NVIDIA-Certified Associate NCA-AIIO Question # 2 Topic 1 Discussion

Predicting GPU failures requires monitoring metrics that signal hardware degradation or faults. Error Rates, such as ECC (Error-Correcting Code) errors, are critical because they indicate memory corruption or hardware issues in NVIDIA GPUs (e.g., A100, H100). ECC errors, tracked via NVIDIA DCGM (Data Center GPU Manager) or nvidia-smi, can predict impending failures if they increase over time, allowing proactive maintenance to prevent downtime in AI data centers like DGX deployments.

GPU Clock Speed (Option A) reflects performance but not health. GPU Temperature (Option B) is important for thermal management but less predictive of failure unless extreme. CPU Utilization (Option C) is unrelated to GPU health. NVIDIA’s focus on reliability in enterprise settings prioritizes Error Rates for failure prediction.