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Question 1

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The design of the POWER system architecture has several

advantages over Intel x86 server architecture. Which of the
following is *NOT* one of the POWER advantages?

Select one:
SMT8 hyperthreading which enables 4X more threads for
increased parallel processing over Intel x86.

Higher CPU to memory bandwidth vs. Intel x86 which

allows for faster in-memory data processing over x86.

Larger memory capacity than Intel x86 to enable a larger

single node HANA in-memory database.

Higher number of cores per socket than Intel x86, which

allows for greater parallel processing.

Your answer is correct.

Question 2

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With Power Systems there are no restrictions on the number of

cores per VM, or the number of sockets per VM, for a given
LPAR. On Intel x86 servers, there is an SAP HANA restriction.
Which of the following is true about support for SAP HANA
virtualization on Intel x86 servers?

Select one:
SAP HANA VMs can only be created on ½, 1, 2, 3 and 4 
sockets.

SAP HANA VMs can only be created in ½ socket sizes ( ½,

1, 1½, 2, 2½ , ..... sockets).

SAP HANA VMs must be allocated on full sockets, from 1 to

8 sockets per VM.

SAP HANA VMs can only be created on ½ socket

increments from 1 to 8 sockets.

Your answer is correct.

Question 3

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You are speaking with a client and they want to know what the
two most important components of a server's hardware are
that influences SAP HANA's performance. Which of the
following are the two most important aspects influencing SAP
HANA's performance?

Select one:
Scalability and CPU cores

RAM and Virtualization

RAM and CPU cores



CPU Sockets and Storage

Your answer is correct.

Question 4

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On Power Systems, SAP HANA is certified for up to 24TB of

memory for OLTP applications. When running SAP HANA in a
virtualized environment on VMware vSphere on a single Intel
x86 server, what is the maximum amount of memory that is
supported for OLTP applications?

Select one:
16TB

3TB

24TB

6TB


Your answer is correct.

Question 5

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CPU core performance is one of the advantages of POWER over

Intel x86. With SAP HANA, parallel processing for a given
workload is paramount to performance. As such, what is
another performance advantage of POWER over Intel x86
processors?

Select one:
Power Systems can cluster servers together with
Enterprise Pooling (EP), giving Power Systems for SAP
HANA an unlimited amount of resources to run HANA
workloads. Additionally, with Capacity on Demand (CoD),
an infinite number of CPU resources can be added to scale
with the workload.

Power Systems have been certified by SAP to scale-out to

16 nodes for SAP BW. This gives Power Systems access to
more parallelism than Intel x86 servers.

Power Systems have more CPU sockets than Intel Systems

and, therefore, have more cores to process workloads.

Power System's support of SMT8 hyperthreading 4x the 

number of prallel threads vs. Intel x86's SMT2.
Furthermore, in a virtualized environment, due to a
security vulnerability, Intel x86 hyperthreading must be
turned off when used with SAP HANA.

Your answer is correct.

Question 6

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What is the largest memory that is certified for SAP S/4HANA

on a single POWER server?

Select one:
6TB

32TB

16TB

24TB


Your answer is correct.

Question 7

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When proposing POWER to customers, what are the 4 key value

propositions over Intel x86 offerings?

Select one:
Flexibility, Resiliency, Expandability and Performance

Flexibility, Resiliency, Performance and Ease of 

Management

Flexibility, Reliability, Performance and Scalability

Virtualization, Security, Performance and Competitive Cost

Your answer is correct.

Question 8

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You are in a discussion with a client on the implementation of

High Availability for their SAP S/4HANA infrastructure. Which
possible scenario would *NOT* be possible?

Select one:
Allocate an LPAR on a second POWER server as a PowerHA
failover server.

If the primary HANA database is on a POWER server, install

the Standby HANA database on an LPAR on a separate
local POWER server.

Running a Standby HANA database as a virtual machine in

an LPAR on the same POWER server to protect from an
instance failure.

If the S/4HANA database is currently on a Dell server, 

they could just install the Standby HANA database on a

POWER server for higher reliability of the standby.

Your answer is correct.

Question 9

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What is the largest memory that is certified for SAP BW in a

single POWER server?

Select one:
24TB

16TB

32TB


64TB

Your answer is incorrect.

Question 10

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For clients who would like to run Spatial analysis on their SAP
HANA data, which edition of SAP HANA would they be required
to purchase?

Select one:
SAP HANA Runtime Edition

SAP HANA Platform Edition

SAP HANA Enterprise Edition



SAP HANA Express Edition

Your answer is correct.

