When booting up a Cisco UCS Server you want to see boot time diagnostic messages of the POST, what action is required for you to do so?

Question

Options

• AEnable Quiet Boot on the Server's BIOS
• BRestart the Server
• CDisable Fast Boot on the Server's BIOS
• DEnable Quiet Boot on the Server's Service Profile
• EDisable Fast Boot on the Server's Service Profile

• B
  6% (2)
• C
  3% (1)
• D
  91% (32)

Explanation

Quiet Boot in Cisco UCS controls whether the BIOS splash screen is displayed (suppressing POST messages) or whether POST diagnostic messages are shown instead; enabling it on the Service Profile (D) is the correct mechanism because Cisco UCS manages BIOS settings through Service Profiles-not by touching the server's BIOS directly.

Options A and C are wrong for the same architectural reason: in UCS, administrators do not configure BIOS settings directly on the server hardware; those settings are abstracted and pushed down via Service Profile BIOS policies. Option B (simply restarting) changes nothing about what is displayed-it just reboots with existing settings. Option E (Disable Fast Boot on the Service Profile) targets the wrong BIOS setting; Fast Boot skips portions of POST to speed up startup but is not the parameter that governs whether diagnostic messages are rendered on screen.

Memory tip: Think "Service Profile = the boss of the BIOS in UCS." Any time you want to change boot behavior on a UCS server, the answer almost always involves the Service Profile, not the bare-metal BIOS-this eliminates A and C immediately and narrows the choice to D or E.

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