MLS-C01 Practice Exam Questions with Answers AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty Certification

The best approach to identify and visualize the natural groupings for the numerical columns across all customers is to embed the numerical features using the t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding (t-SNE) algorithm and create a scatter plot. t-SNE is a dimensionality reduction technique that can project high-dimensional data into a lower-dimensional space, while preserving the local structure and distances of the data points. A scatter plot can then show the clusters of data points in the reduced space, where each point represents a customer and the color indicates the cluster membership. This approach can help the Specialist quickly explore the patterns and similarities among the customers based on their numerical features.

The other options are not as effective or efficient as the t-SNE approach. Running k-means for different values of k and creating an elbow plot can help determine the optimal number of clusters, but it does not provide a visual representation of the clusters or the customers. Embedding the numerical features using t-SNE and creating a line graph does not make sense, as a line graph is used to show the change of a variable over time, not the distribution of data points in a space. Running k-means for different values of k and creating box plots for each numerical column within each cluster can provide some insights into the statistics of each cluster, but it is very time-consuming and cumbersome to create and compare thousands of box plots. References:

• Dimensionality Reduction - Amazon SageMaker
• Visualize high dimensional data using t-SNE - Amazon SageMaker

The most secure action to protect the data from being accessed and transferred to a remote host by malicious code accidentally installed on the training container is to enable network isolation for training jobs. Network isolation is a feature that allows you to run training and inference containers in internet-free mode, which blocks any outbound network calls from the containers, even to other AWS services such as Amazon S3. Additionally, no AWS credentials are made available to the container runtime environment. This way, you can prevent unauthorized access to your data and resources by malicious code or users. You can enable network isolation by setting the EnableNetworkIsolation parameter to True when you call CreateTrainingJob, CreateHyperParameterTuningJob, or CreateModel.

References:

• Run Training and Inference Containers in Internet-Free Mode - Amazon SageMaker

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is a fully managed service that can capture, transform, and load streaming data into AWS data stores, such as Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Elasticsearch Service, and Splunk. It can also invoke AWS Lambda functions to perform custom transformations on the data. Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is a service that can analyze streaming data in real time using SQL or Apache Flink applications. It can also use machine learning algorithms, such as Random Cut Forest (RCF), to perform anomaly detection on streaming data. RCF is an unsupervised learning algorithm that assigns an anomaly score to each data point based on how different it is from the rest of the data. By using Kinesis Data Firehose and Kinesis Data Analytics, the cybersecurity company can ingest the data in real time, score the malicious events as anomalies, and stream the results to Amazon S3, which can serve as a data lake for later processing and analysis. This is the most efficient way to accomplish these tasks, as it does not require any additional infrastructure, coding, or training.

References:

• Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose - Amazon Web Services
• Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics - Amazon Web Services
• Anomaly Detection with Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics - Amazon Web Services
• [AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty Sample Questions]

 To improve the test error for the image classifier, the Machine Learning Specialist should use the technique of increasing the training data by adding variation in rotation for training images. This technique is called data augmentation, which is a way of artificially expanding the size and diversity of the training dataset by applying various transformations to the original images, such as rotation, flipping, cropping, scaling, etc. Data augmentation can help the model learn more robust features that are invariant to the orientation, position, and size of the objects in the images. This can improve the generalization ability of the model and reduce the test error, especially for cases where the images are not well-aligned or have different perspectives1.

References:

• 1: Image Augmentation - Amazon SageMaker

The best way to ensure that required packages are automatically available on the notebook instance for the data scientist to use is to create an Amazon SageMaker lifecycle configuration with package installation commands and assign the lifecycle configuration to the notebook instance. A lifecycle configuration is a shell script that runs when you create or start a notebook instance. You can use a lifecycle configuration to customize the notebook instance by installing libraries, changing environment variables, or downloading datasets. You can also use a lifecycle configuration to automate the installation of custom Python packages that are not natively available on Amazon SageMaker.

Option A is incorrect because installing AWS Systems Manager Agent on the underlying Amazon EC2 instance and using Systems Manager Automation to execute the package installation commands is not a recommended way to customize the notebook instance. Systems Manager Automation is a feature that lets you safely automate common and repetitive IT operations and tasks across AWS resources. However, using Systems Manager Automation would require additional permissions and configurations, and it would not guarantee that the packages are installed before the notebook instance is ready to use.

Option B is incorrect because creating a Jupyter notebook file (.ipynb) with cells containing the package installation commands to execute and placing the file under the /etc/init directory of each Amazon SageMaker notebook instance is not a valid way to customize the notebook instance. The /etc/init directory is used to store scripts that are executed during the boot process of the operating system, not the Jupyter notebook application. Moreover, a Jupyter notebook file is not a shell script that can be executed by the operating system.

Option C is incorrect because using the conda package manager from within the Jupyter notebook console to apply the necessary conda packages to the default kernel of the notebook is not an automatic way to customize the notebook instance. This option would require the data scientist to manually run the conda commands every time they create or start a new notebook instance. This would not be efficient or convenient for the data scientist.

References:

• Customize a notebook instance using a lifecycle configuration script - Amazon SageMaker
• AWS Systems Manager Automation - AWS Systems Manager
• Conda environments - Amazon SageMaker

The SageMaker Spark library is a library that enables Apache Spark applications to integrate with Amazon SageMaker for training and hosting machine learning models. The library provides several features, such as:

• Estimators: Classes that allow Spark users to train Amazon SageMaker models and host them on Amazon SageMaker endpoints using the Spark MLlib Pipelines API. The library supports various built-in algorithms, such as linear learner, XGBoost, K-means, etc., as well as custom algorithms using Docker containers.
• Model classes: Classes that wrap Amazon SageMaker models in a Spark MLlib Model abstraction. This allows Spark users to use Amazon SageMaker endpoints for inference within Spark applications.
• Data sources: Classes that allow Spark users to read data from Amazon S3 using the Spark Data Sources API. The library supports various data formats, such as CSV, LibSVM, RecordIO, etc.

To integrate the Spark application with SageMaker, the Machine Learning Specialist should do the following:

• Install the SageMaker Spark library in the Spark environment. This can be done by using Maven, pip, or downloading the JAR file from GitHub.
• Use the appropriate estimator from the SageMaker Spark Library to train a model. For example, to train a linear learner model, the Specialist can use the following code:

• Use the sageMakerModel. transform method to get inferences from the model hosted in SageMaker. For example, to get predictions for a test DataFrame, the Specialist can use the following code:

References:

• [SageMaker Spark]: A documentation page that introduces the SageMaker Spark library and its features.
• [SageMaker Spark GitHub Repository]: A GitHub repository that contains the source code, examples, and installation instructions for the SageMaker Spark library.

Amazon Rekognition is a service that provides computer vision capabilities for image and video analysis, such as object, scene, and activity detection, face and text recognition, and custom label detection. Amazon Rekognition can be used to automate the quality control process for plaques by comparing the images of the plaques with the images of defects in the Amazon S3 bucket and returning a confidence score for each defect. Amazon A2I is a service that enables human review of machine learning predictions, such as low-confidence predictions from Amazon Rekognition. Amazon A2I can be integrated with a private workforce option, which allows the engraving company to use its own internal team of reviewers to manually inspect the plaques that are flagged by Amazon Rekognition. This solution meets the requirements of automating the quality control process, sending low-confidence predictions to an internal team of reviewers, and using Amazon A2I for manual review. References:

• 1: Amazon Rekognition documentation
• 2: Amazon A2I documentation
• 3: Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels documentation
• 4: Amazon A2I Private Workforce documentation

• The company wants to perform near-real time defect detection on a time-series of 200 performance metrics, and store all the data for offline analysis. The best approach for this scenario is to use Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose for ingestion and Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics Random Cut Forest (RCF) to perform anomaly detection. Use Kinesis Data Firehose to store data in Amazon S3 for further analysis.
• Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is a service that can capture, transform, and deliver streaming data to destinations such as Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, Amazon OpenSearch Service, and Splunk. Kinesis Data Firehose can handle any amount and frequency of data, and automatically scale to match the throughput. Kinesis Data Firehose can also compress, encrypt, and batch the data before delivering it to the destination, reducing the storage cost and enhancing the security.
• Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is a service that can analyze streaming data in real time using SQL or Apache Flink applications. Kinesis Data Analytics can use built-in functions and algorithms to perform various analytics tasks, such as aggregations, joins, filters, windows, and anomaly detection. One of the built-in algorithms that Kinesis Data Analytics supports is Random Cut Forest (RCF), which is a supervised learning algorithm for forecasting scalar time series using recurrent neural networks. RCF can detect anomalies in streaming data by assigning an anomaly score to each data point, based on how distant it is from the rest of the data. RCF can handle multiple related time series, such as the performance metrics of the aircraft engine, and learn a global model that captures the common patterns and trends across the time series.
• Therefore, the company can use the following architecture to build the near-real time defect detection solution:

References:

• What Is Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose?
• What Is Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for SQL Applications?
• DeepAR Forecasting Algorithm - Amazon SageMaker

The solution A will create the required transformed records with the least operational overhead because it uses AWS Lambda and Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, which are fully managed services that can provide the desired functionality. The solution A involves the following steps:

• Create an AWS Lambda function that can transform the incoming records. AWS Lambda is a service that can run code without provisioning or managing servers. AWS Lambda can execute the transformation logic on the purchasing records and add the new attributes to the records1.
• Enable data transformation on the ingestion Kinesis Data Firehose delivery stream. Use the Lambda function as the invocation target. Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is a service that can capture, transform, and load streaming data into AWS data stores. Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose can enable data transformation and invoke the Lambda function to process the incoming records before delivering them to Amazon S3. This can reduce the operational overhead of managing the transformation process and the data storage2.

