MLA-C01 Deployment and Orchestration of ML Workflows Practice Question
An ML engineer is designing a SageMaker Pipeline for a computer vision model. The pipeline includes steps for data processing, training, evaluation, and registration. The engineer wants to enable caching to avoid reprocessing when step inputs have not changed. For which steps is caching supported? (Select TWO.)
Answer choices
Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Processing step
Caching is supported for the following step types: Processing, Training, Tuning, Transform, and AutoML. Condition steps and Lambda steps do not support caching because they are control flow steps.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
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Processing step
Why this is correct
Processing steps support caching.
- ✓
Transform step
Why this is correct
Transform steps support caching.
- ✗
Condition step
Why it's wrong here
Condition steps are control flow and do not support caching.
- ✗
Lambda step
Why it's wrong here
Lambda steps do not support caching.
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RegisterModel step
Why it's wrong here
RegisterModel steps are not cacheable.
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Cloud Service Model Comparison
| Model | You Manage | Provider Manages | Examples |
|---|---|---|---|
| IaaS | OS, runtime, apps, data | Hardware, hypervisor, networking | EC2, Azure VMs, GCP Compute Engine |
| PaaS | Apps and data | OS, runtime, middleware, hardware | Elastic Beanstalk, Azure App Service |
| SaaS | Data and settings only | Everything else | Microsoft 365, Salesforce, Workday |
| FaaS / Serverless | Function code only | Infra, scaling, runtime | Lambda, Azure Functions, Cloud Run |
| CaaS | Containers and apps | Kubernetes, OS, hardware | EKS, AKS, GKE |
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