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Start ML Solution Monitoring, Maintenance, and Security PracticeA machine learning engineer is monitoring a deployed model for data drift. The input features are a mix of categorical and numerical columns. The baseline is from the training data. Which SageMaker Model Monitor feature should they enable to detect changes in the distribution of each feature over time?
Explanation: Data quality monitoring in SageMaker Model Monitor detects schema and statistical drift (including distribution changes) for input features. Model quality monitors predictions vs. ground truth, not input features.
A team receives alerts that their SageMaker endpoint latency has increased significantly. They check CloudWatch metrics and see Invocations rising, but ModelLatency remains stable. Which metric should they investigate to find the source of the increased latency?
Explanation: OverheadLatency measures the time taken by the SageMaker infrastructure to handle requests before and after model inference, including request routing, authentication, and response processing. Since ModelLatency is stable but total endpoint latency has increased, the extra time must be in the overhead component, making OverheadLatency the correct metric to investigate.
A data scientist wants to track the lineage of models, datasets, and training jobs in SageMaker. Which SageMaker feature should they use to capture these relationships as artifacts and actions?
Explanation: SageMaker ML Lineage Tracking creates a graph of artifacts (datasets, models) and actions (training jobs, endpoints) to track the provenance of ML workflows.
A financial services company must deploy a SageMaker endpoint that processes sensitive customer data. They require that all traffic between the endpoint and the model containers be encrypted, and that the endpoint cannot be accessed from outside a specific VPC. Which combination of settings should they use?
Explanation: Option B is correct because inter-container traffic encryption ensures that data between the SageMaker endpoint and the model containers is encrypted in transit, typically using TLS. Configuring the endpoint with VPC-only mode restricts all inference traffic to the specified VPC, preventing any access from outside that VPC. This combination directly addresses the requirements for encrypted inter-container traffic and VPC-restricted access.
A team has deployed a real-time inference endpoint and wants to automatically scale based on CPU utilization. Which scaling policy type should they use with Application Auto Scaling for SageMaker endpoints?
Explanation: Target tracking scaling adjusts the number of instances based on a target metric value (e.g., CPU utilization at 50%). Step scaling uses step adjustments, and simple scaling is deprecated. Predictive scaling is not supported for SageMaker endpoints.
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