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BTSA Training Quizz

The purpose of this questionnaire is to assess the acquired knowledges on the bullion offer.
The answers you will provide will be visible to the BD'&S bullion team.

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Question 1

Thank you to enter here your Name Surname

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Question 2

What are the Bull-branded technologies?

Hoox secure smartphone

Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems

bullion high-end x86 modular server

Sequana '& bullx supercomputers

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Question 3

Which market segments or use cases do we address with bullion S?

IT Modernization / Re-platforming, Data Center Optimization / Virtualization, Big Data / Performance demanding applications, High Performance Computing

All markets requiring x86 servers, for any type of applications

SAP HANA, IT Modernization/Re-platforming, Data Center Optimization/Virtualization, Big Data/Performance demanding apps

Hybrid Cloud, High Performance Computing, Big Data, SAP HANA

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Question 4

What are the key customer benefits brought by bullion S?

It is cheaper than the competition for the same performance

It contributes to TCO savings and provides Performance '& High Memory, Flexibility, Scalability, Reliability '& Ease of Maintenance

It provides Performance '& High Memory, Flexibility, Scalability, Reliability '& Ease of Maintenance and it is cheaper than the competition for the same performance

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Question 5

In the following list, what are the most important differentiators over the competition?

bullion has an innovative design

bullion integrates the E7v3 CPU

bullion allows easy addition of memory and I / O boards

bullion integrates VMware, HyperV and RedHat hypervisors

bullion is scalable from 2 to 16 CPU

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Question 6

What are the objectives of bullion S servers ?

Simplify data centers

Reduce licensing costs

Handle in-memory computing

Provide high availability

Simplify maintenance

Offer unmatched performances

All of the above

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Question 7

How can bullion reach a better TCO than the competition?

By decreasing licensing costs, using less CPUs than E5 servers when large amount of memory is required

By decreasing licensing costs, reducing the total number of CPUs through consolidation in big nodes

By reducing networking equipment, using its scale-up ability

By reducing energy consumption and cost of maintenance

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Question 8

Which element greatly influences the outcome of a comparative TCO analysis of bullion S vs E5 servers?

The number of processors

The space occupied

The amount of memory

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Question 9

What are the major differentiators between bullion and another E5 family server equipped with the same number of processors?

More powerful

More reliable

More memory intensive

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Question 10

What are the important parameters to apply to optimize the TCO?

Reduce the total number of CPUs to a minimum

Reduce the memory size to a minimum

Reduce the number of servers to a minimum

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Question 11

What are the usable/available processors for bullion?

E7-4800 v3 for price optimization with high reliability

E5-4600 v3 for dense 4-socket servers with optimized prices

« mainstream » E5-2600 v3

E7-8800 v3 for specific use (high frequency, energy efficient)

E3-1200 v4, highest density with cost most reduced

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Question 12

What is the maximum memory capacity of a bullion S8?

24TB

12TB

4TB

3TB

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Question 13

Which use case is currently the bullion flagship offer and consequently, '“easiest to sell'”?

Consolidation/Virtualization

SAP HANA

Big Data/Performance demanding apps

IT modernization/re-platforming

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Question 14

What are the OS certified on bullion S today?

Suse SLES

Red Hat RHEL

AIX

Microsoft Windows Server

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Question 15

What are the hypervisors supported on bullion S today?

ESXi

Oracle VM

KVM

Hyper-V

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Question 16

Which use case is not really suited for bullion with the bullion Storage Box?

30TB of data in a Hadoop environment

a big consolidation of 2000 VMs with an existing SAN

a SQL Server running on one node with dedicated storage

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Question 17

Which kind of disk should be used with the BSB for a classical Hadoop usage?

3.5"; SSD 900GB

3.5"; NL-SAS 4TB

2.5"; NL-SAS 2TB

2.5"; SAS 1.2TB

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Question 18

What are the evolutions planned on bullion S offer in 2016?

A GPU extension module

vSAN support on the BSB

A VDI appliance

A new processor

New Big Data appliances: DataLake, JAVA Booster, SecuLogs

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Question 19

Which tool(s) should be used to get a special price for a bullion server to resell to a customer?

KOERO + COTIX

Standalone KOERO

Sizing tool

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Question 20

Which files are requested by the Manufacturing to process an order?

KOERO configuration (xml file)

Ordering Document from KOERO (PDF file)

Bill of Material from KOERO (excel file)

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Question 21

What is the SAP HANA main business advantage for a customer?

Benefit from SAP Business Suite latest functionalities

Being able to run Big Data applications with large data volumes

The possibility to run real time Business Intelligence on his active data base

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Question 22

What is the main feature required for servers running HANA?

Ability to handle In-memory DataBase

Ability to support I/O intensive use

Ability to store large data volume on disk

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Question 23

What is the most important benefit for the customer provided by bullion S when used for SAP HANA?

The Scalability unmatched by the competition: bullion can accompany the growing performance requirements when progressively deploying a SAP HANA project

A better TCO reached with better conditions on SAP licenses

The performances: our bullion SAP HANA appliances certified by SAP beats the competition

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Question 24

What is S4/HANA?

A bullion for HANA appliance based on a bullion S4

The new HANA version

The new version of SAP Business Suite

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Question 25

To run a BW on HANA SPS11 with 4TB, what is the appropriate infrastructure to propose?

A S8 appliance with 4TB

A scale-out infrastructure of 2 x S4/2TB servers

A scale-out infrastructure of 4 x S4/1TB servers

A scale-out infrastructure of 5 (=4+1) x S4/1TB servers

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Question 26

What are the advantages of the TDI offer for HANA?

Ability to reuse an existing storage environment

Ability to deploy the infrastructure more rapidly

Ability to share servers and/or disks with other applications

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Question 27

May a BW/DM/SoH SAP HANA appliance be used to host a S4/HANA application database?

yes without any restriction

yes but the sizing must respect the SoH rules for the ratio CPU/RAM

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Question 28

Is an appliance certified for both a single server/scale-up and scale-out deployment?

Yes but only a SoH appliance. Rules for BW/DM/SoH appliances are different

Yes without any restriction

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Question 29

Setting up a TDI requires:

A certified appliance

The server part of a certified appliance

A storage system listed on the PAM

A certified systems engineer

Reaching minimal KPIs with HWCCT

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Question 30

A SAP HANA TDI server may share its storage'…

never, storage is dedicated to SAP HANA

only with another SAP HANA system

with any other system if performance KPIs are met

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Question 31

More than one database may reside on a single SAP HANA server

Through VMWare virtualization, in non-production

Through VMWare virtualization,in production with some restrictions like no CPU over-commitment

Through MDC (Multitenant Database Containers), in non-production only

Through MDC , in production and non- production

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Question 32

If there is enough memory and CPU available, other applications/middleware/database system than SAP HANA may be hosted on a SAP HANA TDI server used for production?

Never

Only SAP application Servers

Only through virtualization

Yes but an additive sizing should be performed

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