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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 have deployed multiple versions of an image classification model on Al Platform. You want to monitor the performance of the model versions overtime. How should you perform this comparison?
You work for a food product company. Your company's historical sales data is stored in BigQuery You need to use Vertex Al’s custom training service to train multiple TensorFlow models that read the data from BigQuery and predict future sales You plan to implement a data preprocessing algorithm that performs min-max scaling and bucketing on a large number of features before you start experimenting with the models. You want to minimize preprocessing time, cost and development effort How should you configure this workflow?
You recently deployed a scikit-learn model to a Vertex Al endpoint You are now testing the model on live production traffic While monitoring the endpoint. you discover twice as many requests per hour than expected throughout the day You want the endpoint to efficiently scale when the demand increases in the future to prevent users from experiencing high latency What should you do?
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?
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 are working on a binary classification ML algorithm that detects whether an image of a classified scanned document contains a company’s logo. In the dataset, 96% of examples don’t have the logo, so the dataset is very skewed. Which metrics would give you the most confidence in your model?
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 work for a rapidly growing social media company. Your team builds TensorFlow recommender models in an on-premises CPU cluster. The data contains billions of historical user events and 100 000 categorical features. You notice that as the data increases the model training time increases. You plan to move the models to Google Cloud You want to use the most scalable approach that also minimizes training time. 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 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 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 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 work for an online publisher that delivers news articles to over 50 million readers. You have built an AI model that recommends content for the company’s weekly newsletter. A recommendation is considered successful if the article is opened within two days of the newsletter’s published date and the user remains on the page for at least one minute.
All the information needed to compute the success metric is available in BigQuery and is updated hourly. The model is trained on eight weeks of data, on average its performance degrades below the acceptable baseline after five weeks, and training time is 12 hours. You want to ensure that the model’s performance is above the acceptable baseline while minimizing cost. How should you monitor the model to determine when retraining is necessary?
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?
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You work with a learn of researchers lo develop state-of-the-art algorithms for financial analysis. Your team develops and debugs complex models in TensorFlow. You want to maintain the ease of debugging while also reducing the model training time. How should you set up your training environment?
You work for a multinational organization that has recently begun operations in Spain. Teams within your organization will need to work with various Spanish documents, such as business, legal, and financial documents. You want to use machine learning to help your organization get accurate translations quickly and with the least effort. Your organization does not require domain-specific terms or jargon. What should you do?
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?
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 work for a hospital that wants to optimize how it schedules operations. You need to create a model that uses the relationship between the number of surgeries scheduled and beds used You want to predict how many beds will be needed for patients each day in advance based on the scheduled surgeries You have one year of data for the hospital organized in 365 rows
The data includes the following variables for each day
• Number of scheduled surgeries
• Number of beds occupied
• Date
You want to maximize the speed of model development and testing What should you do?
You are going to train a DNN regression model with Keras APIs using this code:
How many trainable weights does your model have? (The arithmetic below is correct.)
You have developed a BigQuery ML model that predicts customer churn and deployed the model to Vertex Al Endpoints. You want to automate the retraining of your model by using minimal additional code when model feature values change. You also want to minimize the number of times that your model is retrained to reduce training costs. What should you do?
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 for a telecommunications company You're building a model to predict which customers may fail to pay their next phone bill. The purpose of this model is to proactively offer at-risk customers assistance such as service discounts and bill deadline extensions. The data is stored in BigQuery, and the predictive features that are available for model training include
- Customer_id -Age
- Salary (measured in local currency) -Sex
-Average bill value (measured in local currency)
- Number of phone calls in the last month (integer) -Average duration of phone calls (measured in minutes)
You need to investigate and mitigate potential bias against disadvantaged groups while preserving model accuracy What should you do?
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 have trained a model on a dataset that required computationally expensive preprocessing operations. You need to execute the same preprocessing at prediction time. You deployed the model on Al Platform for high-throughput online prediction. Which architecture should you use?
