Google Professional Machine Learning Engineer Practice Exams
Last updated on Oct 10,2026- Exam Code: Professional Machine Learning Engineer
- Exam Name: Google Professional Machine Learning Engineer
- Certification Provider: Google
- Latest update: Oct 10,2026
Question #281
You developed a Python module by using Keras to train a regression model. You developed two model architectures, linear regression and deep neural network (DNN). within the same module. You are using the C raining_method argument to select one of the two methods, and you are using the Learning_rate-and num_hidden_layers arguments in the DNN. You plan to use Vertex Al’s hypertuning service with a Budget to perform 100 trials. You want to identify the model architecture and hyperparameter values that minimize training loss and maximize model performance
What should you do?
- A . Run one hypertuning job for 100 trials. Set num hidden_layers as a conditional hypetparameter based on its parent hyperparameter training_mothod. and set learning rate as a non-conditional hyperparameter
- B . Run two separate hypertuning jobs. a linear regression job for 50 trials, and a DNN job for 50 trials Compare their final performance on a common validation set. and select the set of hyperparameters with the least training loss
- C . Run one hypertuning job for 100 trials Set num_hidden_layers and learning_rate as conditional hyperparameters based on their parent hyperparameter training method.
- D . Run one hypertuning job with training_method as the hyperparameter for 50 trials Select the architecture with the lowest training loss. and further hypertune It and its corresponding hyperparameters for 50 trials
Correct Answer: C
Question #282
You are building a TensorFlow model for a financial institution that predicts the impact of consumer spending on inflation globally. Due to the size and nature of the data, your model is long-running across all types of hardware, and you have built frequent checkpointing into the training process. Your organization has asked you to minimize cost.
What hardware should you choose?
- A . A Vertex AI Workbench user-managed notebooks instance running on an n1-standard-16 with 4 NVIDIA P100 GPUs
- B . A Vertex AI Workbench user-managed notebooks instance running on an n1-standard-16 with an NVIDIA P100 GPU
- C . A Vertex AI Workbench user-managed notebooks instance running on an n1-standard-16 with a non-preemptible v3-8 TPU
- D . A Vertex AI Workbench user-managed notebooks instance running on an n1-standard-16 with a preemptible v3-8 TPU
Correct Answer: D
D
Explanation:
The best hardware to choose for your model while minimizing cost is a Vertex AI Workbench user-managed notebooks instance running on an n1-standard-16 with a preemptible v3-8 TPU. This hardware configuration can provide you with high performance, scalability, and efficiency for your TensorFlow model, as well as low cost and flexibility for your long-running and checkpointing process. The v3-8 TPU is a cloud tensor processing unit (TPU) device, which is a custom ASIC chip designed by Google to accelerate ML workloads. It can handle large and complex models and datasets, and offer fast and stable training and inference. The n1-standard-16 is a general-purpose VM that can support the CPU and memory requirements of your model, as well as the data preprocessing and postprocessing tasks. By choosing a preemptible v3-8 TPU, you can take advantage of the lower price and availability of the TPU devices, as long as you can tolerate the possibility of the device being reclaimed by Google at any time. However, since you have built frequent checkpointing into your training process, you can resume your model from the last saved state, and avoid losing any progress or data. Moreover, you can use the Vertex AI Workbench user-managed notebooks to create and manage your notebooks instances, and leverage the integration with Vertex AI and other Google Cloud services.
The other options are not optimal for the following reasons:
D
Explanation:
The best hardware to choose for your model while minimizing cost is a Vertex AI Workbench user-managed notebooks instance running on an n1-standard-16 with a preemptible v3-8 TPU. This hardware configuration can provide you with high performance, scalability, and efficiency for your TensorFlow model, as well as low cost and flexibility for your long-running and checkpointing process. The v3-8 TPU is a cloud tensor processing unit (TPU) device, which is a custom ASIC chip designed by Google to accelerate ML workloads. It can handle large and complex models and datasets, and offer fast and stable training and inference. The n1-standard-16 is a general-purpose VM that can support the CPU and memory requirements of your model, as well as the data preprocessing and postprocessing tasks. By choosing a preemptible v3-8 TPU, you can take advantage of the lower price and availability of the TPU devices, as long as you can tolerate the possibility of the device being reclaimed by Google at any time. However, since you have built frequent checkpointing into your training process, you can resume your model from the last saved state, and avoid losing any progress or data. Moreover, you can use the Vertex AI Workbench user-managed notebooks to create and manage your notebooks instances, and leverage the integration with Vertex AI and other Google Cloud services.
