ISS-003 Online Practice Questions and Answers

Which of the following is the MOST robust RAID level with 4 HDDs?

A. RAID 0

B. RAID 5

C. RAID 6

D. RAID 10

Which of the following documents should be referred to for the CPU microcode version currently in use in the Intel server board?

A. FRUSDR Release Notes

B. BIOS Release Notes

C. BMC Release Notes

D. Technical product specification

E. Supported processor list

Your customer calls to say that an Intel Server system R1208WT2GS is showing several entries in the system event log that PSU redundancy was lost. How would you advise your customer from the following list?

A. Only one CPU is installed

B. ThePSUsare pluggedinto differentphases

C. Redundancy should be enabled in BIOS

D. An unsupported UPS is being used

E. The PSUs have different wattages

The Intel Server Board S2600WT has two Front Panel headers through which front panel signals can be routed. Which of the following documents would an Intel Server Specialist use to identify the headers used in a particular chassis?

A. The Spare Parts and Configuration Guide

B. The Quick Start Guide

C. The Service Guide

D. The Technical Product Specification

A reseller would like to be able to reset the BMC of the server they manage without restarting the operating system, which of the following options are available to them?

A. The "BMC Force Update" jumper can be set while the server is powered up and the BMC will automaticallyreset.

B. The BMC can be reset by issuing the command syscfg /rbmc from within the operating system.

C. The reseller can run a virtual EFI Session if Hyper-V is enabled and execute the syscfg /rbmc command.

D. It is not possible to reset the BMC without restarting the operating system.

Which of the following are features of Intel VT-d technology (Intel VT Technology for directed I/O)? (Select ALL that apply).

A. Improves system reliability by containing and reporting errant DMA to software (i.e. OS or VMM)

B. Is a requirement for the use of Microsoft Hyper-V

C. Is a requirement for the use of VMWare ESX 4

D. Enables the use of Virtual NICs and Switches inside a Hypervisor

E. Improves I/O performance through direct assignment of a device to a VM

As an Intel Server Specialist, you need to advise your customer on a proposed server configuration; your customer would like to know what the differences are between the Intel Server Board S2600WT2 and the Intel Server Board S2600WTT. How would you answer from the list below?

A. More powerful CPU support

B. More memory is supported

C. MorePCIe devices support

D. 2U chassis support

E. 2 Integrated 10Gb ports

Your customer is unable to access the BMC event log to get server data from the past week. You then determine after further questioning that IPMIutil is being used, from within the host Operating System. Data can however be successfully extracted via the BMC web GUI. How should you advise your customer?

A. The IPMI bus is locked

B. BMC access from the host needs to be enabled in BIOS

C. The IPMI driver is not loaded

D. Authentication has failed

Which one of the folloming statements regarding theoretcal PCIe bandmidth is INCORRECT?

A. PCIe gen2 x8 runs at 16GB/s bi-directonal

B. PCIe gen1 x16 runs at 8GB/s bi-directonal

C. PCIe gen3 x8 runs at 16GB/s bi-directonal

D. PCIe gen2 x4 runs at 4GB/s bi-directonal

What differences are there between the Intel® Server Board S2600CW2S and the Intel® Server Board S2600CW2?

A. The number of PCIe x16 slots

B. The number of NICs

C. The Integrated hardware RAID

D. The number of CPUs

E. The number of DIMMs per channel