Question 11
An architect is designing the storage and network infrastructure for a new, large-scale AI cluster dedicated to training foundational models. The primary design goal is to achieve the highest possible data throughput and the lowest latency to ensure multi-million dollar GPU resources are never idle. Which two technologies are essential to include in the design to achieve this goal?
(Choose 2.)
(Choose 2.)
Question 12
An automotive company runs crash simulations on a dedicated High-Performance Computing (HPC) cluster and trains computer vision models on a separate AI cluster. Data scientists are complaining about the long delays required to move terabytes of simulation output data from the HPC storage to the AI cluster's storage before they can begin training.
The current data flow is as follows:
HPC Cluster -> --Manual Copy (NFS)--> -> AI Cluster
An architect has been asked to redesign the infrastructure to eliminate this data movement bottleneck.
Which architectural change would be most effective?
The current data flow is as follows:
HPC Cluster -> --Manual Copy (NFS)--> -> AI Cluster
An architect has been asked to redesign the infrastructure to eliminate this data movement bottleneck.
Which architectural change would be most effective?
Question 13
An architect is explaining different data storage paradigms to a new data engineering team. The team needs to understand where to store different types of data for their AI projects. Which statement accurately describes a key difference between a data lake and a data warehouse?
Question 14
An organization has a core data center with a large AI training cluster and several remote edge locations for data ingest and local inference. The edge locations frequently need access to the latest models trained in the core data center, but WAN bandwidth is limited and can be unreliable.
Users at the edge are reporting slow model loading times.
An architect reviews the data access logs from an edge site:
Timestamp: 2025-07-11T15:30:00Z
Event: Model_Load_Request
Model_Path: nfs://core-filer.example.com/vol/models/latest_model.pkl
Source_IP: 192.168.100.15 (Edge Server)
Destination_IP: 10.1.1.50 (Core Filer)
Status: SUCCESS
Duration: 3600s (60 minutes)
What is the most likely cause of the slow model loading times at the edge?
Users at the edge are reporting slow model loading times.
An architect reviews the data access logs from an edge site:
Timestamp: 2025-07-11T15:30:00Z
Event: Model_Load_Request
Model_Path: nfs://core-filer.example.com/vol/models/latest_model.pkl
Source_IP: 192.168.100.15 (Edge Server)
Destination_IP: 10.1.1.50 (Core Filer)
Status: SUCCESS
Duration: 3600s (60 minutes)
What is the most likely cause of the slow model loading times at the edge?
Question 15
The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is concerned about the risk of a ransomware attack encrypting the critical vector database hosted on the NetApp AFF A-Series. The CISO wants a solution that can proactively detect and block a live attack in real-time, not just recover from a backup after the fact.
Which NetApp security feature should the architect enable on the vector database volume to meet this requirement?
Which NetApp security feature should the architect enable on the vector database volume to meet this requirement?
