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Question1: A Machine Learning Specialist is working with multiple data sources containing billions of records that need to be joined. What feature engineering and model development approach should the Specialist take with a dataset this large?

Question2: A Marketing Manager at a pet insurance company plans to launch a targeted marketing campaign on social media to acquire new customers Currently, the company has the following data in Amazon Aurora
* Profiles for all past and existing customers
* Profiles for all past and existing insured pets
* Policy-level information
* Premiums received
* Claims paid
What steps should be taken to implement a machine learning model to identify potential new customers on social media?

Question3: A company is running a machine learning prediction service that generates 100 TB of predictions every day A Machine Learning Specialist must generate a visualization of the daily precision-recall curve from the predictions, and forward a read-only version to the Business team.
Which solution requires the LEAST coding effort?

Question4: A data scientist uses an Amazon SageMaker notebook instance to conduct data exploration and analysis. This requires certain Python packages that are not natively available on Amazon SageMaker to be installed on the notebook instance.
How can a machine learning specialist ensure that required packages are automatically available on the notebook instance for the data scientist to use?

Question5: A company supplies wholesale clothing to thousands of retail stores. A data scientist must create a model that predicts the daily sales volume for each item for each store. The data scientist discovers that more than half of the stores have been in business for less than 6 months. Sales data is highly consistent from week to week.
Daily data from the database has been aggregated weekly, and weeks with no sales are omitted from the current dataset. Five years (100 MB) of sales data is available in Amazon S3.
Which factors will adversely impact the performance of the forecast model to be developed, and which actions should the data scientist take to mitigate them? (Choose two.)

Question6: A company is building a new version of a recommendation engine. Machine learning (ML) specialists need to keep adding new data from users to improve personalized recommendations. The ML specialists gather data from the users' interactions on the platform and from sources such as external websites and social media.
The pipeline cleans, transforms, enriches, and compresses terabytes of data daily, and this data is stored in Amazon S3. A set of Python scripts was coded to do the job and is stored in a large Amazon EC2 instance.
The whole process takes more than 20 hours to finish, with each script taking at least an hour. The company wants to move the scripts out of Amazon EC2 into a more managed solution that will eliminate the need to maintain servers.
Which approach will address all of these requirements with the LEAST development effort?

Question7: A company builds computer-vision models that use deep learning for the autonomous vehicle industry. A machine learning (ML) specialist uses an Amazon EC2 instance that has a CPU: GPU ratio of 12:1 to train the models.
The ML specialist examines the instance metric logs and notices that the GPU is idle half of the time The ML specialist must reduce training costs without increasing the duration of the training jobs.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question8: A Machine Learning team runs its own training algorithm on Amazon SageMaker. The training algorithm requires external assets. The team needs to submit both its own algorithm code and algorithm-specific parameters to Amazon SageMaker.
What combination of services should the team use to build a custom algorithm in Amazon SageMaker?
(Choose two.)

Question9: A company needs to quickly make sense of a large amount of data and gain insight from it. The data is in different formats, the schemas change frequently, and new data sources are added regularly. The company wants to use AWS services to explore multiple data sources, suggest schemas, and enrich and transform the data. The solution should require the least possible coding effort for the data flows and the least possible infrastructure management.
Which combination of AWS services will meet these requirements?

Question10: A company is observing low accuracy while training on the default built-in image classification algorithm in Amazon SageMaker. The Data Science team wants to use an Inception neural network architecture instead of a ResNet architecture.
Which of the following will accomplish this? (Select TWO.)

Question11: Which of the following metrics should a Machine Learning Specialist generally use to compare/evaluate machine learning classification models against each other?

Question12: A company processes millions of orders every day. The company uses Amazon DynamoDB tables to store order information. When customers submit new orders, the new orders are immediately added to the DynamoDB tables. New orders arrive in the DynamoDB tables continuously.
A data scientist must build a peak-time prediction solution. The data scientist must also create an Amazon OuickSight dashboard to display near real-lime order insights. The data scientist needs to build a solution that will give QuickSight access to the data as soon as new order information arrives.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST delay between when a new order is processed and when QuickSight can access the new order information?

Question13: A company is using Amazon Polly to translate plaintext documents to speech for automated company announcements However company acronyms are being mispronounced in the current documents How should a Machine Learning Specialist address this issue for future documents?

Question14: A real estate company wants to create a machine learning model for predicting housing prices based on a historical dataset. The dataset contains 32 features.
Which model will meet the business requirement?

Question15: A retail company uses a machine learning (ML) model for daily sales forecasting. The company's brand manager reports that the model has provided inaccurate results for the past 3 weeks.
At the end of each day, an AWS Glue job consolidates the input data that is used for the forecasting with the actual daily sales data and the predictions of the model. The AWS Glue job stores the data in Amazon S3. The company's ML team is using an Amazon SageMaker Studio notebook to gain an understanding about the source of the model's inaccuracies.
What should the ML team do on the SageMaker Studio notebook to visualize the model's degradation MOST accurately?

Question16: Example Corp has an annual sale event from October to December. The company has sequential sales data from the past 15 years and wants to use Amazon ML to predict the sales for this year's upcoming event. Which method should Example Corp use to split the data into a training dataset and evaluation dataset?

Question17: An office security agency conducted a successful pilot using 100 cameras installed at key locations within the main office. Images from the cameras were uploaded to Amazon S3 and tagged using Amazon Rekognition, and the results were stored in Amazon ES. The agency is now looking to expand the pilot into a full production system using thousands of video cameras in its office locations globally. The goal is to identify activities performed by non-employees in real time.
Which solution should the agency consider?