The other options are not optimal for the following reasons:
Question #283
You have a large corpus of written support cases that can be classified into 3 separate categories: Technical Support, Billing Support, or Other Issues. You need to quickly build, test, and deploy a service that will automatically classify future written requests into one of the categories.
How should you configure the pipeline?
- A . Use the Cloud Natural Language API to obtain metadata to classify the incoming cases.
- B . Use AutoML Natural Language to build and test a classifier. Deploy the model as a REST API.
- C . Use BigQuery ML to build and test a logistic regression model to classify incoming requests. Use BigQuery ML to perform inference.
- D . Create a TensorFlow model using Google’s BERT pre-trained model. Build and test a classifier, and deploy the model using Vertex AI.
Correct Answer: B
B
Explanation:
AutoML Natural Language is a service that allows you to quickly build, test and deploy natural language processing (NLP) models without needing to have expertise in NLP or machine learning. You can use it to train a classifier on your corpus of written support cases, and then use the AutoML API to perform classification on new requests. Once the model is trained, it can be deployed as a REST API. This allows the classifier to be integrated into your pipeline and be easily consumed by other systems.
B
Explanation:
AutoML Natural Language is a service that allows you to quickly build, test and deploy natural language processing (NLP) models without needing to have expertise in NLP or machine learning. You can use it to train a classifier on your corpus of written support cases, and then use the AutoML API to perform classification on new requests. Once the model is trained, it can be deployed as a REST API. This allows the classifier to be integrated into your pipeline and be easily consumed by other systems.
Question #284
You have recently used TensorFlow to train a classification model on tabular data You have created a Dataflow pipeline that can transform several terabytes of data into training or prediction datasets consisting of TFRecords. You now need to productionize the model, and you want the predictions to be automatically uploaded to a BigQuery table on a weekly schedule.
What should you do?
- A . Import the model into Vertex Al and deploy it to a Vertex Al endpoint On Vertex Al Pipelines create a pipeline that uses the Dataf lowPythonJobop and the Mcdei3archPredictoc components.
- B . Import the model into Vertex Al and deploy it to a Vertex Al endpoint Create a Dataflow pipeline that reuses the data processing logic sends requests to the endpoint and then uploads predictions to a BigQuery table.
- C . Import the model into Vertex Al On Vertex Al Pipelines, create a pipeline that uses the DatafIowPythonJobOp and the ModelBatchPredictOp components.
- D . Import the model into BigQuery Implement the data processing logic in a SQL query On Vertex Al Pipelines create a pipeline that uses the BigqueryQueryJobop and the EigqueryPredictModejobOp components.
Correct Answer: C
C
Explanation:
Vertex AI is a service that allows you to create and train ML models using Google Cloud technologies. You can use Vertex AI to import the model that you trained with TensorFlow and store it in the Vertex AI Model Registry. The Vertex AI Model Registry is a service that allows you to store and manage your ML models on Google Cloud. You can then use Vertex AI Pipelines to create a pipeline that uses the DataflowPythonJobOp and the ModelBatchPredictOp components. The DataflowPythonJobOp component is a component that allows you to run a Dataflow job using a Python script. Dataflow is a service that allows you to create and run scalable and portable data processing pipelines on Google Cloud. You can use the DataflowPythonJobOp component to reuse the data processing logic that you created for transforming the data into TFRecords. The ModelBatchPredictOp component is a component that allows you to run a batch prediction job using a model from the Vertex AI Model Registry. Batch prediction is a type of prediction that provides high-throughput responses to large batches of input data. You can use the ModelBatchPredictOp component to make predictions using the TFRecords from the DataflowPythonJobOp component and the model from the Vertex AI Model Registry. You can also configure the ModelBatchPredictOp component to automatically upload the predictions to a BigQuery table. BigQuery is a service that allows you to store and query large amounts of data in a scalable and cost-effective way. You can use BigQuery to store and analyze the predictions from your model. You can also schedule the pipeline to run on a weekly basis, so that the predictions are updated regularly. By using Vertex AI, Vertex AI Pipelines, Dataflow, and BigQuery, you can productionize the model and upload the predictions to a BigQuery table on a weekly schedule.
