EMT Practice Test

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Question1: You work as an ML researcher at an investment bank and are experimenting with the Gemini large language model (LLM). You plan to deploy the model for an internal use case and need full control of the model's underlying infrastructure while minimizing inference time. Which serving configuration should you use for this task?

Question2: Your company manages an ecommerce website. You developed an ML model that recommends additional products to users in near real time based on items currently in the user's cart. The workflow will include the following processes.
1 The website will send a Pub/Sub message with the relevant data and then receive a message with the prediction from Pub/Sub.
2 Predictions will be stored in BigQuery
3. The model will be stored in a Cloud Storage bucket and will be updated frequently You want to minimize prediction latency and the effort required to update the model How should you reconfigure the architecture?

Question3: 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?

Question4: 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?

Question5: 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?

Question6: You have trained an XGBoost model that you plan to deploy on Vertex Al for online prediction. You are now uploading your model to Vertex Al Model Registry, and you need to configure the explanation method that will serve online prediction requests to be returned with minimal latency. You also want to be alerted when feature attributions of the model meaningfully change over time. What should you do?

Question7: You are creating a model training pipeline to predict sentiment scores from text-based product reviews. You want to have control over how the model parameters are tuned, and you will deploy the model to an endpoint after it has been trained You will use Vertex Al Pipelines to run the pipeline You need to decide which Google Cloud pipeline components to use What components should you choose?

Question8: You work for a large technology company that wants to modernize their contact center. You have been asked to develop a solution to classify incoming calls by product so that requests can be more quickly routed to the correct support team. You have already transcribed the calls using the Speech-to-Text API. You want to minimize data preprocessing and development time. How should you build the model?

Question9: 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?

Question10: You are developing models to classify customer support emails. You created models with TensorFlow Estimators using small datasets on your on-premises system, but you now need to train the models using large datasets to ensure high performance. You will port your models to Google Cloud and want to minimize code refactoring and infrastructure overhead for easier migration from on-prem to cloud. What should you do?

Question11: You are working on a prototype of a text classification model in a managed Vertex AI Workbench notebook.
You want to quickly experiment with tokenizing text by using a Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) library.
How should you add the library to your Jupyter kernel?

Question12: You work for a large social network service provider whose users post articles and discuss news. Millions of comments are posted online each day, and more than 200 human moderators constantly review comments and flag those that are inappropriate. Your team is building an ML model to help human moderators check content on the platform. The model scores each comment and flags suspicious comments to be reviewed by a human.
Which metric(s) should you use to monitor the model's performance?

Question13: 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.)

Question14: You have written unit tests for a Kubeflow Pipeline that require custom libraries. You want to automate the execution of unit tests with each new push to your development branch in Cloud Source Repositories. What should you do?

Question15: You work for a manufacturing company. You need to train a custom image classification model to detect product defects 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 model's results What should you do?

Question16: 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?

Question17: You are developing ML models with Al Platform for image segmentation on CT scans. You frequently update your model architectures based on the newest available research papers, and have to rerun training on the same dataset to benchmark their performance. You want to minimize computation costs and manual intervention while having version control for your code. What should you do?

Question18: You recently joined a machine learning team that will soon release a new project. As a lead on the project, you are asked to determine the production readiness of the ML components. The team has already tested features and data, model development, and infrastructure. Which additional readiness check should you recommend to the team?

Question19: Your work for a textile manufacturing company. Your company has hundreds of machines and each machine has many sensors. Your team used the sensory data to build hundreds of ML models that detect machine anomalies Models are retrained daily and you need to deploy these models in a cost-effective way. The models must operate 24/7 without downtime and make sub millisecond predictions. What should you do?

Question20: 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?

Question21: 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?

Question22: 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?

Question23: You need to train a regression model based on a dataset containing 50,000 records that is stored in BigQuery.
The data includes a total of 20 categorical and numerical features with a target variable that can include negative values. You need to minimize effort and training time while maximizing model performance. What approach should you take to train this regression model?

Question24: Your company manages an application that aggregates news articles from many different online sources and sends them to users. You need to build a recommendationmodel that will suggest articles to readers that are similar to the articles they are currently reading. Which approach should you use?

Question25: You were asked to investigate failures of a production line component based on sensor readings. After receiving the dataset, you discover that less than 1% of the readings are positive examples representing failure incidents. You have tried to train several classification models, but none of them converge. How should you resolve the class imbalance problem?