Question18: A Data Engineer needs to build a model using a dataset containing customer credit card information.
How can the Data Engineer ensure the data remains encrypted and the credit card information is secure?

Question19: A Machine Learning Specialist is applying a linear least squares regression model to a dataset with 1 000 records and 50 features Prior to training, the ML Specialist notices that two features are perfectly linearly dependent Why could this be an issue for the linear least squares regression model?

Question20: A Data Scientist needs to migrate an existing on-premises ETL process to the cloud The current process runs at regular time intervals and uses PySpark to combine and format multiple large data sources into a single consolidated output for downstream processing The Data Scientist has been given the following requirements for the cloud solution
* Combine multiple data sources
* Reuse existing PySpark logic
* Run the solution on the existing schedule
* Minimize the number of servers that will need to be managed
Which architecture should the Data Scientist use to build this solution?

Question21: A company needs to deploy a chatbot to answer common questions from customers. The chatbot must base its answers on company documentation.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST development effort?

Question22: A company ingests machine learning (ML) data from web advertising clicks into an Amazon S3 data lake.
Click data is added to an Amazon Kinesis data stream by using the Kinesis Producer Library (KPL). The data is loaded into the S3 data lake from the data stream by using an Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose delivery stream. As the data volume increases, an ML specialist notices that the rate of data ingested into Amazon S3 is relatively constant. There also is an increasing backlog of data for Kinesis Data Streams and Kinesis Data Firehose to ingest.
Which next step is MOST likely to improve the data ingestion rate into Amazon S3?

Question23: A data scientist is training a large PyTorch model by using Amazon SageMaker. It takes 10 hours on average to train the model on GPU instances. The data scientist suspects that training is not converging and that resource utilization is not optimal.
What should the data scientist do to identify and address training issues with the LEAST development effort?

Question24: A data scientist is building a forecasting model for a retail company by using the most recent 5 years of sales records that are stored in a data warehouse. The dataset contains sales records for each of the company's stores across five commercial regions The data scientist creates a working dataset with StorelD. Region. Date, and Sales Amount as columns. The data scientist wants to analyze yearly average sales for each region. The scientist also wants to compare how each region performed compared to average sales across all commercial regions.
Which visualization will help the data scientist better understand the data trend?

Question25: A company wants to predict the sale prices of houses based on available historical sales data. The target variable in the company's dataset is the sale price. The features include parameters such as the lot size, living area measurements, non-living area measurements, number of bedrooms, number of bathrooms, year built, and postal code. The company wants to use multi-variable linear regression to predict house sale prices.
Which step should a machine learning specialist take to remove features that are irrelevant for the analysis and reduce the model's complexity?

Question26: A data scientist is working on a public sector project for an urban traffic system. While studying the traffic patterns, it is clear to the data scientist that the traffic behavior at each light is correlated, subject to a small stochastic error term. The data scientist must model the traffic behavior to analyze the traffic patterns and reduce congestion.
How will the data scientist MOST effectively model the problem?

Question27: A medical device company is building a machine learning (ML) model to predict the likelihood of device recall based on customer data that the company collects from a plain text survey. One of the survey questions asks which medications the customer is taking. The data for this field contains the names of medications that customers enter manually. Customers misspell some of the medication names. The column that contains the medication name data gives a categorical feature with high cardinality but redundancy.
What is the MOST effective way to encode this categorical feature into a numeric feature?

Question28: A company's Machine Learning Specialist needs to improve the training speed of a time-series forecasting model using TensorFlow. The training is currently implemented on a single-GPU machine and takes approximately 23 hours to complete. The training needs to be run daily.
The model accuracy js acceptable, but the company anticipates a continuous increase in the size of the training data and a need to update the model on an hourly, rather than a daily, basis. The company also wants to minimize coding effort and infrastructure changes What should the Machine Learning Specialist do to the training solution to allow it to scale for future demand?

Question29: A bank's Machine Learning team is developing an approach for credit card fraud detection The company has a large dataset of historical data labeled as fraudulent The goal is to build a model to take the information from new transactions and predict whether each transaction is fraudulent or not Which built-in Amazon SageMaker machine learning algorithm should be used for modeling this problem?

Question30: A Data Scientist is developing a machine learning model to predict future patient outcomes based on information collected about each patient and their treatment plans. The model should output a continuous value as its prediction. The data available includes labeled outcomes for a set of 4,000 patients. The study was conducted on a group of individuals over the age of 65 who have a particular disease that is known to worsen with age.
Initial models have performed poorly. While reviewing the underlying data, the Data Scientist notices that, out of 4,000 patient observations, there are 450 where the patient age has been input as 0. The other features for these observations appear normal compared to the rest of the sample population.
How should the Data Scientist correct this issue?

Question31: A company is converting a large number of unstructured paper receipts into images. The company wants to create a model based on natural language processing (NLP) to find relevant entities such as date, location, and notes, as well as some custom entities such as receipt numbers.
The company is using optical character recognition (OCR) to extract text for data labeling. However, documents are in different structures and formats, and the company is facing challenges with setting up the manual workflows for each document type. Additionally, the company trained a named entity recognition (NER) model for custom entity detection using a small sample size. This model has a very low confidence score and will require retraining with a large dataset.
Which solution for text extraction and entity detection will require the LEAST amount of effort?

