350-601 Compute Practice Question
An administrator needs to replace a faulty UCS B200 M5 blade with a new blade of the same model. The original blade had a service profile associated. What is the minimum required action to allow the new blade to take over the workload with the same configuration?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Disassociate the service profile from the faulty blade and associate it with the new blade.
UCS service profiles provide hardware abstraction, making blades stateless. Simply inserting the new blade will not automatically associate the profile; the administrator must re-associate the service profile with the new blade. No other reconfiguration is needed if the new blade is identical.
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Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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Disassociate the service profile from the faulty blade and associate it with the new blade.
Why this is correct
This applies the same configuration to the new blade.
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Clone the service profile and then associate the clone with the new blade.
Why it's wrong here
Cloning is unnecessary; the existing profile can be reassigned.
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Manually reconfigure the new blade via the KVM console.
Why it's wrong here
Stateless computing avoids manual reconfiguration.
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Update the firmware on the new blade to match the service profile requirements.
Why it's wrong here
Firmware is managed by UCS Manager via firmware policies; not a manual step.
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