Question 530
An infrastructure administrator receives the following incident: An eight-GPU server drops out of training during peak workload and BMC logs show a fan failure, while `nvidia-smi` reports temperature alarms on two cards. 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: After supported fan replacement, sustained load maintains GPU temperatures and clocks within limits without new fan or thermal alarms. It validates the corrective operation (Correlate BMC fan, chassis airflow, and GPU thermal telemetry and repair the failed cooling component before returning the node to service.) rather than a related but different system check.
Incorrect Answers
This observation would help verify a different incident: A distributed job loses one host intermittently, and the suspect node's ConnectX adapter records rising physical errors while its GPUs pass isolated compute tests. It does not directly establish the required result for the current case: After supported fan replacement, sustained load maintains GPU temperatures and clocks within limits without new fan or thermal alarms.
This observation would help verify a different incident: A GPU node's device health reports recurrent Xid errors after moving the chassis, but the failure disappears when the suspect accelerator is tested in a known-good slot. It does not directly establish the required result for the current case: After supported fan replacement, sustained load maintains GPU temperatures and clocks within limits without new fan or thermal alarms.
This observation would help verify a different incident: A high-frequency CPU governor policy is disabled after a host OS update, and training data transforms fall behind GPU consumption on otherwise unchanged accelerators. It does not directly establish the required result for the current case: After supported fan replacement, sustained load maintains GPU temperatures and clocks within limits without new fan or thermal alarms.