Question32: A manufacturing company has structured and unstructured data stored in an Amazon S3 bucket. A Machine Learning Specialist wants to use SQL to run queries on this data.
Which solution requires the LEAST effort to be able to query this data?

Question33: An aircraft engine manufacturing company is measuring 200 performance metrics in a time-series. Engineers want to detect critical manufacturing defects in near-real time during testing. All of the data needs to be stored for offline analysis.
What approach would be the MOST effective to perform near-real time defect detection?

Question34: A company wants to predict the classification of documents that are created from an application. New documents are saved to an Amazon S3 bucket every 3 seconds. The company has developed three versions of a machine learning (ML) model within Amazon SageMaker to classify document text. The company wants to deploy these three versions to predict the classification of each document.
Which approach will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Question35: An online reseller has a large, multi-column dataset with one column missing 30% of its data A Machine Learning Specialist believes that certain columns in the dataset could be used to reconstruct the missing data.
Which reconstruction approach should the Specialist use to preserve the integrity of the dataset?

Question36: A company wants to detect credit card fraud. The company has observed that an average of 2% of credit card transactions are fraudulent. A data scientist trains a classifier on a year's worth of credit card transaction data.
The classifier needs to identify the fraudulent transactions. The company wants to accurately capture as many fraudulent transactions as possible.
Which metrics should the data scientist use to optimize the classifier? (Select TWO.)

Question37: A library is developing an automatic book-borrowing system that uses Amazon Rekognition. Images of library members' faces are stored in an Amazon S3 bucket. When members borrow books, the Amazon Rekognition CompareFaces API operation compares real faces against the stored faces in Amazon S3.
The library needs to improve security by making sure that images are encrypted at rest. Also, when the images are used with Amazon Rekognition. they need to be encrypted in transit. The library also must ensure that the images are not used to improve Amazon Rekognition as a service.
How should a machine learning specialist architect the solution to satisfy these requirements?

Question38: A Machine Learning Specialist previously trained a logistic regression model using scikit-learn on a local machine, and the Specialist now wants to deploy it to production for inference only.
What steps should be taken to ensure Amazon SageMaker can host a model that was trained locally?

Question39: A company wants to forecast the daily price of newly launched products based on 3 years of data for older product prices, sales, and rebates. The time-series data has irregular timestamps and is missing some values.
Data scientist must build a dataset to replace the missing values. The data scientist needs a solution that resamptes the data daily and exports the data for further modeling.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST implementation effort?

Question40: A Machine Learning Specialist is assigned to a Fraud Detection team and must tune an XGBoost model, which is working appropriately for test data. However, with unknown data, it is not working as expected. The existing parameters are provided as follows.

Which parameter tuning guidelines should the Specialist follow to avoid overfitting?

Question41: A Machine Learning Specialist is building a prediction model for a large number of features using linear models, such as linear regression and logistic regression During exploratory data analysis the Specialist observes that many features are highly correlated with each other This may make the model unstable What should be done to reduce the impact of having such a large number of features?

Question42: A financial services company is building a robust serverless data lake on Amazon S3. The data lake should be flexible and meet the following requirements:
* Support querying old and new data on Amazon S3 through Amazon Athena and Amazon Redshift Spectrum.
* Support event-driven ETL pipelines.
* Provide a quick and easy way to understand metadata.
Which approach meets trfese requirements?

Question43: A machine learning (ML) specialist wants to create a data preparation job that uses a PySpark script with complex window aggregation operations to create data for training and testing. The ML specialist needs to evaluate the impact of the number of features and the sample count on model performance.
Which approach should the ML specialist use to determine the ideal data transformations for the model?

Question44: A Machine Learning Specialist has built a model using Amazon SageMaker built-in algorithms and is not getting expected accurate results The Specialist wants to use hyperparameter optimization to increase the model's accuracy Which method is the MOST repeatable and requires the LEAST amount of effort to achieve this?

Question45: A data scientist is using the Amazon SageMaker Neural Topic Model (NTM) algorithm to build a model that recommends tags from blog posts. The raw blog post data is stored in an Amazon S3 bucket in JSON format.
During model evaluation, the data scientist discovered that the model recommends certain stopwords such as
"a," "an," and "the" as tags to certain blog posts, along with a few rare words that are present only in certain blog entries. After a few iterations of tag review with the content team, the data scientist notices that the rare words are unusual but feasible. The data scientist also must ensure that the tag recommendations of the generated model do not include the stopwords.
What should the data scientist do to meet these requirements?

Question46: A Machine Learning Specialist observes several performance problems with the training portion of a machine learning solution on Amazon SageMaker The solution uses a large training dataset 2 TB in size and is using the SageMaker k-means algorithm The observed issues include the unacceptable length of time it takes before the training job launches and poor I/O throughput while training the model What should the Specialist do to address the performance issues with the current solution?

Question47: A company is creating an application to identify, count, and classify animal images that are uploaded to the company's website. The company is using the Amazon SageMaker image classification algorithm with an ImageNetV2 convolutional neural network (CNN). The solution works well for most animal images but does not recognize many animal species that are less common.
The company obtains 10,000 labeled images of less common animal species and stores the images in Amazon S3. A machine learning (ML) engineer needs to incorporate the images into the model by using Pipe mode in SageMaker.
Which combination of steps should the ML engineer take to train the model? (Choose two.)

Question48: A Machine Learning Specialist is packaging a custom ResNet model into a Docker container so the company can leverage Amazon SageMaker for training. The Specialist is using Amazon EC2 P3 instances to train the model and needs to properly configure the Docker container to leverage the NVIDIA GPUs.
What does the Specialist need to do?