The other options are not suitable because:

• Option B: Deploying an Amazon EMR cluster that runs Apache Spark and includes the transformation logic, using Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) to schedule an AWS Lambda function to launch the cluster each day and transform the records that accumulate in Amazon S3, and delivering the transformed records to Amazon S3 will incur more operational overhead than using AWS Lambda and Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose. The company will have to manage the Amazon EMR cluster, the Apache Spark application, the AWS Lambda function, and the Amazon EventBridge rule. Moreover, this solution will introduce a delay in the transformation process, as it will run only once a day3.
• Option C: Deploying an Amazon S3 File Gateway in the stores, updating the in-store software to deliver data to the S3 File Gateway, and using a scheduled daily AWS Glue job to transform the data that the S3 File Gateway delivers to Amazon S3 will incur more operational overhead than using AWS Lambda and Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose. The company will have to manage the S3 File Gateway, the in-store software, and the AWS Glue job. Moreover, this solution will introduce a delay in the transformation process, as it will run only once a day4.
• Option D: Launching a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances that include the transformation logic, configuring the EC2 instances with a daily cron job to transform the records that accumulate in Amazon S3, and delivering the transformed records to Amazon S3 will incur more operational overhead than using AWS Lambda and Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose. The company will have to manage the EC2 instances, the transformation code, and the cron job. Moreover, this solution will introduce a delay in the transformation process, as it will run only once a day5.

References:

• 1: AWS Lambda
• 2: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose
• 3: Amazon EMR
• 4: Amazon S3 File Gateway
• 5: Amazon EC2

To control data egress from SageMaker, the ML engineer can use the following mechanisms:

• Connect to SageMaker by using a VPC interface endpoint powered by AWS PrivateLink. This allows the ML engineer to access SageMaker services and resources without exposing the traffic to the public internet. This reduces the risk of data leakage and unauthorized access1
• Enable network isolation for training jobs and models. This prevents the training jobs and models from accessing the internet or other AWS services. This ensures that the data used for training and inference is not exposed to external sources2
• Protect data with encryption at rest and in transit. Use AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) to manage encryption keys. This enables the ML engineer to encrypt the data stored in Amazon S3 buckets, SageMaker notebook instances, and SageMaker endpoints. It also allows the ML engineer to encrypt the data in transit between SageMaker and other AWS services. This helps protect the data from unauthorized access and tampering3

The other options are not effective in controlling data egress from SageMaker:

• Use SCPs to restrict access to SageMaker. SCPs are used to define the maximum permissions for an organization or organizational unit (OU) in AWS Organizations. They do not control the data egress from SageMaker, but rather the access to SageMaker itself4
• Disable root access on the SageMaker notebook instances. This prevents the users from installing additional packages or libraries on the notebook instances. It does not prevent the data from being transferred out of the notebook instances.
• Restrict notebook presigned URLs to specific IPs used by the company. This limits the access to the notebook instances from certain IP addresses. It does not prevent the data from being transferred out of the notebook instances.

References:

• 1: Amazon SageMaker Interface VPC Endpoints (AWS PrivateLink) - Amazon SageMaker
• 2: Network Isolation - Amazon SageMaker
• 3: Encrypt Data at Rest and in Transit - Amazon SageMaker
• 4: Using Service Control Policies - AWS Organizations
• : Disable Root Access - Amazon SageMaker
• : Create a Presigned Notebook Instance URL - Amazon SageMaker

The correct solution for changing the scaling behavior of the SageMaker instances is to increase the cooldown period for the scale-out activity. The cooldown period is the amount of time, in seconds, after a scaling activity completes before another scaling activity can start. By increasing the cooldown period for the scale-out activity, the ML team can ensure that the new instances are ready before launching additional instances. This will prevent over-scaling and reduce costs1

The other options are incorrect because they either do not solve the issue or require unnecessary steps. For example:

• Option A decreases the cooldown period for the scale-in activity and increases the configured maximum capacity of instances. This option does not address the issue of launching additional instances before the new instances are ready. It may also cause under-scaling and performance degradation.
• Option B replaces the current endpoint with a multi-model endpoint using SageMaker. A multi-model endpoint is an endpoint that can host multiple models using a single endpoint. It does not affect the scaling behavior of the SageMaker instances. It also requires creating a new endpoint and updating the application code to use it2
• Option C sets up Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda to trigger the SageMaker inference endpoint. Amazon API Gateway is a service that allows users to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs. AWS Lambda is a service that lets users run code without provisioning or managing servers. These services do not affect the scaling behavior of the SageMaker instances. They also require creating and configuring additional resources and services34

References:

• 1: Automatic Scaling - Amazon SageMaker
• 2: Create a Multi-Model Endpoint - Amazon SageMaker
• 3: Amazon API Gateway - Amazon Web Services
• 4: AWS Lambda - Amazon Web Services

The solution C is the best option to identify and address training issues with the least development effort. The solution C involves the following steps:

• Use the SageMaker Debugger vanishing_gradient and LowGPUUtilization built-in rules to detect issues. SageMaker Debugger is a feature of Amazon SageMaker that allows data scientists to monitor, analyze, and debug machine learning models during training. SageMaker Debugger provides a set of built-in rules that can automatically detect common issues and anomalies in model training, such as vanishing or exploding gradients, overfitting, underfitting, low GPU utilization, and more1. The data scientist can use the vanishing_gradient rule to check if the gradients are becoming too small and causing the training to not converge. The data scientist can also use the LowGPUUtilization rule to check if the GPU resources are underutilized and causing the training to be inefficient2.
• Launch the StopTrainingJob action if issues are detected. SageMaker Debugger can also take actions based on the status of the rules. One of the actions is StopTrainingJob, which can terminate the training job if a rule is in an error state. This can help the data scientist to save time and money by stopping the training early if issues are detected3.

The other options are not suitable because:

• Option A: Using CPU utilization metrics that are captured in Amazon CloudWatch and configuring a CloudWatch alarm to stop the training job early if low CPU utilization occurs will not identify and address training issues effectively. CPU utilization is not a good indicator of model training performance, especially for GPU instances. Moreover, CloudWatch alarms can only trigger actions based on simple thresholds, not complex rules or conditions4.
• Option B: Using high-resolution custom metrics that are captured in Amazon CloudWatch and configuring an AWS Lambda function to analyze the metrics and to stop the training job early if issues are detected will incur more development effort than using SageMaker Debugger. The data scientist will have to write the code for capturing, sending, and analyzing the custom metrics, as well as for invoking the Lambda function and stopping the training job. Moreover, this solution may not be able to detect all the issues that SageMaker Debugger can5.
• Option D: Using the SageMaker Debugger confusion and feature_importance_overweight built-in rules and launching the StopTrainingJob action if issues are detected will not identify and address training issues effectively. The confusion rule is used to monitor the confusion matrix of a classification model, which is not relevant for a regression model that predicts prices. The feature_importance_overweight rule is used to check if some features have too much weight in the model, which may not be related to the convergence or resource utilization issues2.

References:

• 1: Amazon SageMaker Debugger
• 2: Built-in Rules for Amazon SageMaker Debugger
• 3: Actions for Amazon SageMaker Debugger
• 4: Amazon CloudWatch Alarms
• 5: Amazon CloudWatch Custom Metrics

 The best solution to reduce the cost of the notebook instance and the data preprocessing job is to change the notebook instance type to a smaller general-purpose instance, stop the notebook when it is not in use, and run data preprocessing on an ml.r5 instance with the same memory size as the ml.m5.4xlarge instance by using Amazon SageMaker Processing. This solution will result in the most cost savings because:

• Changing the notebook instance type to a smaller general-purpose instance will reduce the hourly cost of running the notebook, since the feature engineering development does not require high CPU and memory resources. For example, an ml.t3.medium instance costs $0.0464 per hour, while an ml.m5.4xlarge instance costs $0.888 per hour1.
• Stopping the notebook when it is not in use will also reduce the cost, since the notebook will only incur charges when it is running. For example, if the notebook is used for 8 hours per day, 5 days per week, then stopping it when it is not in use will save about 76% of the monthly cost compared to leaving it running all the time2.
• Running data preprocessing on an ml.r5 instance with the same memory size as the ml.m5.4xlarge instance by using Amazon SageMaker Processing will reduce the cost of the data preprocessing job, since the ml.r5 instance is optimized for memory-intensive workloads and has a lower cost per GB of memory than the ml.m5 instance. For example, an ml.r5.4xlarge instance has 128 GB of memory and costs $1.008 per hour, while an ml.m5.4xlarge instance has 64 GB of memory and costs $0.888 per hour1. Therefore, the ml.r5.4xlarge instance can process the same amount of data in half the time and at a lower cost than the ml.m5.4xlarge instance. Moreover, using Amazon SageMaker Processing will allow the data preprocessing job to run on a separate, fully managed infrastructure that can be scaled up or down as needed, without affecting the notebook instance.

The other options are not as effective as option C for the following reasons:

• Option A is not optimal because changing the notebook instance type to a memory optimized instance with the same vCPU number as the ml.m5.4xlarge instance has will not reduce the cost of the notebook, since the memory optimized instances have a higher cost per vCPU than the general-purpose instances. For example, an ml.r5.4xlarge instance has 16 vCPUs and costs $1.008 per hour, while an ml.m5.4xlarge instance has 16 vCPUs and costs $0.888 per hour1. Moreover, running both data preprocessing and feature engineering development on the same instance will not take advantage of the scalability and flexibility of Amazon SageMaker Processing.
• Option B is not suitable because running data preprocessing on a P3 instance type with the same memory as the ml.m5.4xlarge instance by using Amazon SageMaker Processing will not reduce the cost of the data preprocessing job, since the P3 instance type is optimized for GPU-based workloads and has a higher cost per GB of memory than the ml.m5 or ml.r5 instance types. For example, an ml.p3.2xlarge instance has 61 GB of memory and costs $3.06 per hour, while an ml.m5.4xlarge instance has 64 GB of memory and costs $0.888 per hour1. Moreover, the data preprocessing job does not require GPU, so using a P3 instance type will be wasteful and inefficient.
• Option D is not feasible because running data preprocessing on an R5 instance with the same memory size as the ml.m5.4xlarge instance by using the Reserved Instance option will not reduce the cost of the data preprocessing job, since the Reserved Instance option requires a commitment to a consistent amount of usage for a period of 1 or 3 years3. However, the data preprocessing job only runs once a day on average and completes in only 2 hours, so it does not have a consistent or predictable usage pattern. Therefore, using the Reserved Instance option will not provide any cost savings and may incur additional charges for unused capacity.

