SAP HANA Advance Features Level 2

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Question 1 Which of the following options is NOT correct when

Correct talking about exploiting the SAP HANA PMEM
feature?
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SAP HANA Fast Restart, tmp-fs

IBM virtual Persistent Memory (vPMEM)

Optane DC persistent memory

Internal NVMe PCIe storage 
Question 2 What is the preferred alternative to IBM Power
Correct Systems' implementation of vPMEM that can speed
up SAP HANA startup times and is Logical Partition
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Mobility (LPM) capable?
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Internal NVMe PCIe drive

NVM/SCM backed storage backends (SAN) or 
SAP HANA Fast Restart, tmp-fs

Rapid Hot Start

Rapid Cold Start
Question 3 What is meant by core-to-memory ratio in a SAP
Correct HANA database?

Points out of
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vCPUs and the size of the (compressed) in-
memory data in the SAP HANA database

Minimum memory needed to run the system

The amount of memory all processing core can

address and the amount of memory an instance
can scale to
The main memory block size

Question 4 IBM Power Virtual Server (PowerVS) is the best fit for
Correct running mission-critical SAP workload. Which of the
following is NOT a value proposition for running SAP
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workloads on IBM Power Virtual Server?
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Minimized uptime 

Continuous Innovation
Accelerated Time-To-Value

Resiliency and Security

Question 5 A prospective client's Chief Information Security
Correct Officer (CISO) is concerned about the security of
running their SAP workloads in any public cloud.
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Which of the following statements could you make
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regarding the security of IBM Power Systems and Back Next
IBM Power Virtual Server (PowerVS)?

IBM Power platform has higher number of

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs)
versus x86 hypervisors

Although the IBM Power platform does not

provide real-time monitoring, it is trusted by 80
of Fortune 100 companies

IBM Power platform provides prevention and 

early detection capabilities, which is the best
defense against cyber attacks, such as
Ransomware

IBM Power platform is the most reliable

unconventional server
Question 6 A client asks to what extend can Native Storage
Correct Extension (NSE) reduce the data footprint. How do
you reply?
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NSE can reduce the data footprint up to 40%

NSE can reduce the data footprint by 75%

NSE can reduce the data footprint from 0% 

to a workload and/or data specific
percentage

NSE can reduce the data footprint by 100%

Question 7 The Native Storage Extension (NSE) Advisor tool

Correct targets to reduce the data footprint for which of the
following data temperatures?
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Hot
Cold

Any

Warm 
Question 8 Per the IDC report, when compared with other cloud
Correct providers, IBM Cloud for SAP had an Accelerate
Time-to-Value. By what percentage was IBM Cloud
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for SAP faster that other hyperscale’s?
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20% 

30%

5%

15%

Question 9 The SAP HANA PMEM feature was built by SAP to

Correct address which of the following situations?

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1.00 Reduce the memory/RAM usage by the SAP
HANA database

Accelerate SAP HANA workload performance

Hardware failure

Planned maintenance of SAP HANA and the 

operating system
Question 10 A client asks which SAP application is NOT supported
Correct by Native Storage Extension (NSE) and when should
they use Extension Nodes. How do you reply?
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SAP BW on HANA 

SAP HANA Native applications

SAP BW/4HANA

S/4HANA

Question 11 A client asks which SAP certified HANA profiles are

Correct supported on IBM Cloud for IBM Power Virtual Server
(PowerVS). What detail do you share?
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POWER9 S922 and POWER9 E980

Power10 E1050
ush1, umh, mh1, bh1, and ch1 

ush1, umh, mh1, bh1, and cnp

Question 12 Which three operating systems are available on IBM
Correct Power Virtual Server (PowerVS)?

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AIX, IBM i, and Microsoft Windows
AIX, IBM i, and z/OS

AIX, IBM i, and Linux 

Question 13 SAP introduced data tiering for SAP HANA
Correct applications to mitigate the size of the data it needs
to accommodate in memory. The data is classified as
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Hot, Warm, and Cold. Which of the following
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statements is TRUE? Back Next

Warm data is data that is required 

occasionally for processing, such as for year-
end processing

Cold data is data that will never be used

Hot data is all data that is required for
daily/weekly/monthly processing including those
needed for regulatory requirements
Hot and Warm data are indistinguishable based
on age of data but is dependent on the memory
size of the server and the amount of data that
can be processed within the confines of the
given memory
Question 14 Which of the following options provides clients with
Correct better uptime for planned and unplanned downtime
of their SAP HANA systems?
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Any of the solutions supporting SAP HANA PMEM

Backup and Restore of the SAP HANA database

Logical Partition Mobility (LPM)
SAP HANA System Replication 

Question 15 A client asks what the core-to-memory ratio of the

Correct umh profile is when running SAP HANA on IBM Power
Virtual Server (PowerVS). How do you reply?
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200

240 
180

32
Question 16 A client asks about memory options for the IBM
Correct Power Virtual Server (PowerVS) offering for SAP
HANA. The client is interested in scalability without
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sacrificing the advantages of virtualization. What do
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you share as the memory options? Back Next

128 GB – 22.5TB 
1TB – 22.5 TB
128 GB – 14.4 TB

64 GB – 32 TB

Question 17 As of May 2023, how many IBM Cloud data centers

Incorrect support IBM Power Virtual Server (PowerVS)?

