A VNF is experiencing high latency and packet loss under load. The VNF is a virtual router performing routing and ACL processing. The NFVI host has multiple NUMA nodes. Which performance optimization is most likely to reduce latency?

Pin the VNF's vCPUs to a single NUMA node and ensure its memory is allocated from the same node.

Use the default hypervisor scheduler without any CPU pinning.

Enable memory ballooning to allow dynamic memory allocation.

Spread the VNF's vCPUs across all NUMA nodes to utilize more cores.

A service provider is running a CNF on Kubernetes. The CNF is stateless and can scale horizontally. The team wants to ensure that the CNF can handle a sudden increase in traffic by automatically adding replicas, but they also want to avoid over-provisioning during normal traffic. Which Kubernetes feature should be configured?

A Kubernetes Service with a load balancer

Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) with a CPU utilization target

A DaemonSet to run the CNF on every node

A ReplicaSet with a fixed number of replicas

An NFV environment uses OpenStack as the VIM. The operations team needs to add a new compute node to the NFVI to expand capacity. Which MANO component is responsible for integrating the new compute node into the NFVI and making it available for VNF deployment?

Operations Support System (OSS)

Virtualized Infrastructure Manager (VIM)

Which function is provided by a container orchestration platform like Kubernetes?

Automated scheduling of containers onto cluster nodes

Providing a guest OS for each container

Compiling container images from source code

Replacing the need for a container runtime

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6application · medium
A VNF is experiencing high latency and packet loss under load. The VNF is a virtual router performing routing and ACL processing. The NFVI host has multiple NUMA nodes. Which performance optimization is most likely to reduce latency?
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7expert · hard
A service provider is running a CNF on Kubernetes. The CNF is stateless and can scale horizontally. The team wants to ensure that the CNF can handle a sudden increase in traffic by automatically adding replicas, but they also want to avoid over-provisioning during normal traffic. Which Kubernetes feature should be configured?
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8application · medium
A service provider is containerizing a set of microservices that form a virtual CPE (vCPE) solution. The microservices need to be deployed across a cluster of servers, automatically scale based on CPU utilization, and be reachable via stable service names. Which platform provides these capabilities?
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9application · medium
An NFV environment uses OpenStack as the VIM. The operations team needs to add a new compute node to the NFVI to expand capacity. Which MANO component is responsible for integrating the new compute node into the NFVI and making it available for VNF deployment?
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10foundation · easy
Which function is provided by a container orchestration platform like Kubernetes?
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A VNF is experiencing high latency and packet loss under load. The VNF is a virtual router performing routing and ACL processing. The NFVI host has multiple NUMA nodes. Which performance optimization is most likely to reduce latency?

An NFV environment uses OpenStack as the VIM. The operations team needs to add a new compute node to the NFVI to expand capacity. Which MANO component is responsible for integrating the new compute node into the NFVI and making it available for VNF deployment?

Which function is provided by a container orchestration platform like Kubernetes?

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