References:

• Amazon SageMaker Pricing
• Manage Notebook Instances - Amazon SageMaker
• Amazon EC2 Pricing - Reserved Instances

 Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is a service that can analyze streaming data in real time using SQL or Apache Flink applications. It can also use machine learning algorithms, such as Random Cut Forest (RCF), to perform anomaly detection on streaming data. By inserting a Kinesis Data Analytics stream downstream of the Kinesis Data Firehose stream, the retail chain can transform the raw record attributes into simple transformed values using SQL queries. This can be done without changing the existing data ingestion process or deploying additional resources. The transformed records can then be outputted to another Kinesis Data Firehose stream that delivers them to Amazon S3 for training the machine learning model. This approach will require the least amount of development effort, as it leverages the existing Kinesis Data Firehose stream and the built-in SQL capabilities of Kinesis Data Analytics.

References:

• Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics - Amazon Web Services
• Anomaly Detection with Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics - Amazon Web Services
• Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose - Amazon Web Services
• Amazon S3 - Amazon Web Services

• The Machine Learning team wants to use its own training algorithm on Amazon SageMaker, and submit both its own algorithm code and algorithm-specific parameters. The best combination of services to build a custom algorithm in Amazon SageMaker are Amazon ECR and Amazon S3.
• Amazon ECR is a fully managed container registry service that allows you to store, manage, and deploy Docker container images. You can use Amazon ECR to create a Docker image that contains your training algorithm code and any dependencies or libraries that it requires. You can also use Amazon ECR to push, pull, and manage your Docker images securely and reliably.
• Amazon S3 is a durable, scalable, and secure object storage service that can store any amount and type of data. You can use Amazon S3 to store your training data, model artifacts, and algorithm-specific parameters. You can also use Amazon S3 to access your data and parameters from your training algorithm code, and to write your model output to a specified location.
• Therefore, the Machine Learning team can use the following steps to build a custom algorithm in Amazon SageMaker:

References:

• Use Your Own Training Algorithms
• Amazon ECR - Amazon Web Services
• Amazon S3 - Amazon Web Services

To enable the Amazon SageMaker service without enabling direct internet access to Amazon SageMaker notebook instances, the company should create Amazon SageMaker VPC interface endpoints within the corporate VPC. A VPC interface endpoint is a gateway that enables private connections between the VPC and supported AWS services without requiring an internet gateway, a NAT device, a VPN connection, or an AWS Direct Connect connection. The instances in the VPC do not need to connect to the public internet in order to communicate with the Amazon SageMaker service. The VPC interface endpoint connects the VPC directly to the Amazon SageMaker service using AWS PrivateLink, which ensures that the traffic between the VPC and the service does not leave the AWS network1.

References:

• 1: Connect to SageMaker Within your VPC - Amazon SageMaker

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.

The correct answer is D because it allows the company to use the existing SageMaker endpoint and leverage the built-in functionality of production variants for A/B testing. Production variants can be used to test ML models that have been trained using different training datasets, algorithms, and ML frameworks; test how they perform on different instance types; or a combination of all of the above1. By specifying the weight for each production variant in the endpoint configuration, the company can control how much traffic to send to each variant. By setting the TargetVariant header in the request, the company can invoke a specific variant directly for each request2. This enables the company to implement the required A/B testing setup without creating additional endpoints or load balancers.

References:

• 1: Production variants - Amazon SageMaker
• 2: A/B Testing ML models in production using Amazon SageMaker | AWS Machine Learning Blog

To build a robust serverless data lake on Amazon S3 that meets the requirements, the financial services company should use the following AWS services:

• AWS Glue crawler: This is a service that connects to a data store, progresses through a prioritized list of classifiers to determine the schema for the data, and then creates metadata tables in the AWS Glue Data Catalog1. The company can use an AWS Glue crawler to crawl the S3 data and infer the schema, format, and partition structure of the data. The crawler can also detect schema changes and update the metadata tables accordingly. This enables the company to support querying old and new data on Amazon S3 through Amazon Athena and Amazon Redshift Spectrum, which are serverless interactive query services that use the AWS Glue Data Catalog as a central location for storing and retrieving table metadata23.
• AWS Lambda function: This is a service that lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers. You pay only for the compute time you consume - there is no charge when your code is not running. You can also use AWS Lambda to create event-driven ETL pipelines, by triggering other AWS services based on events such as object creation or deletion in S3 buckets4. The company can use an AWS Lambda function to trigger an AWS Glue ETL job, which is a serverless way to extract, transform, and load data for analytics. The AWS Glue ETL job can perform various data processing tasks, such as converting data formats, filtering, aggregating, joining, and more.
• AWS Glue Data Catalog: This is a managed service that acts as a central metadata repository for data assets across AWS and on-premises data sources. The AWS Glue Data Catalog provides a uniform repository where disparate systems can store and find metadata to keep track of data in data silos, and use that metadata to query and transform the data. The company can use the AWS Glue Data Catalog to search and discover metadata, such as table definitions, schemas, and partitions. The AWS Glue Data Catalog also integrates with Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift Spectrum, Amazon EMR, and AWS Glue ETL jobs, providing a consistent view of the data across different query and analysis services.

References:

• 1: What Is a Crawler? - AWS Glue
• 2: What Is Amazon Athena? - Amazon Athena
• 3: Amazon Redshift Spectrum - Amazon Redshift
• 4: What is AWS Lambda? - AWS Lambda
• : AWS Glue ETL Jobs - AWS Glue
• : What Is the AWS Glue Data Catalog? - AWS Glue

The solution C will meet the requirements with the least development effort because it uses Amazon Rekognition and AWS CloudTrail, which are fully managed services that can provide the desired functionality. The solution C involves the following steps:

• Use Amazon Rekognition to identify celebrities in the pictures. Amazon Rekognition is a service that can analyze images and videos and extract insights such as faces, objects, scenes, emotions, and more. Amazon Rekognition also provides a feature called Celebrity Recognition, which can recognize thousands of celebrities across a number of categories, such as politics, sports, entertainment, and media. Amazon Rekognition can return the name, face, and confidence score of the recognized celebrities, as well as additional information such as URLs and biographies1.
• Use AWS CloudTrail to capture IP address and timestamp details. AWS CloudTrail is a service that can record the API calls and events made by or on behalf of AWS accounts. AWS CloudTrail can provide information such as the source IP address, the user identity, the request parameters, and the response elements of the API calls. AWS CloudTrail can also deliver the event records to an Amazon S3 bucket or an Amazon CloudWatch Logs group for further analysis and auditing2.

The other options are not suitable because:

• Option A: Using AWS Panorama to identify celebrities in the pictures and using AWS CloudTrail to capture IP address and timestamp details will not meet the requirements effectively. AWS Panorama is a service that can extend computer vision to the edge, where it can run inference on video streams from cameras and other devices. AWS Panorama is not designed for identifying celebrities in pictures, and it may not provide accurate or relevant results. Moreover, AWS Panorama requires the use of an AWS Panorama Appliance or a compatible device, which may incur additional costs and complexity3.
• Option B: Using AWS Panorama to identify celebrities in the pictures and making calls to the AWS Panorama Device SDK to capture IP address and timestamp details will not meet the requirements effectively, for the same reasons as option A. Additionally, making calls to the AWS Panorama Device SDK will require more development effort than using AWS CloudTrail, as it will involve writing custom code and handling errors and exceptions4.
• Option D: Using Amazon Rekognition to identify celebrities in the pictures and using the text detection feature to capture IP address and timestamp details will not meet the requirements effectively. The text detection feature of Amazon Rekognition is used to detect and recognize text in images and videos, such as street names, captions, product names, and license plates. It is not suitable for capturing IP address and timestamp details, as these are not part of the pictures that users upload. Moreover, the text detection feature may not be accurate or reliable, as it depends on the quality and clarity of the text in the images and videos5.

References:

• 1: Amazon Rekognition Celebrity Recognition
• 2: AWS CloudTrail Overview
• 3: AWS Panorama Overview
• 4: AWS Panorama Device SDK
• 5: Amazon Rekognition Text Detection

The best visualization for this task is to create a bar plot, faceted by year, of average sales for each region and add a horizontal line in each facet to represent average sales. This way, the data scientist can easily compare the yearly average sales for each region with the overall average sales and see the trends over time. The bar plot also allows the data scientist to see the relative performance of each region within each year and across years. The other options are less effective because they either do not show the yearly trends, do not show the overall average sales, or do not group the data by region.

References:

• pandas.DataFrame.groupby — pandas 2.1.4 documentation
• pandas.DataFrame.plot.bar — pandas 2.1.4 documentation
• Matplotlib - Bar Plot - Online Tutorials Library

 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

AWS Glue jobs is the AWS service or feature that will meet the requirements with the least development effort over time. AWS Glue jobs is a fully managed service that enables data engineers to run Apache Spark applications on a serverless Spark environment. AWS Glue jobs can perform batch preprocessing data transformations on large datasets stored in Amazon S3, such as converting data formats, filtering data, joining data, and aggregating data. AWS Glue jobs can also scale the Spark environment automatically based on the data volume and processing needs, without requiring any infrastructure provisioning or management. AWS Glue jobs can reduce the development effort and time by providing a graphical interface to create and monitor Spark applications, as well as a code generation feature that can generate Scala or Python code based on the data sources and targets. AWS Glue jobs can also integrate with other AWS services, such as Amazon Athena, Amazon EMR, and Amazon SageMaker, to enable further data analysis and machine learning tasks1.

The other options are either more complex or less scalable than AWS Glue jobs. Amazon EMR cluster is a managed service that enables data engineers to run Apache Spark applications on a cluster of Amazon EC2 instances. However, Amazon EMR cluster requires more development effort and time than AWS Glue jobs, as it involves setting up, configuring, and managing the cluster, as well as writing and deploying the Spark code. Amazon EMR cluster also does not scale automatically, but requires manual or scheduled resizing of the cluster based on the data volume and processing needs2. Amazon Athena is a serverless interactive query service that enables data engineers to analyze data stored in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. However, Amazon Athena is not suitable for performing complex data transformations, such as joining data from multiple sources, aggregating data, or applying custom logic. Amazon Athena is also not designed for running Spark applications, but only supports SQL queries3. AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that enables data engineers to run code without provisioning or managing servers. However, AWS Lambda is not optimized for running Spark applications, as it has limitations on the execution time, memory size, and concurrency of the functions. AWS Lambda is also not integrated with Amazon S3, and requires additional steps to read and write data from S3 buckets.