Question49: A machine learning (ML) specialist uploads 5 TB of data to an Amazon SageMaker Studio environment. The ML specialist performs initial data cleansing. Before the ML specialist begins to train a model, the ML specialist needs to create and view an analysis report that details potential bias in the uploaded data.
Which combination of actions will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead? (Choose two.)

Question50: A beauty supply store wants to understand some characteristics of visitors to the store. The store has security video recordings from the past several years. The store wants to generate a report of hourly visitors from the recordings. The report should group visitors by hair style and hair color.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of effort?

Question51: A Machine Learning Specialist is working with a media company to perform classification on popular articles from the company's website. The company is using random forests to classify how popular an article will be before it is published A sample of the data being used is below.
Given the dataset, the Specialist wants to convert the Day-Of_Week column to binary values.
What technique should be used to convert this column to binary values.

Question52: A data scientist wants to use Amazon Forecast to build a forecasting model for inventory demand for a retail company. The company has provided a dataset of historic inventory demand for its products as a .csv file stored in an Amazon S3 bucket. The table below shows a sample of the dataset.

How should the data scientist transform the data?

Question53: A Machine Learning Specialist is building a convolutional neural network (CNN) that will classify 10 types of animals. The Specialist has built a series of layers in a neural network that will take an input image of an animal, pass it through a series of convolutional and pooling layers, and then finally pass it through a dense and fully connected layer with 10 nodes The Specialist would like to get an output from the neural network that is a probability distribution of how likely it is that the input image belongs to each of the 10 classes Which function will produce the desired output?

Question54: A Machine Learning Specialist is implementing a full Bayesian network on a dataset that describes public transit in New York City. One of the random variables is discrete, and represents the number of minutes New Yorkers wait for a bus given that the buses cycle every 10 minutes, with a mean of 3 minutes.
Which prior probability distribution should the ML Specialist use for this variable?

Question55: A company that runs an online library is implementing a chatbot using Amazon Lex to provide book recommendations based on category. This intent is fulfilled by an AWS Lambda function that queries an Amazon DynamoDB table for a list of book titles, given a particular category. For testing, there are only three categories implemented as the custom slot types: "comedy," "adventure," and "documentary." A machine learning (ML) specialist notices that sometimes the request cannot be fulfilled because Amazon Lex cannot understand the category spoken by users with utterances such as "funny," "fun," and "humor." The ML specialist needs to fix the problem without changing the Lambda code or data in DynamoDB.
How should the ML specialist fix the problem?

Question56: A financial services company wants to automate its loan approval process by building a machine learning (ML) model. Each loan data point contains credit history from a third-party data source and demographic information about the customer. Each loan approval prediction must come with a report that contains an explanation for why the customer was approved for a loan or was denied for a loan. The company will use Amazon SageMaker to build the model.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST development effort?

Question57: A company is building a predictive maintenance model based on machine learning (ML). The data is stored in a fully private Amazon S3 bucket that is encrypted at rest with AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) CMKs. An ML specialist must run data preprocessing by using an Amazon SageMaker Processing job that is triggered from code in an Amazon SageMaker notebook. The job should read data from Amazon S3, process it, and upload it back to the same S3 bucket. The preprocessing code is stored in a container image in Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR). The ML specialist needs to grant permissions to ensure a smooth data preprocessing workflow.
Which set of actions should the ML specialist take to meet these requirements?

Question58: A company provisions Amazon SageMaker notebook instances for its data science team and creates Amazon VPC interface endpoints to ensure communication between the VPC and the notebook instances. All connections to the Amazon SageMaker API are contained entirely and securely using the AWS network.
However, the data science team realizes that individuals outside the VPC can still connect to the notebook instances across the internet.
Which set of actions should the data science team take to fix the issue?

Question59: A data scientist uses Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler to define and perform transformations and feature engineering on historical data. The data scientist saves the transformations to SageMaker Feature Store.
The historical data is periodically uploaded to an Amazon S3 bucket. The data scientist needs to transform the new historic data and add it to the online feature store The data scientist needs to prepare the .....historic data for training and inference by using native integrations.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST development effort?

Question60: For the given confusion matrix, what is the recall and precision of the model?

Question61: A Machine Learning Specialist needs to be able to ingest streaming data and store it in Apache Parquet files for exploration and analysis. Which of the following services would both ingest and store this data in the correct format?

Question62: A data scientist must build a custom recommendation model in Amazon SageMaker for an online retail company. Due to the nature of the company's products, customers buy only 4-5 products every 5-10 years. So, the company relies on a steady stream of new customers. When a new customer signs up, the company collects data on the customer's preferences. Below is a sample of the data available to the data scientist.

How should the data scientist split the dataset into a training and test set for this use case?

Question63: A gaming company has launched an online game where people can start playing for free but they need to pay if they choose to use certain features The company needs to build an automated system to predict whether or not a new user will become a paid user within 1 year The company has gathered a labeled dataset from 1 million users The training dataset consists of 1.000 positive samples (from users who ended up paying within 1 year) and
999.000 negative samples (from users who did not use any paid features) Each data sample consists of 200 features including user age, device, location, and play patterns Using this dataset for training, the Data Science team trained a random forest model that converged with over
99% accuracy on the training set However, the prediction results on a test dataset were not satisfactory.
Which of the following approaches should the Data Science team take to mitigate this issue? (Select TWO.)