Question26: You work for a large hotel chain and have been asked to assist the marketing team in gathering predictions for a targeted marketing strategy. You need to make predictions about user lifetime value (LTV) over the next 30 days so that marketing can be adjusted accordingly. The customer dataset is in BigQuery, and you are preparing the tabular data for training with AutoML Tables. This data has a time signal that is spread across multiple columns. How should you ensure that AutoML fits the best model to your data?

Question27: 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?

Question28: You work for a company that is developing a new video streaming platform. You have been asked to create a recommendation system that will suggest the next video for a user to watch. After a review by an AI Ethics team, you are approved to start development. Each video asset in your company's catalog has useful metadata (e.g., content type, release date, country), but you do not have any historical user event data. How should you build the recommendation system for the first version of the product?

Question29: 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?

Question30: 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?

Question31: 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?

Question32: During batch training of a neural network, you notice that there is an oscillation in the loss. How should you adjust your model to ensure that it converges?

Question33: You are an ML engineer at a manufacturing company. You need to build a model that identifies defects in products based on images of the product taken at the end of the assembly line. You want your model to preprocess the images with lower computation to quickly extract features of defects in products. Which approach should you use to build the model?

Question34: 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?

Question35: 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?

Question36: 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'?

Question37: 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?

Question38: 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?

Question39: You are developing an ML model that predicts the cost of used automobiles based on data such as location, condition model type color, and engine-'battery efficiency. The data is updated every night Car dealerships will use the model to determine appropriate car prices. You created a Vertex Al pipeline that reads the data splits the data into training/evaluation/test sets performs feature engineering trains the model by using the training dataset and validates the model by using the evaluation dataset. You need to configure a retraining workflow that minimizes cost What should you do?

Question40: You are building a TensorFlow model for a financial institution that predicts the impact of consumer spending on inflation globally. Due to the size and nature of the data, your model is long-running across all types of hardware, and you have built frequent checkpointing into the training process. Your organization has asked you to minimize cost. What hardware should you choose?

Question41: You are training a deep learning model for semantic image segmentation with reduced training time. While using a Deep Learning VM Image, you receive the following error: The resource 'projects/deeplearning- platforn/zones/europe-west4-c/acceleratorTypes/nvidia-tesla-k80' was not found. What should you do?

Question42: You created a model that uses BigQuery ML to perform linear regression. You need to retrain the model on the cumulative data collected every week. You want to minimize the development effort and the scheduling cost. What should you do?

Question43: You trained a model on data stored in a Cloud Storage bucket. The model needs to be retrained frequently in Vertex AI Training using the latest data in the bucket. Data preprocessing is required prior to retraining. You want to build a simple and efficient near-real-time ML pipeline in Vertex AI that will preprocess the data when new data arrives in the bucket. What should you do?

Question44: You want to rebuild your ML pipeline for structured data on Google Cloud. You are using PySpark to conduct data transformations at scale, but your pipelines are taking over 12 hours to run. To speed up development and pipeline run time, you want to use a serverless tool and SQL syntax. You have already moved your raw data into Cloud Storage. How should you build the pipeline on Google Cloud while meeting the speed and processing requirements?

Question45: You need to build an ML model for a social media application to predict whether a user's submitted profile photo meets the requirements. The application will inform the user if the picture meets the requirements. How should you build a model to ensure that the application does not falsely accept a non-compliant picture?

Question46: You work for a semiconductor manufacturing company. You need to create a real-time application that automates the quality control process High-definition images of each semiconductor are taken at the end of the assembly line in real time. The photos are uploaded to a Cloud Storage bucket along with tabular data that includes each semiconductor's batch number serial number dimensions, and weight You need to configure model training and serving while maximizing model accuracy. What should you do?

Question47: You have created multiple versions of an ML model and have imported them to Vertex AI Model Registry.
You want to perform A/B testing to identify the best-performing model using the simplest approach. What should you do?

Question48: You are developing a model to help your company create more targeted online advertising campaigns. You need to create a dataset that you will use to train the model. You want to avoid creating or reinforcing unfair bias in the model. What should you do?
Choose 2 answers

Question49: You are designing an architecture with a serverless ML system to enrich customer support tickets with informative metadata before they are routed to a support agent. You need a set of models to predict ticket priority, predict ticket resolution time, and perform sentiment analysis to help agents make strategic decisions when they process support requests. Tickets are not expected to have any domain-specific terms or jargon.
The proposed architecture has the following flow:

Which endpoints should the Enrichment Cloud Functions call?

Question50: You recently used BigQuery ML to train an AutoML regression model. You shared results with your team and received positive feedback. You need to deploy your model for online prediction as quickly as possible.
What should you do?

Question51: One of your models is trained using data provided by a third-party data broker. The data broker does not reliably notify you of formatting changes in the data. You want to make your model training pipeline more robust to issues like this. What should you do?

