Many companies have very large groups of physical servers in a central location. Which of the following describes those large groups of servers?
A. IBM mainframes
B. Remote distributed processing
C. zBX
D. Server farms
Which of the following is the most common business application mainframe workload?
A. Batch and online transaction processing
B. Printing and distribution processing
C. Backup and archiving processing
D. Restoration and recovery processing
IBM mainframe offers specialty processors (zIIP, zAAP, SAP and IFL).
Which of the following accurately describes a function of one of these specialty processors?
A. zAAP processors automatically turns off unnecessary computing components.
B. IFL is used by a Linux LPAR or Linux on z/VM
C. zIIP processors automatically run high priority jobs first
D. SAP processors are specially tuned to run the SAP application suite
Which of the following mainframe technologies requires a coupling facility?
A. CTC ring
B. Shared DASD
C. Parallel Sysplex
D. zAAP
Which of the following can identify a base software component?
A. Message format
B. Software update list
C. System log routing table descriptor
D. Three characters in message identifier
When describing a data set, which of the following is a valid z/OS record format?
A. Partitioned
B. Standard
C. Shifting
D. Fixed
Whenever a new customer record is added, it is always added at the end of the data set.
Whenever the customer data set records are processed, they are always processed starting at the beginning of the data set, each record is read and processed, and processing stops when the last record in the data set has been processed.
What is the data set type?
A. Sequential
B. PDS/E
C. RRDS
D. PDS
Which of the following is required for an MQ application to send a message to another application on a different computing platform?
A. Establish an asynchronous communication channel to effect the transfer
B. Establish a synchronous communication channel to effect the transfer
C. Use an MQI bidirectional channel to effect the transfer
D. Use a logical MQ channel to effect the transfer
Which of the following is a main responsibility of the RACF administrator?
A. Program Debugging
B. Software Installation
C. Security Planning
D. Job Scheduling
Which of the following describes TN3270?
A. VTAM 3270 common storage for telnet
B. SNA telnet standard for 3270 protocol
C. Telnet standard for 3270 data stream
D. TCP/IP standard RFC 3270