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Exam : HPE0-S54

Title : Designing HPE Server

Solutions

Vendor : HP

Version : V12.35

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NO.1 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

NO.2 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

NO.3 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

NO.4 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

NO.5 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

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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

NO.6 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

NO.7 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

NO.8 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

NO.9 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: C

NO.10 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?

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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

NO.11 Which iLO feature allows a customer to use an Android device to troubleshoot ProLiant
server issues?
A. iLO Service Port
B. iLO Federation
C. iLO mobile app
D. iLO RESTful API
Answer: C

NO.12 Match each Synergy component with the description of the functionality it provides.

Answer:

Explanation
Box 1: Frame Link Module
Box 2: Image Streamer
Box 3: Virtual Connect SE 40Gb F8
Box 4: Composer

NO.13 A customer needs to perform detailed inventory reporting as part a multi-server PoC.
What must you include as part of the solution?
A. iLO Advanced
B. iLO Advanced Premium Security
C. iLO Essentials
D. iLO Amplifier Pack

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Answer: D

NO.14 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

NO.15 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

NO.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: A

NO.17 What is a new feature in gen10 ProLiant servers?

A. Smart Memory technology
B. Scalable Persistent Memory
C. Active health System log
D. RESTful API interface
Answer: B

NO.18 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.

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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: A B E

NO.19 What do you need to enable directory service authentication for iLO in HPE ProLiant Gen10
servers?
A. HPE iLO 4 with iLO Advanced Premium Security Edition license
B. HPE iLO 4 with iLO Advanced license
C. HPE iLO 5 with iLO Advanced license
D. HPE iLO 5 with Standard license
Answer: C

NO.20 A customer has experienced an ECC memory event on a critical server while away from the
office.
Which HPE cloud-based portal provides the ability to easily track service for future events for the host
and the support case raised?
A. HPE Active Health System
B. HPE Insight Diagnostic
C. HPE Insight Online
D. HPE Agentless Management Service
Answer: C

NO.21 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

NO.22 What is required to enable Jitter Smoothing technology? (Choose two.)

A. HPE Apollo
B. ProLiant Gen 10

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C. HPE Synergy
D. HPE Cloudline
E. iLO5 Advanced
Answer: B E

NO.23 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

NO.24 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
Answer: D E

NO.25 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

NO.26 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: C E

NO.27 A customer is concerned about managing an HPE Synergy platform.

Which management component is required?

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A. Composer
B. iLO Amplifier Pack
C. Image Streamer
D. Insight Control
Answer: A

NO.28 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

NO.29 How can you streamline the BIOS setting choices during initial installation of an HPE ProLiant
DL380 Gen10 server to meet customer needs?
A. Use Preconfigured Workload Profiles.
B. Retrieve predefined settings from iLO.
C. Use Legacy BIOS settings instead of UEFI.
D. Use the Custom setting in Legacy BIOS.
Answer: A

NO.30 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

NO.31 A customer needs a RAID storage solution with the most storage space available that also
provides fault tolerance against potential disk driver failures. The existing customer environment has
a server with 8 SAS disk drives installed.
Which RAID level should the customer use?
A. RAID 0
B. RAID 1
C. RAID 5
D. RAID 6
Answer: D

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NO.32 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. Remove and re-insert the standby Composer
B. Issue a refresh command to the enclosure
C. Open the front panel of the Composer, and read the error message
D. Validate Frame Link Module topology
Answer: D

NO.33 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

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NO.34 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: A

NO.35 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: C E

NO.36 A customer with a DL380 Gen 10 server uses an HPE Smart Array controller with a 96 WATT
Smart Storage Battery. They want to add 16 GB NVDIMMS in the remaining memory slots. They are
concerned about retaining data if a power outage occurs.
What can you explain to them about the Smart Storage Battery configuration to address their
concerns?
A. They need an additional 12 WATT Smart Storage Battery.
B. The current battery will support both the NVDIMMS and the Smart Array controller.
C. they need an additional 96 WATT Smart Storage Battery.
D. The system cannot support the NVDIMMS.
Answer: C

NO.37 What is a requirement for the frames in an HPE Synergy Image Streamer?
A. a minimum of three Synergy frames
B. a single Composer in each Synergy frame
C. redundant Master modules in each frame
D. fully populated Synergy compute modules in each frame
Answer: A

NO.38 Match the SSD drive type to the intended workload.

Answer:

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NO.39 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

NO.40 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

NO.41 A customer uses HPE Smart Update Manager for firmware and software driver updates. They
want to simplify that process by grouping servers that should be updated together.
What can you propose to complete this task?
A. HPE OneView with Standard licenses
B. HPE OneView Global Dashboard
C. HPE Intelligent Provisioning
D. HPE iLO federation
Answer: D

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NO.42 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: A

NO.43 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: C D

NO.44 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

NO.45 A customer needs to deploy an operating system for a ProLiant DL Gen10 server.
Which HPE tool can be used to complete this task?
A. OneView
B. Intelligent Provisioning
C. iLO Federation
D. Insight Control server provisioning
Answer: D

NO.46 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

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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

NO.47 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: C

NO.48 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

NO.49 A customer wants to evaluate management software that will allow them to deploy firmware
updates and monitor the health of their existing Gen9 and Gen10 servers.
What must you include in the PoC for the evalution?
A. HPE OneView
B. HPE One Configuration Advanced
C. HPE Insight Online
D. HPE Intelligent Provisioning
Answer: D

NO.50 A customer wants to evaluate the new feature in iLO5 that provides the ability to
permanently erase all data on a server.
What iLO5 license will the customer require for this proof of concept (PoC)?
A. iLO Advanced Premium Security
B. iLO Advanced
C. iLO Standard BladeSystem Edition
D. iLO Standard
Answer: A

NO.51 During the ProLiant Gen10 implementation process you need to ensure that HPE Smart Array
controller and NVDIMM memory will have backup power in case of power outage.
Which component do you need to install?
A. HPE Smart Storage Battery

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B. HPE Power Advisor

C. HPE iLO Advanced license
D. Battery backed write cache
Answer: A

NO.52 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

NO.53 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: D

NO.54 The HPE 800W Flex Slot Platinum Plus Hot Plug Low Halogen Power Supply has a built-in
Lithium Ion battery to provide backup power to which component?
A. Workload Acceleration
B. Smart Array Flash cache
C. Load Reduced DIMMS
D. Persistent Memory
Answer: D

NO.55 A customer needs a ProLiant tower-based solution for their five remote offices.
Which ProLiant server family should you recommend?
A. DL
B. ML
C. SY
D. CL
Answer: B

NO.56 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

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B. Jitter Smoothing
C. Persistent Memory
D. NVMe Drives
Answer: C

NO.57 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

NO.58 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

NO.59 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

NO.60 A customer experiences high response times to their Windows 2016 SQL database that exists
on a ProLiant ML 350 Gen10 server. The customer needs to archive the lowest possible disk I/O
response times.
Which HPE solutions should you recommend?
A. Install a HPE PCLe Workload Accelerator
B. Migrate to Enterprise SSD disk drives
C. Install Persistent Memory modules
D. Migrate the database to a virtual machine
Answer: B

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