Question64: An agency collects census information within a country to determine healthcare and social program needs by province and city. The census form collects responses for approximately 500 questions from each citizen Which combination of algorithms would provide the appropriate insights? (Select TWO )

Question65: A company will use Amazon SageMaker to train and host a machine learning (ML) model for a marketing campaign. The majority of data is sensitive customer data. The data must be encrypted at rest. The company wants AWS to maintain the root of trust for the master keys and wants encryption key usage to be logged.
Which implementation will meet these requirements?

Question66: An agricultural company is interested in using machine learning to detect specific types of weeds in a 100-acre grassland field. Currently, the company uses tractor-mounted cameras to capture multiple images of the field as 10 X 10 grids. The company also has a large training dataset that consists of annotated images of popular weed classes like broadleaf and non-broadleaf docks.
The company wants to build a weed detection model that will detect specific types of weeds and the location of each type within the field. Once the model is ready, it will be hosted on Amazon SageMaker endpoints. The model will perform real-time inferencing using the images captured by the cameras.
Which approach should a Machine Learning Specialist take to obtain accurate predictions?

Question67: A company's data scientist has trained a new machine learning model that performs better on test data than the company's existing model performs in the production environment. The data scientist wants to replace the existing model that runs on an Amazon SageMaker endpoint in the production environment. However, the company is concerned that the new model might not work well on the production environment data.
The data scientist needs to perform A/B testing in the production environment to evaluate whether the new model performs well on production environment data.
Which combination of steps must the data scientist take to perform the A/B testing? (Choose two.)

Question68: A company wants to create an artificial intelligence (Al) yoga instructor that can lead large classes of students.
The company needs to create a feature that can accurately count the number of students who are in a class. The company also needs a feature that can differentiate students who are performing a yoga stretch correctly from students who are performing a stretch incorrectly.
...etermine whether students are performing a stretch correctly, the solution needs to measure the location and angle of each student's arms and legs A data scientist must use Amazon SageMaker to ...ss video footage of a yoga class by extracting image frames and applying computer vision models.
Which combination of models will meet these requirements with the LEAST effort? (Select TWO.)

Question69: A company wants to classify user behavior as either fraudulent or normal. Based on internal research, a Machine Learning Specialist would like to build a binary classifier based on two features: age of account and transaction month. The class distribution for these features is illustrated in the figure provided.

Based on this information, which model would have the HIGHEST recall with respect to the fraudulent class?

Question70: A machine learning (ML) engineer has created a feature repository in Amazon SageMaker Feature Store for the company. The company has AWS accounts for development, integration, and production. The company hosts a feature store in the development account. The company uses Amazon S3 buckets to store feature values offline. The company wants to share features and to allow the integration account and the production account to reuse the features that are in the feature repository.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

Question71: A financial company is trying to detect credit card fraud. The company observed that, on average, 2% of credit card transactions were fraudulent. A data scientist trained a classifier on a year's worth of credit card transactions data. The model needs to identify the fraudulent transactions (positives) from the regular ones (negatives). The company's goal is to accurately capture as many positives as possible.
Which metrics should the data scientist use to optimize the model? (Choose two.)

Question72: A manufacturer of car engines collects data from cars as they are being driven The data collected includes timestamp, engine temperature, rotations per minute (RPM), and other sensor readings The company wants to predict when an engine is going to have a problem so it can notify drivers in advance to get engine maintenance The engine data is loaded into a data lake for training Which is the MOST suitable predictive model that can be deployed into production'?

Question73: A company wants to enhance audits for its machine learning (ML) systems. The auditing system must be able to perform metadata analysis on the features that the ML models use. The audit solution must generate a report that analyzes the metadata. The solution also must be able to set the data sensitivity and authorship of features.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST development effort?

Question74: A data scientist is working on a forecast problem by using a dataset that consists of .csv files that are stored in Amazon S3. The files contain a timestamp variable in the following format:
March 1st, 2020, 08:14pm -
There is a hypothesis about seasonal differences in the dependent variable. This number could be higher or lower for weekdays because some days and hours present varying values, so the day of the week, month, or hour could be an important factor. As a result, the data scientist needs to transform the timestamp into weekdays, month, and day as three separate variables to conduct an analysis.
Which solution requires the LEAST operational overhead to create a new dataset with the added features?

Question75: A company ingests machine learning (ML) data from web advertising clicks into an Amazon S3 data lake.
Click data is added to an Amazon Kinesis data stream by using the Kinesis Producer Library (KPL). The data is loaded into the S3 data lake from the data stream by using an Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose delivery stream. As the data volume increases, an ML specialist notices that the rate of data ingested into Amazon S3 is relatively constant. There also is an increasing backlog of data for Kinesis Data Streams and Kinesis Data Firehose to ingest.
Which next step is MOST likely to improve the data ingestion rate into Amazon S3?

Question76: Given the following confusion matrix for a movie classification model, what is the true class frequency for Romance and the predicted class frequency for Adventure?

Question77: A credit card company wants to build a credit scoring model to help predict whether a new credit card applicant will default on a credit card payment. The company has collected data from a large number of sources with thousands of raw attributes. Early experiments to train a classification model revealed that many attributes are highly correlated, the large number of features slows down the training speed significantly, and that there are some overfitting issues.
The Data Scientist on this project would like to speed up the model training time without losing a lot of information from the original dataset.
Which feature engineering technique should the Data Scientist use to meet the objectives?

