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In the Microkernel architecture of VMs:
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Drivers are part of the Guest VMs
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Drivers are part of the Hypervisor
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Drivers are part of a specific service VM
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Drivers are part of the Guest OS
Pregunta 2
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Which statement about Paravirtualization is correct?
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It is the same of Kernel-level Virtualization
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Guest OS and VMM are independent each other
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It cannot be used with traditional Operating Systems
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Hooks are not required
Pregunta 3
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Which is the goal of the "machine-learning software as a service"?
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Provide networking paradigms for machine learning
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Provide ready-to-use machine learning applications
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Provide platform and toolboxes for machine learning
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Provide hardware infrastructures for machine learning
Pregunta 4
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emulates only the ISA but not the ABI
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emulates only the ABI and not the ISA
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reproduces the machine by providing not only ABI but ISA (user/ system)
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supports the Java Runtime Environment
Pregunta 5
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Does an emulator read, interpret and execute all the bytes included in the memory of system it is going to reproduce?
Pregunta 6
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The program in warehouse-scale computing may consist of tens or more individual programs:
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Data centers are buildings where multiple servers and communication units are co-located
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What is a computing infrastructure?
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Tower servers consumes less space than rack and blade:
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Blade servers require expensive configurations:
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TOR switch refers to:
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Tower switch
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Top-of-rack switch
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Racks shelves may contain switches:
Pregunta 13
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What is a Network Attached Storage (NAS)?
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a storage system directly attached to a server or workstation
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a computer connected to a network that provides only file-based data storage services to other devices
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a remote storage unit connected to PC using a specific networking technology
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a computer connected to a network that provides computation to other devices
Pregunta 14
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Downtime is a period of time, or a percentage of a time span, when a system is unavailable or offline __________
Pregunta 15
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In a three-layer network architecture of a Datacenter, which is the layer that is typically associated to the TOR switch?
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Access
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Core
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Aggregation
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None of the others
Pregunta 16
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Which definition is not encompassed by Dependability:
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Reversibility: ability to reverse a broken service
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Reliability: continuity of correct service
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Maintainability: reparation to restore correct service
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Availability: readiness for correct service
Pregunta 17
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In the context of SSDs, Blocks are the smallest unit that can be read/written
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Paravirtualization is a particular type of kernel-level Virtualization that does not rely on a host OS
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The structure (or topology) of a reliability block diagram is always the same as the structure (or topology) of the modeled system
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A system virtual machine provides a complete system environment that can support an operating system (potentially with many user processes)
Pregunta 21
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Which sentence about Tier Level 4 of datacenter is not correct?
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Fault-tolerant site infrastructure with availability of 99.995%
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Meets or exceeds all Tier 3 requirements
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Single non-redundant distribution path serving the IT equipment
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All cooling equipment is independently dual-powered
Pregunta 22
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What is a hybrid cloud computing system?
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a cloud used for a single organization
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a cloud whose energy is produced both by diesel and batteries
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a cloud shared by several organization
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a cloud composed by private and public cloud systems
Pregunta 23
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Paravirtualization cannot be used with unmodified OS
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Servers in data centers are like regular personal-computers with the same form factor
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Warehouse-scale computers run a large number of very small applications
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An Edge Computing system provides higher performance (in terms of memory and computation) than Internet-of-Things devices:
Pregunta 27
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Which of the following is not a feature of a fat tree topology in a data center network architecture?
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None of the others
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It has multiple connections to the core
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It has a recursive organization
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It has a three-tier model
Pregunta 28
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In the context of SSDs, one of the following activities is NOT managed by the Flash Translation Layer:
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Defragmentation
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Address Translation
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Garbage Collection
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Data Allocation
Pregunta 29
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Provides the interface to system ISA and user ISA
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Provides the interface to system ABI and the user ISA
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Provides the interface to system ABI and the user ABI
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Provides the interface to system calls and user ABI
Pregunta 30
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Consider an array of N disks. Select the right order of the RAID levels in terms of effective data storage in ascending order, i.e. for the lower to the higher data storage availability.
