You are an ML engineer at a bank. You have developed a binary classification model using AutoML Tables to predict whether a customer will make loan payments on time. The output is used to approve or reject loan requests. One customer’s loan request has been rejected by your model, and the bank’s risks department is asking you to provide the reasons that contributed to the model’s decision. What should you do?
You work for a toy manufacturer that has been experiencing a large increase in demand. You need to build an ML model to reduce the amount of time spent by quality control inspectors checking for product defects. Faster defect detection is a priority. The factory does not have reliable Wi-Fi. Your company wants to implement the new ML model as soon as possible. Which model should you use?
You work for an online grocery store. You recently developed a custom ML model that recommends a recipe when a user arrives at the website. You chose the machine type on the Vertex Al endpoint to optimize costs by using the queries per second (QPS) that the model can serve, and you deployed it on a single machine with 8 vCPUs and no accelerators.
A holiday season is approaching and you anticipate four times more traffic during this time than the typical daily traffic You need to ensure that the model can scale efficiently to the increased demand. What should you do?
You have been given a dataset with sales predictions based on your company’s marketing activities. The data is structured and stored in BigQuery, and has been carefully managed by a team of data analysts. You need to prepare a report providing insights into the predictive capabilities of the data. You were asked to run several ML models with different levels of sophistication, including simple models and multilayered neural networks. You only have a few hours to gather the results of your experiments. Which Google Cloud tools should you use to complete this task in the most efficient and self-serviced way?
You have been asked to build a model using a dataset that is stored in a medium-sized (~10 GB) BigQuery table. You need to quickly determine whether this data is suitable for model development. You want to create a one-time report that includes both informative visualizations of data distributions and more sophisticated statistical analyses to share with other ML engineers on your team. You require maximum flexibility to create your report. What should you do?
You work for the AI team of an automobile company, and you are developing a visual defect detection model using TensorFlow and Keras. To improve your model performance, you want to incorporate some image augmentation functions such as translation, cropping, and contrast tweaking. You randomly apply these functions to each training batch. You want to optimize your data processing pipeline for run time and compute resources utilization. What should you do?
You are an ML engineer at a mobile gaming company. A data scientist on your team recently trained a TensorFlow model, and you are responsible for deploying this model into a mobile application. You discover that the inference latency of the current model doesn’t meet production requirements. You need to reduce the inference time by 50%, and you are willing to accept a small decrease in model accuracy in order to reach the latency requirement. Without training a new model, which model optimization technique for reducing latency should you try first?
You are training an ML model using data stored in BigQuery that contains several values that are considered Personally Identifiable Information (Pll). You need to reduce the sensitivity of the dataset before training your model. Every column is critical to your model. How should you proceed?
You work for a large retailer and you need to build a model to predict customer churn. The company has a dataset of historical customer data, including customer demographics, purchase history, and website activity. You need to create the model in BigQuery ML and thoroughly evaluate its performance. What should you do?
You work for a startup that has multiple data science workloads. Your compute infrastructure is currently on-premises. and the data science workloads are native to PySpark Your team plans to migrate their data science workloads to Google Cloud You need to build a proof of concept to migrate one data science job to Google Cloud You want to propose a migration process that requires minimal cost and effort. What should you do first?
Your data science team needs to rapidly experiment with various features, model architectures, and hyperparameters. They need to track the accuracy metrics for various experiments and use an API to query the metrics over time. What should they use to track and report their experiments while minimizing manual effort?
You need to develop an image classification model by using a large dataset that contains labeled images in a Cloud Storage Bucket. What should you do?
You need to design a customized deep neural network in Keras that will predict customer purchases based on their purchase history. You want to explore model performance using multiple model architectures, store training data, and be able to compare the evaluation metrics in the same dashboard. What should you do?
