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新问题 10
You are managing multiple edge AI deployments using NVIDIA Fleet Command. You need to ensure that each AI application running on the same GPU is isolated from others to prevent interference.
Which feature of Fleet Command should you use to achieve this?

Remote Console

Secure NFS support

Multi-Instance GPU (MIG) support

Over-the-air updates

新问题 11
An AI data center is experiencing inconsistent training performance. After investigation, it’s determined that storage I/O is the bottleneck. Which of the following actions can help mitigate the issue?

Increase the network bandwidth between compute nodes and the storage system.

Migrate the data to a faster storage tier (e.g., from HDD to SSD).

Optimize data loading and pre-processing pipelines to reduce I/O operations.

Reduce the number of GPUs used for training.

Compress the data more aggressively.

新问题 12
Consider the following Python code snippet used for reading data from a storage system for AI training:

This code is used in an AI training loop. What storage considerations are most critical to optimize the performance of this code?

Using a storage system with high sequential read throughput.

Using a storage system with low latency random access.

Using a storage system that supports direct GPU memory access (e.g., GPUDirect Storage).

Using a high-capacity HDD to store the data.

Data compression for reducing storage space

新问题 13
Consider the following code snippet using NVSHMEM:
If this program hangs indefinitely after ‘nvshmem_barrier all()’ inside the ‘if (my_pe 0)’ block, what is the MOST likely cause?

Incorrect use of ‘MPl Barrier’.

Deadlock due to insufficient NVLink bandwidth.

PE 0 is waiting for other PEs to complete within the loop, but other PEs have already finished and finalized.

Memory corruption in ‘nvshmem_malloc’ .

Incorrect use of ‘CUDA VISIBLE DEVICES’

新问题 14
A data scientist submits a Run.ai job requesting 4 GPUs. However, due to resource constraints, only 2 GPUs are immediately available. You want the job to automatically start running as soon as the remaining 2 GPUs become available, without manual intervention. How do you configure Run.ai to achieve this?

Enable gang scheduling for the job.

Set the job’s ‘restartPolicy’ to ‘Always’.

Set a higher quota for the team.

Configure a lower priority for the job.

Use Run.ai’s ‘suspend’ and ‘resume’ commands manually.

新问题 15
You are using Fleet Command to manage a fleet of edge devices. You need to collect logs from all devices for debugging purposes. Which of the following approaches is the MOST efficient and scalable?

Manually SSH into each device and copy the logs.

Configure a centralized logging system (e.g., ELK stack or similar) and configure the edge devices to forward their logs to the central system.

Use Fleet Command’s built-in log collection features (if available) to gather logs from the devices.

Disable logging on the edge devices to save disk space.

Email the logs from each device.

新问题 16
You need to implement a highly available and fault-tolerant Fleet Command deployment for a mission-critical AI application. What architectural considerations are MOST important for ensuring resilience?

Deploy a single Fleet Command server in a standard configuration.

Utilize a multi-node Fleet Command cluster with redundancy and failover mechanisms, combined with geographically diverse edge device deployments.

Regularly back up the Fleet Command server’s configuration and data.

Monitor the Fleet Command server’s performance and resource utilization.

Rely solely on the edge devices’ ability to operate independently during Fleet Command outages.

新问题 17
You are tasked with optimizing the performance of a distributed deep learning training job running on multiple nodes interconnected with InfiniBand. You suspect that network communication is a bottleneck. Which tools and techniques would be MOST effective for diagnosing the issue?

Use ‘ibstat’ to check the status of the InfiniBand interfaces and identify any link errors or congestion.

Employ network profiling tools like ‘mpiP’ or NVIDIA Nsight Systems to analyze MPI communication patterns and identify bottlenecks.

Monitor network bandwidth utilization with tools like ‘iperf3’ to measure the actual throughput between nodes.

Use ‘nvidia-smi’ to monitor GPU utilization on each node.

Check the CPU utilization on each node using ‘top’.

新问题 18
You want to limit the GPU memory usage of a specific container within a Kubernetes pod running an AI inference service. How can you achieve this using NVIDIA tools and Kubernetes resources?

Set the ‘CUDA VISIBLE_DEVICES’ environment variable to an empty string for that container.

Use the ‘nvidia-smi’ command within the container to limit the GPU memory usage of the process.

Utilize the NVIDIA MPS (Multi-Process Service) and configure memory limits for each process using MPS control commands.

Set resource limits for ‘nvidia.com/gpu’ in the pod’s resource requests and limits.

