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1. A storage administrator is configuring the drive layout for an HPE ProLiant Compute DL380 Gen12 server. They need to support a high-performance NVMe tier for local caching.

What is the maximum number of Small Form Factor (SFF) NVMe drives supported by this platform?

2. A Performance Engineer is analyzing the "Global Link Load" metrics of an HPE Slingshot fabric during a massive All-to-All communication benchmark.

Based on HPE performance testing data, how does Slingshot's bandwidth utilization during All-to-All communication at scale compare to its theoretical peak?

3. A Data Center Manager is validating site readiness for a proposed cluster of HPE ProLiant Gen12 servers equipped with 70% Direct Liquid Cooling (DLC).

According to the HPE site readiness flowchart for DLC, what is the first and most critical facility capability the manager must verify to determine if the site is "DLC Ready"?

4. An administrator is preparing the physical network for the deployment of the NSX-T Edge Cluster. They need to request the creation of specific VLANs on the Top-of-Rack switches.

How many additional VLANs must be configured on the ToR switches specifically to support the Edge Cluster deployment (excluding the existing management/vMotion/vSAN VLANs)?

5. An administrator is configuring persistent storage for a Kubernetes cluster. They need to install the correct Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver to provision volumes on HPE GreenLake for File Storage.

Which CSI driver provisioner must be referenced in the Kubernetes StorageClass to enable dynamic provisioning for this specific storage backend?

6. A Data Center Facilities Manager is reviewing the power specifications for an HPE Cray EX4000 cabinet to ensure the correct power whips are installed.

What is the maximum number of power input whips (3-phase) that a fully populated HPE Cray EX4000 cabinet supports to feed its four power shelves?

7. A Virtualization Engineer is defining a vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) image for a new cluster of HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 Plus servers. They need to ensure the image includes the necessary drivers and CIM providers to support HPE hardware management.

Which specific file type and component must be uploaded to the vLCM depot to provide the "Vendor Add-on" functionality for HPE servers?

8. A customer is evaluating the HPE Cray EX system for a new data center and is concerned about the reliability and signal integrity of the high-speed interconnects given the density of the system.

How does the HPE Cray EX cabinet architecture achieve direct fabric connections between the compute blades and switch blades to address these concerns?

9. An Engagement Manager is preparing for the deployment of a new HPE Private Cloud AI solution. They need to capture the customer's specific configuration requirements, such as IP addressing, naming conventions, and network settings, to ensure the installation team configures the system correctly.

According to HPE best practices, which tool should the Engagement Manager use to generate and manage the Customer Intent Document (CID)?

10. When configuring the network settings in the Cloud Builder parameter sheet for the management domain, the engineer must define the IP allocation method for the ESXi hosts.

Which IP allocation method is supported and typically used for the TEP (Tunnel Endpoint) networks during the initial bring-up of the management domain?

11. A Compliance Officer requires access to the HPE GreenLake platform to audit the inventory and health status of the compute infrastructure. To comply with security policies, this account must be incapable of making any configuration changes.

Which role should the Organization Administrator assign to this auditor?

12. A network architect is comparing the congestion management capabilities of HPE Slingshot versus NVIDIA Spectrum-X.

Which statement correctly differentiates the Flow Metering approach used by Spectrum-X from the endpoint throttling used by Slingshot?

13. A customer is upgrading their HPC cluster interconnect to the latest generation to support larger models. They have chosen NVIDIA InfiniBand NDR (Next-Generation Data Rate).

What is the maximum link speed provided by a standard InfiniBand NDR connection?

14. A Security Administrator is configuring Single Sign-On (SSO) for their organization's HPE GreenLake account to simplify user access. They need to integrate with their existing corporate Identity Provider (IdP).

Which industry-standard protocol does HPE GreenLake support to enable this federation, where HPE GreenLake sends a digitally signed XML request to the customer's IdP?

15. A database architect needs to maximize the in-memory capacity of a single HPE ProLiant Compute DL380 Gen12 server node for a large SAP HANA deployment.

What is the maximum memory capacity supported by this server platform when populated with 256 GB DDR5 DIMMs?

16. A Solution Architect is designing a custom Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) solution on HPE infrastructure. The design requires a dedicated, software-defined storage cluster using Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF) to provide persistent storage for the workload.

Which HPE ProLiant server model is recommended in the Reference Architecture as the "Storage Optimized" node for hosting the ODF cluster?

17. An administrator is configuring an HPE ProLiant Compute DL380a Gen12 server for an inference workload requiring high flexibility.

Which specific NVIDIA GPU model is highlighted as a supported option for this server when the goal is to scale Generative AI LLM inferencing workloads?

18. A system administrator needs to apply a critical security patch to the vCenter Server in a VCF environment immediately. However, a full VCF Upgrade Bundle containing this patch is not yet available in the SDDC Manager depot.

Which utility should the administrator use to apply this specific patch outside of the standard VCF lifecycle process while maintaining supportability?

19. An administrator is attempting to bring up a new Workload Domain. The task fails at the "Create Transport Node Collection" subtask. The administrator notes that the management IP addresses of the workload servers are in the range 172.17.20.10 to 172.17.20.20.

What is the root cause of this failure?

20. A System Administrator is attempting to configure remote management for a new cluster of HPE Cray XD2000 servers. They are looking for the HPE iLO 6 interface to configure Silicon Root of Trust settings but cannot find it.

