAR or Linux on z/VM
C. zIIP processors automatically run high priority jobs first
D. SAP processors are specially tuned to run the SAP application suite -
ANSWER B
Which of the following mainframe technologies requires a coupling
facility?
A. CTC ring
B. Shared DASD
C. Parallel Sysplex
D. zAAP - ANSWER C
Which of the following can identify a base software component?
A. Message format
B. Software update list
C. System log routing table descriptor
D. Three characters in message identifier - ANSWER D
A system z architecture has two kinds of physical storage. There is
central storage and auxiliary storage. Access to central storage is
_________.
A. multi-synchronous
B. asychronous
C. synchronous
D. duplexed - ANSWER C
, The range of virtual addresses that z/OS can assign to a user or
separately running program is called a(n) ___________ space.
A. Virtual
B. Physical
C. Address
D. Mapping - ANSWER C
The subset of an address space's pages in central storage at a given
time is known as the ________.
A. Virtual set
B. Address set
C. Working set
D. Central set - ANSWER C
Which of the following does the PA1 key denote in TSO/E?
A. Terminate
B. Attention
C. Cancel
D. Exit - ANSWER B
In addition to telnet, which method can be used to log in directly to the
z/OS UNIX shell through TCP/IP?
A. logon
B. rlogin
C. map
D. FTP - ANSWER B
Which TSO command can be entered at the READY prompt to diagnose
an error message?
A. ?
B. Help
C. Assist
D. Analyze - ANSWER B
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