You have recently created a proof-of-concept (POC) deep learning model. You are satisfied with the overall architecture, but you need to determine the value for a couple of hyperparameters. You want to perform hyperparameter tuning on Vertex AI to determine both the appropriate embedding dimension for a categorical feature used by your model and the optimal learning rate. You configure the following settings:
For the embedding dimension, you set the type to INTEGER with a minValue of 16 and maxValue of 64.
For the learning rate, you set the type to DOUBLE with a minValue of 10e-05 and maxValue of 10e-02.
You are using the default Bayesian optimization tuning algorithm, and you want to maximize model accuracy. Training time is not a concern. How should you set the hyperparameter scaling for each hyperparameter and the maxParallelTrials?
You are building a MLOps platform to automate your company's ML experiments and model retraining. You need to organize the artifacts for dozens of pipelines How should you store the pipelines' artifacts'?
You are pre-training a large language model on Google Cloud. This model includes custom TensorFlow operations in the training loop Model training will use a large batch size, and you expect training to take several weeks You need to configure a training architecture that minimizes both training time and compute costs What should you do?
You are an ML engineer at a global car manufacturer. You need to build an ML model to predict car sales in different cities around the world. Which features or feature crosses should you use to train city-specific relationships between car type and number of sales?
Your task is classify if a company logo is present on an image. You found out that 96% of a data does not include a logo. You are dealing with data imbalance problem. Which metric do you use to evaluate to model?
You need to quickly build and train a model to predict the sentiment of customer reviews with custom categories without writing code. You do not have enough data to train a model from scratch. The resulting model should have high predictive performance. Which service should you use?
You work for a magazine publisher and have been tasked with predicting whether customers will cancel their annual subscription. In your exploratory data analysis, you find that 90% of individuals renew their subscription every year, and only 10% of individuals cancel their subscription. After training a NN Classifier, your model predicts those who cancel their subscription with 99% accuracy and predicts those who renew their subscription with 82% accuracy. How should you interpret these results?
Your team needs to build a model that predicts whether images contain a driver's license, passport, or credit card. The data engineering team already built the pipeline and generated a dataset composed of 10,000 images with driver's licenses, 1,000 images with passports, and 1,000 images with credit cards. You now have to train a model with the following label map: ['driversjicense', 'passport', 'credit_card']. Which loss function should you use?
You are implementing a batch inference ML pipeline in Google Cloud. The model was developed using TensorFlow and is stored in SavedModel format in Cloud Storage You need to apply the model to a historical dataset containing 10 TB of data that is stored in a BigQuery table How should you perform the inference?
You work on the data science team at a manufacturing company. You are reviewing the company's historical sales data, which has hundreds of millions of records. For your exploratory data analysis, you need to calculate descriptive statistics such as mean, median, and mode; conduct complex statistical tests for hypothesis testing; and plot variations of the features over time You want to use as much of the sales data as possible in your analyses while minimizing computational resources. What should you do?
You work with a data engineering team that has developed a pipeline to clean your dataset and save it in a Cloud Storage bucket. You have created an ML model and want to use the data to refresh your model as soon as new data is available. As part of your CI/CD workflow, you want to automatically run a Kubeflow Pipelines training job on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). How should you architect this workflow?
You are building a custom image classification model and plan to use Vertex Al Pipelines to implement the end-to-end training. Your dataset consists of images that need to be preprocessed before they can be used to train the model. The preprocessing steps include resizing the images, converting them to grayscale, and extracting features. You have already implemented some Python functions for the preprocessing tasks. Which components should you use in your pipeline'?
You are an ML engineer responsible for designing and implementing training pipelines for ML models. You need to create an end-to-end training pipeline for a TensorFlow model. The TensorFlow model will be trained on several terabytes of structured data. You need the pipeline to include data quality checks before training and model quality checks after training but prior to deployment. You want to minimize development time and the need for infrastructure maintenance. How should you build and orchestrate your training pipeline?
You recently deployed a pipeline in Vertex Al Pipelines that trains and pushes a model to a Vertex Al endpoint to serve real-time traffic. You need to continue experimenting and iterating on your pipeline to improve model performance. You plan to use Cloud Build for CI/CD You want to quickly and easily deploy new pipelines into production and you want to minimize the chance that the new pipeline implementations will break in production. What should you do?
