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AZ-305 · Question #142

You plan provision a High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster in Azure that will use a third- party scheduler. You need to recommend a solution to provision and manage the HPC cluster node. What shoul

The correct answer is B. Azure CycleCloud. You can dynamically provision Azure HPC clusters with Azure CycleCloud. Azure CycleCloud is the simplest way to manage HPC workloads. Note: Azure CycleCloud is an enterprise-friendly tool for orchestrating and managing High Performance Computing (HPC) environments on Azure. With

Submitted by yaw92· Mar 6, 2026Design infrastructure solutions

Question

You plan provision a High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster in Azure that will use a third- party scheduler. You need to recommend a solution to provision and manage the HPC cluster node. What should you include in the recommendation?

Options

  • AAzure Lighthouse
  • BAzure CycleCloud
  • CAzure Purview
  • DAzure Automation

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    2% (1)
  • B
    80% (41)
  • C
    12% (6)
  • D
    6% (3)

Explanation

You can dynamically provision Azure HPC clusters with Azure CycleCloud. Azure CycleCloud is the simplest way to manage HPC workloads. Note: Azure CycleCloud is an enterprise-friendly tool for orchestrating and managing High Performance Computing (HPC) environments on Azure. With CycleCloud, users can provision infrastructure for HPC systems, deploy familiar HPC schedulers, and automatically scale the infrastructure to run jobs efficiently at any scale. Through CycleCloud, users can create different types of file systems and mount them to the compute cluster nodes to support HPC workloads. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cyclecloud/overview

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