Question 11

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A client has approached you and complained that their SAP

HANA backup is taking a long time. They explain to you that
they are running on a Lenovo HANA appliance and the storage
subsystem is connected to a SANs infrastructure. How would
running their HANA application on POWER make a difference?

Select one:
Power Systems support more RAM to store all the data in
memory and use the CAPI interface to move data faster.

Power Systems use NVMe as persistent storage which

provides a shorter path to any storage subsystem.

With PCIe GEN4, Power Systems have twice the 

bandwidth as Intel server's PCIe GEN3 interface. This

will allow for faster data transfer to the storage
subsystem.

The higher memory bandwidth in Power Systems moves

the data faster between the RAM and CPU and, therefore
gets the data out faster.

Your answer is correct.

Question 12

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You have been asked to give a client a rough estimate for the
amount of memory that is required to host their S/4HANA
database. The client estimates that their raw data size is
approximately 10TB. What would be the rule of thumb for the
amount of memory required for S/4HANA for a database that is
10TBs in size?

Select one:
2.5 TB

5 TB

20 TB


10 TB

Your answer is incorrect.

Question 13

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You have a sales opportunity where the customer is planning to

implement a brownfield SAP S/4HANA application. The HANA
sizing tool indicates that the customer will have a HANA
database size of 3TB (12TB raw data) and growing by
500GB/year over the next 3 years. The customer would like to
deploy a TDI 5 implementation. Which of the following
statement is correct?

Select one:
You should propose a Power System E950 configured 

with a set of LPARs, initially with 6TB of memory for the

production instance and they can use the other LPARs
for Dev, QA and Sandbox.

You should propose a Power System H924 with 3TB RAM

for the production HANA database in an LPAR and the
other 3TB divided between a Dev, QA and Sandbox LPARs.

You should propose a Power System H924 with 4TB RAM

for the production HANA database.

You should propose a Power System E950 configured with

a set of LPARs, initially with 3TB of memory for the
production instance and they can use the other LPARs for
Dev, QA and Sandbox.

Your answer is correct.

Question 14

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On Power Systems, SAP HANA is certified for up to 16TB of

memory for OLAP applications. When running SAP HANA in a
virtualized environment on VMware vSphere on a single Intel
x86 server, what is the maximum amount of memory that is
supported for OLAP applications?

Select one:
16TB

24TB

3TB


6TB

Your answer is correct.

Question 15

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SAP HANA can be implemented as an appliance or as Tailored

Datacentre Integration (TDI). What did TDI 5 bring to an SAP
HANA implementation that is key to your understanding when
competing with Intel servers?

Select one:
a. The fixed memory-to-core ration was removed, with 

sizings now based on the workload-driven input into

the HANA Quick Sizer.

b. Power Systems are now certified as an appliance and for

TDI implementations. Customers will now have a choice
of a preconfigured SAP HANA system and the benefit
from the flexibility, ease of management and lower TCO
of TDI.

c. Customers on SAP certified servers can have the

flexibility of using their choice of SAP certified enterprise
storage.

d. SAP HANA Appliances are no longer supported and

customers can use any SAP certified servers and storage
independently.

Your answer is correct.

Question 16

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The memory sizing for the client's HANA implementation is

estimated to be 1.5 TB. What would it cost to purchase the
license for SAP HANA Enterprise Edition (not including the
annual maintenance for the first year) for a system with 1.5TB
of memory?

Select one:
$1,000K

$349K

$3,040K


$3,576K

Your answer is correct.

Question 17

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What does Multitenant Database Container (MDC) give you?

Select one:
With MDC, each tenant of the database can be installed in a
different LPAR on a Power System server.

Applications connected to an MDC database have full

transaction capabilities (read/write) across all tenants.

With MDC, all tenants share the same database but could
have a different software maintenance level.

MDC provides the capability to place different SAP 

applications into its own tenant container, with

complete isolation from each other and the advantage
of ease of management.

Your answer is correct.

Question 18

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Which of the following statement is *NOT* true regarding the

Insert/Update/Delete process in SAP HANA?

Select one:
At given intervals, the data in the differential buffer and
main store are merged together to form a new main store
so that new transactions don't have as much work to do
merging them together for every query.

All inserts/updates/deletes are stored as a new row in 

the differential buffer, thus making these operations

very fast.

The differential buffer and main store are persisted (stored)

on disk to ensure integrity of the data.

Read operations are always performed on both the main

store and the differential buffer in order to get accurate
results.

Your answer is incorrect.