You work for a gaming company that manages a popular online multiplayer game where teams with 6 players play against each other in 5-minute battles. There are many new players every day. You need to build a model that automatically assigns available players to teams in real time. User research indicates that the game is more enjoyable when battles have players with similar skill levels. Which business metrics should you track to measure your model’s performance? (Choose One Correct Answer)
You have recently used TensorFlow to train a classification model on tabular data You have created a Dataflow pipeline that can transform several terabytes of data into training or prediction datasets consisting of TFRecords. You now need to productionize the model, and you want the predictions to be automatically uploaded to a BigQuery table on a weekly schedule. What should you do?
You developed a Vertex Al ML pipeline that consists of preprocessing and training steps and each set of steps runs on a separate custom Docker image Your organization uses GitHub and GitHub Actions as CI/CD to run unit and integration tests You need to automate the model retraining workflow so that it can be initiated both manually and when a new version of the code is merged in the main branch You want to minimize the steps required to build the workflow while also allowing for maximum flexibility How should you configure the CI/CD workflow?
You are building a linear regression model on BigQuery ML to predict a customer's likelihood of purchasing your company's products. Your model uses a city name variable as a key predictive component. In order to train and serve the model, your data must be organized in columns. You want to prepare your data using the least amount of coding while maintaining the predictable variables. What should you do?
You recently used XGBoost to train a model in Python that will be used for online serving Your model prediction service will be called by a backend service implemented in Golang running on a Google Kubemetes Engine (GKE) cluster Your model requires pre and postprocessing steps You need to implement the processing steps so that they run at serving time You want to minimize code changes and infrastructure maintenance and deploy your model into production as quickly as possible. What should you do?
You developed a custom model by using Vertex Al to predict your application's user churn rate You are using Vertex Al Model Monitoring for skew detection The training data stored in BigQuery contains two sets of features - demographic and behavioral You later discover that two separate models trained on each set perform better than the original model
You need to configure a new model mentioning pipeline that splits traffic among the two models You want to use the same prediction-sampling-rate and monitoring-frequency for each model You also want to minimize management effort What should you do?
You have recently developed a new ML model in a Jupyter notebook. You want to establish a reliable and repeatable model training process that tracks the versions and lineage of your model artifacts. You plan to retrain your model weekly. How should you operationalize your training process?
You have created a Vertex Al pipeline that automates custom model training You want to add a pipeline component that enables your team to most easily collaborate when running different executions and comparing metrics both visually and programmatically. What should you do?
You have developed an AutoML tabular classification model that identifies high-value customers who interact with your organization's website.
You plan to deploy the model to a new Vertex Al endpoint that will integrate with your website application. You expect higher traffic to the website during
nights and weekends. You need to configure the model endpoint's deployment settings to minimize latency and cost. What should you do?
You are an ML engineer at an ecommerce company and have been tasked with building a model that predicts how much inventory the logistics team should order each month. Which approach should you take?
You work for a magazine distributor and need to build a model that predicts which customers will renew their subscriptions for the upcoming year. Using your company’s historical data as your training set, you created a TensorFlow model and deployed it to AI Platform. You need to determine which customer attribute has the most predictive power for each prediction served by the model. What should you do?
You need to train a computer vision model that predicts the type of government ID present in a given image using a GPU-powered virtual machine on Compute Engine. You use the following parameters:
• Optimizer: SGD
• Image shape = 224x224
• Batch size = 64
• Epochs = 10
• Verbose = 2
During training you encounter the following error: ResourceExhaustedError: out of Memory (oom) when allocating tensor. What should you do?
You are developing a model to identify traffic signs in images extracted from videos taken from the dashboard of a vehicle. You have a dataset of 100 000 images that were cropped to show one out of ten different traffic signs. The images have been labeled accordingly for model training and are stored in a Cloud Storage bucket You need to be able to tune the model during each training run. How should you train the model?