Question52: You work for a retail company. You have a managed tabular dataset in Vertex Al that contains sales data from three different stores. The dataset includes several features such as store name and sale timestamp. You want to use the data to train a model that makes sales predictions for a new store that will open soon You need to split the data between the training, validation, and test sets What approach should you use to split the data?

Question53: You recently developed a wide and deep model in TensorFlow. You generated training datasets using a SQL script that preprocessed raw data in BigQuery by performing instance-level transformations of the data. You need to create a training pipeline to retrain the model on a weekly basis. The trained model will be used to generate daily recommendations. You want to minimize model development and training time. How should you develop the training pipeline?

Question54: 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?

Question55: You need to design an architecture that serves asynchronous predictions to determine whether a particular mission-critical machine part will fail. Your system collects data from multiple sensors from the machine.
You want to build a model that will predict a failure in the next N minutes, given the average of each sensor's data from the past 12 hours. How should you design the architecture?

Question56: You work for a company that provides an anti-spam service that flags and hides spam posts on social media platforms. Your company currently uses a list of 200,000 keywords to identify suspected spam posts. If a post contains more than a few of these keywords, the post is identified as spam. You want to start using machine learning to flag spam posts for human review. What is the main advantage of implementing machine learning for this business case?

Question57: 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?

Question58: You work for a biotech startup that is experimenting with deep learning ML models based on properties of biological organisms. Your team frequently works on early-stage experiments with new architectures of ML models, and writes custom TensorFlow ops in C++. You train your models on large datasets and large batch sizes. Your typical batch size has 1024 examples, and each example is about 1 MB in size. The average size of a network with all weights and embeddings is 20 GB. What hardware should you choose for your models?

Question59: You are responsible for building a unified analytics environment across a variety of on-premises data marts.
Your company is experiencing data quality and security challenges when integrating data across the servers, caused by the use of a wide range of disconnected tools and temporary solutions. You need a fully managed, cloud-native data integration service that will lower the total cost of work and reduce repetitive work. Some members on your team prefer a codeless interface for building Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) process.
Which service should you use?

Question60: You work at an ecommerce startup. You need to create a customer churn prediction model Your company's recent sales records are stored in a BigQuery table You want to understand how your initial model is making predictions. You also want to iterate on the model as quickly as possible while minimizing cost How should you build your first model?

Question61: 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 newplayers 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)

Question62: 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?

Question63: 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?

Question64: 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?

Question65: 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?

Question66: You created an ML pipeline with multiple input parameters. You want to investigate the tradeoffs between different parameter combinations. The parameter options are
* input dataset
* Max tree depth of the boosted tree regressor
* Optimizer learning rate
You need to compare the pipeline performance of the different parameter combinations measured in F1 score, time to train and model complexity. You want your approach to be reproducible and track all pipeline runs on the same platform. What should you do?

Question67: You developed a custom model by using Vertex Al to forecast the sales of your company s products based on historical transactional data You anticipate changes in the feature distributions and the correlations between the features in the near future You also expect to receive a large volume of prediction requests You plan to use Vertex Al Model Monitoring for drift detection and you want to minimize the cost. What should you do?

Question68: You work with a team of researchers to 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?

Question69: 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?

Question70: You recently created a new Google Cloud Project After testing that you can submit a Vertex Al Pipeline job from the Cloud Shell, you want to use a Vertex Al Workbench user-managed notebook instance to run your code from that instance You created the instance and ran the code but this time the job fails with an insufficient permissions error. What should you do?

Question71: You work for an international manufacturing organization that ships scientific products all over the world Instruction manuals for these products need to be translated to 15 different languages Your organization's leadership team wants to start using machine learning to reduce the cost of manual human translations and increase translation speed. You need to implement a scalable solution that maximizes accuracy and minimizes operational overhead. You also want to include a process to evaluate and fix incorrect translations. What should you do?

Question72: While running a model training pipeline on Vertex Al, you discover that the evaluation step is failing because of an out-of-memory error. You are currently using TensorFlow Model Analysis (TFMA) with a standard Evaluator TensorFlow Extended (TFX) pipeline component for the evaluation step. You want to stabilize the pipeline without downgrading the evaluation quality while minimizing infrastructure overhead. What should you do?

Question73: 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?

Question74: 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?

Question75: 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?

Question76: 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?

Question77: You have developed a fraud detection model for a large financial institution using Vertex AI. The model achieves high accuracy, but stakeholders are concerned about potential bias based on customer demographics.
You have been asked to provide insights into the model's decision-making process and identify any fairness issues. What should you do?