Question78: A company is running an Amazon SageMaker training job that will access data stored in its Amazon S3 bucket A compliance policy requires that the data never be transmitted across the internet How should the company set up the job?

Question79: A pharmaceutical company performs periodic audits of clinical trial sites to quickly resolve critical findings.
The company stores audit documents in text format. Auditors have requested help from a data science team to quickly analyze the documents. The auditors need to discover the 10 main topics within the documents to prioritize and distribute the review work among the auditing team members. Documents that describe adverse events must receive the highest priority.
A data scientist will use statistical modeling to discover abstract topics and to provide a list of the top words for each category to help the auditors assess the relevance of the topic.
Which algorithms are best suited to this scenario? (Choose two.)

Question80: An insurance company is developing a new device for vehicles that uses a camera to observe drivers' behavior and alert them when they appear distracted The company created approximately 10,000 training images in a controlled environment that a Machine Learning Specialist will use to train and evaluate machine learning models During the model evaluation the Specialist notices that the training error rate diminishes faster as the number of epochs increases and the model is not accurately inferring on the unseen test images Which of the following should be used to resolve this issue? (Select TWO)

Question81: A machine learning (ML) specialist is using the Amazon SageMaker DeepAR forecasting algorithm to train a model on CPU-based Amazon EC2 On-Demand instances. The model currently takes multiple hours to train.
The ML specialist wants to decrease the training time of the model.
Which approaches will meet this requirement7 (SELECT TWO )

Question82: A technology startup is using complex deep neural networks and GPU compute to recommend the company's products to its existing customers based upon each customer's habits and interactions. The solution currently pulls each dataset from an Amazon S3 bucket before loading the data into a TensorFlow model pulled from the company's Git repository that runs locally. This job then runs for several hours while continually outputting its progress to the same S3 bucket. The job can be paused, restarted, and continued at any time in the event of a failure, and is run from a central queue.
Senior managers are concerned about the complexity of the solution's resource management and the costs involved in repeating the process regularly. They ask for the workload to be automated so it runs once a week, starting Monday and completing by the close of business Friday.
Which architecture should be used to scale the solution at the lowest cost?

Question83: A Machine Learning Specialist trained a regression model, but the first iteration needs optimizing. The Specialist needs to understand whether the model is more frequently overestimating or underestimating the target.
What option can the Specialist use to determine whether it is overestimating or underestimating the target value?

Question84: A data science team is planning to build a natural language processing (NLP) application. The application's text preprocessing stage will include part-of-speech tagging and key phase extraction. The preprocessed text will be input to a custom classification algorithm that the data science team has already written and trained using Apache MXNet.
Which solution can the team build MOST quickly to meet these requirements?

Question85: A Machine Learning Specialist is developing recommendation engine for a photography blog Given a picture, the recommendation engine should show a picture that captures similar objects The Specialist would like to create a numerical representation feature to perform nearest-neighbor searches What actions would allow the Specialist to get relevant numerical representations?

Question86: A medical imaging company wants to train a computer vision model to detect areas of concern on patients' CT scans. The company has a large collection of unlabeled CT scans that are linked to each patient and stored in an Amazon S3 bucket. The scans must be accessible to authorized users only. A machine learning engineer needs to build a labeling pipeline.
Which set of steps should the engineer take to build the labeling pipeline with the LEAST effort?

Question87: A machine learning (ML) specialist needs to extract embedding vectors from a text series. The goal is to provide a ready-to-ingest feature space for a data scientist to develop downstream ML predictive models. The text consists of curated sentences in English. Many sentences use similar words but in different contexts.
There are questions and answers among the sentences, and the embedding space must differentiate between them.
Which options can produce the required embedding vectors that capture word context and sequential QA information? (Choose two.)

Question88: A company is planning a marketing campaign to promote a new product to existing customers. The company has data (or past promotions that are similar. The company decides to try an experiment to send a more expensive marketing package to a smaller number of customers. The company wants to target the marketing campaign to customers who are most likely to buy the new product. The experiment requires that at least 90% of the customers who are likely to purchase the new product receive the marketing materials.
...company trains a model by using the linear learner algorithm in Amazon SageMaker. The model has a recall score of 80% and a precision of 75%.
...should the company retrain the model to meet these requirements?

Question89: A Machine Learning Specialist is planning to create a long-running Amazon EMR cluster. The EMR cluster will have 1 master node, 10 core nodes, and 20 task nodes. To save on costs, the Specialist will use Spot Instances in the EMR cluster.
Which nodes should the Specialist launch on Spot Instances?

Question90: A Machine Learning Specialist working for an online fashion company wants to build a data ingestion solution for the company's Amazon S3-based data lake.
The Specialist wants to create a set of ingestion mechanisms that will enable future capabilities comprised of:
* Real-time analytics
* Interactive analytics of historical data
* Clickstream analytics
* Product recommendations
Which services should the Specialist use?

Question91: A manufacturing company has a large set of labeled historical sales data The manufacturer would like to predict how many units of a particular part should be produced each quarter Which machine learning approach should be used to solve this problem?

Question92: A company is using Amazon SageMaker to build a machine learning (ML) model to predict customer churn based on customer call transcripts. Audio files from customer calls are located in an on-premises VoIP system that has petabytes of recorded calls. The on-premises infrastructure has high-velocity networking and connects to the company's AWS infrastructure through a VPN connection over a 100 Mbps connection.
The company has an algorithm for transcribing customer calls that requires GPUs for inference. The company wants to store these transcriptions in an Amazon S3 bucket in the AWS Cloud for model development.
Which solution should an ML specialist use to deliver the transcriptions to the S3 bucket as quickly as possible?