Reference: Vertex AI documentation
Vertex AI Pipelines documentation
Dataflow documentation
BigQuery documentation
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C
Explanation:
Vertex AI is a service that allows you to create and train ML models using Google Cloud technologies. You can use Vertex AI to import the model that you trained with TensorFlow and store it in the Vertex AI Model Registry. The Vertex AI Model Registry is a service that allows you to store and manage your ML models on Google Cloud. You can then use Vertex AI Pipelines to create a pipeline that uses the DataflowPythonJobOp and the ModelBatchPredictOp components. The DataflowPythonJobOp component is a component that allows you to run a Dataflow job using a Python script. Dataflow is a service that allows you to create and run scalable and portable data processing pipelines on Google Cloud. You can use the DataflowPythonJobOp component to reuse the data processing logic that you created for transforming the data into TFRecords. The ModelBatchPredictOp component is a component that allows you to run a batch prediction job using a model from the Vertex AI Model Registry. Batch prediction is a type of prediction that provides high-throughput responses to large batches of input data. You can use the ModelBatchPredictOp component to make predictions using the TFRecords from the DataflowPythonJobOp component and the model from the Vertex AI Model Registry. You can also configure the ModelBatchPredictOp component to automatically upload the predictions to a BigQuery table. BigQuery is a service that allows you to store and query large amounts of data in a scalable and cost-effective way. You can use BigQuery to store and analyze the predictions from your model. You can also schedule the pipeline to run on a weekly basis, so that the predictions are updated regularly. By using Vertex AI, Vertex AI Pipelines, Dataflow, and BigQuery, you can productionize the model and upload the predictions to a BigQuery table on a weekly schedule.
Reference: Vertex AI documentation
Vertex AI Pipelines documentation
Dataflow documentation
BigQuery documentation
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Question #285
You were asked to investigate failures of a production line component based on sensor readings. After receiving the dataset, you discover that less than 1% of the readings are positive examples representing failure incidents. You have tried to train several classification models, but none of them converge.
How should you resolve the class imbalance problem?
- A . Use the class distribution to generate 10% positive examples
- B . Use a convolutional neural network with max pooling and softmax activation
- C . Downsample the data with upweighting to create a sample with 10% positive examples
- D . Remove negative examples until the numbers of positive and negative examples are equal
Correct Answer: C
C
Explanation:
The class imbalance problem is a common challenge in machine learning, especially in classification tasks. It occurs when the distribution of the target classes is highly skewed, such that one class (the majority class) has much more examples than the other class (the minority class). The minority class is often the more interesting or important class, such as failure incidents, fraud cases, or rare diseases. However, most machine learning algorithms are designed to optimize the overall accuracy, which can be biased towards the majority class and ignore the minority class. This can result in poor predictive performance, especially for the minority class.
There are different techniques to deal with the class imbalance problem, such as data-level methods, algorithm-level methods, and evaluation-level methods1. Data-level methods involve resampling the original dataset to create a more balanced class distribution. There are two main types of data-level methods: oversampling and undersampling. Oversampling methods increase the number of examples in the minority class, either by duplicating existing examples or by generating synthetic examples. Undersampling methods reduce the number of examples in the majority class, either by randomly removing examples or by using clustering or other criteria to select representative examples. Both oversampling and undersampling methods can be combined with upweighting or downweighting, which assign different weights to the examples according to their class frequency, to further balance the dataset.