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RAID 1+0, RAID 6, RAID 5
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RAID 6, RAID 5, RAID 1+0
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None of the others
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RAID 1+0, RAID 5, RAID 6
Pregunta 31
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Warehouse-scale computers belong to a single organization, use a relatively homogeneous hardware and system software platform, and share a common systems management layer
Pregunta 32
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All faults occurring in a system cause a failure of the system
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In the context of SSDs, Pages are the smallest unit that can be erased
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Graphical Processing Units support data-parallel computation
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A deep neural-network cannot be trained on multiple Graphical Processing Units
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A System Virtual Machine can provide its functionality:
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Hybrid Clouds are systems where one or more public cloud services are combined with private data
center resources into a single virtually managed environment.
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Graphical Processing Units within a tray are connected using high-bandwidth interconnects, such as NVlink:
Pregunta 39
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The need for a constant Internet connection is one of the advantages of data centers
Pregunta 40
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In-rack cooling refers to cooling equipment where the cooling coils are adjacent to the rack.
Pregunta 41
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Warehouse-scale computers belong to a single organization, use a relatively homogeneous hardware and system software platform, and share a common systems management layer
Pregunta 42
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In datacenter storage context, DAS means Distributed Application Storage:
Pregunta 43
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Which is the difference between Guest and Host?
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Guest: the underlying platform supporting the environment/system; Host: the software that runs in the VM environment
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Guest: the software that runs in the VM environment; Host: the underlying platform supporting the environment/system
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Guest: the underlying platform supporting the environment/system; Host: the virtual machine manager supporting the execution of virtual machines
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Guest: the underlying platform running in the virtual machine manager; Host: the software that runs in the VM environment
Pregunta 44
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To increase reliability, which of the following actions is not correct?
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Use multiple redundant components
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Reduce MTTR to a minimum
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Have spare components at disposal
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Use elements with higher MTTF
Pregunta 45
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Warehouse-scale computers can be designed to operate on multiple data centers
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Rotational delay is the time to rotate the read head to reach the desired track
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A system having very small reliability may have large availability
Pregunta 48
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In the context of data centers, scalability is the ability for the infrastructure __________ without cost, efficiency, and reliability being compromised. Select the correct item to be included in the previous sentence.
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to be enlarged or to handle an increment of the input requests
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to run in a larger building
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none of the others
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to improve the cooling strategy
Pregunta 49
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Which is the most appropriate definition for "fault"?
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Any library inconsistency in the Operating System
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Any defect in the silicon caused by dust particles during manufacturing
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Any inappropriate usage of the system
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Any event interfering with the nominal behavior of the system
Pregunta 50
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One of these levels is NOT part of a typical three-layers network architecture of a data-center?
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Access
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Aggregation
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Core
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Cloud
Pregunta 51
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In the context of rack servers, 1U is 44.45cm
Pregunta 52
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In a reliability block diagram, adding components in series decrease the system reliability with respect to the reliability of the single component
Pregunta 53
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Warehouse-scale computers run a large number of very small applications
Pregunta 54
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What are the benefits of data center virtualization?
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All of the other answers listed are correct.
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Consolidation and ease of manageability.
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Cost savings in power and cooling of the data center.
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Flexibility and agility.
Pregunta 55
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When dependability-related requirements must be considered?
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Only during requirements definition
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When starting testing/verification activities
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When a prototype of the system is available
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In every phase of the design flow
Pregunta 56
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The program in warehouse-scale computing is a service provided by internet:
Pregunta 57
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Traditional data centers can host hardware and software for multiple organizational units or different companies.
Pregunta 58
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Which is the configuration characterizing the three-layers network architecture of a data-center?
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Sensors – Aggregation – Cloud
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Access - Aggregation – Cloud
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Access – Aggregation – Core
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Access – Fog – Core
Pregunta 59
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Tower servers have a cable management that is more complex than Rack ones:
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Gmail is an example of:
Pregunta 61
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Consider an array of N disks. Select the right order of the RAID levels in terms of effective data
storage in descending order, i.e. for the higher to the lower data storage availability.
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RAID 0, RAID 4, RAID 6
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RAID 6, RAID 0, RAID 4
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None of the others
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RAID 4, RAID 6, RAID 0
Pregunta 62
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Data centers are well suited for real-time decisions in autonomous car context
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After a fault activation the system is always expected to fail
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The reliability of a Triple Modular Redundancy (TMR) system is always greater than the reliability
of the single copy of the system
Pregunta 65
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What is a Data Center?
