Question 640
During a security and capacity review at a financial analytics firm, engineers report the following issue: Operations need to identify which process is holding GPU resources after a failed experiment. The affected work supports risk scoring and historical-data models; traceable controls and predictable throughput are required. Choose TWO: one corrective approach and one result demonstrating it works. (Select TWO.)
Explanation
Correct Answers
Correct corrective action. Use nvidia-smi or supported NVIDIA management interfaces to inspect GPU identification, utilization, memory, temperatures and running processes as an initial node-level diagnostic. This fits the specific reported issue: Operations need to identify which process is holding GPU resources after a failed experiment. The corresponding failure being reduced is: A healthy host does not prove its accelerator is recognized or free of memory pressure and unexpected competing processes.
Correct independent evidence. A point-in-time inspection identifies the correct GPU and active process, memory and temperature state corresponding to the reported issue. This verifies the corrective approach for the affected risk scoring and historical-data models instead of treating an architecture diagram alone as success.
Incorrect Answers
Not the most direct the action-and-evidence pair for these facts. A sampled node's actual firmware, GPU, driver and fabric settings match the approved inventory or show a tracked exception. This choice concerns cluster inventory firmware and configuration baseline and may be valid in another design. But this case reports 'Operations need to identify which process is holding GPU resources after a failed experiment', which calls for reasoning about nvidia-smi point-in-time gpu operational checks. The targeted response is: Use nvidia-smi or supported NVIDIA management interfaces to inspect GPU identification, utilization, memory, temperatures and running processes as an initial node-level diagnostic.
Not the most direct the action-and-evidence pair for these facts. Place tightly coupled distributed training processes with awareness of accelerator counts, network topology and collective communication demands, and validate gang-scheduling needs. This choice concerns distributed job placement and topology-aware orchestration and may be valid in another design. But this case reports 'Operations need to identify which process is holding GPU resources after a failed experiment', which calls for reasoning about nvidia-smi point-in-time gpu operational checks. The targeted response is: Use nvidia-smi or supported NVIDIA management interfaces to inspect GPU identification, utilization, memory, temperatures and running processes as an initial node-level diagnostic.
Not the most direct the action-and-evidence pair for these facts. Interpret GPU compute utilization, device-memory occupancy, power draw and temperature together over time instead of using one metric as proof of efficient execution. This choice concerns gpu utilization memory and power telemetry interpretation and may be valid in another design. But this case reports 'Operations need to identify which process is holding GPU resources after a failed experiment', which calls for reasoning about nvidia-smi point-in-time gpu operational checks. The targeted response is: Use nvidia-smi or supported NVIDIA management interfaces to inspect GPU identification, utilization, memory, temperatures and running processes as an initial node-level diagnostic.