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Domain 4Objective 5
Determine the Use Cases of Different Protocols CERTIFIED-AI-EXPERT Practice Questions (Page 2)
Part of the AI Hardware Architectures domain, which accounts for 18% of the CERTIFIED-AI-EXPERT exam. NetApp does not publish an official question count, but from its 90-minute exam (~35–60 total, ~6–11 in this domain), expect 1–2 from this objective — we provide 12 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)
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Questions 6–10
- 6
Which protocol is most commonly used for high-performance data transfer between AI training clusters over a data center network?
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When selecting a protocol for connecting GPUs within a single AI training server, which criterion is most important to prioritize?
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A company is designing a new AI inference server that will serve real-time requests. The server has a single GPU and needs to receive input data from a high-speed network. Which protocol is the most appropriate for this network connection?
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A research lab is building a GPU cluster for distributed deep learning training across 32 nodes. Each node has 8 GPUs, and the training job requires frequent all-reduce operations that synchronize model gradients across all GPUs. The lab has a limited budget and wants to maximize training throughput. Which protocol should the GPUs use for inter-GPU communication within each node?
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A team is setting up a storage system for AI training data. They need to provide high-throughput access to large files (e.g., model checkpoints) for multiple GPU servers. Which protocol is the most appropriate for this storage access?
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