Points out of
1.00 30 
18
9

7
Question 18 What is SAP Infrastructure Automation on the IBM
Correct Power Virtual Server (PowerVS) called?

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IBM automation
Deployable automation

Terraform based deployment

Question 19 IBM Power servers are high performance enterprise

Correct class machines that clients can run AIX, IBM i, or
Linux on. What is IBM responsible for managing on
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an IBM Power Virtual Server (PowerVS) IaaS offering?
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Networking, Storage, Server, and 

Virtualization
Networking, Storage, Server, Virtualization, and
Operating System (OS)
Networking, Storage, Server, Virtualization,
Operating System, Middleware, and Application

Everything is client-managed
Question 20 You are at a client briefing to talk about the close
Correct development relationship between IBM and SAP and
some of the SAP features that have been
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implemented on IBM Power. The client asks what
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value Native Storage Extension (NSE) provides. How Back Next
do you reply?

NSE can only utilize flash-drive storage with the

SAP HANA in-memory database for an improved
price/performance ratio
NSE is a native SAP HANA feature that is
platform dependent and only available on the
IBM Power platform
NSE can reduce the amount of hot data in the 
SAP HANA database resulting in a proposal
for a smaller configured IBM POWER server
NSE increases the memory footprint for “page
loadable” data
Question 21 During a client briefing, a developer suggests using
Correct Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for all their production
IBM Power Systems workloads. Knowing this client
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has workloads running on SAP, how should you
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GCP supports IBM Power Systems and has SAP

HANA certification however it is not fully
supported by Oracle
GCP supports IBM Power Systems and has SAP
HANA certification however GCP only has IBM
Power available in one data center
GCP supports IBM Power Systems and has SAP
HANA certification
GCP supports IBM Power Systems however 
they do not have SAP HANA certification
Question 22 Warm data is supported by 3 types of SAP HANA
Correct tiering features. Which of the following is NOT a
Warm data tiering feature?
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Dynamic Tiering

PMEM 

Extension Nodes
Native Storage Extension

Question 23 Data tiering refers to a technique of moving less

Correct frequently used data, also known as Cold data, to
cheaper levels of storage or tiers. Which of the
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following data tiering statements is TRUE?
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Data tiering should be implemented for all new

clients implementing S/4HANA

Data tiering is dependent on the SAP 

application support

Data tiering enables a faster backup of the

database as it reduces the amount of active data

The primary purpose of data tiering is to enable

SAP HANA to have a fast restart capability
Question 24 A prospective client is looking to migrate their
Correct current SAP workloads running on-premises to a
cloud-based solution. Which of the following are
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capabilities and benefits of IBM Power Virtual
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Servers (PowerVS) for SAP that the client could Back Next
leverage?

IBM Power Systems Virtual Servers for SAP is

aggressively priced, certified by SAP for SAP
HANA, and supports cloud-based SAP licenses

IBM Power Systems Virtual Servers for SAP is

certified by SAP for SAP HANA, supports a bring-
your-own-license model for SAP licenses, and
guarantees 1 million SAPs (SAP Standard
Application Benchmark) per virtual server

IBM Power Systems Virtual Servers for SAP is

aggressively priced but not certified by SAP for
SAP HANA
IBM Power Systems Virtual Servers for SAP is 
aggressively priced, certified by SAP for SAP
HANA, and supports a bring-your-own-
license model for SAP licenses
Question 25 A prospective client asks what Native Storage
Correct Extension (NSE) is and the role it plays in an SAP
HANA environment. How do you reply?
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NSE is a feature of SAP applications for warm
data. It eliminates the need for indexes and
aggregate data and only loads pages of table
data into the buffer cache. This reduces the size
of the database and therefore, requires fewer
server resources (cores and RAM)
NSE was released with HANA 2 SPS5 and 

became the favored solution from SAP to

reduce the server size, predominantly
memory. It addresses data that is
occasionally loaded into a smaller portion of
memory/RAM known as buffer cache. The
majority of warm data remains on persistent
storage without any backend changes

NSE is a feature of SAP HANA for warm data that

does not require it to be loaded in memory.
Processing of the warm data is done directly on
the storage. The buffer cache is used for any
overflow of hot data that cannot be contained in
main memory. This reduces the memory
footprint and I/O transfer requiring a server with
fewer cores and RAM

NSE is a feature of SAP S/4HANA for warm data

that is only page-loaded into a smaller portion of
memory known as buffer cache. The majority of Back Next

transactional data remains on persistent storage

and only pages of data that are required for
processing are loaded into the buffer cache. This
helps in reducing the amount of CPU cores and
RAM required