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SAP introduced data tiering for SAP HANA applications to mitigate the size of the data it
needs to accommodate in memory. The data is classified as “hot”, “warm” and “cold”. Which
of the following statement is true?

Warm data is data that is required occasionally for processing

Hot data are considered all data that are required for daily/weekly/monthly processing
including those needed for regulatory requirements

Cold data are data that will never be used

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

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The following are IBM PowerVS for SAP HANA offerings except for

Test/Dev (non-production) configuration starting at $0.83/hr

Free migration services

Bring your own SAP license (BYOL)

IBM PowerVS offers different configuration profiles to meet customer’s Quality of Service
(QoS) requirements such as Ultra-memory, memory-intensive, balanced workloads and
compute-intensive

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The following are warm data tiering features of SAP HANA except for:

Native Storage Extension

Dynamic Tiering

PMEM

Extension Node

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What is the preferred alternative to IBM Power Systems’ implementation of vPMEM that can
speed up SAP HANA startup times and is Logical Partition Mobility (LPM) capable?

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

Rapid Cold Start

Internal NVMe PCIe drives

All of the above

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In the ASUG Pulse survey, it showed that there was a trend of customers shifting away from
Hybrid cloud back to on-premises. What was the change in response of customers intending
to deploy on Hybrid cloud from 2020 to 2021?

-13%

24%

+16%

53%
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What is the published SAP Benchmark for an IBM Power Systems Virtual Server E980 ?

480,600

892,270

907,820

803,000

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The SAP HANA PMEM feature was built by SAP to address

Hardware failure

Reduce the memory/RAM usage by the SAP HANA database

Accelerate SAP HANA workload performance

Planned Maintenance of SAP HANA and the operating system

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How would you describe Native Storage Extension (NSE)?

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 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 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

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 storage. The buffer cache is used
for any overflow of hot data that cannot be contained in main memory. This helps in
reducing the memory footprint and IO transfer requiring a server with fewer cores and
RAM

NSE is 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

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Which of the following statement about using Red Hat Openshift for SAP on IBM Power
Systems is false?

Containerized SAP instances can co-exist with SAP production system

Red Hat Openshift containerization of SAP instances is the preferred method of SAP
Landscape Management (LaMa) as it is free and has the same functionality to copy and
rename SAP instances

Containerized SAP deployment is currently not certified by SAP and should only be
considered for non-production SAP HANA deployments

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When calculating the SAP Workloads during the planning phase for the IBM Power System
Virtual Server what are the main points to consider ?

Early Watch Report data

Age of the Hardware

The latest version of Solution Manager is able to run on the Provisioned Server

Criticality, Legal Requirements, RPO & RTO, Creation of Migration Candidates, Minimum
OS levels for AIX & Linux, Best Suited Public Cloud for Enterprise Workloads.

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To what extend can NSE reduce the data footprint?

It can be from 0% to a workload and/or data specific percentage

100%

75%

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In the standard naming convention what does the abbreviation “umh” stand for ?

Unclassified Memory Holistic

Unified Memory HANA

Uber Mechanism HANA

Ultra Memory HANA

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In the IDC Special Report on Infrastructure Adoption paper for SAP HANA infrastructure, it
shows the growth opportunity for IBM Power Systems. What takeaway message did you get
from it?
Growth for both on-premises and off-premises have the same trajectory of equal share

With the off-premises sector growing at +40%, IBM and its business partners should
concentrate on only selling IBM PowerVS offerings

While CAGR of +37.7% for IBM Power Systems is strong, it shows that the largest growth
rate is in the off-premises sector

The on-premises sector of the CAGR is the most significant of the two and growing at the
fastest rate

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Which of the following options provide customers with better uptime for planned and
unplanned downtime?

SAP HANA System Replication

Logical Partition Mobility (LPM)

Any of the solutions supporting SAP HANA PMEM

Backup and Restore of the SAP HANA database

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Which options can technically coexist with any of the SAP HANA PMEM features (vPMEM,
Optane, SAP HANA Fast Restart?