References:

• 1: AWS Glue - Fully Managed ETL Service - Amazon Web Services
• 2: Amazon EMR - Amazon Web Services
• 3: Amazon Athena – Interactive SQL Queries for Data in Amazon S3
• [4]: AWS Lambda – Serverless Compute - Amazon Web Services

 Initializing the words by word2vec embeddings pretrained on a large collection of news articles related to the energy sector will provide the maximum performance boost for the LSTM model. Word2vec is a technique that learns distributed representations of words based on their co-occurrence in a large corpus of text. These representations capture semantic and syntactic similarities between words, which can help the LSTM model better understand the meaning and context of the sentences in the text documents. Using word2vec embeddings that are pretrained on a relevant domain (energy sector) can further improve the performance by reducing the vocabulary mismatch and increasing the coverage of the words in the text documents. References:

• AWS Machine Learning Specialty Exam Guide
• AWS Machine Learning Training - Text Classification with TF-IDF, LSTM, BERT: a comparison of performance
• AWS Machine Learning Training - Machine Learning - Exam Preparation Path

A confusion matrix is a matrix that summarizes the performance of a machine learning model on a set of test data. It displays the number of true positives (TP), true negatives (TN), false positives (FP), and false negatives (FN) produced by the model on the test data1. For multi-class classification, the matrix shape will be equal to the number of classes i.e for n classes it will be nXn1. The diagonal values represent the number of correct predictions for each class, and the off-diagonal values represent the number of incorrect predictions for each class1.

The BlazingText algorithm is a proprietary machine learning algorithm for forecasting time series using causal convolutional neural networks (CNNs). BlazingText works best with large datasets containing hundreds of time series. It accepts item metadata, and is the only Forecast algorithm that accepts related time series data without future values2.

From the confusion matrices for the training and test sets, we can observe the following:

• The model has a high accuracy on the training set, as most of the diagonal values are high and the off-diagonal values are low. This means that the model is able to learn the patterns and features of the training data well.
• However, the model has a lower accuracy on the test set, as some of the diagonal values are lower and some of the off-diagonal values are higher. This means that the model is not able to generalize well to the unseen data and makes more errors.
• The model has a particularly high error rate for classes B and E on the test set, as the values of M_22 and M_55 are much lower than the values of M_12, M_21, M_15, M_25, M_51, and M_52. This means that the model is confusing classes B and E with other classes more often than it should.
• The model has a relatively low error rate for classes A, C, and D on the test set, as the values of M_11, M_33, and M_44 are high and the values of M_13, M_14, M_23, M_24, M_31, M_32, M_34, M_41, M_42, and M_43 are low. This means that the model is able to distinguish classes A, C, and D from other classes well.

These results indicate that the model is overfitting for classes B and E, meaning that it is memorizing the specific features of these classes in the training data, but failing to capture the general features that are applicable to the test data. Overfitting is a common problem in machine learning, where the model performs well on the training data, but poorly on the test data3. Some possible causes of overfitting are:

• The model is too complex or has too many parameters for the given data. This makes the model flexible enough to fit the noise and outliers in the training data, but reduces its ability to generalize to new data.
• The data is too small or not representative of the population. This makes the model learn from a limited or biased sample of data, but fails to capture the variability and diversity of the population.
• The data is imbalanced or skewed. This makes the model learn from a disproportionate or uneven distribution of data, but fails to account for the minority or rare classes.

Some possible solutions to prevent or reduce overfitting are:

• Simplify the model or use regularization techniques. This reduces the complexity or the number of parameters of the model, and prevents it from fitting the noise and outliers in the data. Regularization techniques, such as L1 or L2 regularization, add a penalty term to the loss function of the model, which shrinks the weights of the model and reduces overfitting3.
• Increase the size or diversity of the data. This provides more information and examples for the model to learn from, and increases its ability to generalize to new data. Data augmentation techniques, such as rotation, flipping, cropping, or noise addition, can generate new data from the existing data by applying some transformations3.
• Balance or resample the data. This adjusts the distribution or the frequency of the data, and ensures that the model learns from all classes equally. Resampling techniques, such as oversampling or undersampling, can create a balanced dataset by increasing or decreasing the number of samples for each class3.

References:

• Confusion Matrix in Machine Learning - GeeksforGeeks
• BlazingText algorithm - Amazon SageMaker
• Overfitting and Underfitting in Machine Learning - GeeksforGeeks

The combination of steps that the ML engineer should take to train the model are to create a .lst file that contains a list of image files and corresponding class labels, upload the .lst file to Amazon S3, and initiate transfer learning by training the model using the images of less common species. This approach will allow the ML engineer to leverage the existing ImageNetV2 CNN model and fine-tune it with the new data using Pipe mode in SageMaker.

A .lst file is a text file that contains a list of image files and corresponding class labels, separated by tabs. The .lst file format is required for using the SageMaker image classification algorithm with Pipe mode. Pipe mode is a feature of SageMaker that enables streaming data directly from Amazon S3 to the training instances, without downloading the data first. Pipe mode can reduce the startup time, improve the I/O throughput, and enable training on large datasets that exceed the disk size limit. To use Pipe mode, the ML engineer needs to upload the .lst file to Amazon S3 and specify the S3 path as the input data channel for the training job1.

Transfer learning is a technique that enables reusing a pre-trained model for a new task by fine-tuning the model parameters with new data. Transfer learning can save time and computational resources, as well as improve the performance of the model, especially when the new task is similar to the original task. The SageMaker image classification algorithm supports transfer learning by allowing the ML engineer to specify the number of output classes and the number of layers to be retrained. The ML engineer can use the existing ImageNetV2 CNN model, which is trained on 1,000 classes of common objects, and fine-tune it with the new data of less common animal species, which is a similar task2.

The other options are either less effective or not supported by the SageMaker image classification algorithm. Using a ResNet model and initiating full training mode would require training the model from scratch, which would take more time and resources than transfer learning. Using an Inception model is not possible, as the SageMaker image classification algorithm only supports ResNet and ImageNetV2 models. Using an augmented manifest file in JSON Lines format is not compatible with Pipe mode, as Pipe mode only supports .lst files for image classification1.

References:

• 1: Using Pipe input mode for Amazon SageMaker algorithms | AWS Machine Learning Blog
• 2: Image Classification Algorithm - Amazon SageMaker

 The best solution for building a line-counting application for use in a quick-service restaurant is to use the following steps:

• Build a custom model in Amazon SageMaker to recognize the number of people in an image. Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed service that provides tools and workflows for building, training, and deploying machine learning models. A custom model can be tailored to the specific use case of line-counting and achieve higher accuracy than a generic model1
• Deploy AWS DeepLens cameras in the restaurant to capture video. AWS DeepLens is a wireless video camera that integrates with Amazon SageMaker and AWS Lambda. It can run machine learning inference locally on the device without requiring internet connectivity or streaming video to the cloud. This reduces the bandwidth consumption and latency of the application2
• Deploy the model to the cameras. AWS DeepLens allows users to deploy trained models from Amazon SageMaker to the cameras with a few clicks. The cameras can then use the model to process the video frames and count the number of people in each frame2
• Deploy an AWS Lambda function to the cameras to use the model to count people and send an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) notification if the line is too long. AWS Lambda is a serverless computing service that lets users run code without provisioning or managing servers. AWS DeepLens supports running Lambda functions on the device to perform actions based on the inference results. Amazon SNS is a service that enables users to send notifications to subscribers via email, SMS, or mobile push23

The other options are incorrect because they either require internet connectivity or streaming video to the cloud, which may impact the bandwidth and performance of the application. For example:

• Option A uses Amazon Kinesis Video Streams to stream the data to AWS over the restaurant’s existing internet connection. Amazon Kinesis Video Streams is a service that enables users to capture, process, and store video streams for analytics and machine learning. However, this option requires streaming multiple video streams to the cloud, which may consume a lot of bandwidth and cause network congestion. It also requires internet connectivity, which may not be reliable or available in some locations4
• Option B uses Amazon Rekognition on the AWS DeepLens device. Amazon Rekognition is a service that provides computer vision capabilities, such as face detection, face recognition, and object detection. However, this option requires calling the Amazon Rekognition API over the internet, which may introduce latency and require bandwidth. It also uses a generic face detection model, which may not be optimized for the line-counting use case.
• Option C uses Amazon SageMaker to build a custom model and an Amazon SageMaker endpoint to call the model. Amazon SageMaker endpoints are hosted web services that allow users to perform inference on their models. However, this option requires sending the images to the endpoint over the internet, which may consume bandwidth and introduce latency. It also requires internet connectivity, which may not be reliable or available in some locations.

References:

• 1: Amazon SageMaker – Machine Learning Service - AWS
• 2: AWS DeepLens - Deep learning enabled video camera - AWS
• 3: Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) - AWS
• 4: Amazon Kinesis Video Streams - Amazon Web Services
• : Amazon Rekognition – Video and Image - AWS
• : Deploy a Model - Amazon SageMaker

 To deploy a model that was trained locally to Amazon SageMaker, the steps are:

• Build the Docker image with the inference code. The inference code should include the model loading, data preprocessing, prediction, and postprocessing logic. The Docker image should also include the dependencies and libraries required by the inference code and the model.
• Tag the Docker image with the registry hostname and upload it to Amazon ECR. Amazon ECR is a fully managed container registry that makes it easy to store, manage, and deploy container images. The registry hostname is the Amazon ECR registry URI for your account and Region. You can use the AWS CLI or the Amazon ECR console to tag and push the Docker image to Amazon ECR.
• Create a SageMaker model entity that points to the Docker image in Amazon ECR and the model artifacts in Amazon S3. The model entity is a logical representation of the model that contains the information needed to deploy the model for inference. The model artifacts are the files generated by the model training process, such as the model parameters and weights. You can use the AWS CLI, the SageMaker Python SDK, or the SageMaker console to create the model entity.
• Create an endpoint configuration that specifies the instance type and number of instances to use for hosting the model. The endpoint configuration also defines the production variants, which are the different versions of the model that you want to deploy. You can use the AWS CLI, the SageMaker Python SDK, or the SageMaker console to create the endpoint configuration.
• Create an endpoint that uses the endpoint configuration to deploy the model. The endpoint is a web service that exposes an HTTP API for inference requests. You can use the AWS CLI, the SageMaker Python SDK, or the SageMaker console to create the endpoint.