For the use case of investigating failures of a production line component based on sensor readings, the best option is to downsample the data with upweighting to create a sample with 10% positive examples. This option involves randomly removing some of the negative examples (the majority class) until the ratio of positive to negative examples is 1:9, and then assigning higher weights to the positive examples to compensate for their low frequency. This option can create a more balanced dataset that can improve the performance of the classification models, while preserving the diversity and representativeness of the original data. This option can also reduce the computation time and memory usage, as the size of the dataset is reduced. Therefore, downsampling the data with upweighting to create a sample with 10% positive examples is the best option for this use case.
Reference: A Systematic Study of the Class Imbalance Problem in Convolutional Neural Networks
C
Explanation:
The class imbalance problem is a common challenge in machine learning, especially in classification tasks. It occurs when the distribution of the target classes is highly skewed, such that one class (the majority class) has much more examples than the other class (the minority class). The minority class is often the more interesting or important class, such as failure incidents, fraud cases, or rare diseases. However, most machine learning algorithms are designed to optimize the overall accuracy, which can be biased towards the majority class and ignore the minority class. This can result in poor predictive performance, especially for the minority class.
There are different techniques to deal with the class imbalance problem, such as data-level methods, algorithm-level methods, and evaluation-level methods1. Data-level methods involve resampling the original dataset to create a more balanced class distribution. There are two main types of data-level methods: oversampling and undersampling. Oversampling methods increase the number of examples in the minority class, either by duplicating existing examples or by generating synthetic examples. Undersampling methods reduce the number of examples in the majority class, either by randomly removing examples or by using clustering or other criteria to select representative examples. Both oversampling and undersampling methods can be combined with upweighting or downweighting, which assign different weights to the examples according to their class frequency, to further balance the dataset.
For the use case of investigating failures of a production line component based on sensor readings, the best option is to downsample the data with upweighting to create a sample with 10% positive examples. This option involves randomly removing some of the negative examples (the majority class) until the ratio of positive to negative examples is 1:9, and then assigning higher weights to the positive examples to compensate for their low frequency. This option can create a more balanced dataset that can improve the performance of the classification models, while preserving the diversity and representativeness of the original data. This option can also reduce the computation time and memory usage, as the size of the dataset is reduced. Therefore, downsampling the data with upweighting to create a sample with 10% positive examples is the best option for this use case.
Reference: A Systematic Study of the Class Imbalance Problem in Convolutional Neural Networks
Question #286
Your data science team is training a PyTorch model for image classification based on a pre-trained RestNet model. You need to perform hyperparameter tuning to optimize for several parameters.
What should you do?
- A . Convert the model to a Keras model, and run a Keras Tuner job.
- B . Run a hyperparameter tuning job on AI Platform using custom containers.
- C . Create a Kuberflow Pipelines instance, and run a hyperparameter tuning job on Katib.
- D . Convert the model to a TensorFlow model, and run a hyperparameter tuning job on AI Platform.
Correct Answer: B
B
Explanation:
AI Platform supports hyperparameter tuning for PyTorch models using custom containers. This allows you to use any Python dependencies and libraries that are not included in the pre-built AI Platform Training runtime versions. You can also use a pre-trained model such as ResNet as a base for your custom model. To run a hyperparameter tuning job on AI Platform using custom containers, you need to do the following steps:
Create a Dockerfile that defines the container image for your training application. The Dockerfile should install PyTorch and any other dependencies, copy your training code and configuration files, and set the entrypoint for the container.
Build the container image and push it to Container Registry or another accessible registry.
Create a YAML file that defines the configuration for your hyperparameter tuning job. The YAML file should specify the container image URI, the training input and output paths, the hyperparameters to tune, the metric to optimize, and the tuning algorithm and budget.
Submit the hyperparameter tuning job to AI Platform using the gcloud command-line tool or the AI
Platform Training API.
Reference: Hyperparameter tuning overview
Using custom containers
PyTorch on AI Platform Training
B
Explanation:
AI Platform supports hyperparameter tuning for PyTorch models using custom containers. This allows you to use any Python dependencies and libraries that are not included in the pre-built AI Platform Training runtime versions. You can also use a pre-trained model such as ResNet as a base for your custom model. To run a hyperparameter tuning job on AI Platform using custom containers, you need to do the following steps:
Create a Dockerfile that defines the container image for your training application. The Dockerfile should install PyTorch and any other dependencies, copy your training code and configuration files, and set the entrypoint for the container.
