Amazon MLS-C01 Practice Exams
Last updated on Oct 22,2026- Exam Code: MLS-C01
- Exam Name: AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty
- Certification Provider: Amazon
- Latest update: Oct 22,2026
Question #81
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?
- A . Create a histogram of the daily sales over the last 3 weeks. In addition, create a histogram of the daily sales from before that period.
- B . Create a histogram of the model errors over the last 3 weeks. In addition, create a histogram of the model errors from before that period.
- C . Create a line chart with the weekly mean absolute error (MAE) of the model.
- D . Create a scatter plot of daily sales versus model error for the last 3 weeks. In addition, create a scatter plot of daily sales versus model error from before that period.
Correct Answer: B
B
Explanation:
The best way to visualize the model’s degradation is to create a histogram of the model errors over the last 3 weeks and compare it with a histogram of the model errors from before that period. A histogram is a graphical representation of the distribution of numerical data. It shows how often each value or range of values occurs in the data. A model error is the difference between the actual value and the predicted value. A high model error indicates a poor fit of the model to the data. By comparing the histograms of the model errors, the ML team can see if there is a significant change in the shape, spread, or center of the distribution. This can indicate if the model is underfitting, overfitting, or drifting from the data. A line chart or a scatter plot would not be as effective as a histogram for this purpose, because they do not show the distribution of the errors. A line chart would only show the trend of the errors over time, which may not capture the variability or outliers.
A scatter plot would only show the relationship between the errors and another variable, such as daily sales, which may not be relevant or informative for the model’s performance.
References:
Histogram – Wikipedia
Model error – Wikipedia
SageMaker Model Monitor – visualizing monitoring results
B
Explanation:
The best way to visualize the model’s degradation is to create a histogram of the model errors over the last 3 weeks and compare it with a histogram of the model errors from before that period. A histogram is a graphical representation of the distribution of numerical data. It shows how often each value or range of values occurs in the data. A model error is the difference between the actual value and the predicted value. A high model error indicates a poor fit of the model to the data. By comparing the histograms of the model errors, the ML team can see if there is a significant change in the shape, spread, or center of the distribution. This can indicate if the model is underfitting, overfitting, or drifting from the data. A line chart or a scatter plot would not be as effective as a histogram for this purpose, because they do not show the distribution of the errors. A line chart would only show the trend of the errors over time, which may not capture the variability or outliers.
A scatter plot would only show the relationship between the errors and another variable, such as daily sales, which may not be relevant or informative for the model’s performance.
References:
Histogram – Wikipedia
Model error – Wikipedia
SageMaker Model Monitor – visualizing monitoring results
Question #82
A Machine Learning Specialist receives customer data for an online shopping website. The data includes demographics, past visits, and locality information. The Specialist must develop a machine learning approach to identify the customer shopping patterns, preferences and trends to enhance the website for better service and smart recommendations.
Which solution should the Specialist recommend?
- A . Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) for the given collection of discrete data to identify patterns in the
customer database. - B . A neural network with a minimum of three layers and random initial weights to identify patterns in the customer database
- C . Collaborative filtering based on user interactions and correlations to identify patterns in the customer database
- D . Random Cut Forest (RCF) over random subsamples to identify patterns in the customer database
Correct Answer: C
C
Explanation:
Collaborative filtering is a machine learning technique that recommends products or services to users based on the ratings or preferences of other users. This technique is well-suited for identifying customer shopping patterns and preferences because it takes into account the interactions between users and products.
C
Explanation:
Collaborative filtering is a machine learning technique that recommends products or services to users based on the ratings or preferences of other users. This technique is well-suited for identifying customer shopping patterns and preferences because it takes into account the interactions between users and products.
Question #83
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?
- A . Use AWS Data Pipeline to transform the data and Amazon RDS to run queries.
- B . Use AWS Glue to catalogue the data and Amazon Athena to run queries.
- C . Use AWS Batch to run ETL on the data and Amazon Aurora to run the queries.
- D . Use AWS Lambda to transform the data and Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics to run queries.