Question93: A manufacturing company wants to use machine learning (ML) to automate quality control in its facilities.
The facilities are in remote locations and have limited internet connectivity. The company has 20 of training data that consists of labeled images of defective product parts. The training data is in the corporate on-premises data center.
The company will use this data to train a model for real-time defect detection in new parts as the parts move on a conveyor belt in the facilities. The company needs a solution that minimizes costs for compute infrastructure and that maximizes the scalability of resources for training. The solution also must facilitate the company's use of an ML model in the low-connectivity environments.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question94: A data engineer needs to provide a team of data scientists with the appropriate dataset to run machine learning training jobs. The data will be stored in Amazon S3. The data engineer is obtaining the data from an Amazon Redshift database and is using join queries to extract a single tabular dataset. A portion of the schema is as follows:
...traction Timestamp (Timeslamp)
...JName(Varchar)
...JNo (Varchar)
Th data engineer must provide the data so that any row with a CardNo value of NULL is removed. Also, the TransactionTimestamp column must be separated into a TransactionDate column and a isactionTime column Finally, the CardName column must be renamed to NameOnCard.
The data will be extracted on a monthly basis and will be loaded into an S3 bucket. The solution must minimize the effort that is needed to set up infrastructure for the ingestion and transformation. The solution must be automated and must minimize the load on the Amazon Redshift cluster Which solution meets these requirements?

Question95: A Machine Learning Specialist is deciding between building a naive Bayesian model or a full Bayesian network for a classification problem. The Specialist computes the Pearson correlation coefficients between each feature and finds that their absolute values range between 0.1 to 0.95.
Which model describes the underlying data in this situation?

Question96: An online delivery company wants to choose the fastest courier for each delivery at the moment an order is placed. The company wants to implement this feature for existing users and new users of its application. Data scientists have trained separate models with XGBoost for this purpose, and the models are stored in Amazon S3. There is one model fof each city where the company operates.
The engineers are hosting these models in Amazon EC2 for responding to the web client requests, with one instance for each model, but the instances have only a 5% utilization in CPU and memory, ....operation engineers want to avoid managing unnecessary resources.
Which solution will enable the company to achieve its goal with the LEAST operational overhead?

Question97: A retail company intends to use machine learning to categorize new products A labeled dataset of current products was provided to the Data Science team The dataset includes 1 200 products The labeled dataset has
15 features for each product such as title dimensions, weight, and price Each product is labeled as belonging to one of six categories such as books, games, electronics, and movies.
Which model should be used for categorizing new products using the provided dataset for training?

Question98: A company uses camera images of the tops of items displayed on store shelves to determine which items were removed and which ones still remain. After several hours of data labeling, the company has a total of
1,000 hand-labeled images covering 10 distinct items. The training results were poor.
Which machine learning approach fulfills the company's long-term needs?

Question99: A company wants to predict stock market price trends. The company stores stock market data each business day in Amazon S3 in Apache Parquet format. The company stores 20 GB of data each day for each stock code.
A data engineer must use Apache Spark to perform batch preprocessing data transformations quickly so the company can complete prediction jobs before the stock market opens the next day. The company plans to track more stock market codes and needs a way to scale the preprocessing data transformations.
Which AWS service or feature will meet these requirements with the LEAST development effort over time?

Question100: A Machine Learning Specialist is assigned a TensorFlow project using Amazon SageMaker for training, and needs to continue working for an extended period with no Wi-Fi access.
Which approach should the Specialist use to continue working?

Question101: A large JSON dataset for a project has been uploaded to a private Amazon S3 bucket The Machine Learning Specialist wants to securely access and explore the data from an Amazon SageMaker notebook instance A new VPC was created and assigned to the Specialist How can the privacy and integrity of the data stored in Amazon S3 be maintained while granting access to the Specialist for analysis?

Question102: A manufacturing company has structured and unstructured data stored in an Amazon S3 bucket A Machine Learning Specialist wants to use SQL to run queries on this data. Which solution requires the LEAST effort to be able to query this data?

Question103: A manufacturing company asks its Machine Learning Specialist to develop a model that classifies defective parts into one of eight defect types. The company has provided roughly 100000 images per defect type for training During the injial training of the image classification model the Specialist notices that the validation accuracy is 80%, while the training accuracy is 90% It is known that human-level performance for this type of image classification is around 90% What should the Specialist consider to fix this issue1?

Question104: A company has set up and deployed its machine learning (ML) model into production with an endpoint using Amazon SageMaker hosting services. The ML team has configured automatic scaling for its SageMaker instances to support workload changes. During testing, the team notices that additional instances are being launched before the new instances are ready. This behavior needs to change as soon as possible.
How can the ML team solve this issue?

Question105: A chemical company has developed several machine learning (ML) solutions to identify chemical process abnormalities. The time series values of independent variables and the labels are available for the past 2 years and are sufficient to accurately model the problem.
The regular operation label is marked as 0. The abnormal operation label is marked as 1 . Process abnormalities have a significant negative effect on the companys profits. The company must avoid these abnormalities.
Which metrics will indicate an ML solution that will provide the GREATEST probability of detecting an abnormality?

Question106: A data scientist is building a linear regression model. The scientist inspects the dataset and notices that the mode of the distribution is lower than the median, and the median is lower than the mean.
Which data transformation will give the data scientist the ability to apply a linear regression model?

