AI-200 Security And Observability Practice Question
Your machine learning engineering team needs to run training jobs on Azure Machine Learning compute clusters. To minimize costs during off-peak hours, you need to configure the compute cluster to automatically scale down to zero nodes when no jobs are queued, and scale up when jobs are submitted. What setting should you configure on the compute cluster?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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Set the minimum number of nodes to 0 and the maximum nodes according to workload requirements
Configuring the minimum number of nodes to 0 on an Azure Machine Learning compute cluster allows it to scale down completely when idle, reducing costs.
Answer analysis
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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Set the minimum number of nodes to 0 and the maximum nodes according to workload requirements
Why this is correct
Correct. Setting min nodes to 0 allows compute resources to deallocate when idle, saving costs.
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Configure Azure Automation runbooks to stop the physical datacenter servers
Why it's wrong here
Incorrect. Customers do not manage physical datacenter servers in Azure.
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Set the minimum number of nodes equal to the maximum number of nodes
Why it's wrong here
Incorrect. This keeps all nodes running continuously, preventing scale-down and increasing costs.
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Use Azure Functions timer triggers to delete the compute target every evening
Why it's wrong here
Incorrect. Recreating compute targets daily is inefficient; native autoscaling from min=0 handles idle scaling automatically.
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