Correct Answer: B
B
Explanation:
Using AWS Glue to catalogue the data and Amazon Athena to run queries is the solution that requires the least effort to be able to query the data stored in an Amazon S3 bucket using SQL. AWS Glue is a service that provides a serverless data integration platform for data preparation and transformation. AWS Glue can automatically discover, crawl, and catalogue the data stored in various sources, such as Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, etc. AWS Glue can also use AWS KMS to encrypt the data at rest on the Glue Data Catalog and Glue ETL jobs. AWS Glue can handle both structured and unstructured data, and support various data formats, such as CSV, JSON, Parquet, etc. AWS Glue can also use built-in or custom classifiers to identify and parse the data schema and format1 Amazon Athena is a service that provides an interactive query engine that can run SQL queries directly on data stored in Amazon S3. Amazon Athena can integrate with AWS Glue to use the Glue Data Catalog as a central metadata repository for the data sources and tables. Amazon Athena can also use AWS KMS to encrypt the data at rest on Amazon S3 and the query results. Amazon Athena can query both structured and unstructured data, and support various data formats, such as CSV, JSON, Parquet, etc. Amazon Athena can also use partitions and compression to optimize the query performance and reduce the query cost23
The other options are not valid or require more effort to query the data stored in an Amazon S3 bucket using SQL. Using AWS Data Pipeline to transform the data and Amazon RDS to run queries is not a good option, as it involves moving the data from Amazon S3 to Amazon RDS, which can incur additional time and cost. AWS Data Pipeline is a service that can orchestrate and automate data movement and transformation across various AWS services and on-premises data sources. AWS Data Pipeline can be integrated with Amazon EMR to run ETL jobs on the data stored in Amazon S3. Amazon RDS is a service that provides a managed relational database service that can run various database engines, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, etc. Amazon RDS can use AWS KMS to encrypt the data at rest and in transit. Amazon RDS can run SQL queries on the data stored in the database tables45 Using AWS Batch to run ETL on the data and Amazon Aurora to run the queries is not a good option, as it also involves moving the data from Amazon S3 to Amazon Aurora, which can incur additional time and cost. AWS Batch is a service that can run batch computing workloads on AWS. AWS Batch can be integrated with AWS Lambda to trigger ETL jobs on the data stored in Amazon S3. Amazon Aurora is a service that provides a compatible and scalable relational database engine that can run MySQL or PostgreSQL. Amazon Aurora can use AWS KMS to encrypt the data at rest and in transit. Amazon Aurora can run SQL queries on the data stored in the database tables. Using AWS Lambda to transform the data and Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics to run queries is not a good option, as it is not suitable for querying data stored in Amazon S3 using SQL. AWS Lambda is a service that can run serverless functions on AWS. AWS Lambda can be integrated with Amazon S3 to trigger data transformation functions on the data stored in Amazon S3. Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is a service that can analyze streaming data using SQL or Apache Flink. Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics can be integrated with Amazon Kinesis Data Streams or Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose to ingest streaming data sources, such as web logs, social media, IoT devices, etc. Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is not designed for querying data stored in Amazon S3 using SQL.
B
Explanation:
Using AWS Glue to catalogue the data and Amazon Athena to run queries is the solution that requires the least effort to be able to query the data stored in an Amazon S3 bucket using SQL. AWS Glue is a service that provides a serverless data integration platform for data preparation and transformation. AWS Glue can automatically discover, crawl, and catalogue the data stored in various sources, such as Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, etc. AWS Glue can also use AWS KMS to encrypt the data at rest on the Glue Data Catalog and Glue ETL jobs. AWS Glue can handle both structured and unstructured data, and support various data formats, such as CSV, JSON, Parquet, etc. AWS Glue can also use built-in or custom classifiers to identify and parse the data schema and format1 Amazon Athena is a service that provides an interactive query engine that can run SQL queries directly on data stored in Amazon S3. Amazon Athena can integrate with AWS Glue to use the Glue Data Catalog as a central metadata repository for the data sources and tables. Amazon Athena can also use AWS KMS to encrypt the data at rest on Amazon S3 and the query results. Amazon Athena can query both structured and unstructured data, and support various data formats, such as CSV, JSON, Parquet, etc. Amazon Athena can also use partitions and compression to optimize the query performance and reduce the query cost23