Question107: A data scientist obtains a tabular dataset that contains 150 correlated features with different ranges to build a regression model. The data scientist needs to achieve more efficient model training by implementing a solution that minimizes impact on the model's performance. The data scientist decides to perform a principal component analysis (PCA) preprocessing step to reduce the number of features to a smaller set of independent features before the data scientist uses the new features in the regression model.
Which preprocessing step will meet these requirements?

Question108: A company offers an online shopping service to its customers. The company wants to enhance the site's security by requesting additional information when customers access the site from locations that are different from their normal location. The company wants to update the process to call a machine learning (ML) model to determine when additional information should be requested.
The company has several terabytes of data from its existing ecommerce web servers containing the source IP addresses for each request made to the web server. For authenticated requests, the records also contain the login name of the requesting user.
Which approach should an ML specialist take to implement the new security feature in the web application?

Question109: A Machine Learning Specialist is building a logistic regression model that will predict whether or not a person will order a pizza. The Specialist is trying to build the optimal model with an ideal classification threshold.
What model evaluation technique should the Specialist use to understand how different classification thresholds will impact the model's performance?

Question110: A company sells thousands of products on a public website and wants to automatically identify products with potential durability problems. The company has 1.000 reviews with date, star rating, review text, review summary, and customer email fields, but many reviews are incomplete and have empty fields. Each review has already been labeled with the correct durability result.
A machine learning specialist must train a model to identify reviews expressing concerns over product durability. The first model needs to be trained and ready to review in 2 days.
What is the MOST direct approach to solve this problem within 2 days?

Question111: A Data Scientist wants to gain real-time insights into a data stream of GZIP files. Which solution would allow the use of SQL to query the stream with the LEAST latency?

Question112: A company wants to classify user behavior as either fraudulent or normal. Based on internal research, a Machine Learning Specialist would like to build a binary classifier based on two features: age of account and transaction month. The class distribution for these features is illustrated in the figure provided.

Based on this information which model would have the HIGHEST accuracy?

Question113: A machine learning specialist stores IoT soil sensor data in Amazon DynamoDB table and stores weather event data as JSON files in Amazon S3. The dataset in DynamoDB is 10 GB in size and the dataset in Amazon S3 is 5 GB in size. The specialist wants to train a model on this data to help predict soil moisture levels as a function of weather events using Amazon SageMaker.
Which solution will accomplish the necessary transformation to train the Amazon SageMaker model with the LEAST amount of administrative overhead?

Question114: A data scientist is training a text classification model by using the Amazon SageMaker built-in BlazingText algorithm. There are 5 classes in the dataset, with 300 samples for category A, 292 samples for category B,
240 samples for category C, 258 samples for category D, and 310 samples for category E.
The data scientist shuffles the data and splits off 10% for testing. After training the model, the data scientist generates confusion matrices for the training and test sets.


What could the data scientist conclude form these results?

Question115: An ecommerce company wants to use machine learning (ML) to monitor fraudulent transactions on its website. The company is using Amazon SageMaker to research, train, deploy, and monitor the ML models.
The historical transactions data is in a .csv file that is stored in Amazon S3 The data contains features such as the user's IP address, navigation time, average time on each page, and the number of clicks for ....session.
There is no label in the data to indicate if a transaction is anomalous.
Which models should the company use in combination to detect anomalous transactions? (Select TWO.)

Question116: A machine learning (ML) specialist is using Amazon SageMaker hyperparameter optimization (HPO) to improve a model's accuracy. The learning rate parameter is specified in the following HPO configuration:

During the results analysis, the ML specialist determines that most of the training jobs had a learning rate between 0.01 and 0.1. The best result had a learning rate of less than 0.01. Training jobs need to run regularly over a changing dataset. The ML specialist needs to find a tuning mechanism that uses different learning rates more evenly from the provided range between MinValue and MaxValue.
Which solution provides the MOST accurate result?

Question117: A Machine Learning Specialist needs to create a data repository to hold a large amount of time-based training data for a new model. In the source system, new files are added every hour Throughout a single 24-hour period, the volume of hourly updates will change significantly. The Specialist always wants to train on the last
24 hours of the data
Which type of data repository is the MOST cost-effective solution?

Question118: A Data Scientist is building a model to predict customer churn using a dataset of 100 continuous numerical features. The Marketing team has not provided any insight about which features are relevant for churn prediction. The Marketing team wants to interpret the model and see the direct impact of relevant features on the model outcome. While training a logistic regression model, the Data Scientist observes that there is a wide gap between the training and validation set accuracy.
Which methods can the Data Scientist use to improve the model performance and satisfy the Marketing team's needs? (Choose two.)

Question119: A manufacturing company uses machine learning (ML) models to detect quality issues. The models use images that are taken of the company's product at the end of each production step. The company has thousands of machines at the production site that generate one image per second on average.
The company ran a successful pilot with a single manufacturing machine. For the pilot, ML specialists used an industrial PC that ran AWS IoT Greengrass with a long-running AWS Lambda function that uploaded the images to Amazon S3. The uploaded images invoked a Lambda function that was written in Python to perform inference by using an Amazon SageMaker endpoint that ran a custom model. The inference results were forwarded back to a web service that was hosted at the production site to prevent faulty products from being shipped.
The company scaled the solution out to all manufacturing machines by installing similarly configured industrial PCs on each production machine. However, latency for predictions increased beyond acceptable limits. Analysis shows that the internet connection is at its capacity limit.
How can the company resolve this issue MOST cost-effectively?