IBM PowerHA SystemMirror V7.2 Implementation Intermediate Practice Exam: Medium Difficulty 2025

An administrator is planning a PowerHA cluster deployment for a critical application that requires automatic failover with minimal downtime. The environment consists of two nodes located in the same data center with shared storage. Which cluster topology should be recommended to meet these requirements while optimizing resource utilization?

During cluster configuration, an administrator needs to configure service IP addresses for application access. The cluster has two nodes with multiple network interfaces. Which statement correctly describes the behavior of service IP addresses in PowerHA?

A company is implementing a PowerHA cluster with Geographic Logical Volume Manager (GLVM) for data replication between two sites 50 kilometers apart. What are the key considerations when configuring GLVM for this scenario?

An administrator is configuring resource group startup and fallover policies for a database application. The requirement is that the resource group should only run on Node1 under normal circumstances, but can fail over to Node2 if Node1 fails. However, when Node1 recovers, the resource group should NOT automatically return. Which combination of policies should be configured?

During PowerHA installation verification, an administrator needs to confirm that all prerequisite software is correctly installed before creating the cluster. Which command should be used to verify cluster-ready status and identify any missing prerequisites?

A PowerHA cluster is experiencing intermittent network heartbeat failures on the service network. An administrator needs to configure additional network redundancy. The cluster has two nodes, each with four network interfaces. What is the recommended best practice for configuring network redundancy?

An administrator needs to configure Logical Volume mirroring for a critical application volume group in a PowerHA cluster with shared storage. The requirement is to maintain three copies of data across different physical disks. What LVM configuration should be implemented?

After a planned maintenance window, an administrator attempts to synchronize the cluster configuration but receives errors indicating configuration mismatches between nodes. What is the most appropriate first step to diagnose and resolve this issue?

A company is designing a PowerHA solution that requires application monitoring to detect application failures and trigger automatic recovery. The application provides a health-check script that returns 0 for healthy and non-zero for failure. How should application monitoring be configured?

An administrator needs to perform a non-disruptive cluster verification test to ensure failover will work correctly without actually causing a service outage. The cluster is currently running production workloads. What testing approach should be used?