What is the architectural reason for this?

21. An organization enforces strict password policies for all accounts not using SSO. A user receives a notification that their HPE GreenLake password has expired.

According to the default Single-Factor Authentication policy in HPE GreenLake, what is the maximum validity period for a password before it expires automatically?

22. An administrator is reviewing the default security settings of a new HPE iLO 5 interface. They notice a user account assigned the "Custom" role.

What is the characteristic of the "Custom" role in HPE iLO?

23. Before the Aruba Fabric Composer (AFC) can automate the VLAN and BGP configurations, the administrator must perform an initial manual configuration on the Aruba CX 6300M switches.

What is the specific prerequisite step required for the switches before they can be successfully onboarded to AFC?

24. An administrator needs to implement a new governance policy to standardize labels on all new deployments. However, they are concerned that a strictly enforcing policy might accidentally block critical workloads during the initial rollout.

Which feature of Kyverno should the administrator use to observe the impact of the policy on the cluster without actually blocking any resource creation?

25. An IT Manager is evaluating the costs associated with HPE Compute Ops Management. They want to know if they need to purchase an additional support contract to get assistance with "General Technical Guidance" and "HPE GreenLake account setup."

What is the correct support entitlement for these activities?

26. An HPC System Administrator is managing a large cluster of HPE Cray XD nodes using HPE Performance Cluster Manager (HPCM). A recent OS upgrade on a subset of compute nodes has caused application compatibility issues, and the administrator needs to revert these nodes to the previous working OS version immediately.

Which feature of HPCM facilitates this rapid rollback?

27. An AI Engineer is troubleshooting a deployment in HPE Machine Learning Inference Software. The deployment status is "Unhealthy". The engineer suspects the liveness probe is failing.

For custom container images (like those used for newer OpenLLM versions), what is the required port configuration to ensure the liveness check passes?

28. A data center technician has been asked to onboard a new shipment of HPE ProLiant Gen11 servers into HPE GreenLake for Compute Ops Management. They need the ability to register these devices and assign subscription entitlements.

Which RBAC role within HPE GreenLake for Compute Ops Management grants the specific permission to perform onboarding?

29. A network engineer is auditing firewall logs and notices traffic originating from an HPE iLO destined for the FQDN midway.ext.hpe.com. They need to classify this traffic to determine if it should be whitelisted.

What is the specific purpose of the traffic sent to midway.ext.hpe.com?

30. An AI Developer is preparing to deploy the NVIDIA "Build an AI Virtual Assistant" blueprint on an HPE Private Cloud AI cluster. The developer has downloaded the Helm chart and is configuring the values.yaml file.

To ensure the blueprint can successfully pull the required NVIDIA NIM container images (such as the Llama-3-70b-instruct) from the NVIDIA NGC registry, which specific credential must be configured in the Kubernetes namespace?

31. A System Administrator is preparing the physical infrastructure for a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) deployment. They need to deploy the HPE OneView appliance to manage the underlying hardware.

According to the HPE Reference Architecture for VCF, where should the HPE OneView appliance be deployed?

32. An HPC application uses the Libfabric API to communicate directly with the HPE Slingshot NICs.

Which specific offload capability does the HPE Slingshot NIC provide to accelerate these MPI-based applications?

33. The administrator is configuring the HPE OneView appliance to manage the new VCF cluster nodes.

What information is required to import the HPE ProLiant DL management and workload servers into the HPE OneView appliance?

34. A CIO is evaluating a data center modernization project to replace aging infrastructure. The current fleet consists primarily of HPE ProLiant Gen8 servers. The goal is to reclaim rack space and reduce power consumption while maintaining or increasing compute capacity.

According to SPEC testing data provided by HPE, what is the potential server consolidation ratio a customer can achieve by upgrading from HPE ProLiant Gen8 to Gen12?

35. A customer is evaluating NVIDIA Spectrum-X for their AI cluster. They want to understand how it handles packet delivery in a multi-path environment compared to standard Ethernet.

What mechanism does the Spectrum-X switch use to handle packets that arrive out-of-order due to adaptive routing, before forwarding them to the destination?

36. An HPC Solution Architect is calculating the density and floor space requirements for a new exascale-class supercomputer.

According to the HPE Cray EX liquid-cooled cabinet architecture, what is the maximum capacity of compute chassis and switch chassis that a single cabinet can support?

37. A System Administrator is looking to streamline hardware management within their VMware vCenter environment. They want to perform tasks such as firmware updates, hardware monitoring, and OS image deployment directly from the vSphere Client.

Which HPE solution should the administrator deploy to integrate these hardware management capabilities into vCenter?

38. A Governance Specialist is reviewing the architecture of Kyverno to understand how it processes requests.

In the Kyverno architecture, which component is responsible for receiving the Admission Review request from the Kubernetes API server and passing it to the Engine for processing?

39. 1.A solution architect is looking for the download and documentation for the HPE OneView Partner Integrations, specifically the plugin for VMware vCenter.

Which URL provides access to this specific software integration?

40. A customer wants to expand their existing HPE Cray Storage Systems C500 baseline configuration. The current baseline consists of one System Management Unit (SMU) and one Converged Storage Unit (CSU).

What is a valid rule regarding the expansion of this C500 system?