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Machine Learning Implementation and Operations questions

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Question 1mediummultiple choice
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A company is using Amazon SageMaker to train a deep learning model. The training job is failing with an error 'CUDA out of memory'. The training instance is an ml.p3.2xlarge with 16 GB GPU memory. The model architecture and batch size are appropriate for this instance size. What is the most likely cause of this error?

Question 2easymultiple choice
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A data scientist is deploying a model using Amazon SageMaker. The model endpoint needs to handle real-time inference requests with low latency. The model is a large ensemble of 10 deep learning models, each approximately 500 MB. What is the most cost-effective deployment strategy that meets the low-latency requirement?

Question 3hardmultiple choice
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A company is using Amazon SageMaker to train a model with a custom algorithm. The training script reads data from an S3 bucket using boto3. The training job fails with an 'AccessDenied' error when trying to access the S3 bucket. The IAM role attached to the SageMaker notebook instance has full S3 access. What is the most likely cause?

Question 4mediummultiple choice
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A machine learning engineer is deploying a model using AWS Lambda for real-time inference. The model is a scikit-learn RandomForestClassifier with 100 trees, serialized as a pickle file of 150 MB. The Lambda function has 3 GB memory allocated. However, the inference requests are timing out after 30 seconds. What is the most likely cause?

Question 5hardmultiple choice
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A data scientist is using Amazon SageMaker for hyperparameter tuning. The tuning job uses a Bayesian optimization strategy. After 10 training jobs, the objective metric (validation accuracy) has plateaued at 0.85. The data scientist wants to explore more diverse hyperparameter combinations. What should the data scientist do?

Question 6mediummultiple choice
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An IAM policy is attached to a SageMaker execution role. A data scientist tries to create a training job using a custom algorithm stored in an ECR repository. The training job fails with an 'AccessDenied' error when pulling the Docker image from ECR. What is the missing permission?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "sagemaker:CreateTrainingJob",
        "sagemaker:CreateModel",
        "sagemaker:CreateEndpointConfig",
        "sagemaker:CreateEndpoint"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "s3:GetObject",
        "s3:PutObject"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::company-bucket/*"
    }
  ]
}
Question 7easymultiple choice
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A DevOps engineer created a SageMaker notebook instance using the Terraform configuration shown. The notebook instance is in a VPC with a public subnet. However, the notebook instance cannot access the internet. What is the most likely cause?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.

resource "aws_sagemaker_notebook_instance" "ml_notebook" {
  name          = "my-notebook"
  role_arn      = "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/sagemaker-role"
  instance_type = "ml.t2.medium"
  direct_internet_access = "Enabled"
}
Question 8mediummultiple choice
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A company is using Amazon SageMaker to train a XGBoost model on a large dataset. The training job is taking a long time. The data scientist wants to reduce training time without sacrificing model accuracy. The dataset is 100 GB in CSV format stored in S3. What is the most effective approach?

Question 9hardmultiple choice
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A company is using Amazon SageMaker to deploy a model for real-time inference. The model endpoint is behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) for A/B testing. The data scientist notices that the endpoint is returning HTTP 503 errors intermittently. The CloudWatch metrics show that the endpoint's Invocations metric is within limits, but the ModelLatency metric has high variance. What is the most likely cause?

Question 10mediummultiple choice
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A company is using Amazon SageMaker to train a deep learning model on a large dataset stored in S3. The training job is failing with an OutOfMemory error. The data scientist wants to minimize cost while resolving the issue. Which action should the data scientist take?

Question 11easymultiple choice
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A data scientist is deploying a model using Amazon SageMaker for real-time inference. The model is memory-intensive and requires a GPU. Which instance type should be selected for the endpoint?

Question 12hardmultiple choice
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A company is using AWS Glue to run ETL jobs that transform data for machine learning. The jobs are failing with 'Out of Memory' errors. The data size is growing, and the company needs a cost-effective solution. Which approach should be taken?

Question 13mediummultiple choice
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A data scientist is training a model using Amazon SageMaker and wants to automatically stop training when the model stops improving. Which feature should be used?

Question 14mediummulti select
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A company is using Amazon SageMaker to build a machine learning pipeline. The pipeline includes data preprocessing, training, and evaluation steps. The company wants to ensure that the pipeline is reproducible and that artifacts are versioned. Which TWO actions should be taken? (Choose TWO.)

Question 15hardmulti select
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A data scientist is deploying a model on Amazon SageMaker for real-time inference. The model is a PyTorch model that requires custom inference code. The data scientist needs to handle variable-length inputs and optimize inference latency. Which THREE steps should the data scientist take? (Choose THREE.)

Question 16hardmultiple choice
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A data scientist is trying to create a training job named 'test-model' using an IAM role with the attached policy. The creation fails with an AccessDenied error. What is the most likely cause?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "sagemaker:CreateTrainingJob",
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "sagemaker:TrainingJobName": "*production*"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Deny",
      "Action": "sagemaker:CreateTrainingJob",
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringNotEquals": {
          "sagemaker:TrainingJobName": "*production*"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}
Question 17mediummultiple choice
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A company runs a machine learning pipeline on Amazon SageMaker. The pipeline consists of three steps: data preprocessing (using a custom container), training (using a built-in algorithm), and model evaluation (using a custom container). The pipeline is orchestrated using AWS Step Functions. Recently, the pipeline has been failing intermittently at the model evaluation step with a 'TimeoutError'. The evaluation step runs a Python script that loads the trained model and a test dataset from S3, computes metrics, and writes results back to S3. The step is configured with a timeout of 600 seconds. The test dataset size has grown over time. The data science team suspects that the timeout is due to the increased data size. They want a solution that minimizes changes to the existing infrastructure and avoids increasing the timeout arbitrarily. Which approach should the team take?

Question 18hardmultiple choice
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A media company uses Amazon SageMaker to train a deep learning model for video classification. The training job uses a single ml.p3.2xlarge instance and processes 50 GB of labeled video data stored in Amazon S3. The training completes successfully in 12 hours. However, the data scientists report that the model’s accuracy is lower than expected. They suspect the training data contains labeling errors. To improve model accuracy without incurring significant additional cost, they want to identify and remove mislabeled training examples before retraining. They have a small budget of $50 and need to complete the analysis within 2 hours. Which approach should the data scientists take?

Question 19mediummultiple choice
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A company wants to deploy a machine learning model that performs real-time inference with sub-second latency. The model is a deep neural network with 500 MB of weights. The inference endpoint must scale to zero when not in use to minimize cost. Which AWS service should the company use?

Question 20hardmulti select
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A data science team is training a large deep learning model using Amazon SageMaker. The training job is taking a long time because the model has many layers and the dataset is large. The team wants to reduce training time by distributing the training across multiple GPUs on a single instance, as well as across multiple instances. Which TWO actions should the team take? (Choose two.)

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