Exam NCA-AIIO Topic 1 Question 23 Discussion

Actual exam question for NVIDIA's NCA-AIIO exam
Question #: 23
Topic #: 1
In managing an AI data center, you need to ensure continuous optimal performance and quickly respond to any potential issues. Which monitoring tool or approach would best suit the need to monitor GPU health, usage, and performance metrics across all deployed AI workloads?

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NVIDIA DCGM (Data Center GPU Manager) is the best tool for monitoring GPU health, usage, and performance metrics across AI workloads in a data center. DCGM provides real-time insights into GPU- specific metrics (e.g., memory usage, utilization, power, errors), designed for NVIDIA GPUs in enterprise environments like DGX clusters. It integrates with orchestration tools (e.g., Kubernetes) and supports proactive issue detection, as detailed in NVIDIA's "DCGM User Guide." Nagios (A) and Prometheus (B) are general-purpose monitoring tools, lacking GPU-specific depth. Splunk (C) is a log analytics platform, not optimized for GPU monitoring. DCGM is NVIDIA's dedicated solution for AI data center management.

by Payne at Aug 17, 2025, 02:55 PM

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