Oracle Sparc T4-Based Servers Sales Specialist Assessment

1. SPARC T4 systems are expected to provide significantly reduced throughput performance compared to SPARC T3 due to reduced cores/threads. Mark for Review
(1) Points True
False (*)

2. SPARC T4 Servers offer optimized and improved performance for which types of workloads? Mark for Review
(1) Points Internet infrastructure
Middleware/Java
Databases and Datawarehouses
All of the above (*)

3. SPARC T4 Systems are expected to provide up to 5x single threaded performance compared to prior generations of T-Series servers. Mark for Review
(1) Points True (*)
False

4. The SPARC T4 Systems will be offered at what operating frequencies? Mark for Review
(1) Points (Choose all correct answers) 1.65 GHZ
3.0 GHz (*)
2.5 GHz
2.85 GHz (*)

5. Which competitor has the closest portfolio of hardware and software products to match Oracle? Mark for Review
(1) Points Microsoft
HP
Dell
IBM (*) 6. Customers using encryption engines on SPARC T4 systems will need to plan for slower application performance due to using that feature. Mark for Review
(1) Points True
False (*)

7. SPARC T4 processors are based on a completely redesigned SPARC architecture pipeline Mark for Review
(1) Points True (*)
False

8. SPARC T4 Servers will be leveraged in which Optimized/Engineered Solution? Mark for Review
(1) Points SPARC Supercluster (*)
Exadata
Oracle Optimized Solution for Oracle Database
Exalogic

9. What are the integrated no-cost features of SPARC T4 systems? Mark for Review
(1) Points (Choose all correct answers) Embedded Flash based Storage
Hypervisor based virtualization (*)
Networking and IO links (*)
Hardware encryption acceleration (*)

10. Competing processor architectures offer