You recently developed a deep learning model using Keras, and now you are experimenting with different training strategies. First, you trained the model using a single GPU, but the training process was too slow. Next, you distributed the training across 4 GPUs using tf.distribute.MirroredStrategy (with no other changes), but you did not observe a decrease in training time. What should you do?
You are working on a classification problem with time series data and achieved an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC ROC) value of 99% for training data after just a few experiments. You haven’t explored using any sophisticated algorithms or spent any time on hyperparameter tuning. What should your next step be to identify and fix the problem?
You work for a retailer that sells clothes to customers around the world. You have been tasked with ensuring that ML models are built in a secure manner. Specifically, you need to protect sensitive customer data that might be used in the models. You have identified four fields containing sensitive data that are being used by your data science team: AGE, IS_EXISTING_CUSTOMER, LATITUDE_LONGITUDE, and SHIRT_SIZE. What should you do with the data before it is made available to the data science team for training purposes?
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 building an ML model to predict trends in the stock market based on a wide range of factors. While exploring the data, you notice that some features have a large range. You want to ensure that the features with the largest magnitude don’t overfit the model. 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 work for a social media company. You need to detect whether posted images contain cars. Each training example is a member of exactly one class. You have trained an object detection neural network and deployed the model version to Al Platform Prediction for evaluation. Before deployment, you created an evaluation job and attached it to the Al Platform Prediction model version. You notice that the precision is lower than your business requirements allow. How should you adjust the model's final layer softmax threshold to increase precision?
You work at an organization that maintains a cloud-based communication platform that integrates conventional chat, voice, and video conferencing into one platform. The audio recordings are stored in Cloud Storage. All recordings have an 8 kHz sample rate and are more than one minute long. You need to implement a new feature in the platform that will automatically transcribe voice call recordings into a text for future applications, such as call summarization and sentiment analysis. How should you implement the voice call transcription feature following Google-recommended best practices?
You have built a model that is trained on data stored in Parquet files. You access the data through a Hive table hosted on Google Cloud. You preprocessed these data with PySpark and exported it as a CSV file into Cloud Storage. After preprocessing, you execute additional steps to train and evaluate your model. You want to parametrize this model training in Kubeflow Pipelines. What should you do?
You work for a credit card company and have been asked to create a custom fraud detection model based on historical data using AutoML Tables. You need to prioritize detection of fraudulent transactions while minimizing false positives. Which optimization objective should you use when training the model?
You are an ML engineer in the contact center of a large enterprise. You need to build a sentiment analysis tool that predicts customer sentiment from recorded phone conversations. You need to identify the best approach to building a model while ensuring that the gender, age, and cultural differences of the customers who called the contact center do not impact any stage of the model development pipeline and results. What should you do?
You recently deployed a model to a Vertex Al endpoint Your data drifts frequently so you have enabled request-response logging and created a Vertex Al Model Monitoring job. You have observed that your model is receiving higher traffic than expected. You need to reduce the model monitoring cost while continuing to quickly detect drift. What should you do?
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?
You lead a data science team at a large international corporation. Most of the models your team trains are large-scale models using high-level TensorFlow APIs on AI Platform with GPUs. Your team usually
takes a few weeks or months to iterate on a new version of a model. You were recently asked to review your team’s spending. How should you reduce your Google Cloud compute costs without impacting the model’s performance?
You are working on a system log anomaly detection model for a cybersecurity organization. You have developed the model using TensorFlow, and you plan to use it for real-time prediction. You need to create a Dataflow pipeline to ingest data via Pub/Sub and write the results to BigQuery. You want to minimize the serving latency as much as possible. What should you do?
Your organization’s marketing team is building a customer recommendation chatbot that uses a generative AI large language model (LLM) to provide personalized product suggestions in real time. The chatbot needs to access data from millions of customers, including purchase history, browsing behavior, and preferences. The data is stored in a Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL database. You need the chatbot response time to be less than 100ms. How should you design the system?