The other options are not valid or require more effort to query the data stored in an Amazon S3 bucket using SQL. Using AWS Data Pipeline to transform the data and Amazon RDS to run queries is not a good option, as it involves moving the data from Amazon S3 to Amazon RDS, which can incur additional time and cost. AWS Data Pipeline is a service that can orchestrate and automate data movement and transformation across various AWS services and on-premises data sources. AWS Data Pipeline can be integrated with Amazon EMR to run ETL jobs on the data stored in Amazon S3. Amazon RDS is a service that provides a managed relational database service that can run various database engines, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, etc. Amazon RDS can use AWS KMS to encrypt the data at rest and in transit. Amazon RDS can run SQL queries on the data stored in the database tables45 Using AWS Batch to run ETL on the data and Amazon Aurora to run the queries is not a good option, as it also involves moving the data from Amazon S3 to Amazon Aurora, which can incur additional time and cost. AWS Batch is a service that can run batch computing workloads on AWS. AWS Batch can be integrated with AWS Lambda to trigger ETL jobs on the data stored in Amazon S3. Amazon Aurora is a service that provides a compatible and scalable relational database engine that can run MySQL or PostgreSQL. Amazon Aurora can use AWS KMS to encrypt the data at rest and in transit. Amazon Aurora can run SQL queries on the data stored in the database tables. Using AWS Lambda to transform the data and Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics to run queries is not a good option, as it is not suitable for querying data stored in Amazon S3 using SQL. AWS Lambda is a service that can run serverless functions on AWS. AWS Lambda can be integrated with Amazon S3 to trigger data transformation functions on the data stored in Amazon S3. Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is a service that can analyze streaming data using SQL or Apache Flink. Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics can be integrated with Amazon Kinesis Data Streams or Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose to ingest streaming data sources, such as web logs, social media, IoT devices, etc. Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is not designed for querying data stored in Amazon S3 using SQL.
Question #84
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?
- A . Create an IAM role that has permissions to create Amazon SageMaker Processing jobs, S3 read and write access to the relevant S3 bucket, and appropriate KMS and ECR permissions. Attach the role to the SageMaker notebook instance. Create an Amazon SageMaker Processing job from the notebook.
- B . Create an IAM role that has permissions to create Amazon SageMaker Processing jobs. Attach the role to the SageMaker notebook instance. Create an Amazon SageMaker Processing job with an IAM role that has read and write permissions to the relevant S3 bucket, and appropriate KMS and ECR permissions.
- C . Create an IAM role that has permissions to create Amazon SageMaker Processing jobs and to access Amazon ECR. Attach the role to the SageMaker notebook instance. Set up both an S3 endpoint and a KMS endpoint in the default VPC. Create Amazon SageMaker Processing jobs from the notebook.
- D . Create an IAM role that has permissions to create Amazon SageMaker Processing jobs. Attach the role to the SageMaker notebook instance. Set up an S3 endpoint in the default VPC. Create Amazon SageMaker Processing jobs with the access key and secret key of the IAM user with appropriate KMS and ECR permissions.
Correct Answer: B
B
Explanation:
The correct solution for granting permissions for data preprocessing is to use the following steps: Create an IAM role that has permissions to create Amazon SageMaker Processing jobs. Attach the role to the SageMaker notebook instance. This role allows the ML specialist to run Processing jobs from the notebook code1
Create an Amazon SageMaker Processing job with an IAM role that has read and write permissions to the relevant S3 bucket, and appropriate KMS and ECR permissions. This role allows the Processing job to access the data in the encrypted S3 bucket, decrypt it with the KMS CMK, and pull the container image from ECR23
The other options are incorrect because they either miss some permissions or use unnecessary steps. For example:
Option A uses a single IAM role for both the notebook instance and the Processing job. This role may have more permissions than necessary for the notebook instance, which violates the principle of least privilege4
Option C sets up both an S3 endpoint and a KMS endpoint in the default VPC. These endpoints are
not required for the Processing job to access the data in the encrypted S3 bucket. They are only
needed if the Processing job runs in network isolation mode, which is not specified in the question.
Option D uses the access key and secret key of the IAM user with appropriate KMS and ECR
permissions. This is not a secure way to pass credentials to the Processing job. It also requires the ML
specialist to manage the IAM user and the keys.
