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How to approach select two (multi-select) questions

Multi-select questions tell you to 'Choose TWO' or 'Choose THREE'. Getting partial credit is not a thing — you must select all correct answers with no incorrect ones. The stem always states how many to choose, so trust it. These questions require precision, not best-guess elimination.

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Select Two (Multi-Select) Questions questions test whether you can apply the concept in context, not just recognise a definition.

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Question 1mediummulti select
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A data scientist is training a deep learning model on SageMaker using a custom container. The training job fails with an 'OutOfMemory' error. Which THREE actions could resolve this issue? (Choose 3.)

Question 2mediummulti select
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Which TWO approaches are valid for handling missing categorical values in a dataset before training a machine learning model?

Question 3hardmulti select
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A data engineer needs to set up a data lake on S3 that supports both batch and streaming ingestion. The data must be queryable by Athena, Redshift Spectrum, and EMR. Which TWO configurations are essential? (Choose two.)

Question 4mediummulti select
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A data engineer is designing a data ingestion pipeline that will receive up to 5 GB of data per hour from thousands of IoT devices. The data must be stored in Amazon S3 and analyzed in near real-time. Which TWO services should be used together to meet these requirements? (Choose TWO.)

Question 5hardmulti select
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A company is using Amazon SageMaker to build a custom model. The training job is failing with a 'ResourceLimitExceeded' error. Which TWO actions should the company take to resolve this issue?

Question 6mediummulti select
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A data science team is deploying a machine learning model using Amazon SageMaker. The model requires GPU inference and must handle variable traffic with low latency. Which TWO options should the team implement to meet these requirements? (Choose TWO.)

Question 7hardmulti select
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A data scientist is using Amazon SageMaker to train a model using a custom Docker container. The training job fails with an error message indicating that the container exited with a non-zero code. Which THREE steps should the data scientist take to diagnose the issue? (Choose THREE.)

Question 8hardmulti select
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A data scientist is analyzing a dataset with high multicollinearity. Which TWO techniques can help identify and address multicollinearity?

Question 9mediummulti select
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A data engineering team is designing a data lake on AWS. They need to store raw data in S3 and allow multiple analytics services to query the data. Which service can be used to catalog and provide schema information for the data?

Question 10hardmulti select
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A data scientist is analyzing a dataset with a continuous target variable and suspects that the relationship between a predictor and the target is non-linear. Which THREE techniques can the scientist use to explore and model this non-linearity?

Question 11mediummulti select
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Which TWO of the following are appropriate techniques for handling missing data during exploratory data analysis? (Select TWO.)

Question 12mediummulti select
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A data scientist is performing exploratory data analysis on a dataset with 10,000 rows and 20 features. The target variable is binary. The data scientist observes that one feature has 15% missing values. Which TWO actions are appropriate to handle this missing data? (Choose TWO.)

Question 13easymulti select
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Which TWO actions are best practices for tuning hyperparameters using Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning?

Question 14mediummulti select
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A data scientist is performing EDA on a dataset with mixed data types (numerical, categorical, text). The dataset is stored in S3. Which TWO AWS services can be used to directly perform statistical summaries and visualizations without writing custom code?

Question 15easymulti select
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During EDA, a data scientist notices that a numeric feature 'age' has values ranging from 0 to 150, but expects adult ages between 18-100. Which TWO steps should the scientist take to investigate?

Question 16mediummulti select
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A data scientist is training a model using Amazon SageMaker and wants to reduce the training time. The training job uses a single GPU instance. Which THREE actions can reduce training time?

Question 17mediummulti select
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A data scientist is performing EDA on a dataset with a binary target variable. Which THREE techniques can help assess the relationship between a continuous feature and the target?

Question 18mediummulti select
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A data engineering team is designing a data pipeline that processes streaming data from Amazon Kinesis Data Streams using AWS Lambda. The team notices that some records are being processed multiple times (duplicates). Which TWO steps should the team take to ensure exactly-once processing?

Question 19mediummulti select
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Which TWO metrics are appropriate for evaluating a binary classification model trained on imbalanced data? (Select TWO.)

Question 20hardmulti select
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A data scientist is performing EDA on a dataset stored in Amazon S3 using Amazon Athena. The dataset is partitioned by date, and each partition contains CSV files. The data scientist notices that some queries return zero rows for partitions that should have data. Which THREE steps should the data scientist take to troubleshoot? (Choose 3.)

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