You work for an advertising company and want to understand the effectiveness of your company's latest advertising campaign. You have streamed 500 MB of campaign data into BigQuery. You want to query the table, and then manipulate the results of that query with a pandas dataframe in an Al Platform notebook. What should you do?
You work at a leading healthcare firm developing state-of-the-art algorithms for various use cases You have unstructured textual data with custom labels You need to extract and classify various medical phrases with these labels What should you do?
Your team is building an application for a global bank that will be used by millions of customers. You built a forecasting model that predicts customers1 account balances 3 days in the future. Your team will use the results in a new feature that will notify users when their account balance is likely to drop below $25. How should you serve your predictions?
You work on an operations team at an international company that manages a large fleet of on-premises servers located in few data centers around the world. Your team collects monitoring data from the servers, including CPU/memory consumption. When an incident occurs on a server, your team is responsible for fixing it. Incident data has not been properly labeled yet. Your management team wants you to build a predictive maintenance solution that uses monitoring data from the VMs to detect potential failures and then alerts the service desk team. What should you do first?
You are developing an ML model in a Vertex Al Workbench notebook. You want to track artifacts and compare models during experimentation using different approaches. You need to rapidly and easily transition successful experiments to production as you iterate on your model implementation. What should you do?
Your team is training a large number of ML models that use different algorithms, parameters and datasets. Some models are trained in Vertex Ai Pipelines, and some are trained on Vertex Al Workbench notebook instances. Your team wants to compare the performance of the models across both services. You want to minimize the effort required to store the parameters and metrics What should you do?
You want to migrate a scikrt-learn classifier model to TensorFlow. You plan to train the TensorFlow classifier model using the same training set that was used to train the scikit-learn model and then compare the performances using a common test set. You want to use the Vertex Al Python SDK to manually log the evaluation metrics of each model and compare them based on their F1 scores and confusion matrices. How should you log the metrics?
You are building a real-time prediction engine that streams files which may contain Personally Identifiable Information (Pll) to Google Cloud. You want to use the Cloud Data Loss Prevention (DLP) API to scan the files. How should you ensure that the Pll is not accessible by unauthorized individuals?
Your team trained and tested a DNN regression model with good results. Six months after deployment, the model is performing poorly due to a change in the distribution of the input data. How should you address the input differences in production?
You are developing a process for training and running your custom model in production. You need to be able to show lineage for your model and predictions. What should you do?
You developed a BigQuery ML linear regressor model by using a training dataset stored in a BigQuery table. New data is added to the table every minute. You are using Cloud Scheduler and Vertex Al Pipelines to automate hourly model training, and use the model for direct inference. The feature preprocessing logic includes quantile bucketization and MinMax scaling on data received in the last hour. You want to minimize storage and computational overhead. What should you do?
You are an ML engineer at a bank that has a mobile application. Management has asked you to build an ML-based biometric authentication for the app that verifies a customer's identity based on their fingerprint. Fingerprints are considered highly sensitive personal information and cannot be downloaded and stored into the bank databases. Which learning strategy should you recommend to train and deploy this ML model?
You are training an ML model on a large dataset. You are using a TPU to accelerate the training process You notice that the training process is taking longer than expected. You discover that the TPU is not reaching its full capacity. What should you do?
You work for a retail company that is using a regression model built with BigQuery ML to predict product sales. This model is being used to serve online predictions Recently you developed a new version of the model that uses a different architecture (custom model) Initial analysis revealed that both models are performing as expected You want to deploy the new version of the model to production and monitor the performance over the next two months You need to minimize the impact to the existing and future model users How should you deploy the model?
You are developing a mode! to detect fraudulent credit card transactions. You need to prioritize detection because missing even one fraudulent transaction could severely impact the credit card holder. You used AutoML to tram a model on users' profile information and credit card transaction data. After training the initial model, you notice that the model is failing to detect many fraudulent transactions. How should you adjust the training parameters in AutoML to improve model performance?