Reference:
1: Create an Amazon SageMaker Notebook Instance – Amazon SageMaker
2: Create a Processing Job – Amazon SageMaker
3: Use AWS KMSCManaged Encryption Keys – Amazon Simple Storage Service
4: IAM Best Practices – AWS Identity and Access Management
: Network Isolation – Amazon SageMaker
: Understanding and Getting Your Security Credentials – AWS General Reference
B
Explanation:
The correct solution for granting permissions for data preprocessing is to use the following steps: Create an IAM role that has permissions to create Amazon SageMaker Processing jobs. Attach the role to the SageMaker notebook instance. This role allows the ML specialist to run Processing jobs from the notebook code1
Create an Amazon SageMaker Processing job with an IAM role that has read and write permissions to the relevant S3 bucket, and appropriate KMS and ECR permissions. This role allows the Processing job to access the data in the encrypted S3 bucket, decrypt it with the KMS CMK, and pull the container image from ECR23
The other options are incorrect because they either miss some permissions or use unnecessary steps. For example:
Option A uses a single IAM role for both the notebook instance and the Processing job. This role may have more permissions than necessary for the notebook instance, which violates the principle of least privilege4
Option C sets up both an S3 endpoint and a KMS endpoint in the default VPC. These endpoints are
not required for the Processing job to access the data in the encrypted S3 bucket. They are only
needed if the Processing job runs in network isolation mode, which is not specified in the question.
Option D uses the access key and secret key of the IAM user with appropriate KMS and ECR
permissions. This is not a secure way to pass credentials to the Processing job. It also requires the ML
specialist to manage the IAM user and the keys.
Reference:
1: Create an Amazon SageMaker Notebook Instance – Amazon SageMaker
2: Create a Processing Job – Amazon SageMaker
3: Use AWS KMSCManaged Encryption Keys – Amazon Simple Storage Service
4: IAM Best Practices – AWS Identity and Access Management
: Network Isolation – Amazon SageMaker
: Understanding and Getting Your Security Credentials – AWS General Reference
Question #85
A data scientist needs to create a model for predictive maintenance. The model will be based on historical data to identify rare anomalies in the data.
The historical data is stored in an Amazon S3 bucket. The data scientist needs to use Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler to ingest the data. The data scientists also needs to perform exploratory data analysis (EDA) to understand the statistical properties of the data.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of compute resources?
- A . Import the data by using the None option.
- B . Import the data by using the Stratified option.
- C . Import the data by using the First K option. Infer the value of K from domain knowledge.
- D . Import the data by using the Randomized option. Infer the random size from domain knowledge.
Correct Answer: C
C
Explanation:
To perform efficient exploratory data analysis (EDA) on a large dataset for anomaly detection, using the First K option in SageMaker Data Wrangler is an optimal choice. This option allows the data scientist to select the first K rows, limiting the data loaded into memory, which conserves compute resources.
Given that the First K option allows the data scientist to determine K based on domain knowledge, this approach provides a representative sample without requiring extensive compute resources. Other options like randomized sampling may not provide data samples that are as useful for initial analysis in a time-series or sequential dataset context.
C
Explanation:
To perform efficient exploratory data analysis (EDA) on a large dataset for anomaly detection, using the First K option in SageMaker Data Wrangler is an optimal choice. This option allows the data scientist to select the first K rows, limiting the data loaded into memory, which conserves compute resources.
Given that the First K option allows the data scientist to determine K based on domain knowledge, this approach provides a representative sample without requiring extensive compute resources. Other options like randomized sampling may not provide data samples that are as useful for initial analysis in a time-series or sequential dataset context.
Question #86
A data engineer at a bank is evaluating a new tabular dataset that includes customer data. The data engineer will use the customer data to create a new model to predict customer behavior. After creating a correlation matrix for the variables, the data engineer notices that many of the 100 features are highly correlated with each other.
Which steps should the data engineer take to address this issue? (Choose two.)
- A . Use a linear-based algorithm to train the model.
- B . Apply principal component analysis (PCA).
- C . Remove a portion of highly correlated features from the dataset.
- D . Apply min-max feature scaling to the dataset.
- E . Apply one-hot encoding category-based variables.
Correct Answer: B, C
B, C
Explanation:
B) Apply principal component analysis (PCA): PCA is a technique that reduces the dimensionality of a dataset by transforming the original features into a smaller set of new features that capture most of the variance in the data. PCA can help address the issue of multicollinearity, which occurs when some features are highly correlated with each other and can cause problems for some machine learning algorithms. By applying PCA, the data engineer can reduce the number of features and remove the redundancy in the data.