You need to deploy a scikit-learn classification model to production. The model must be able to serve requests 24/7 and you expect millions of requests per second to the production application from 8 am to 7 pm. You need to minimize the cost of deployment What should you do?
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 using Keras and TensorFlow to develop a fraud detection model Records of customer transactions are stored in a large table in BigQuery. You need to preprocess these records in a cost-effective and efficient way before you use them to train the model. The trained model will be used to perform batch inference in BigQuery. How should you implement the preprocessing workflow?
You have recently developed a custom model for image classification by using a neural network. You need to automatically identify the values for learning rate, number of layers, and kernel size. To do this, you plan to run multiple jobs in parallel to identify the parameters that optimize performance. You want to minimize custom code development and infrastructure management. What should you do?
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 work at a bank You have a custom tabular ML model that was provided by the bank's vendor. The training data is not available due to its sensitivity. The model is packaged as a Vertex Al Model serving container which accepts a string as input for each prediction instance. In each string the feature values are separated by commas. You want to deploy this model to production for online predictions, and monitor the feature distribution over time with minimal effort What should you do?
You have a demand forecasting pipeline in production that uses Dataflow to preprocess raw data prior to model training and prediction. During preprocessing, you employ Z-score normalization on data stored in BigQuery and write it back to BigQuery. New training data is added every week. You want to make the process more efficient by minimizing computation time and manual intervention. What should you do?
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?
You are using Kubeflow Pipelines to develop an end-to-end PyTorch-based MLOps pipeline. The pipeline reads data from BigQuery,
processes the data, conducts feature engineering, model training, model evaluation, and deploys the model as a binary file to Cloud Storage. You are
writing code for several different versions of the feature engineering and model training steps, and running each new version in Vertex Al Pipelines.
Each pipeline run is taking over an hour to complete. You want to speed up the pipeline execution to reduce your development time, and you want to
avoid additional costs. What should you do?
You manage a team of data scientists who use a cloud-based backend system to submit training jobs. This system has become very difficult to administer, and you want to use a managed service instead. The data scientists you work with use many different frameworks, including Keras, PyTorch, theano, scikit-learn, and custom libraries. What should you do?
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 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 developing an ML model using a dataset with categorical input variables. You have randomly split half of the data into training and test sets. After applying one-hot encoding on the categorical variables in the training set, you discover that one categorical variable is missing from the test set. What should you do?
You trained a text classification model. You have the following SignatureDefs:
What is the correct way to write the predict request?
You want to train an AutoML model to predict house prices by using a small public dataset stored in BigQuery. You need to prepare the data and want to use the simplest most efficient approach. What should you do?
You work for an organization that operates a streaming music service. You have a custom production model that is serving a "next song" recommendation based on a user’s recent listening history. Your model is deployed on a Vertex Al endpoint. You recently retrained the same model by using fresh data. The model received positive test results offline. You now want to test the new model in production while minimizing complexity. What should you do?
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?
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 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?
You are an AI engineer working for a popular video streaming platform. You built a classification model using PyTorch to predict customer churn. Each week, the customer retention team plans to contact customers identified as at-risk for churning with personalized offers. You want to deploy the model while minimizing maintenance effort. What should you do?
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 are training models in Vertex Al by using data that spans across multiple Google Cloud Projects You need to find track, and compare the performance of the different versions of your models Which Google Cloud services should you include in your ML workflow?
You are the lead ML engineer on a mission-critical project that involves analyzing massive datasets using Apache Spark. You need to establish a robust environment that allows your team to rapidly prototype Spark models using Jupyter notebooks. What is the fastest way to achieve this?
You work for a hotel and have a dataset that contains customers' written comments scanned from paper-based customer feedback forms which are stored as PDF files Every form has the same layout. You need to quickly predict an overall satisfaction score from the customer comments on each form. How should you accomplish this task'?
