MLA-C01 Practice Question: ML Solution Monitoring, Maintenance, and Security
A company wants to track the lineage of their ML models, including the training dataset, hyperparameters, and training job used to produce each model version. Which AWS service should they use?
⚠ Common exam trap
Watch out — candidates often confuse general-purpose data storage or cataloging services (like DynamoDB or Glue Data Catalog) with the specialized ML lineage tracking service, overlooking that SageMaker ML Lineage Tracking is the only AWS service designed to model the directed relationships between ML artifacts, actions, and contexts.
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Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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SageMaker ML Lineage Tracking
SageMaker ML Lineage Tracking is the correct choice because it is purpose-built to record and query the provenance of ML models, capturing relationships between datasets, training jobs, hyperparameters, and model versions. It creates a directed acyclic graph (DAG) of entities (e.g., artifacts, actions, contexts) that allows you to trace how a specific model version was produced, which directly meets the requirement for lineage tracking.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
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SageMaker ML Lineage Tracking
Why this is correct
ML Lineage Tracking tracks artifacts, actions, and contexts for full model lineage.
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Amazon DynamoDB
Why it's wrong here
DynamoDB is a NoSQL database; no built-in lineage tracking for ML.
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AWS Glue Data Catalog
Why it's wrong here
Glue Data Catalog is for data discovery and schema, not ML lineage.
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Amazon S3 object tagging
Why it's wrong here
S3 tags are metadata but do not track lineage relationships between model, data, and job.
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