Choose 2 answers
You are developing a recommendation engine for an online clothing store. The historical customer transaction data is stored in BigQuery and Cloud Storage. You need to perform exploratory data analysis (EDA), preprocessing and model training. You plan to rerun these EDA, preprocessing, and training steps as you experiment with different types of algorithms. You want to minimize the cost and development effort of running these steps as you experiment. How should you configure the environment?
You have trained a DNN regressor with TensorFlow to predict housing prices using a set of predictive features. Your default precision is tf.float64, and you use a standard TensorFlow estimator;
estimator = tf.estimator.DNNRegressor(
feature_columns=[YOUR_LIST_OF_FEATURES],
hidden_units-[1024, 512, 256],
dropout=None)
Your model performs well, but Just before deploying it to production, you discover that your current serving latency is 10ms @ 90 percentile and you currently serve on CPUs. Your production requirements expect a model latency of 8ms @ 90 percentile. You are willing to accept a small decrease in performance in order to reach the latency requirement Therefore your plan is to improve latency while evaluating how much the model's prediction decreases. What should you first try to quickly lower the serving latency?
Your company stores a large number of audio files of phone calls made to your customer call center in an on-premises database. Each audio file is in wav format and is approximately 5 minutes long. You need to analyze these audio files for customer sentiment. You plan to use the Speech-to-Text API. You want to use the most efficient approach. What should you do?
You work at a large organization that recently decided to move their ML and data workloads to Google Cloud. The data engineering team has exported the structured data to a Cloud Storage bucket in Avro format. You need to propose a workflow that performs analytics, creates features, and hosts the features that your ML models use for online prediction How should you configure the pipeline?
You work at a gaming startup that has several terabytes of structured data in Cloud Storage. This data includes gameplay time data, user metadata, and game metadata. You want to build a model that recommends new games to users that requires the least amount of coding. What should you do?
You are working on a Neural Network-based project. The dataset provided to you has columns with different ranges. While preparing the data for model training, you discover that gradient optimization is having difficulty moving weights to a good solution. What should you do?
You are an ML engineer at a regulated insurance company. You are asked to develop an insurance approval model that accepts or rejects insurance applications from potential customers. What factors should you consider before building the model?
You have deployed a scikit-learn model to a Vertex Al endpoint using a custom model server. You enabled auto scaling; however, the deployed model fails to scale beyond one replica, which led to dropped requests. You notice that CPU utilization remains low even during periods of high load. What should you do?
You are training a Resnet model on Al Platform using TPUs to visually categorize types of defects in automobile engines. You capture the training profile using the Cloud TPU profiler plugin and observe that it is highly input-bound. You want to reduce the bottleneck and speed up your model training process. Which modifications should you make to the tf .data dataset?
Choose 2 answers
You work on a growing team of more than 50 data scientists who all use AI Platform. You are designing a strategy to organize your jobs, models, and versions in a clean and scalable way. Which strategy should you choose?
You developed an ML model with Al Platform, and you want to move it to production. You serve a few thousand queries per second and are experiencing latency issues. Incoming requests are served by a load balancer that distributes them across multiple Kubeflow CPU-only pods running on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Your goal is to improve the serving latency without changing the underlying infrastructure. What should you do?
You work for a public transportation company and need to build a model to estimate delay times for multiple transportation routes. Predictions are served directly to users in an app in real time. Because different seasons and population increases impact the data relevance, you will retrain the model every month. You want to follow Google-recommended best practices. How should you configure the end-to-end architecture of the predictive model?
You need to use TensorFlow to train an image classification model. Your dataset is located in a Cloud Storage directory and contains millions of labeled images Before training the model, you need to prepare the data. You want the data preprocessing and model training workflow to be as efficient scalable, and low maintenance as possible. What should you do?