Build the container image and push it to Container Registry or another accessible registry.
Create a YAML file that defines the configuration for your hyperparameter tuning job. The YAML file should specify the container image URI, the training input and output paths, the hyperparameters to tune, the metric to optimize, and the tuning algorithm and budget.
Submit the hyperparameter tuning job to AI Platform using the gcloud command-line tool or the AI
Platform Training API.
Reference: Hyperparameter tuning overview
Using custom containers
PyTorch on AI Platform Training
Question #287
While running a model training pipeline on Vertex Al, you discover that the evaluation step is failing because of an out-of-memory error. You are currently using TensorFlow Model Analysis (TFMA) with a standard Evaluator TensorFlow Extended (TFX) pipeline component for the evaluation step. You want to stabilize the pipeline without downgrading the evaluation quality while minimizing infrastructure overhead.
What should you do?
- A . Add tfma.MetricsSpec () to limit the number of metrics in the evaluation step.
- B . Migrate your pipeline to Kubeflow hosted on Google Kubernetes Engine, and specify the appropriate node parameters for the evaluation step.
- C . Include the flag -runnerDataflowRunner in beam_pipeline_args to run the evaluation step on Dataflow.
- D . Move the evaluation step out of your pipeline and run it on custom Compute Engine VMs with sufficient memory.
Correct Answer: C
C
Explanation:
The best option to stabilize the pipeline without downgrading the evaluation quality while minimizing infrastructure overhead is to use Dataflow as the runner for the evaluation step. Dataflow is a fully managed service for executing Apache Beam pipelines that can scale up and down according to the workload. Dataflow can handle large-scale, distributed data processing tasks such as model evaluation, and it can also integrate with Vertex AI Pipelines and TensorFlow Extended (TFX). By using the flag -runnerDataflowRunner in beam_pipeline_args, you can instruct the Evaluator component to run the evaluation step on Dataflow, instead of using the default DirectRunner, which runs locally and may cause out-of-memory errors.
Option A is incorrect because
adding tfma.MetricsSpec() to limit the number of metrics in the evaluation step may downgrade the evaluation quality, as some important metrics may be omitted. Moreover, reducing the number of metrics may not solve the out-of-memory error, as the evaluation step may still consume a lot of memory depending on the size and complexity of the data and the model.
Option B is incorrect because migrating the pipeline to Kubeflow hosted on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) may increase the infrastructure overhead, as you need to provision, manage, and monitor the GKE cluster yourself. Moreover, you need to specify the appropriate node parameters for the evaluation step, which may require trial and error to find the optimal configuration.
Option D is incorrect because moving the evaluation step out of the pipeline and running it on custom Compute Engine VMs may also increase the infrastructure overhead, as you need to create, configure, and delete the VMs yourself. Moreover, you need to ensure that the VMs have sufficient memory for the evaluation step, which may require trial and error to find the optimal machine type.
Reference: Dataflow documentation
Using DataflowRunner
Evaluator component documentation
Configuring the Evaluator component
C
Explanation:
The best option to stabilize the pipeline without downgrading the evaluation quality while minimizing infrastructure overhead is to use Dataflow as the runner for the evaluation step. Dataflow is a fully managed service for executing Apache Beam pipelines that can scale up and down according to the workload. Dataflow can handle large-scale, distributed data processing tasks such as model evaluation, and it can also integrate with Vertex AI Pipelines and TensorFlow Extended (TFX). By using the flag -runnerDataflowRunner in beam_pipeline_args, you can instruct the Evaluator component to run the evaluation step on Dataflow, instead of using the default DirectRunner, which runs locally and may cause out-of-memory errors.
Option A is incorrect because
adding tfma.MetricsSpec() to limit the number of metrics in the evaluation step may downgrade the evaluation quality, as some important metrics may be omitted. Moreover, reducing the number of metrics may not solve the out-of-memory error, as the evaluation step may still consume a lot of memory depending on the size and complexity of the data and the model.
Option B is incorrect because migrating the pipeline to Kubeflow hosted on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) may increase the infrastructure overhead, as you need to provision, manage, and monitor the GKE cluster yourself. Moreover, you need to specify the appropriate node parameters for the evaluation step, which may require trial and error to find the optimal configuration.