References:

• AWS Machine Learning Specialty Exam Guide
• AWS Machine Learning Training - Deploy a Model on Amazon SageMaker
• AWS Machine Learning Training - Use Your Own Inference Code with Amazon SageMaker Hosting Services

The solution D is the best data visualization approach to determine the optimal value of k for the k-means clustering algorithm. The solution D involves the following steps:

• Run the k-means clustering algorithm for a range of k. For each value of k, calculate the sum of squared errors (SSE). The SSE is a measure of how well the clusters fit the data. It is calculated by summing the squared distances of each data point to its closest cluster center. A lower SSE indicates a better fit, but it will always decrease as the number of clusters increases. Therefore, the goal is to find the smallest value of k that still has a low SSE1.
• Plot a line chart of the SSE for each value of k. The line chart will show how the SSE changes as the value of k increases. Typically, the line chart will have a shape of an elbow, where the SSE drops rapidly at first and then levels off. The optimal value of k is the point after which the curve starts decreasing in a linear fashion. This point is also known as the elbow point, and it represents the balance between the number of clusters and the SSE1.

The other options are not suitable because:

• Option A: Calculating the principal component analysis (PCA) components, running the k-means clustering algorithm for a range of k by using only the first two PCA components, and creating a scatter plot with a different color for each cluster will not accurately determine the optimal value of k. PCA is a technique that reduces the dimensionality of the data by transforming it into a new set of features that capture the most variance in the data. However, PCA may not preserve the original structure and distances of the data, and it may lose some information in the process. Therefore, running the k-means clustering algorithm on the PCA components may not reflect the true clusters in the data. Moreover, using only the first two PCA components may not capture enough variance to represent the data well. Furthermore, creating a scatter plot may not be reliable, as it depends on the subjective judgment of the data scientist to decide when the clusters look reasonably separated2.
• Option B: Calculating the PCA components and creating a line plot of the number of components against the explained variance will not determine the optimal value of k. This approach is used to determine the optimal number of PCA components to use for dimensionality reduction, not for clustering. The explained variance is the ratio of the variance of each PCA component to the total variance of the data. The optimal number of PCA components is the point where adding more components does not significantly increase the explained variance. However, this number may not correspond to the optimal number of clusters, as PCA and k-means clustering have different objectives and assumptions2.
• Option C: Creating a t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding (t-SNE) plot for a range of perplexity values will not determine the optimal value of k. t-SNE is a technique that reduces the dimensionality of the data by embedding it into a lower-dimensional space, such as a two-dimensional plane. t-SNE preserves the local structure and distances of the data, and it can reveal clusters and patterns in the data. However, t-SNE does not assign labels or centroids to the clusters, and it does not provide a measure of how well the clusters fit the data. Therefore, t-SNE cannot determine the optimal number of clusters, as it only visualizes the data. Moreover, t-SNE depends on the perplexity parameter, which is a measure of how many neighbors each point considers. The perplexity parameter can affect the shape and size of the clusters, and there is no optimal value for it. Therefore, creating a t-SNE plot for a range of perplexity values may not be consistent or reliable3.

References:

• 1: How to Determine the Optimal K for K-Means?
• 2: Principal Component Analysis
• 3: t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding

Term frequency-inverse document frequency (TF-IDF) is a technique that assigns a weight to each word in a document based on how important it is to the meaning of the document. The term frequency (TF) measures how often a word appears in a document, while the inverse document frequency (IDF) measures how rare a word is across a collection of documents. The TF-IDF weight is the product of the TF and IDF values, and it is high for words that are frequent in a specific document but rare in the overall corpus. TF-IDF can help improve the validation accuracy of a sentiment analysis model by reducing the impact of common words that have little or no sentiment value, such as “the”, “a”, “and”, etc. Scikit-learn is a popular Python library for machine learning that provides a TF-IDF vectorizer class that can transform a collection of text documents into a matrix of TF-IDF features. By using this tool, the Data Scientist can create a more informative and discriminative feature representation for the sentiment analysis task.

References:

• TfidfVectorizer - scikit-learn
• Text feature extraction - scikit-learn
• TF-IDF for Beginners | by Jana Schmidt | Towards Data Science
• Sentiment Analysis: Concept, Analysis and Applications | by Susan Li | Towards Data Science

The best services to use for building a data ingestion solution for the company’s Amazon S3-based data lake are:

• AWS Glue as the data catalog: AWS Glue is a fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that can discover, crawl, and catalog data from various sources and formats, and make it available for analysis. AWS Glue can also generate ETL code in Python or Scala to transform, enrich, and join data using AWS Glue Data Catalog as the metadata repository. AWS Glue Data Catalog is a central metadata store that integrates with Amazon Athena, Amazon EMR, and Amazon Redshift Spectrum, allowing users to create a unified view of their data across various sources and formats.
• Amazon Kinesis Data Streams and Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for real-time data insights: Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a service that enables users to collect, process, and analyze real-time streaming data at any scale. Users can create data streams that can capture data from various sources, such as web and mobile applications, IoT devices, and social media platforms. Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is a service that allows users to analyze streaming data using standard SQL queries or Apache Flink applications. Users can create real-time dashboards, metrics, and alerts based on the streaming data analysis results.
• Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose for delivery to Amazon ES for clickstream analytics: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is a service that enables users to load streaming data into data lakes, data stores, and analytics services. Users can configure Kinesis Data Firehose to automatically deliver data to various destinations, such as Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, Amazon OpenSearch Service, and third-party solutions. For clickstream analytics, users can use Kinesis Data Firehose to deliver data to Amazon OpenSearch Service, a fully managed service that offers search and analytics capabilities for log data. Users can use Amazon OpenSearch Service to perform interactive analysis and visualization of clickstream data using Kibana, an open-source tool that is integrated with Amazon OpenSearch Service.
• Amazon EMR to generate personalized product recommendations: Amazon EMR is a service that enables users to run distributed data processing frameworks, such as Apache Spark, Apache Hadoop, and Apache Hive, on scalable clusters of EC2 instances. Users can use Amazon EMR to perform advanced analytics, such as machine learning, on large and complex datasets stored in Amazon S3 or other sources. For product recommendations, users can use Amazon EMR to run Spark MLlib, a library that provides scalable machine learning algorithms, such as collaborative filtering, to generate personalized recommendations based on user behavior and preferences.

References:

• AWS Glue - Fully Managed ETL Service
• Amazon Kinesis - Data Streaming Service
• Amazon OpenSearch Service - Managed OpenSearch Service
• Amazon EMR - Managed Hadoop Framework

The best way to meet the requirements is to use a principal component analysis (PCA) model, which is a technique that reduces the dimensionality of the dataset by transforming the original variables into a smaller set of new variables, called principal components, that capture most of the variance and information in the data1. This technique has the following advantages:

• It can increase the accuracy of the model by removing noise, redundancy, and multicollinearity from the data, and by enhancing the interpretability and generalization of the model23.
• It can decrease the processing time of the model by reducing the number of features and the computational complexity of the model, and by improving the convergence and stability of the model45.
• It is suitable for numeric variables, as it relies on the covariance or correlation matrix of the data, and it can handle a large quantity of variables, as it can extract the most relevant ones16.

The other options are not effective or appropriate, because they have the following drawbacks:

• A: Creating new features and interaction variables can increase the accuracy of the model by capturing more complex and nonlinear relationships in the data, but it can also increase the processing time of the model by adding more features and increasing the computational complexity of the model7. Moreover, it can introduce more noise, redundancy, and multicollinearity in the data, which can degrade the performance and interpretability of the model8.
• C: Applying normalization on the feature set can increase the accuracy of the model by scaling the features to a common range and avoiding the dominance of some features over others, but it can also decrease the processing time of the model by reducing the numerical instability and improving the convergence of the model . However, normalization alone is not enough to address the high dimensionality and high latency issues of the dataset, as it does not reduce the number of features or the variance in the data.
• D: Using a multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) model is not suitable for numeric variables, as it is a technique that reduces the dimensionality of the dataset by transforming the original categorical variables into a smaller set of new variables, called factors, that capture most of the inertia and information in the data. MCA is similar to PCA, but it is designed for nominal or ordinal variables, not for continuous or interval variables.

References:

• 1: Principal Component Analysis - Amazon SageMaker
• 2: How to Use PCA for Data Visualization and Improved Performance in Machine Learning | by Pratik Shukla | Towards Data Science
• 3: Principal Component Analysis (PCA) for Feature Selection and some of its Pitfalls | by Nagesh Singh Chauhan | Towards Data Science
• 4: How to Reduce Dimensionality with PCA and Train a Support Vector Machine in Python | by James Briggs | Towards Data Science
• 5: Dimensionality Reduction and Its Applications | by Aniruddha Bhandari | Towards Data Science
• 6: Principal Component Analysis (PCA) in Python | by Susan Li | Towards Data Science
• 7: Feature Engineering for Machine Learning | by Dipanjan (DJ) Sarkar | Towards Data Science
• 8: Feature Engineering — How to Engineer Features and How to Get Good at It | by Parul Pandey | Towards Data Science
• : [Feature Scaling for Machine Learning: Understanding the Difference Between Normalization vs. Standardization | by Benjamin Obi Tayo Ph.D. | Towards Data Science]
• : [Why, How and When to Scale your Features | by George Seif | Towards Data Science]
• : [Normalization vs Dimensionality Reduction | by Saurabh Annadate | Towards Data Science]
• : [Multiple Correspondence Analysis - Amazon SageMaker]
• : [Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) | by Raul Eulogio | Towards Data Science]

The data scientist should use the area under the precision-recall curve and the true positive rate to optimize the model. These metrics are suitable for imbalanced classification problems, such as credit card fraud detection, where the positive class (fraudulent transactions) is much rarer than the negative class (non-fraudulent transactions).