Question 19

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These are some of the HA features of Power Systems, *except*

for:

Select one:
Live Partition Mobility (LPM) to transparently move live
LPARs to another Power System

Dynamic component de-allocation

NVMe Flash for rapid application restart



Chipkill memory

Your answer is correct.

Question 20

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SAP HANA Insert/Update/Delete processing utilizes an in-

memory structure called a Differential Store. This structure is
asynchronously merged with the Main Store at specified
intervals. What components of a server are most critical in this
process to achieve minimal latency?

Select one:
With SMT8, data can be merged in parallel quickly and data
can be moved quickly to disk through the PCIe GEN4
interface.

The movement of data from storage into RAM and the

speed of the processors. Thus, on Power Systems, it would
be the PCIe GEN4 interface to the storage and the number
of CPU cores that is most critical.

The memory bandwidth is critical for moving data 

between memory and CPU cores and the higher

threading via SMT8 to process the data in parallel.

The memory bandwidth is critical for moving data between

memory and CPU cores and NVMe for faster storage
access.

Your answer is correct.

Question 21

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Which of the following statement is true about SAP HANA?

Select one:
SAP HANA data tiering features are used to reduce the size
of the primary database and, therefore, the memory
required in the server. For S/4HANA, you can suggest to the
client to implement Dynamic Tiering for warm data.

With SAP HANA Multi-target Replication, data from the

primary database is replicated to one or more secondary
systems. The application can connect to any of the primary
or secondary databases to run a full transactional workload
against.

SAP HANA is an in-memory database and stores all its data

in memory. As such, it only requires persistency for its logs.

The SAP HANA database requires less memory than the 

raw size of the data because it stores its data in a
compressed format and achieves a compression ratio of
between 4X to 5X.

Your answer is correct.

Question 22

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The customer you are about to visit has had questions on the
differences between running PowerVM and VMware vSphere.
What are the key points you should highlight?

Select one:
PowerVM can support any number of production HANA 
instances, whereas vSphere is limited by the number of
sockets on the server.

PowerVM and VMware vSphere are very similar in features

and both are SAP HANA certified on Power Systems.
PowerVM, however, is free and comes built-in on all
POWER9 systems.

PowerVM supports up to 8 HANA production instances and

any number of non-production instances on a single server.
However, vSphere is restricted by the number of sockets
(for example, on a 4-socket Intel server, it can only support
up to 8 VMs).

PowerVM is the operating system for Power Systems while

VMware vSphere is an additional software layer on top of
the Intel x86 operating system (Linux). This is the reason
why PowerVM has very low performance impact compared
to vSphere.

Your answer is incorrect.

Question 23

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Running an S/4HANA application over many years will

inevitably lead to data growth. What is one suggestion that SAP
recommends?

Select one:
Scale-up the HANA server before scale-out.


Setup a multi-target replication with active-active server

infrastructure to split the workload.

Scale-out the HANA server before scale-up.

Delete data older than one year to reduce the primary

database size.

Your answer is correct.

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In a competitive bid, the HPE and Lenovo sales teams are

putting in their proposal to host an SAP S/4HANA landscape.
The production instance is sized at 4.5TB of memory, the
development instance is sized at 500GB of memory, the QA
instance is sized at 4TB of memory and the test instance is
sized at 1TB of memory. Which of the following configuration is
correct?

Select one:
Lenovo sales is proposing a Lenovo System x3950 (Skylake
processors) with VMware vSphere 6.0 virtual machines.
The HANA production VM on 4.5TB RAM , Dev on 500GB
RAM, QA on 4TB RAM and test on 1TB RAM.

Lenovo sales is proposing a Lenovo ThinkSystem SR950

(Broadwell processors) with SLES KVM virtual machines.
The HANA production VM on 4.5TB RAM , Dev on 500GB
RAM, QA on 4TB RAM and test on 1TB RAM.

HP
sales is proposing a HPE Superdome Flex (Skylake
processors) with VMware
vSphere 6.0 virtual machines.
The HANA production VM on 4.5TB RAM , Dev on
500GB
RAM, QA on 4TB RAM and test on 1TB RAM.
HP sales is proposing a HPE Superdome Flex (Skylake 

processors) with VMware vSphere 6.7 virtual machines.

The HANA production VM (on VMware vSphere) on
4.5TB RAM , Dev on 500GB RAM, QA on 4TB RAM and
test on 1TB RAM.

Your answer is correct.

Question 25

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Which of the following is *NOT* an SAP HANA data tiering

solution for warm data?

Select one:
SAP HANA Dynamic Tiering

SAP HANA Extension Node/s

SAP HANA Paged-Attributes

SAP HANA Near-Line Storage



Your answer is correct.