Option D is incorrect because moving the evaluation step out of the pipeline and running it on custom Compute Engine VMs may also increase the infrastructure overhead, as you need to create, configure, and delete the VMs yourself. Moreover, you need to ensure that the VMs have sufficient memory for the evaluation step, which may require trial and error to find the optimal machine type.
Reference: Dataflow documentation
Using DataflowRunner
Evaluator component documentation
Configuring the Evaluator component
Question #288
You work for an advertising company and want to understand the effectiveness of your company’s latest advertising campaign. You have streamed 500 MB of campaign data into BigQuery. You want to query the table, and then manipulate the results of that query with a pandas dataframe in an Al Platform notebook.
What should you do?
- A . Use Al Platform Notebooks’ BigQuery cell magic to query the data, and ingest the results as a pandas dataframe
- B . Export your table as a CSV file from BigQuery to Google Drive, and use the Google Drive API to ingest the file into your notebook instance
- C . Download your table from BigQuery as a local CSV file, and upload it to your Al Platform notebook instance Use pandas. read_csv to ingest the file as a pandas dataframe
- D . From a bash cell in your Al Platform notebook, use the bq extract command to export the table as a CSV file to Cloud Storage, and then use gsutii cp to copy the data into the notebook Use pandas. read_csv to ingest the file as a pandas dataframe
Correct Answer: A
A
Explanation:
AI Platform Notebooks is a service that provides managed Jupyter notebooks for data science and machine learning. You can use AI Platform Notebooks to create, run, and share your code and analysis in a collaborative and interactive environment1. BigQuery is a service that allows you to analyze large-scale and complex data using SQL queries. You can use BigQuery to stream, store, and query your data in a fast and cost-effective way2. Pandas is a popular Python library that provides data structures and tools for data analysis and manipulation. You can use pandas to create, manipulate, and visualize dataframes, which are tabular data structures with rows and columns3. AI Platform Notebooks provides a cell magic, %%bigquery, that allows you to run SQL queries on BigQuery data and ingest the results as a pandas dataframe. A cell magic is a special command that applies to the whole cell in a Jupyter notebook. The %%bigquery cell magic can take various arguments, such as the name of the destination dataframe, the name of the destination table in BigQuery, the project ID, and the query parameters4. By using the %%bigquery cell magic, you can query the data in BigQuery with minimal code and manipulate the results with pandas in AI Platform Notebooks. This is the most convenient and efficient way to achieve your goal.
The other options are not as good as option A, because they involve more steps, more code, and more manual effort.
Option B requires you to export your table as a CSV file from BigQuery to Google Drive, and then use the Google Drive API to ingest the file into your notebook instance. This option is cumbersome and time-consuming, as it involves moving the data across different services and formats.
Option C requires you to download your table from BigQuery as a local CSV file, and then upload it to your AI Platform notebook instance. This option is also inefficient and impractical, as it involves downloading and uploading large files, which can take a long time and consume a lot of bandwidth.
Option D requires you to use a bash cell in your AI Platform notebook to export the table as a CSV file to Cloud Storage, and then copy the data into the notebook. This option is also complex and unnecessary, as it involves using different commands and tools to move the data around. Therefore, option A is the best option for this use case.
Reference: AI Platform Notebooks documentation
BigQuery documentation
pandas documentation
Using Jupyter magics to query BigQuery data
A
Explanation:
AI Platform Notebooks is a service that provides managed Jupyter notebooks for data science and machine learning. You can use AI Platform Notebooks to create, run, and share your code and analysis in a collaborative and interactive environment1. BigQuery is a service that allows you to analyze large-scale and complex data using SQL queries. You can use BigQuery to stream, store, and query your data in a fast and cost-effective way2. Pandas is a popular Python library that provides data structures and tools for data analysis and manipulation. You can use pandas to create, manipulate, and visualize dataframes, which are tabular data structures with rows and columns3. AI Platform Notebooks provides a cell magic, %%bigquery, that allows you to run SQL queries on BigQuery data and ingest the results as a pandas dataframe. A cell magic is a special command that applies to the whole cell in a Jupyter notebook. The %%bigquery cell magic can take various arguments, such as the name of the destination dataframe, the name of the destination table in BigQuery, the project ID, and the query parameters4. By using the %%bigquery cell magic, you can query the data in BigQuery with minimal code and manipulate the results with pandas in AI Platform Notebooks. This is the most convenient and efficient way to achieve your goal.