SAP HANA Native Storage Extensions, Dynamic Tiering and Extension Nodes (Warm
Data)

SAP HANA System replication

Faster Storage backends

All of the above

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Which of the following data tiering statement is true?

The primary purpose of data tiering is to enable SAP HANA to have a fast restart capability

Data tiering should be implemented for all new clients implementing S/4HANA

Data tiering features is dependent on the SAP application support

Data tiering enables a faster backup of the database as it reduces the amount of active data

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Which SAP application does not support NSE?

S/4HANA

SAP HANA Native applications

BW/4HANA

BW on HANA

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RISE with SAP is a recently announced offering from SAP. Which of the following is NOT
part of this offering?

RISE is meant as a one-stop shop for clients looking to move workload to the cloud, with
SAP as the primary contract holder

IBM Cloud was part of the initial announcement as a provider of cloud infrastructure

RISE with SAP will be hosted on hyperscalers such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud as well
as SAP’s own cloud

This offering promises to lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by up to 20%

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What are the two main server Types available when provisioning an IBM Power Systems
Virtual Server and using the Linux Operating System?

S922 & E950

E980 & L922

S922 & E980

E980 & S914

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You’re having a conversation with the CIO of a Managed Service Provider (MSP) and she’s
concerned about the differences between on-premises Power Systems servers and PowerVS.
Which of the following statement about IBM PowerVS for SAP HANA would you mention?

SAP HANA on IBM PowerVS can be deployed on any IBM Power Systems servers from
S922, S924, E950 and E980

IBM PowerVS is hosted on the IBM Cloud at many locations including Dallas, Toronto,
Frankfurt, Sydney, etc.
IBM PowerVS is SAP certified to the same memory size as on-premises IBM Power
Systems i.e. 28TB

IBM PowerVS has the same proven reliability, security, scalability as on-premises IBM
Power Systems servers

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NSE targets to reduce the data footprint for which data temperatures?

Warm

Hot

Cold

Any

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You are at a customer briefing to talk about the close development relationship between IBM
and SAP and some of the SAP features that have been implemented on Power. How would
you describe the value of Native Storage Extension as it pertains to IBM Power Systems?
NSE can reduce the amount of hot data in the SAP HANA database resulting in a proposal
for a smaller configured POWER server

The IBM Power implementation of vPMEM and tmpfs together with the reduced size of hot
(active) tables will contribute to a faster HANA restart times

A consequence of the reduced size of RAM required for SAP HANA data is the possibility
of a reduction in SAP HANA licensing cost for customers that use SAP HANA Enterprise
and licensed by RAM size

All of the above

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Which of the following options listed below is not correct when talking about exploiting the
SAP HANA PMEM feature?

IBM virtual Persistent Memory (vPMEM)

Internal NVMe PCIe storage

Optane DC persistent memory

SAP HANA Fast Restart, tmp-fs

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One of the benefits of running IBM Power Systems in a hybrid environment is that
customers can benefit from the same performance, scalability and flexibility of running on-
premises. How would you recommend to a customer on a hybrid set-up?

Separate the SAP applications, for example, by running all S/4HANA instances (prod, dev
and QA) on-premises and BW/4HANA on the cloud

Run the production instances on the IBM Cloud (PowerVS) and development/QA instances
on-premises

Best practice is to run all development, QA and production on-premises and only setup a
disaster recovery (DR) site on the cloud

Run their production instances on-premises and development/QA instances on the IBM
Cloud (PowerVS) or deploy a private cloud for all instances

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What is one of the benefit of using Red Hat Openshift containerization for SAP?

All container instance built from the same SAP system share a single copy of the centrally
accessible NFS shared source database but have their own delta database storage. This
leads to a significant storage savings

Any SAP instance environment, for example, single, distributed and HA are fully support
in a containerized deployment

It is an alternative to virtualization hypervisors like VMware, KVM or PowerVM. For IBM

No specialized SAP skills are required to create and deploy a Red Hat Openshift
containerized environment