Your team has a model deployed to a Vertex Al endpoint You have created a Vertex Al pipeline that automates the model training process and is triggered by a Cloud Function. You need to prioritize keeping the model up-to-date, but also minimize retraining costs. How should you configure retraining'?
While performing exploratory data analysis on a dataset, you find that an important categorical feature has 5% null values. You want to minimize the bias that could result from the missing values. How should you handle the missing values?
You developed a Vertex Al pipeline that trains a classification model on data stored in a large BigQuery table. The pipeline has four steps, where each step is created by a Python function that uses the KubeFlow v2 API The components have the following names:
You launch your Vertex Al pipeline as the following:
You perform many model iterations by adjusting the code and parameters of the training step. You observe high costs associated with the development, particularly the data export and preprocessing steps. You need to reduce model development costs. 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 are developing a training pipeline for a new XGBoost classification model based on tabular data The data is stored in a BigQuery table You need to complete the following steps
1. Randomly split the data into training and evaluation datasets in a 65/35 ratio
2. Conduct feature engineering
3 Obtain metrics for the evaluation dataset.
4 Compare models trained in different pipeline executions
How should you execute these steps'?
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?
As the lead ML Engineer for your company, you are responsible for building ML models to digitize scanned customer forms. You have developed a TensorFlow model that converts the scanned images into text and stores them in Cloud Storage. You need to use your ML model on the aggregated data collected at the end of each day with minimal manual intervention. What should you do?
You work for a manufacturing company. You need to train a custom image classification model to detect product detects at the end of an assembly line. Although your model is performing well, some images in your holdout set are consistently mislabeled with high confidence. You want to use Vertex Al to understand your models results. What should you do?
You are experimenting with a built-in distributed XGBoost model in Vertex AI Workbench user-managed notebooks. You use BigQuery to split your data into training and validation sets using the following queries:
CREATE OR REPLACE TABLE ‘myproject.mydataset.training‘ AS
(SELECT * FROM ‘myproject.mydataset.mytable‘ WHERE RAND() <= 0.8);
CREATE OR REPLACE TABLE ‘myproject.mydataset.validation‘ AS
(SELECT * FROM ‘myproject.mydataset.mytable‘ WHERE RAND() <= 0.2);
After training the model, you achieve an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC ROC) value of 0.8, but after deploying the model to production, you notice that your model performance has dropped to an AUC ROC value of 0.65. What problem is most likely occurring?
You have recently trained a scikit-learn model that you plan to deploy on Vertex Al. This model will support both online and batch prediction. You need to preprocess input data for model inference. You want to package the model for deployment while minimizing additional code What should you do?
You have a functioning end-to-end ML pipeline that involves tuning the hyperparameters of your ML model using Al Platform, and then using the best-tuned parameters for training. Hypertuning is taking longer than expected and is delaying the downstream processes. You want to speed up the tuning job without significantly compromising its effectiveness. Which actions should you take?
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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 are developing an ML model intended to classify whether X-Ray images indicate bone fracture risk. You have trained on Api Resnet architecture on Vertex AI using a TPU as an accelerator, however you are unsatisfied with the trainning time and use memory usage. You want to quickly iterate your training code but make minimal changes to the code. You also want to minimize impact on the models accuracy. What should you do?
You have created a Vertex Al pipeline that includes two steps. The first step preprocesses 10 TB data completes in about 1 hour, and saves the result in a Cloud Storage bucket The second step uses the processed data to train a model You need to update the model's code to allow you to test different algorithms You want to reduce pipeline execution time and cost, while also minimizing pipeline changes 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 work as an analyst at a large banking firm. You are developing a robust, scalable ML pipeline to train several regression and classification models. Your primary focus for the pipeline is model interpretability. You want to productionize the pipeline as quickly as possible What should you do?
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