C) Remove a portion of highly correlated features from the dataset: Another way to deal with multicollinearity is to manually remove some of the features that are highly correlated with each other. This can help simplify the model and avoid overfitting. The data engineer can use the correlation matrix to identify the features that have a high correlation coefficient (e.g., above 0.8 or below -0.8) and remove one of them from the dataset.
References: =
Principal Component Analysis: This is a document from AWS that explains what PCA is, how it works, and how to use it with Amazon SageMaker.
Multicollinearity: This is a document from AWS that describes what multicollinearity is, how to detect it, and how to deal with it.
B, C
Explanation:
B) Apply principal component analysis (PCA): PCA is a technique that reduces the dimensionality of a dataset by transforming the original features into a smaller set of new features that capture most of the variance in the data. PCA can help address the issue of multicollinearity, which occurs when some features are highly correlated with each other and can cause problems for some machine learning algorithms. By applying PCA, the data engineer can reduce the number of features and remove the redundancy in the data.
C) Remove a portion of highly correlated features from the dataset: Another way to deal with multicollinearity is to manually remove some of the features that are highly correlated with each other. This can help simplify the model and avoid overfitting. The data engineer can use the correlation matrix to identify the features that have a high correlation coefficient (e.g., above 0.8 or below -0.8) and remove one of them from the dataset.
References: =
Principal Component Analysis: This is a document from AWS that explains what PCA is, how it works, and how to use it with Amazon SageMaker.
Multicollinearity: This is a document from AWS that describes what multicollinearity is, how to detect it, and how to deal with it.
Question #87
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?
- A . Use Amazon EMR Serveriess with PySpark.
- B . Use AWS Glue DataBrew.
- C . Use Amazon SageMaker Studio Data Wrangler.
- D . Use Amazon SageMaker Studio Notebook with Pandas.
Correct Answer: C
C
Explanation:
Amazon SageMaker Studio Data Wrangler is a visual data preparation tool that enables users to clean and normalize data without writing any code. Using Data Wrangler, the data scientist can easily import the time-series data from various sources, such as Amazon S3, Amazon Athena, or Amazon Redshift. Data Wrangler can automatically generate data insights and quality reports, which can help identify and fix missing values, outliers, and anomalies in the data. Data Wrangler also provides over 250 built-in transformations, such as resampling, interpolation, aggregation, and filtering, which can be applied to the data with a point-and-click interface. Data Wrangler can also export the prepared data to different destinations, such as Amazon S3, Amazon SageMaker Feature Store, or Amazon SageMaker Pipelines, for further modeling and analysis. Data Wrangler is integrated with Amazon SageMaker Studio, a web-based IDE for machine learning, which makes it easy to access and use the tool. Data Wrangler is a serverless and fully managed service, which means the data scientist does not need to provision, configure, or manage any infrastructure or clusters.
Option A is incorrect because Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option for running big data analytics applications using open-source frameworks, such as Apache Spark. However, using Amazon EMR Serverless would require the data scientist to write PySpark code to perform the data preparation tasks, such as resampling, imputation, and aggregation. This would require more implementation effort than using Data Wrangler, which provides a visual and code-free interface for data preparation.
Option B is incorrect because AWS Glue DataBrew is another visual data preparation tool that can be used to clean and normalize data without writing code. However, DataBrew does not support time-series data as a data type, and does not provide built-in transformations for resampling, interpolation, or aggregation of time-series data. Therefore, using DataBrew would not meet the requirements of the use case.
Option D is incorrect because using Amazon SageMaker Studio Notebook with Pandas would also require the data scientist to write Python code to perform the data preparation tasks. Pandas is a popular Python library for data analysis and manipulation, which supports time-series data and provides various methods for resampling, interpolation, and aggregation. However, using Pandas would require more implementation effort than using Data Wrangler, which provides a visual and code-free interface for data preparation.