The area under the precision-recall curve (AUPRC) is a measure of how well the model can identify the positive class among all the predicted positives. Precision is the fraction of predicted positives that are actually positive, and recall is the fraction of actual positives that are correctly predicted. A higher AUPRC means that the model can achieve a higher precision with a higher recall, which is desirable for fraud detection.

The true positive rate (TPR) is another name for recall. It is also known as sensitivity or hit rate. It measures the proportion of actual positives that are correctly identified by the model. A higher TPR means that the model can capture more positives, which is the company’s goal.

References:

• Metrics for Imbalanced Classification in Python - Machine Learning Mastery
• Precision-Recall - scikit-learn

Amazon SageMaker script mode is a feature that allows users to use training scripts similar to those they would use outside SageMaker with SageMaker’s prebuilt containers for various frameworks such as TensorFlow. Script mode supports reading data from Amazon S3 buckets without requiring any changes to the training script. Therefore, option B is the best method of providing training data to Amazon SageMaker that would meet the business requirements with the least development overhead.

Option A is incorrect because using a local path of the data would not be scalable or reliable, as it would depend on the availability and capacity of the local storage. Moreover, using a local path of the data would not leverage the benefits of Amazon S3, such as durability, security, and performance. Option C is incorrect because rewriting the train.py script to convert TFRecords to protobuf would require additional development effort and complexity, as well as introduce potential errors and inconsistencies in the data format. Option D is incorrect because preparing the data in the format accepted by Amazon SageMaker would also require additional development effort and complexity, as well as involve using additional services such as AWS Glue or AWS Lambda, which would increase the cost and maintenance of the solution.

References:

• Bring your own model with Amazon SageMaker script mode
• GitHub - aws-samples/amazon-sagemaker-script-mode
• Deep Dive on TensorFlow training with Amazon SageMaker and Amazon S3
• amazon-sagemaker-script-mode/generate_cifar10_tfrecords.py at master

 Amazon S3 and Amazon Athena are technologies that meet the company’s requirements for a temporary ad hoc solution for machine learning data storage and query. Amazon S3 and Amazon Athena have the following features and benefits:

• Amazon S3 is a service that provides scalable, durable, and secure object storage for any type of data. Amazon S3 can store csv and JSON files, as well as other formats, and can handle large volumes of data with high availability and performance. Amazon S3 also integrates with other AWS services, such as Amazon Athena, for further processing and analysis of the data.
• Amazon Athena is a service that allows querying data stored in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Amazon Athena can query over semi-structured data, such as JSON, as well as structured data, such as csv, without requiring any loading or transformation. Amazon Athena is serverless, meaning that there is no infrastructure to manage and users only pay for the queries they run. Amazon Athena also supports the use of AWS Glue Data Catalog, which is a centralized metadata repository that can store and manage the schema and partition information of the data in Amazon S3.

Using Amazon S3 and Amazon Athena, the company can achieve the following high priorities:

• Solution simplicity: Amazon S3 and Amazon Athena are easy to use and require minimal configuration and maintenance. The company can simply upload the csv and JSON files to Amazon S3 and use Amazon Athena to query them using SQL. The company does not need to worry about provisioning, scaling, or managing any servers or clusters.
• Fast development time: Amazon S3 and Amazon Athena can enable the company to quickly access and analyze the data without any data preparation or loading. The company can use the existing workforce of SQL experts to write and run queries on Amazon Athena and get results in seconds or minutes.
• Low cost: Amazon S3 and Amazon Athena are cost-effective and offer pay-as-you-go pricing models. Amazon S3 charges based on the amount of storage used and the number of requests made. Amazon Athena charges based on the amount of data scanned by the queries. The company can also reduce the costs by using compression, encryption, and partitioning techniques to optimize the data storage and query performance.
• High flexibility: Amazon S3 and Amazon Athena are flexible and can support various data types, formats, and sources. The company can store and query any type of data in Amazon S3, such as csv, JSON, Parquet, ORC, etc. The company can also query data from multiple sources in Amazon S3, such as data lakes, data warehouses, log files, etc.

The other options are not as suitable as option A for the company’s requirements for the following reasons:

• Option B: Amazon Redshift and AWS Glue are technologies that can be used for data warehousing and data integration, but they are not ideal for a temporary ad hoc solution. Amazon Redshift is a service that provides a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse that can run complex analytical queries using SQL. AWS Glue is a service that provides a fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that can prepare and load data for analytics. However, using Amazon Redshift and AWS Glue would require more effort and cost than using Amazon S3 and Amazon Athena. The company would need to load the data from Amazon S3 to Amazon Redshift using AWS Glue, which can take time and incur additional charges. The company would also need to manage the capacity and performance of the Amazon Redshift cluster, which can be complex and expensive.
• Option C: Amazon DynamoDB and DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) are technologies that can be used for fast and scalable NoSQL database and caching, but they are not suitable for the company’s data storage and query needs. Amazon DynamoDB is a service that provides a fully managed, key-value and document database that can deliver single-digit millisecond performance at any scale. DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) is a service that provides a fully managed, in-memory cache for DynamoDB that can improve the read performance by up to 10 times. However, using Amazon DynamoDB and DAX would not allow the company to continue to use SQL as a query language, as Amazon DynamoDB does not support SQL. The company would need to use the DynamoDB API or the AWS SDKs to access and query the data, which can require more coding and learning effort. The company would also need to transform the csv and JSON files into DynamoDB items, which can involve additional processing and complexity.
• Option D: Amazon RDS and Amazon ES are technologies that can be used for relational database and search and analytics, but they are not optimal for the company’s data storage and query scenario. Amazon RDS is a service that provides a fully managed, relational database that supports various database engines, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, etc. Amazon ES is a service that provides a fully managed, Elasticsearch cluster, which is mainly used for search and analytics purposes. However, using Amazon RDS and Amazon ES would not be as simple and cost-effective as using Amazon S3 and Amazon Athena. The company would need to load the data from Amazon S3 to Amazon RDS, which can take time and incur additional charges. The company would also need to manage the capacity and performance of the Amazon RDS and Amazon ES clusters, which can be complex and expensive. Moreover, Amazon RDS and Amazon ES are not designed to handle semi-structured data, such as JSON, as well as Amazon S3 and Amazon Athena.

References:

• Amazon S3
• Amazon Athena
• Amazon Redshift
• AWS Glue
• Amazon DynamoDB
• [DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)]
• [Amazon RDS]
• [Amazon ES]

• The Data Scientist is building a model to predict customer churn using a dataset of 100 continuous numerical features. The Marketing team wants to interpret the model and see the direct impact of relevant features on the model outcome. However, the Data Scientist observes that there is a wide gap between the training and validation set accuracy, which indicates that the model is overfitting the data and generalizing poorly to new data.
• To improve the model performance and satisfy the Marketing team’s needs, the Data Scientist can use the following methods:

References:

• Regularization for Logistic Regression
• Recursive Feature Elimination

XGBoost is a machine learning framework that can be used for classification, regression, ranking, and other tasks. It is based on the gradient boosting algorithm, which builds an ensemble of weak learners (usually decision trees) to produce a strong learner. XGBoost has several advantages over other algorithms, such as scalability, parallelization, regularization, and sparsity handling. For categorizing new products using the provided dataset, an XGBoost model would be a suitable choice, because it can handle multiple features and multiple classes efficiently and accurately. To train an XGBoost model for multi-class classification, the objective parameter should be set to multi: softmax, which means that the model will output a probability distribution over the classes and predict the class with the highest probability. Alternatively, the objective parameter can be set to multi: softprob, which means that the model will output the raw probability of each class instead of the predicted class label. This can be useful for evaluating the model performance or for post-processing the predictions. References:

• XGBoost: A tutorial on how to use XGBoost with Amazon SageMaker.
• XGBoost Parameters: A reference guide for the parameters of XGBoost.

The data sources that the data scientist should use to augment the dataset of reviews are those that contain relevant and diverse customer feedback about the company or its products. Emails exchanged by customers and the company’s customer service agents can provide valuable insights into the issues and complaints that customers have, as well as the solutions and responses that the company offers. Social media posts containing the name of the company or its products can capture the opinions and sentiments of customers and potential customers, as well as their reactions to marketing campaigns and product launches. A publicly available collection of customer reviews can provide a large and varied sample of feedback from different online platforms and marketplaces, which can help to generalize the ML models and avoid bias.

References:

• Detect sentiment from customer reviews using Amazon Comprehend | AWS Machine Learning Blog
• How to Apply Machine Learning to Customer Feedback

The solution that will meet the requirements with the least amount of effort is to use a semantic segmentation algorithm to identify a visitor’s hair in video frames, and pass the identified hair to an ResNet-50 algorithm to determine hair style and hair color. This solution can leverage the existing Amazon SageMaker algorithms and frameworks to perform the tasks of hair segmentation and classification.

Semantic segmentation is a computer vision technique that assigns a class label to every pixel in an image, such that pixels with the same label share certain characteristics. Semantic segmentation can be used to identify and isolate different objects or regions in an image, such as a visitor’s hair in a video frame. Amazon SageMaker provides a built-in semantic segmentation algorithm that can train and deploy models for semantic segmentation tasks. The algorithm supports three state-of-the-art network architectures: Fully Convolutional Network (FCN), Pyramid Scene Parsing Network (PSP), and DeepLab v3. The algorithm can also use pre-trained or randomly initialized ResNet-50 or ResNet-101 as the backbone network. The algorithm can be trained using P2/P3 type Amazon EC2 instances in single machine configurations1.

ResNet-50 is a convolutional neural network that is 50 layers deep and can classify images into 1000 object categories. ResNet-50 is trained on more than a million images from the ImageNet database and can achieve high accuracy on various image recognition tasks. ResNet-50 can be used to determine hair style and hair color from the segmented hair regions in the video frames. Amazon SageMaker provides a built-in image classification algorithm that can use ResNet-50 as the network architecture. The algorithm can also perform transfer learning by fine-tuning the pre-trained ResNet-50 model with new data. The algorithm can be trained using P2/P3 type Amazon EC2 instances in single or multiple machine configurations2.