The other options are not as good as option A, because they involve more steps, more code, and more manual effort.
Option B requires you to export your table as a CSV file from BigQuery to Google Drive, and then use the Google Drive API to ingest the file into your notebook instance. This option is cumbersome and time-consuming, as it involves moving the data across different services and formats.
Option C requires you to download your table from BigQuery as a local CSV file, and then upload it to your AI Platform notebook instance. This option is also inefficient and impractical, as it involves downloading and uploading large files, which can take a long time and consume a lot of bandwidth.
Option D requires you to use a bash cell in your AI Platform notebook to export the table as a CSV file to Cloud Storage, and then copy the data into the notebook. This option is also complex and unnecessary, as it involves using different commands and tools to move the data around. Therefore, option A is the best option for this use case.
Reference: AI Platform Notebooks documentation
BigQuery documentation
pandas documentation
Using Jupyter magics to query BigQuery data
Question #289
You are training an object detection machine learning model on a dataset that consists of three million X-ray images, each roughly 2 GB in size. You are using Vertex AI Training to run a custom training application on a Compute Engine instance with 32-cores, 128 GB of RAM, and 1 NVIDIA P100 GPU. You notice that model training is taking a very long time. You want to decrease training time without sacrificing model performance.
What should you do?
- A . Increase the instance memory to 512 GB and increase the batch size.
- B . Replace the NVIDIA P100 GPU with a v3-32 TPU in the training job.
- C . Enable early stopping in your Vertex AI Training job.
- D . Use the tf.distribute.Strategy API and run a distributed training job.
Correct Answer: D
Question #290
You are an AI architect at a popular photo-sharing social media platform. Your organization’s content moderation team currently scans images uploaded by users and removes explicit images manually. You want to implement an AI service to automatically prevent users from uploading explicit images.
What should you do?
- A . Develop a custom TensorFlow model in a Vertex AI Workbench instance. Train the model on a dataset of manually labeled images. Deploy the model to a Vertex AI endpoint. Run periodic batch inference to identify inappropriate uploads and report them to the content moderation team.
- B . Train an image clustering model using TensorFlow in a Vertex AI Workbench instance. Deploy this model to a Vertex AI endpoint and configure it for online inference. Run this model each time a new image is uploaded to identify and block inappropriate uploads.
- C . Create a dataset using manually labeled images. Ingest this dataset into AutoML. Train an image classification model and deploy it to a Vertex AI endpoint. Integrate this endpoint with the image upload process to identify and block inappropriate uploads. Monitor predictions and periodically retrain the model.
- D . Send a copy of every user-uploaded image to a Cloud Storage bucket. Configure a Cloud Run function that triggers the Cloud Vision API to detect explicit content each time a new image is uploaded. Report the classifications to the content moderation team for review.
Correct Answer: D
D
Explanation:
Cloud Vision API offers pre-trained models specialized in identifying explicit or inappropriate content. By sending a copy of each image to a Cloud Storage bucket and triggering Cloud Vision through Cloud Run, the detection of explicit content is automated with minimal development time. Vertex AI custom models require more training data and infrastructure management, while AutoML-based solutions add more complexity. Cloud Vision’s existing capabilities meet the requirement effectively and are highly scalable for real-time moderation needs.
D
Explanation:
Cloud Vision API offers pre-trained models specialized in identifying explicit or inappropriate content. By sending a copy of each image to a Cloud Storage bucket and triggering Cloud Vision through Cloud Run, the detection of explicit content is automated with minimal development time. Vertex AI custom models require more training data and infrastructure management, while AutoML-based solutions add more complexity. Cloud Vision’s existing capabilities meet the requirement effectively and are highly scalable for real-time moderation needs.