References:
1: Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler documentation
2: Amazon EMR Serverless documentation
3: AWS Glue DataBrew documentation
4: Pandas documentation
C
Explanation:
Amazon SageMaker Studio Data Wrangler is a visual data preparation tool that enables users to clean and normalize data without writing any code. Using Data Wrangler, the data scientist can easily import the time-series data from various sources, such as Amazon S3, Amazon Athena, or Amazon Redshift. Data Wrangler can automatically generate data insights and quality reports, which can help identify and fix missing values, outliers, and anomalies in the data. Data Wrangler also provides over 250 built-in transformations, such as resampling, interpolation, aggregation, and filtering, which can be applied to the data with a point-and-click interface. Data Wrangler can also export the prepared data to different destinations, such as Amazon S3, Amazon SageMaker Feature Store, or Amazon SageMaker Pipelines, for further modeling and analysis. Data Wrangler is integrated with Amazon SageMaker Studio, a web-based IDE for machine learning, which makes it easy to access and use the tool. Data Wrangler is a serverless and fully managed service, which means the data scientist does not need to provision, configure, or manage any infrastructure or clusters.
Option A is incorrect because Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option for running big data analytics applications using open-source frameworks, such as Apache Spark. However, using Amazon EMR Serverless would require the data scientist to write PySpark code to perform the data preparation tasks, such as resampling, imputation, and aggregation. This would require more implementation effort than using Data Wrangler, which provides a visual and code-free interface for data preparation.
Option B is incorrect because AWS Glue DataBrew is another visual data preparation tool that can be used to clean and normalize data without writing code. However, DataBrew does not support time-series data as a data type, and does not provide built-in transformations for resampling, interpolation, or aggregation of time-series data. Therefore, using DataBrew would not meet the requirements of the use case.
Option D is incorrect because using Amazon SageMaker Studio Notebook with Pandas would also require the data scientist to write Python code to perform the data preparation tasks. Pandas is a popular Python library for data analysis and manipulation, which supports time-series data and provides various methods for resampling, interpolation, and aggregation. However, using Pandas would require more implementation effort than using Data Wrangler, which provides a visual and code-free interface for data preparation.
References:
1: Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler documentation
2: Amazon EMR Serverless documentation
3: AWS Glue DataBrew documentation
4: Pandas documentation
Question #88
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?
- A . Master node
- B . Any of the core nodes
- C . Any of the task nodes
- D . Both core and task nodes
Correct Answer: C
C
Explanation:
The best option for using Spot Instances in a long-running Amazon EMR cluster is to use them for the task nodes. Task nodes are optional nodes that are used to increase the processing power of the cluster. They do not store any data and can be added or removed without affecting the cluster’s operation. Therefore, they are more resilient to interruptions caused by Spot Instance termination. Using Spot Instances for the master node or the core nodes is not recommended, as they store important data and metadata for the cluster. If they are terminated, the cluster may fail or lose data.
References:
Amazon EMR on EC2 Spot Instances
Instance purchasing options – Amazon EMR
C
Explanation:
The best option for using Spot Instances in a long-running Amazon EMR cluster is to use them for the task nodes. Task nodes are optional nodes that are used to increase the processing power of the cluster. They do not store any data and can be added or removed without affecting the cluster’s operation. Therefore, they are more resilient to interruptions caused by Spot Instance termination. Using Spot Instances for the master node or the core nodes is not recommended, as they store important data and metadata for the cluster. If they are terminated, the cluster may fail or lose data.
References:
Amazon EMR on EC2 Spot Instances
Instance purchasing options – Amazon EMR
Question #89
A Machine Learning Specialist has created a deep learning neural network model that performs well on the training data but performs poorly on the test data.
Which of the following methods should the Specialist consider using to correct this? (Select THREE.)
- A . Decrease regularization.
- B . Increase regularization.
- C . Increase dropout.
- D . Decrease dropout.
- E . Increase feature combinations.
- F . Decrease feature combinations.
Correct Answer: B, C, F
B, C, F
Explanation:
The problem of poor performance on the test data is a sign of overfitting, which means the model has learned the training data too well and failed to generalize to new and unseen data. To correct this, the Machine Learning Specialist should consider using methods that reduce the complexity of the model and increase its ability to generalize.
Some of these methods are:
Increase regularization: Regularization is a technique that adds a penalty term to the loss function of the model, which reduces the magnitude of the model weights and prevents overfitting. There are different types of regularization, such as L1, L2, and elastic net, that apply different penalties to the weights1.