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None of the others
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A building or portion of a building whose primary function is to research new data.
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A building or a portion of a building whose primary function is to house a computer room and its related support areas.
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A room in a building dedicated to monitoring data and information.
Pregunta 66
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Seek delay is the time needed by the disk to place the desired sector under the read head
Pregunta 67
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What is the Hardware-level virtualization?
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The virtualization layer is placed between the operating system and the applications
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The virtualization layer is above the applications
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The virtualization layer is placed between the hardware and the operating system
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The virtualization layer is placed below the hardware
Pregunta 68
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Which aspect is a drawback of data center computing platform?
Pregunta 69
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Racks shelves are used to store servers and other IT equipments:
Pregunta 70
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In warehouse-scale computers the software running on these systems executes on clusters of hundreds to thousands of individual servers
Pregunta 71
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In a data center for AI, servers includes both general purpose CPUs and accelerators (such as
GPUs, TPUs and FPGAs):
Pregunta 72
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NVlink is a low-bandwidth connection among Graphical Processing Units:
Pregunta 73
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Provides the interface to system calls and user ABI
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Provides the interface to system ABI and the user ISA
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Provides the interface to system calls and user ISA
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Provides the interface to system ABI and the user ABI
Pregunta 74
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One of these configurations is not considered in Data-center network architectures. Which one?
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D-Cell
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Three layers
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Fat-tree
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Direct Connections
Pregunta 75
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What is the average latency for an Hard Disk Drive?
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Time to wait for the sector
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Time to wait for the data transfer
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Time to wait for the head movement
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Time to wait for the cylinder
Pregunta 76
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In the context of SSDs, Pages are the smallest unit that can be read/written
Pregunta 77
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In-row cooling adds an air-to-water heat exchanger at the back of a rack so the hot air exiting the
servers immediately flows over coils cooled by water.
Pregunta 78
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Select the wrong definition. A Virtual Machine:
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none of the others
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may appear as having different resources than the physical machine
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may result in a different level of performance with respect to the physical machine
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provides identical software behavior
Pregunta 79
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Tower servers can be cooled easily:
Pregunta 80
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What is the TBW in a Solid State Disk?
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Total amount of data that must be written into an SSD before the completion of the space
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Total amount of data that can be written into an SSD before it is likely to fail
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Total amount of data that can be read from an SSD
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Total amount of data that can be written into an SSD
Pregunta 81
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The following sentence: "The probability that the component does not fail in the interval 0 ... t,
knowing that at the instant t = 0 the component was working correctly" defines:
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Dependability
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Reliability
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Availability
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None of the other
Pregunta 82
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Consider an array of N disks. Select the right order of the RAID levels in terms of MTTFRAID
in descending order, i.e. for the higher to the lower MTTF. Consider a number of disks N that is
large enough to satisfy the minimum requirements for all the RAID levels.
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None of the others
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RAID 5, RAID 1+0, RAID 0+1
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RAID 1+0, RAID 0+1, RAID 5
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RAID 0+1, RAID 5, RAID 1+0
Pregunta 83
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Racks servers have a cable management that is more complex than Tower ones:
Pregunta 84
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Traditional data centers typically host a large number of relatively small- or medium-sized applications
Pregunta 85
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In-row cooling works like in-rack cooling except the cooling coils are not in the rack, but adjacent
to the rack.
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Rack, blade and towers are form factor of servers in data centers
Pregunta 87
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Warehouse-scale computers comprise important components related to power delivery, cooling, and building infrastructure
Pregunta 88
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What is a Graphical Processing Unit (GPU)?
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A specialized hardware meant to provide storage in a data center
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A specialized hardware meant to support data-parallel computation
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An Internet-of-Things device meant to operate in the field
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A specialized hardware meant to provide networking in a data center
Pregunta 89
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Rack servers need additional cooling systems due to their high overall component density
Pregunta 90
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Is the Java Runtime Environment an example of system virtual machine?
Pregunta 91
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Which is the main characteristic of the D-Cell topology for data center network architectures?
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The network is organized in a distributed way
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The network comprises edge, aggregation and core layers
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the network is organized in a recursive way
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the network is organized in a hierarchical way