You recently built the first version of an image segmentation model for a self-driving car. After deploying the model, you observe a decrease in the area under the curve (AUC) metric. When analyzing the video recordings, you also discover that the model fails in highly congested traffic but works as expected when there is less traffic. What is the most likely reason for this result?
You are investigating the root cause of a misclassification error made by one of your models. You used Vertex Al Pipelines to tram and deploy the model. The pipeline reads data from BigQuery. creates a copy of the data in Cloud Storage in TFRecord format trains the model in Vertex Al Training on that copy, and deploys the model to a Vertex Al endpoint. You have identified the specific version of that model that misclassified: and you need to recover the data this model was trained on. How should you find that copy of the data'?
Your data science team has requested a system that supports scheduled model retraining, Docker containers, and a service that supports autoscaling and monitoring for online prediction requests. Which platform components should you choose for this system?
Your data science team is training a PyTorch model for image classification based on a pre-trained RestNet model. You need to perform hyperparameter tuning to optimize for several parameters. What should you do?
You work for an online travel agency that also sells advertising placements on its website to other companies.
You have been asked to predict the most relevant web banner that a user should see next. Security is
important to your company. The model latency requirements are 300ms@p99, the inventory is thousands of web banners, and your exploratory analysis has shown that navigation context is a good predictor. You want to Implement the simplest solution. How should you configure the prediction pipeline?
Your team has been tasked with creating an ML solution in Google Cloud to classify support requests for one of your platforms. You analyzed the requirements and decided to use TensorFlow to build the classifier so that you have full control of the model's code, serving, and deployment. You will use Kubeflow pipelines for the ML platform. To save time, you want to build on existing resources and use managed services instead of building a completely new model. How should you build the classifier?
Your team is working on an NLP research project to predict political affiliation of authors based on articles they have written. You have a large training dataset that is structured like this:
You followed the standard 80%-10%-10% data distribution across the training, testing, and evaluation subsets. How should you distribute the training examples across the train-test-eval subsets while maintaining the 80-10-10 proportion?
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You are developing an ML model that uses sliced frames from video feed and creates bounding boxes around specific objects. You want to automate the following steps in your training pipeline: ingestion and preprocessing of data in Cloud Storage, followed by training and hyperparameter tuning of the object model using Vertex AI jobs, and finally deploying the model to an endpoint. You want to orchestrate the entire pipeline with minimal cluster management. What approach should you use?
You have developed an application that uses a chain of multiple scikit-learn models to predict the optimal price for your company's products. The workflow logic is shown in the diagram Members of your team use the individual models in other solution workflows. You want to deploy this workflow while ensuring version control for each individual model and the overall workflow Your application needs to be able to scale down to zero. You want to minimize the compute resource utilization and the manual effort required to manage this solution. What should you do?
You have been asked to productionize a proof-of-concept ML model built using Keras. The model was trained in a Jupyter notebook on a data scientist’s local machine. The notebook contains a cell that performs data validation and a cell that performs model analysis. You need to orchestrate the steps contained in the notebook and automate the execution of these steps for weekly retraining. You expect much more training data in the future. You want your solution to take advantage of managed services while minimizing cost. What should you do?
You have a custom job that runs on Vertex Al on a weekly basis The job is Implemented using a proprietary ML workflow that produces the datasets. models, and custom artifacts, and sends them to a Cloud Storage bucket Many different versions of the datasets and models were created Due to compliance requirements, your company needs to track which model was used for making a particular prediction, and needs access to the artifacts for each model. How should you configure your workflows to meet these requirement?
You work for a gaming company that has millions of customers around the world. All games offer a chat feature that allows players to communicate with each other in real time. Messages can be typed in more than 20 languages and are translated in real time using the Cloud Translation API. You have been asked to build an ML system to moderate the chat in real time while assuring that the performance is uniform across the various languages and without changing the serving infrastructure.
You trained your first model using an in-house word2vec model for embedding the chat messages translated by the Cloud Translation API. However, the model has significant differences in performance across the different languages. How should you improve it?