Question 110
An infrastructure administrator receives the following incident: A technician sees a healthy network interface LED on a ConnectX adapter but a cluster workload receives only a fraction of the planned throughput. Which measured result most directly proves that this specific problem is resolved?
Explanation
Correct Answer
This is the measurable acceptance result for the described case: Link diagnostics report expected width and rate with clean error counters and a controlled throughput test meets the acceptance floor. It validates the corrective operation (Verify negotiated link speed, supported lane configuration, firmware, and error counters against the intended adapter specification.) rather than a related but different system check.
Incorrect Answers
This observation would help verify a different incident: A recently delivered accelerator system has inconsistent PSU models across sibling nodes, and unexpected power alarms occur only during high utilization. It does not directly establish the required result for the current case: Link diagnostics report expected width and rate with clean error counters and a controlled throughput test meets the acceptance floor.
This observation would help verify a different incident: A provisioning script accepts a data center node after disk health checks, but the BIOS is configured to hide required PCIe slots and GPUs are unavailable. It does not directly establish the required result for the current case: Link diagnostics report expected width and rate with clean error counters and a controlled throughput test meets the acceptance floor.
This observation would help verify a different incident: A training farm connects every GPU node through one oversubscribed top-of-rack switch even though collective jobs exchange large volumes of east-west gradients. It does not directly establish the required result for the current case: Link diagnostics report expected width and rate with clean error counters and a controlled throughput test meets the acceptance floor.