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Monitoring ML Solutions practice questions

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Monitoring ML Solutions questions

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A data scientist has deployed a model on Vertex AI Endpoints and wants to monitor the model's predictions for any drift over time. Which Vertex AI service should they use?

An MLOps engineer needs to collect ground truth labels for a deployed classification model to compare predictions against actuals. Where should the engineer store the ground truth data to enable Vertex AI model quality monitoring?

A team is monitoring a deployed model and notices that the prediction distribution has changed significantly over the last week. They want to detect which features are contributing most to the drift. Which tool should they use?

An engineer wants to configure alerting when the data distribution of a serving feature deviates from the training data distribution. The model is deployed on Vertex AI Endpoints. Which divergence metric should they use to compare the training and serving distributions?

A team is monitoring a model on Vertex AI Endpoints and wants to track the p99 latency of online predictions. Which approach should they use to set up latency monitoring and alerting?

An ML team wants to automatically retrain a model when data drift is detected. They have set up a Cloud Monitoring alert on drift. What service should they use to trigger a retraining pipeline in response to the alert?

A company has a model serving predictions on Vertex AI Endpoints and wants to monitor for prediction drift. They enable Vertex AI Model Monitoring but also need to see a confusion matrix over time. How should they set up the confusion matrix monitoring?

An MLOps engineer is configuring Vertex AI Model Monitoring for a deployed model. They want to monitor for feature skew between training and serving data, but only for a subset of features. The training data has 100 features, and they want to monitor only the top 10 most important features to reduce cost and noise. How can they achieve this?

A team is monitoring a model and observes that the error rate (prediction failures) has increased. They have enabled request/response logging on the Vertex AI Endpoint. How can they set up a metric and alert for prediction error rate?

A company has deployed a model for image classification and wants to monitor for feature drift using XRAI attributions. However, they notice that the XRAI attribution maps are too large and are causing high latency in the monitoring pipeline. What is the most effective way to reduce the overhead of explainability monitoring for image models?

An organization is deploying a loan approval model and wants to monitor for fairness across demographic subgroups. They have ground truth labels stored in BigQuery. How can they use Vertex AI to evaluate performance disparities between groups?

A company wants to monitor the cost of their Vertex AI prediction endpoint. They are charged per hour per replica and per request for GPU instances. Which approach should they use to track these costs?

An MLOps engineer is setting up monitoring for a deployed model on Vertex AI Endpoints. Which TWO actions are required to enable Vertex AI Model Monitoring for feature skew and drift? (Choose two.)

A team is using Vertex AI Model Monitoring and wants to set up automated retraining when drift is detected. Which THREE services are needed to implement this pipeline? (Choose three.)

An ML engineer wants to monitor a deployed model for fairness across different age groups and genders. Which TWO Vertex AI services should they use together to achieve this? (Choose two.)

An ML engineer has deployed a model on Vertex AI Endpoints and wants to detect when the serving data distribution differs from the training data distribution. Which monitoring feature should they enable?

A data scientist notices that the model's prediction latency has increased over the last week. They need to investigate the root cause by examining request and response logs for the Vertex AI Endpoint. What is the recommended way to capture these logs?

A company has deployed a model to Vertex AI Endpoints and wants to monitor for feature drift using Jensen-Shannon divergence. They have set a threshold of 0.1. After one week, the monitoring job reports a divergence of 0.15 for a feature. What should the engineer do next to diagnose which features are contributing to the drift?

An ML team has set up automated retraining triggered by Cloud Monitoring alerts. When a feature drift alert fires, a Cloud Function publishes to Pub/Sub, which triggers a Vertex AI Pipeline. However, the retraining pipeline is failing because the training data is not updated. What is the most likely cause?

A machine learning engineer wants to monitor the fairness of a credit approval model across demographic subgroups. They have ground truth labels in BigQuery. Which approach should they use to evaluate performance disparities?

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