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MLA-C01 Practice Question: A company uses Amazon SageMaker to deploy a…
A company uses Amazon SageMaker to deploy a real-time inference endpoint. They notice increased latency in predictions during peak hours. Which should they investigate first to address the issue?
⚠ Common exam trap
Many exam-takers confuse training infrastructure (instance type, artifact size) with inference infrastructure, or assume that data labeling quality affects inference speed, when the immediate cause of peak-hour latency is almost always insufficient endpoint capacity due to misconfigured auto-scaling.
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Why each option matters
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Review the endpoint auto-scaling policy
Increased latency during peak hours is a classic symptom of insufficient compute capacity to handle the request volume. The first step is to review the endpoint's auto-scaling policy to ensure it is configured to scale out instances proactively or reactively based on a relevant metric like 'SageMakerVariantInvocationsPerInstance'. If the policy has a high cooldown period or a low target metric value, it may not add instances quickly enough, causing requests to queue and latency to spike.
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Review the endpoint auto-scaling policy
Why this is correct
Auto-scaling policy determines how instances are added/removed; insufficient capacity causes high latency.
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Check the data labeling job status
Why it's wrong here
Data labeling jobs are not related to inference latency.
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Modify the training instance type
Why it's wrong here
Training instance type does not affect inference latency.
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Increase the model artifact size
Why it's wrong here
Larger model artifact may increase latency but is not the first thing to investigate.
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