An AI application uses a PVC backed by a Trident storage class. The team wants to protect against accidental data corruption by taking point-in-time snapshots of the volume. They have installed the required snapshot CRDs. What should they do to create a snapshot?

Create a VolumeSnapshot object referencing the PVC and a VolumeSnapshotClass.

Create a new PVC from the existing PVC using a clone operation.

Create a PersistentVolumeClaim with the same storage class and copy data manually.

Use `kubectl exec` into the pod to run a database dump.

A user reports that a PVC created with a Trident-backed storage class is stuck in 'Pending' state. You check the Trident logs and see an error indicating that the backend is unreachable. What is the most likely cause?

The Kubernetes namespace is missing.

The PVC requests too much storage.

The ONTAP storage system is down or network connectivity is lost.

The storage class name is misspelled.

A company runs a GPU-accelerated inference service on Kubernetes. The service experiences periodic traffic spikes. The team wants to automatically increase the number of replicas when CPU utilization exceeds 70% for 5 minutes, and decrease when it drops below 30%. They also want to ensure that the service never scales below 2 replicas. What should they configure?

A ClusterAutoscaler with target CPU utilization of 70% and minNodes set to 2.

A HorizontalPodAutoscaler with target CPU utilization of 70% and minReplicas set to 2.

A VerticalPodAutoscaler with target CPU utilization of 70% and minReplicas set to 2.

A Deployment with replicas set to 2 and a resource limit of 70% CPU.

You are configuring Trident on a Kubernetes cluster. You have created a backend configuration file for an ONTAP system. Which command should you use to add this backend to Trident?

tridentctl create storageclass -f backend.json

tridentctl install backend -f backend.json

tridentctl create backend -f backend.json

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Which Kubernetes object provides a stable IP address and DNS name so that AI workload clients can reliably reach a set of pods, even as individual pods are created or terminated?
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7application · medium
An AI application uses a PVC backed by a Trident storage class. The team wants to protect against accidental data corruption by taking point-in-time snapshots of the volume. They have installed the required snapshot CRDs. What should they do to create a snapshot?
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A user reports that a PVC created with a Trident-backed storage class is stuck in 'Pending' state. You check the Trident logs and see an error indicating that the backend is unreachable. What is the most likely cause?
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9application · medium
A company runs a GPU-accelerated inference service on Kubernetes. The service experiences periodic traffic spikes. The team wants to automatically increase the number of replicas when CPU utilization exceeds 70% for 5 minutes, and decrease when it drops below 30%. They also want to ensure that the service never scales below 2 replicas. What should they configure?
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10application · easy
You are configuring Trident on a Kubernetes cluster. You have created a backend configuration file for an ONTAP system. Which command should you use to add this backend to Trident?
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Which Kubernetes object provides a stable IP address and DNS name so that AI workload clients can reliably reach a set of pods, even as individual pods are created or terminated?

An AI application uses a PVC backed by a Trident storage class. The team wants to protect against accidental data corruption by taking point-in-time snapshots of the volume. They have installed the required snapshot CRDs. What should they do to create a snapshot?

A user reports that a PVC created with a Trident-backed storage class is stuck in 'Pending' state. You check the Trident logs and see an error indicating that the backend is unreachable. What is the most likely cause?

You are configuring Trident on a Kubernetes cluster. You have created a backend configuration file for an ONTAP system. Which command should you use to add this backend to Trident?

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