The other options are either less effective or more complex to implement. Using an object detection algorithm to identify a visitor’s hair in video frames would not segment the hair at the pixel level, but only draw bounding boxes around the hair regions. This could result in inaccurate or incomplete hair segmentation, especially if the hair is occluded or has irregular shapes. Using an XGBoost algorithm to determine hair style and hair color would require transforming the segmented hair images into numerical features, which could lose some information or introduce noise. XGBoost is also not designed for image classification tasks, and may not achieve high accuracy or performance.

References:

• 1: Semantic Segmentation Algorithm - Amazon SageMaker
• 2: Image Classification Algorithm - Amazon SageMaker

Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler is a tool that helps data scientists and ML developers to prepare data for ML. One of the features of Data Wrangler is the anomaly detection visualization, which uses an unsupervised ML algorithm to identify outliers in the dataset based on statistical properties. The ML specialist can use this feature to quickly explore the sensor data and find any anomalous values that may affect the model performance. The ML specialist can then add a transformation to a Data Wrangler data flow to remove the outliers from the dataset. The data flow can be exported as a script or a pipeline to automate the data preparation process. This option requires the least operational overhead compared to the other options.

References:

• Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler - Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Anomaly Detection Visualization - Amazon SageMaker
• Transform Data - Amazon SageMaker

 The best option is to deploy the Lambda function and the ML models onto the AWS IoT Greengrass core that is running on the industrial PCs that are installed on each machine. This way, the inference can be performed locally on the edge devices, without the need to upload the images to Amazon S3 and invoke the SageMaker endpoint. This will reduce the latency and the network bandwidth consumption. The long-running Lambda function can be extended to invoke the Lambda function with the captured images and run the inference on the edge component that forwards the results directly to the web service. This will also simplify the architecture and eliminate the dependency on the internet connection.

Option A is not cost-effective, as it requires setting up a 10 Gbps AWS Direct Connect connection and increasing the size and number of instances for the SageMaker endpoint. This will increase the operational costs and complexity.

Option B is not optimal, as it still requires uploading the images to Amazon S3 and invoking the SageMaker endpoint. Compressing and decompressing the images will add additional processing overhead and latency.

Option C is not sufficient, as it still requires uploading the images to Amazon S3 and invoking the SageMaker endpoint. Auto scaling for SageMaker will help to handle the increased workload, but it will not reduce the latency or the network bandwidth consumption. Setting up an AWS Direct Connect connection will improve the network performance, but it will also increase the operational costs and complexity. References:

• AWS IoT Greengrass
• Deploying Machine Learning Models to Edge Devices
• AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty Exam Guide

 The question is about improving the testing accuracy of a gradient boosting regression model. The testing accuracy is much lower than the training accuracy, which indicates that the model is overfitting the training data. To reduce overfitting, the following steps are recommended:

• Use a one-hot encoder for the categorical fields in the dataset. This will create binary features for each category and avoid imposing an ordinal relationship among them. This can help the model learn the patterns better and generalize to unseen data.
• Perform standardization on the financial fields in the dataset. This will scale the features to have zero mean and unit variance, which can improve the convergence and performance of the model. This can also help the model handle features with different units and ranges.
• Apply L1 regularization to the data. This will add a penalty term to the loss function that is proportional to the absolute value of the coefficients. This can help the model reduce the complexity and select the most relevant features by shrinking the coefficients of less important features to zero.

References:

• 1: AWS Machine Learning Specialty Exam Guide
• 2: AWS Machine Learning Specialty Course
• 3: AWS Machine Learning Blog

• To build a conversational interface that can use natural language to get data from the reports, the company can use a combination of services that can handle both written and spoken inputs, understand the user’s intent and query, and extract the relevant information from the reports. The services that can be used for this purpose are:
• Therefore, the company can use the following architecture to build the conversational interface:

References:

• What Is Amazon Lex?
• What Is Amazon Comprehend?
• What Is Amazon Transcribe?

The solution that the agency should consider is to use a proxy server at each local office and for each camera, and stream the RTSP feed to a unique Amazon Kinesis Video Streams video stream. On each stream, use Amazon Rekognition Video and create a stream processor to detect faces from a collection of known employees, and alert when non-employees are detected.

This solution has the following advantages:

• It can handle thousands of video cameras in real time, as Amazon Kinesis Video Streams can scale elastically to support any number of producers and consumers1.
• It can leverage the Amazon Rekognition Video API, which is designed and optimized for video analysis, and can detect faces in challenging conditions such as low lighting, occlusions, and different poses2.
• It can use a stream processor, which is a feature of Amazon Rekognition Video that allows you to create a persistent application that analyzes streaming video and stores the results in a Kinesis data stream3. The stream processor can compare the detected faces with a collection of known employees, which is a container for persisting faces that you want to search for in the input video stream4. The stream processor can also send notifications to Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) when non-employees are detected, which can trigger downstream actions such as sending alerts or storing the events in Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES)3.

References:

• 1: What Is Amazon Kinesis Video Streams? - Amazon Kinesis Video Streams
• 2: Detecting and Analyzing Faces - Amazon Rekognition
• 3: Using Amazon Rekognition Video Stream Processor - Amazon Rekognition
• 4: Working with Stored Faces - Amazon Rekognition

Amazon Kinesis and AWS Data Pipeline are two services that can feed data to the Amazon EMR MapReduce jobs. Amazon Kinesis is a service that can ingest, process, and analyze streaming data in real time. Amazon Kinesis can be integrated with Amazon EMR to run MapReduce jobs on streaming data sources, such as web logs, social media, IoT devices, and clickstreams. Amazon Kinesis can handle data that needs to be processed in near-real time, such as for anomaly detection, fraud detection, or dashboarding. 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 MapReduce jobs on batch data sources, such as Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Redshift. AWS Data Pipeline can handle data that can be moved hourly, such as for data warehousing, reporting, or machine learning.

AWSDMS is not a valid service name. AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) is a service that can migrate data from various sources to various targets, but it does not support streaming data or MapReduce jobs.

Amazon Athena is a service that can query data stored in Amazon S3 using standard SQL, but it does not feed data to Amazon EMR or run MapReduce jobs.

Amazon ES is a service that provides a fully managed Elasticsearch cluster, which can be used for search, analytics, and visualization, but it does not feed data to Amazon EMR or run MapReduce jobs. References:

• Using Amazon Kinesis with Amazon EMR - Amazon EMR
• AWS Data Pipeline - Amazon Web Services
• Using AWS Data Pipeline to Run Amazon EMR Jobs - AWS Data Pipeline

When submitting Amazon SageMaker training jobs using one of the built-in algorithms, the common parameters that must be specified are:

• The training channel identifying the location of training data on an Amazon S3 bucket. This parameter tells SageMaker where to find the input data for the algorithm and what format it is in. For example, TrainingInputMode: File means that the input data is in files stored in S3.
• The IAM role that Amazon SageMaker can assume to perform tasks on behalf of the users. This parameter grants SageMaker the necessary permissions to access the S3 buckets, ECR repositories, and other AWS resources needed for the training job. For example, RoleArn: arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/service-role/AmazonSageMaker-ExecutionRole-20200303T150948 means that SageMaker will use the specified role to run the training job.
• The output path specifying where on an Amazon S3 bucket the trained model will persist. This parameter tells SageMaker where to save the model artifacts, such as the model weights and parameters, after the training job is completed. For example, OutputDataConfig: {S3OutputPath: s3://my-bucket/my-training-job} means that SageMaker will store the model artifacts in the specified S3 location.

The validation channel identifying the location of validation data on an Amazon S3 bucket is an optional parameter that can be used to provide a separate dataset for evaluating the model performance during the training process. This parameter is not required for all algorithms and can be omitted if the validation data is not available or not needed.

The hyperparameters in a JSON array as documented for the algorithm used is another optional parameter that can be used to customize the behavior and performance of the algorithm. This parameter is specific to each algorithm and can be used to tune the model accuracy, speed, complexity, and other aspects. For example, HyperParameters: {num_round: "10", objective: "binary:logistic"} means that the XGBoost algorithm will use 10 boosting rounds and the logistic loss function for binary classification.

The Amazon EC2 instance class specifying whether training will be run using CPU or GPU is not a parameter that is specified when submitting a training job using a built-in algorithm. Instead, this parameter is specified when creating a training instance, which is a containerized environment that runs the training code and algorithm. For example, ResourceConfig: {InstanceType: ml.m5.xlarge, InstanceCount: 1, VolumeSizeInGB: 10} means that SageMaker will use one m5.xlarge instance with 10 GB of storage for the training instance.

References:

• Train a Model with Amazon SageMaker
• Use Amazon SageMaker Built-in Algorithms or Pre-trained Models
• CreateTrainingJob - Amazon SageMaker Service

A private subnet is a subnet that does not have a route to the internet gateway, which means that the resources in the private subnet cannot access the internet or be accessed from the internet. An S3 VPC endpoint is a gateway endpoint that allows the resources in the VPC to access the S3 service without going through the internet. By launching the notebook instances in a private subnet and accessing the data through an S3 VPC endpoint, the company can set up the job in a secure and compliant way, as the data never leaves the AWS network and is not exposed to the internet. This can also improve the performance and reliability of the data transfer, as the traffic does not depend on the internet bandwidth or availability.

References:

• Amazon VPC Endpoints - Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
• Endpoints for Amazon S3 - Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
• Connect to SageMaker Within your VPC - Amazon SageMaker
• Working with VPCs and Subnets - Amazon Virtual Private Cloud

 The plot in the graphic shows a right-skewed distribution, which violates the assumption of normality for linear regression. To correct this, the Data Scientist should apply a logarithmic transformation to the feature. This will help to make the distribution more symmetric and closer to a normal distribution, which is a key assumption for linear regression. References:

• Linear Regression
• Linear Regression with Amazon Machine Learning
• Machine Learning on AWS

 The simplest and fastest way to use the EFS dataset for SageMaker training is to run a SageMaker training job with an EFS file system as the data source. This option does not require any data copying or additional integration steps. SageMaker supports EFS as a data source for training jobs, and it can mount the EFS file system to the training container using the FileSystemConfig parameter. This way, the training script can access the data files as if they were on the local disk of the training instance. References:

• Access Training Data - Amazon SageMaker
• Mount an EFS file system to an Amazon SageMaker notebook (with lifecycle configurations) | AWS Machine Learning Blog

A pronunciation lexicon is a file that defines how words or phrases should be pronounced by Amazon Polly. A lexicon can help customize the speech output for words that are uncommon, foreign, or have multiple pronunciations. A lexicon must conform to the Pronunciation Lexicon Specification (PLS) standard and can be stored in an AWS region using the Amazon Polly API. To use a lexicon for synthesizing speech, the lexicon name must be specified in the SSML tag. For example, the following lexicon defines how to pronounce the acronym W3C:

W3C World Wide Web Consortium

To use this lexicon, the text input must include the following SSML tag:

xmlns=“http://www.w3.org/2001/10/synthesis” xml:lang=“en-US” > The W3C is an international community that develops open standards to ensure the long-term growth of the Web.