Increase dropout: Dropout is a technique that randomly drops out some units or connections in the
neural network during training, which reduces the co-dependency of the units and prevents overfitting. Dropout can be applied to different layers of the network, and the dropout rate can be tuned to control the amount of dropout2.
Decrease feature combinations: Feature combinations are the interactions between different input
features that can be used to create new features for the model. However, too many feature
combinations can increase the complexity of the model and cause overfitting. Therefore, the
Specialist should decrease the number of feature combinations and select only the most relevant and
informative ones for the model3.
References:
1: Regularization for Deep Learning – Amazon SageMaker
2: Dropout – Amazon SageMaker
3: Feature Engineering – Amazon SageMaker
B, C, F
Explanation:
The problem of poor performance on the test data is a sign of overfitting, which means the model has learned the training data too well and failed to generalize to new and unseen data. To correct this, the Machine Learning Specialist should consider using methods that reduce the complexity of the model and increase its ability to generalize.
Some of these methods are:
Increase regularization: Regularization is a technique that adds a penalty term to the loss function of the model, which reduces the magnitude of the model weights and prevents overfitting. There are different types of regularization, such as L1, L2, and elastic net, that apply different penalties to the weights1.
Increase dropout: Dropout is a technique that randomly drops out some units or connections in the
neural network during training, which reduces the co-dependency of the units and prevents overfitting. Dropout can be applied to different layers of the network, and the dropout rate can be tuned to control the amount of dropout2.
Decrease feature combinations: Feature combinations are the interactions between different input
features that can be used to create new features for the model. However, too many feature
combinations can increase the complexity of the model and cause overfitting. Therefore, the
Specialist should decrease the number of feature combinations and select only the most relevant and
informative ones for the model3.
References:
1: Regularization for Deep Learning – Amazon SageMaker
2: Dropout – Amazon SageMaker
3: Feature Engineering – Amazon SageMaker
Question #90
During mini-batch training of a neural network for a classification problem, a Data Scientist notices that training accuracy oscillates.
What is the MOST likely cause of this issue?
- A . The class distribution in the dataset is imbalanced
- B . Dataset shuffling is disabled
- C . The batch size is too big
- D . The learning rate is very high
Correct Answer: D
D
Explanation:
Mini-batch gradient descent is a variant of gradient descent that updates the model parameters using a subset of the training data (called a mini-batch) at each iteration. The learning rate is a hyperparameter that controls how much the model parameters change in response to the gradient. If the learning rate is very high, the model parameters may overshoot the optimal values and oscillate around the minimum of the cost function. This can cause the training accuracy to fluctuate and prevent the model from converging to a stable solution. To avoid this issue, the learning rate should be chosen carefully, such as by using a learning rate decay schedule or an adaptive learning rate algorithm1. Alternatively, the batch size can be increased to reduce the variance of the gradient estimates2. However, the batch size should not be too big, as this can slow down the training process and reduce the generalization ability of the model3. Dataset shuffling and class distribution are not likely to cause oscillations in training accuracy, as they do not affect the gradient updates
directly. Dataset shuffling can help avoid getting stuck in local minima and improve the convergence speed of mini-batch gradient descent4. Class distribution can affect the performance and fairness of the model, especially if the dataset is imbalanced, but it does not necessarily cause fluctuations in training accuracy.
D
Explanation:
Mini-batch gradient descent is a variant of gradient descent that updates the model parameters using a subset of the training data (called a mini-batch) at each iteration. The learning rate is a hyperparameter that controls how much the model parameters change in response to the gradient. If the learning rate is very high, the model parameters may overshoot the optimal values and oscillate around the minimum of the cost function. This can cause the training accuracy to fluctuate and prevent the model from converging to a stable solution. To avoid this issue, the learning rate should be chosen carefully, such as by using a learning rate decay schedule or an adaptive learning rate algorithm1. Alternatively, the batch size can be increased to reduce the variance of the gradient estimates2. However, the batch size should not be too big, as this can slow down the training process and reduce the generalization ability of the model3. Dataset shuffling and class distribution are not likely to cause oscillations in training accuracy, as they do not affect the gradient updates
directly. Dataset shuffling can help avoid getting stuck in local minima and improve the convergence speed of mini-batch gradient descent4. Class distribution can affect the performance and fairness of the model, especially if the dataset is imbalanced, but it does not necessarily cause fluctuations in training accuracy.