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Start ML Solution Monitoring, Maintenance, and Security PracticeA company needs to secure a SageMaker real-time endpoint such that only authorized applications within a VPC can invoke the model, and all data in transit is encrypted. Which TWO configuration steps should they implement? (Choose TWO)
Explanation: To ensure only authorized applications within a VPC can invoke the SageMaker endpoint, enable VPC-only mode (D). To encrypt all data in transit, enable inter-container traffic encryption (E). Option C (KMS for at-rest encryption) does not address the requirement of encrypting data in transit; it protects data at rest, which is not asked for here. Options A and B do not contribute to the stated requirements.
A team has deployed a real-time inference endpoint. They need to monitor the latency experienced by end users, including network overhead. Which CloudWatch metric should they use?
Explanation: OverheadLatency measures the additional time added by SageMaker infrastructure, including request handling, pre-processing, post-processing, and internal network overhead. It does not include model inference time (captured by ModelLatency) or client-side network latency. For monitoring end-user experience within the AWS environment, OverheadLatency is the metric that accounts for network overhead inside the service. If total end-to-end latency including client-side network is required, custom client-side metrics should be used.
A company wants to automatically trigger a retraining pipeline when concept drift is detected in their deployed model. Which combination of services should they use?
Explanation: SageMaker Model Monitor detects concept drift by analyzing model predictions against a baseline, then publishes metrics to CloudWatch. A CloudWatch Alarm triggers when drift exceeds a threshold, sending a notification via SNS to invoke a Lambda function, which starts the retraining pipeline. This end-to-end integration ensures automated, event-driven retraining without manual intervention.
A data scientist uses SageMaker Model Monitor to track feature attribution drift. Which technique does SageMaker Model Monitor use to compute feature attributions?
Explanation: SageMaker Model Monitor uses SHAP (SHapley Additive exPlanations) to compute feature attributions for model explainability and drift detection. SHAP provides a unified measure of feature importance based on cooperative game theory, ensuring consistent and locally accurate attributions across all features.
A team monitors a production endpoint and notices a sudden increase in 5XXError count. Which of the following is the most likely cause?
Explanation: A sudden increase in 5XX errors, particularly HTTP 503 or 502, typically indicates that the model container is failing to process requests due to resource exhaustion (e.g., OOM kills) or a crash in the inference process. In a production ML endpoint, such errors often stem from the container running out of memory, leading to the container being terminated by the orchestrator (e.g., Kubernetes OOMKill) or the application crashing internally, which directly causes 5XX responses.
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