Configure the Kubernetes scheduler to only schedule pods with GPU memory limits on nodes with sufficient free GPU memory.

新问题 19
Your AI training pipeline involves processing large image datasets stored in a cloud object storage service (e.g., AWS S3, Google Cloud Storage). The download speed from the object storage is limiting your training performance. You are considering using caching mechanisms. Describe different caching strategies and their tradeoffs in this context.

Local SSD caching on each compute node: This provides fast access but requires managing cache consistency and dealing with limited storage capacity.

In-memory caching using tools like Redis or Memcached: This offers very low latency but is limited by the available memory and can be expensive.

Using the cloud provider’s caching service (e.g., AWS CloudFront, Google Cloud CDN): This can improve performance for frequently accessed data but might introduce additional costs and complexity.

Completely removing caching: This is the simplest approach and always provides the best performance.

Using only the object storage’s built-in caching mechanisms: This is sufficient for all workloads and eliminates the need for additional caching layers.

新问题 20
You have a DOCA application deployed on a BlueField-3 DPU. The application utilizes multiple DOCA services, including DOCA Flow and DOCA DPI. You are experiencing performance issues, and you suspect that the bottleneck is within the DPU. How would you proceed with debugging and profiling the DOCA application to identify the source of the performance bottleneck?

Using DOCA Telemetry: Enable DOCA Telemetry to collect performance metrics for different DOCA services and identify the service with the highest latency or resource consumption.

Using perf: Utilize the ‘perf tool on the DPU to profile the DOCA application and identify the functions or code sections that are consuming the most CPU cycles.

Using gdb: Attach ‘gdb’ to the DOCA application process and set breakpoints at strategic locations to analyze the application’s behavior and identify performance bottlenecks.

Using DOCA Tracing: Implement DOCA Tracing within the application code to record detailed information about function calls, memory allocations, and other events, then analyze the trace data to identify performance issues.

Analyzing DOCA logs: By analyzing DOCA Logs with debug mode, you can troubleshoot and profiling the DOCA application to identify the source of the performance bottleneck.

新问题 21
You are configuring BCM for cluster provisioning. You want to automate the installation of specific software packages on each newly provisioned node. How can you achieve this?

Include the package installation commands directly in the OS image.

Use a BCM post-provisioning script to install the packages.

Create a Kubernetes Job that runs on each node to install the packages.

Leverage a configuration management tool like Ansible or Chef within a BCM post-provisioning script.

Specify the packages in the ‘cluster.yamr file under the ‘packages’ section.

新问题 22
You are tasked with deploying NVIDIA Base Command Manager (BCM) on a Kubernetes cluster that utilizes NVIDIA GPUs for Ai workloads. The cluster already has the NVIDIA GPU Operator installed. Which of the following steps are crucial to ensure BCM can properly discover and manage the GPUs?

Ensure the NVIDIA Device Plugin for Kubernetes is installed and correctly configured.

Configure RBAC (Role-Based Access Control) to grant BCM the necessary permissions to access GPU metrics and manage resources within the Kubernetes namespace.

Deploy a separate monitoring solution like Prometheus to gather GPU metrics for BCM.

Verify that the ‘nvidia-driver-daemonset’ is running and properly mounting the NVIDIA drivers into the container pods.

Install CUDA toolkit separately within the container image used by BCM.

新问题 23
You have noticed that users can access all GPUs on a node even when they request only one GPU in their job script using –gres=gpu:1. This is causing resource contention and inefficient GPU usage.
What configuration change would you make to restrict users’ access to only their allocated GPUs?

Increase the memory allocation per job to limit access to other resources on the node.

Enable cgroup enforcement in cgroup.conf by setting ConstrainDevices=yes.

Set a higher priority for Jobs requesting fewer GPUs, so they finish faster and free up resources sooner.

Modify the job script to include additional resource requests for CPU cores alongside GPUs.

新问题 24
When deploying a DOCA application that utilizes DPDK on a BlueField-2 DPU, what are the key considerations for ensuring optimal performance?

Allocate sufficient huge pages to DPDK to minimize TLB misses and improve memory access performance.

Bind DPDK application threads to specific CPU cores to avoid context switching overhead.

Use the correct DPDK drivers for the Mellanox ConnectX adapters to enable hardware offload capabilities.

Disable CPU frequency scaling to ensure consistent performance.

Disable all interrupts to avoid context switching and maximize throughput.

新问题 25
You have a cluster dedicated to AI inference, serving models from a persistent volume. You’re experiencing high latency and CPU usage on the nodes serving inference requests. You suspect that storage access patterns are contributing to the issue. Your persistent volume is backed by a distributed file system. Describe a strategy, including relevant tools and techniques, to analyze the storage I/O profile of your inference workloads and identify potential optimizations.