Question78: 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?

Question79: 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?

Question80: 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?

Question81: 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?

Question82: 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

Question83: 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?

Question84: 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?

Question85: 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?

Question86: 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?

Question87: 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?

Question88: You built a custom ML model using scikit-learn. Training time is taking longer than expected. You decide to migrate your model to Vertex AI Training, and you want to improve the model's training time. What should you try out first?

Question89: You have deployed a model on Vertex AI for real-time inference. During an online prediction request, you get an "Out of Memory" error. What should you do?

Question90: You built a deep learning-based image classification model by using on-premises data. You want to use Vertex Al to deploy the model to production Due to security concerns you cannot move your data to the cloud. You are aware that the input data distribution might change over time You need to detect model performance changes in production. What should you do?

Question91: 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?

Question92: You have successfully deployed to production a large and complex TensorFlow model trained on tabular data.
You want to predict the lifetime value (LTV) field for each subscription stored in the BigQuery table named subscription. subscriptionPurchase in the project named my-fortune500-company-project.
You have organized all your training code, from preprocessing data from the BigQuery table up to deploying the validated model to the Vertex AI endpoint, into a TensorFlow Extended (TFX) pipeline. You want to prevent prediction drift, i.e., a situation when a feature data distribution in production changes significantly over time. What should you do?

Question93: You received a training-serving skew alert from a Vertex Al Model Monitoring job running in production.
You retrained the model with more recent training data, and deployed it back to the Vertex Al endpoint but you are still receiving the same alert. What should you do?

Question94: 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'?

Question95: You recently joined an enterprise-scale company that has thousands of datasets. You know that there are accurate descriptions for each table in BigQuery, and you are searching for the proper BigQuery table to use for a model you are building on AI Platform. How should you find the data that you need?

Question96: 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?

Question97: 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?

Question98: 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?

Question99: You are an ML engineer at a large grocery retailer with stores in multiple regions. You have been asked to create an inventory prediction model. Your models features include region, location, historical demand, and seasonal popularity. You want the algorithm to learn from new inventory data on a daily basis. Which algorithms should you use to build the model?

Question100: You are creating a deep neural network classification model using a dataset with categorical input values.
Certain columns have a cardinality greater than 10,000 unique values. How should you encode these categorical values as input into the model?

Question101: You are training a custom language model for your company using a large dataset. You plan to use the ReductionServer strategy on Vertex Al. You need to configure the worker pools of the distributed training job. What should you do?

Question102: You are working with a dataset that contains customer transactions. You need to build an ML model to predict customer purchase behavior You plan to develop the model in BigQuery ML, and export it to Cloud Storage for online prediction You notice that the input data contains a few categorical features, including product category and payment method You want to deploy the model as quickly as possible. What should you do?

Question103: 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?

Question104: 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?

Question105: 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?

Question106: 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?

Question107: 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'?

Question108: You deployed an ML model into production a year ago. Every month, you collect all raw requests that were sent to your model prediction service during the previous month. You send a subset of these requests to a human labeling service to evaluate your model's performance. After a year, you notice that your model's performance sometimes degrades significantly after a month, while other times it takes several months to notice any decrease in performance. The labeling service is costly, but you also need to avoid large performance degradations. You want to determine how often you should retrain your model to maintain a high level of performance while minimizing cost. What should you do?

Question109: You recently trained an XGBoost model on tabular data You plan to expose the model for internal use as an HTTP microservice After deployment you expect a small number of incoming requests. You want to productionize the model with the least amount of effort and latency. What should you do?

Question110: 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?

Question111: You recently designed and built a custom neural network that uses critical dependencies specific to your organization's framework. You need to train the model using a managed training service on Google Cloud.
However, the ML framework and related dependencies are not supported by Al Platform Training. Also, both your model and your data are too large to fit in memory on a single machine. Your ML framework of choice uses the scheduler, workers, and servers distribution structure. What should you do?

Question112: 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?

Question113: You are a lead ML engineer at a retail company. You want to track and manage ML metadata in a centralized way so that your team can have reproducible experiments by generating artifacts. Which management solution should you recommend to your team?

Question114: You developed a Python module by using Keras to train a regression model. You developed two model architectures, linear regression and deep neural network (DNN). within the same module. You are using the - raining_method argument to select one of the two methods, and you are using the Learning_rate-and num_hidden_layers arguments in the DNN. You plan to use Vertex Al's hypertuning service with a Budget to perform 100 trials. You want to identify the model architecture and hyperparameter values that minimize training loss and maximize model performance What should you do?

