Practice Free HPE7-S01 Exam Online Questions
A customer is asking about the cabling infrastructure required for an HPE Slingshot network. They are looking to reduce costs and complexity by using standard industry cabling where possible.
What type of physical cabling does HPE Slingshot utilize?
- A . InfiniBand-specific QSFP56 cables only.
- B . Fibre Channel cables.
- C . Standard Ethernet cabling (Copper and Optical).
- D . Proprietary Cray optical cables only.
A customer is designing a large-scale HPC cluster for converged modeling and simulation workloads. They are comparing network topologies to minimize the cost of optical cabling while maintaining high bandwidth and low latency.
What is a distinct advantage of the Dragonfly topology used by HPE Slingshot compared to a traditional non-blocking Fat Tree topology?
- A . It can provide the same bandwidth as a fat tree topology while using only half the number of optical cables.
- B . It uses a leaf-spine design that isolates east-west traffic from north-south traffic to prevent congestion.
- C . It creates a non-blocking architecture by ensuring every switch has the same number of uplinks and downlinks.
- D . It requires optical cables for all connections, ensuring the lowest possible latency for every link.
An AI Administrator needs to monitor the health and utilization of the NVIDIA GPUs in an HPE Private Cloud AI cluster. They specifically want to perform advanced diagnostics, health checks, and collect telemetry that goes beyond basic instantaneous usage snapshots.
Which tool, integrated with HPE Performance Cluster Manager (HPCM), provides this suite of advanced GPU monitoring capabilities?
- A . Linux top command
- B . nvidia-smi command line utility
- C . Kubernetes Metrics Server
- D . NVIDIA Data Center GPU Manager (DCGM)
While troubleshooting an onboarding issue, an administrator wants to verify connectivity to the Device Activation endpoint.
Which FQDN should the administrator check to ensure the HPE iLO can reach the activation service?
- A . device.cloud.hpe.com
- B . common.cloud.hpe.com
- C . api.compute.cloud.hpe.com
- D . auth.hpe.com
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?
- A . It uses a reorder buffer at the ingress port of the destination switch to re-sequence packets based on RDMA memory addresses.
- B . It encapsulates packets in a proprietary frame that guarantees in-order delivery across the fabric.
- C . It relies entirely on the host CPU to reorder packets in software.
- D . It drops out-of-order packets and requests retransmission.
A Network Architect is designing a new HPC cluster and evaluating the HPE Slingshot switch hardware options available in the OCA catalog. They need a Top-of-Rack (ToR) switch that supports the highest possible port density for 200 Gbps connections in a 1U form factor.
Which HPE Slingshot switch model should the architect select?
- A . HPE Cray EX 64-port Switch Blade
- B . HPE Slingshot 200Gb 64-port QSFP-DD 1U Switch
- C . HPE Slingshot 4064 32xQSFP-DD 1U Switch
- D . NVIDIA QM8700 InfiniBand HDR Switch
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?
- A . It defaults to the same permissions as the Administrator role but allows the name to be changed.
- B . It is a temporary role that expires after 24 hours.
- C . It is a legacy role that provides full root access to the underlying Linux OS of the iLO.
- D . It allows the user to define a specific subset of privileges from the available list.
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?
- A . LDAP over SSL (LDAPS)
- B . SAML 2.0
- C . OAUTH 2.0
- D . RADIUS
A data center manager is preparing to fill the cooling loops for a new rack of HPE Cray XD servers with 70% DLC. They need to distinguish between the "Primary Side" and "Secondary Side" fluids to ensure the correct coolant is used.
According to the HPE architecture for rack-mounted DLC, what defines the Secondary Side cooling loop?
- A . It is the closed loop within the rack, circulating treated coolant (typically 25% PGW) between the CDU and the server cold plates.
- B . It is the open loop that brings raw facility water directly to the server cold plates.
- C . It is the air-cooling path managed by the rear door heat exchanger.
- D . It is the loop connecting the CDU to the facility cooling tower.
A System Architect is calculating the compute density for an HPE Cray EX4000 cabinet. They need to know the maximum processor count to size the workload capacity.
Given that the cabinet holds 8 compute chassis, and each chassis holds 8 compute blades, and using the standard 4-node (2-socket) blade architecture, what is the maximum number of processors (sockets) per EX4000 cabinet?
- A . 256
- B . 512
- C . 64
- D . 128