Use ‘iotop’ or ‘iostat’ on the compute nodes to monitor real-time I/O activity and identify processes with high disk I/O. Then check the related containers that are doing more of these reads/writes.

Capture network traffic using ‘tcpdump’ or Wireshark to analyze the communication patterns between the compute nodes and the storage system. Look for excessive network latency or congestion. Also monitor the network latency using tools like ‘ping’ or ‘iperf.

Utilize the distributed file system’s monitoring tools (if available) to analyze I/O patterns at the file system level. This can reveal hotspots or inefficient data access patterns.

Randomly restart the inference pods. If the issue goes away, it means the storage system was temporarily overloaded.

Implement storage QOS (Quality of Service) policies to prioritize inference workloads and limit the impact of other I/O-intensive processes.

新问题 26
You have deployed the NVIDIA Device Plugin for Kubernetes on your BCM-managed cluster. After a kernel update on one of the worker nodes, the device plugin fails to discover the GPUs. The error messages indicate a mismatch between the driver version expected by the device plugin and the actual driver version installed on the node. What is the MOST reliable way to resolve this issue without disrupting other workloads?

Manually downgrade the NVIDIA driver on the affected worker node to match the version expected by the device plugin.

Update the NVIDIA Device Plugin deployment manifest to specify the driver version installed on the node.

Use a DaemonSet to manage the NVIDIA driver installation on all worker nodes, ensuring a consistent driver version across the cluster and compatibility with the device plugin.

Uninstall and reinstall the NVIDIA Container Toolkit on the affected worker node to automatically update the driver version.

Remove the NVIDIA Device Plugin and replace it with the ‘nvidia-driver-installer’ helm chart

新问题 27
A GPU administrator needs to virtualize AI/ML training in an HGX environment.
How can the NVIDIA Fabric Manager be used to meet this demand?

Video encoding acceleration

Enhance graphical rendering

Manage NVLink and NVSwitch resources

GPU memory upgrade

新问题 28
You are managing a deep learning workload on a Slurm cluster with multiple GPU nodes, but you notice that jobs requesting multiple GPUs are waiting for long periods even though there are available resources on some nodes.
How would you optimize job scheduling for multi-GPU workloads?

Reduce memory allocation per job so more jobs can run concurrently, freeing up resources faster for multi-GPU workloads.

Ensure that job scripts use –gres=gpu:<number> and configure Slurm’s backfill scheduler to prioritize multi-GPU jobs efficiently.

Set up separate partitions for single-GPU and multi-GPU jobs to avoid resource conflicts between them.

Increase time limits for smaller jobs so they don’t interfere with multi-GPU job scheduling.

新问题 29
Which two (2) ways does the pre-configured GPU Operator in NVIDIA Enterprise Catalog differ from the GPU Operator in the public NGC catalog? (Choose two.)

It is configured to use a prebuilt vGPU driver image.

It supports Mixed Strategies for Kubernetes deployments.

It automatically installs the NVIDIA Datacenter driver.

It is configured to use the NVIDIA License System (NLS).

It additionally installs Network Operator.

新问题 30
You’ve noticed consistently high GPU utilization but low overall throughput in your AI inference service. You suspect that a CUDA kernel is not efficiently utilizing the GPU’s resources. Which profiling tool would provide the MOST detailed insights into kernel-level performance?

nvidia-smi’

NVIDIA Nsight Systems

‘top’

‘vmstat’

DCGM

新问题 31
You are observing high GPU memory fragmentation, leading to ‘CUDA out of memory’ errors even when the total GPU memory utilization is relatively low. Which of the following strategies can help mitigate GPU memory fragmentation?

Allocate large, contiguous memory blocks upfront and reuse them whenever possible.

Use a GPU memory allocator library that supports memory defragmentation.

Reduce the number of concurrent CUDA contexts running on the GPU.

Increase the swap space on the server.

Upgrade the GPU to one with more memory.

新问题 32
You’re deploying a DOCA-based firewall application on a BlueField-2 DPU. The application uses eBPF for packet filtering. What is the primary reason for using eBPF in this scenario?

To reduce CPU utilization on the host server by offloading packet filtering to the DPU.

To simplify the firewall rule definition using a higher-level language.

To enable dynamic updates to the firewall rules without requiring kernel module recompilation.

To automatically generate iptables rules on the host server.

To improve the compatibility with legacy network devices.