Question115: You work for a pharmaceutical company based in Canada. Your team developed a BigQuery ML model to predict the number of flu infections for the next month in Canada Weather data is published weekly and flu infection statistics are published monthly. You need to configure a model retraining policy that minimizes cost What should you do?

Question116: You work on the data science team for a multinational beverage company. You need to develop an ML model to predict the company's profitability for a new line of naturally flavored bottled waters in different locations.
You are provided with historical data that includes product types, product sales volumes, expenses, and profits for all regions. What should you use as the input and output for your model?

Question117: 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?

Question118: You work on a team that builds state-of-the-art deep learning models by using the TensorFlow framework.
Your team runs multiple ML experiments each week which makes it difficult to track the experiment runs.
You want a simple approach to effectively track, visualize and debug ML experiment runs on Google Cloud while minimizing any overhead code. How should you proceed?

Question119: 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?

Question120: You are creating a social media app where pet owners can post images of their pets. You have one million user uploaded images with hashtags. You want to build a comprehensive system that recommends images to users that are similar in appearance to their own uploaded images.
What should you do?

Question121: You work for a retail company. You have created a Vertex Al forecast model that produces monthly item sales predictions. You want to quickly create a report that will help to explain how the model calculates the predictions. You have one month of recent actual sales data that was not included in the training dataset. How should you generate data for your report?

Question122: You need to analyze user activity data from your company's mobile applications. Your team will use BigQuery for data analysis, transformation, and experimentation with ML algorithms. You need to ensure real-time ingestion of the user activity data into BigQuery. What should you do?

Question123: You are developing a custom image classification model in Python. You plan to run your training application on Vertex Al Your input dataset contains several hundred thousand small images You need to determine how to store and access the images for training. You want to maximize data throughput and minimize training time while reducing the amount of additional code. What should you do?

Question124: 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?

Question125: You are building a TensorFlow text-to-image generative model by using a dataset that contains billions of images with their respective captions. You want to create a low maintenance, automated workflow that reads the data from a Cloud Storage bucket collects statistics, splits the dataset into training/validation/test datasets performs data transformations, trains the model using the training/validation datasets. and validates the model by using the test dataset. What should you do?

Question126: Your team is building a convolutional neural network (CNN)-based architecture from scratch. The preliminary experiments running on your on-premises CPU-only infrastructure were encouraging, but have slow convergence. You have been asked to speed up model training to reduce time-to-market. You want to experiment with virtual machines (VMs) on Google Cloud to leverage more powerful hardware. Your code does not include any manual device placement and has not been wrapped in Estimator model-level abstraction. Which environment should you train your model on?

Question127: 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?

Question128: You are building a predictive maintenance model to preemptively detect part defects in bridges. You plan to use high definition images of the bridges as model inputs. You need to explain the output of the model to the relevant stakeholders so they can take appropriate action. How should you build the model?

Question129: You work on a growing team of more than 50 data scientists who all use Al Platform. You are designing a strategy to organize your jobs, models, and versions in a clean and scalable way. Which strategy should you choose?

Question130: Your organization's call center has asked you to develop a model that analyzes customer sentiments in each call. The call center receives over one million calls daily, and data is stored in Cloud Storage. The data collected must not leave the region in which the call originated, and no Personally Identifiable Information (Pll) can be stored or analyzed. The data science team has a third-party tool for visualization and access which requires a SQL ANSI-2011 compliant interface. You need to select components for data processing and for analytics. How should the data pipeline be designed?

Question131: 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?

Question132: You work for a bank You have been asked to develop an ML model that will support loan application decisions. You need to determine which Vertex Al services to include in the workflow You want to track the model's training parameters and the metrics per training epoch. You plan to compare the performance of each version of the model to determine the best model based on your chosen metrics. Which Vertex Al services should you use?

Question133: 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?

Question134: You need to execute a batch prediction on 100 million records in a BigQuery table with a custom TensorFlow DNN regressor model, and then store the predicted results in a BigQuery table. You want to minimize the effort required to build this inference pipeline. What should you do?

Question135: 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?

Question136: You work for a company that sells corporate electronic products to thousands of businesses worldwide. Your company stores historical customer data in BigQuery. You need to build a model that predicts customer lifetime value over the next three years. You want to use the simplest approach to build the model and you want to have access to visualization tools. What should you do?

Question137: 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?

Question138: 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?

Question139: You recently trained a XGBoost model that you plan to deploy to production for online inference Before sending a predict request to your model's binary you need to perform a simple data preprocessing step This step exposes a REST API that accepts requests in your internal VPC Service Controls and returns predictions You want to configure this preprocessing step while minimizing cost and effort What should you do?