References:

• Customize pronunciation using lexicons in Amazon Polly: A blog post that explains how to use lexicons for creating custom pronunciations.
• Managing Lexicons: A documentation page that describes how to store and retrieve lexicons using the Amazon Polly API.

A VPC endpoint is a logical device that enables private connections between a VPC and supported AWS services. A VPC endpoint can be either a gateway endpoint or an interface endpoint. A gateway endpoint is a gateway that is a target for a specified route in the route table, used for traffic destined to a supported AWS service. An interface endpoint is an elastic network interface with a private IP address that serves as an entry point for traffic destined to a supported service1

In this case, the Machine Learning Specialist can create a gateway endpoint for Amazon S3, which is a supported service for gateway endpoints. A gateway endpoint for Amazon S3 enables the VPC to access Amazon S3 privately, without requiring an internet gateway, NAT device, VPN connection, or AWS Direct Connect connection. The traffic between the VPC and Amazon S3 does not leave the Amazon network2

To restrict access to the dataset stored in Amazon S3, the Machine Learning Specialist can apply a bucket access policy that allows access only from the given VPC endpoint and the VPC. A bucket access policy is a resource-based policy that defines who can access a bucket and what actions they can perform. A bucket access policy can use various conditions to control access, such as the source IP address, the source VPC, the source VPC endpoint, etc. In this case, the Machine Learning Specialist can use the aws:sourceVpce condition to specify the ID of the VPC endpoint, and the aws:sourceVpc condition to specify the ID of the VPC. This way, only the requests that originate from the VPC endpoint or the VPC can access the bucket that contains the dataset34

The other options are not valid or secure ways to satisfy the requirements. Creating a VPC endpoint and applying a bucket access policy that allows access from the given VPC endpoint and an Amazon EC2 instance is not a good option, as it does not restrict access to the VPC. An Amazon EC2 instance is a virtual server that runs in the AWS cloud. An Amazon EC2 instance can have a public IP address or a private IP address, depending on the network configuration. Allowing access from an Amazon EC2 instance does not guarantee that the instance is in the same VPC as the VPC endpoint, and may expose the dataset to unauthorized access. Creating a VPC endpoint and using Network Access Control Lists (NACLs) to allow traffic between only the given VPC endpoint and an Amazon EC2 instance is not a good option, as it does not restrict access to the VPC. NACLs are stateless firewalls that can control inbound and outbound traffic at the subnet level. NACLs can use rules to allow or deny traffic based on the protocol, port, and source or destination IP address. However, NACLs do not support VPC endpoints as a source or destination, and cannot filter traffic based on the VPC endpoint ID or the VPC ID. Therefore, using NACLs does not guarantee that the traffic is from the VPC endpoint or the VPC, and may expose the dataset to unauthorized access. Creating a VPC endpoint and using security groups to restrict access to the given VPC endpoint and an Amazon EC2 instance is not a good option, as it does not restrict access to the VPC. Security groups are stateful firewalls that can control inbound and outbound traffic at the instance level. Security groups can use rules to allow or deny traffic based on the protocol, port, and source or destination. However, security groups do not support VPC endpoints as a source or destination, and cannot filter traffic based on the VPC endpoint ID or the VPC ID. Therefore, using security groups does not guarantee that the traffic is from the VPC endpoint or the VPC, and may expose the dataset to unauthorized access.

The algorithms that are best suited to this scenario are latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) and neural topic modeling (NTM), as they are both unsupervised learning methods that can discover abstract topics from a collection of text documents. LDA and NTM can provide a list of the top words for each topic, as well as the topic distribution for each document, which can help the auditors assess the relevance and priority of the topic12.

The other options are not suitable because:

• Option B: A random forest classifier is a supervised learning method that can perform classification or regression tasks by using an ensemble of decision trees. A random forest classifier is not suitable for discovering abstract topics from text documents, as it requires labeled data and predefined classes3.
• Option D: A linear support vector machine is a supervised learning method that can perform classification or regression tasks by using a linear function that separates the data into different classes. A linear support vector machine is not suitable for discovering abstract topics from text documents, as it requires labeled data and predefined classes4.
• Option E: A linear regression is a supervised learning method that can perform regression tasks by using a linear function that models the relationship between a dependent variable and one or more independent variables. A linear regression is not suitable for discovering abstract topics from text documents, as it requires labeled data and a continuous output variable5.

References:

• 1: Latent Dirichlet Allocation
• 2: Neural Topic Modeling
• 3: Random Forest Classifier
• 4: Linear Support Vector Machine
• 5: Linear Regression

The best way to retrain the model to meet the requirements is to set the target_recall hyperparameter to 90% and set the binary_classifier_model_selection_criteria hyperparameter to recall_at_target_precision. This will instruct the linear learner algorithm to optimize the model for a high recall score, while maintaining a reasonable precision score. Recall is the proportion of actual positives that were identified correctly, which is important for the company’s goal of reaching at least 90% of the customers who are likely to buy the new product1. Precision is the proportion of positive identifications that were actually correct, which is also relevant for the company’s budget and efficiency2. By setting the target_recall to 90%, the algorithm will try to achieve a recall score of at least 90%, and by setting the binary_classifier_model_selection_criteria to recall_at_target_precision, the algorithm will select the model that has the highest recall score among those that have a precision score equal to or higher than the target precision3. The target precision is automatically set to the median of the precision scores of all the models trained in parallel4.

The other options are not correct or optimal, because they have the following drawbacks:

• B: Setting the target_precision hyperparameter to 90% and setting the binary_classifier_model_selection_criteria hyperparameter to precision_at_target_recall will optimize the model for a high precision score, while maintaining a reasonable recall score. However, this is not aligned with the company’s goal of reaching at least 90% of the customers who are likely to buy the new product, as precision does not reflect how well the model identifies the actual positives1. Moreover, setting the target_precision to 90% might be too high and unrealistic for the dataset, as the current precision score is only 75%4.
• C: Using 90% of the historical data for training and setting the number of epochs to 20 will not necessarily improve the recall score of the model, as it does not change the optimization objective or the model selection criteria. Moreover, using more data for training might reduce the amount of data available for validation, which is needed for selecting the best model among the ones trained in parallel3. The number of epochs is also not a decisive factor for the recall score, as it depends on the learning rate, the optimizer, and the convergence of the algorithm5.
• D: Setting the normalize_label hyperparameter to true and setting the number of classes to 2 will not affect the recall score of the model, as these are irrelevant hyperparameters for binary classification problems. The normalize_label hyperparameter is only applicable for regression problems, as it controls whether the label is normalized to have zero mean and unit variance3. The number of classes hyperparameter is only applicable for multiclass classification problems, as it specifies the number of output classes3.

References:

• 1: Classification: Precision and Recall | Machine Learning | Google for Developers
• 2: Precision and recall - Wikipedia
• 3: Linear Learner Algorithm - Amazon SageMaker
• 4: How linear learner works - Amazon SageMaker
• 5: Getting hands-on with Amazon SageMaker Linear Learner - Pluralsight

The best options to use an Inception neural network architecture instead of a ResNet architecture for image classification in Amazon SageMaker are:

• Bundle a Docker container with TensorFlow Estimator loaded with an Inception network and use this for model training. This option allows users to customize the training environment and use any TensorFlow model they want. Users can create a Docker image that contains the TensorFlow Estimator API and the Inception model from the TensorFlow Hub, and push it to Amazon ECR. Then, users can use the SageMaker Estimator class to train the model using the custom Docker image and the training data from Amazon S3.
• Use custom code in Amazon SageMaker with TensorFlow Estimator to load the model with an Inception network and use this for model training. This option allows users to use the built-in TensorFlow container provided by SageMaker and write custom code to load and train the Inception model. Users can use the TensorFlow Estimator class to specify the custom code and the training data from Amazon S3. The custom code can use the TensorFlow Hub module to load the Inception model and fine-tune it on the training data.

The other options are not feasible for this scenario because:

• Customize the built-in image classification algorithm to use Inception and use this for model training. This option is not possible because the built-in image classification algorithm in SageMaker does not support customizing the neural network architecture. The built-in algorithm only supports ResNet models with different depths and widths.
• Create a support case with the SageMaker team to change the default image classification algorithm to Inception. This option is not realistic because the SageMaker team does not provide such a service. Users cannot request the SageMaker team to change the default algorithm or add new algorithms to the built-in ones.
• Download and apt-get install the inception network code into an Amazon EC2 instance and use this instance as a Jupyter notebook in Amazon SageMaker. This option is not advisable because it does not leverage the benefits of SageMaker, such as managed training and deployment, distributed training, and automatic model tuning. Users would have to manually install and configure the Inception network code and the TensorFlow framework on the EC2 instance, and run the training and inference code on the same instance, which may not be optimal for performance and scalability.

References:

• Use Your Own Algorithms or Models with Amazon SageMaker
• Use the SageMaker TensorFlow Serving Container
• TensorFlow Hub

Regularization is a technique that can be used to prevent overfitting and improve model performance on unseen data. Overfitting occurs when the model learns the training data too well and fails to generalize to new and unseen data. This can be seen in the question, where the validation accuracy is lower than the training accuracy, and both are lower than the human-level performance. Regularization is a way of adding some constraints or penalties to the model to reduce its complexity and prevent it from memorizing the training data. Some common forms of regularization for image classification are:

• Weight decay: Adding a term to the loss function that penalizes large weights in the model. This can help reduce the variance and noise in the model and make it more robust to small changes in the input.
• Dropout: Randomly dropping out some units or connections in the model during training. This can help reduce the co-dependency among the units and make the model more resilient to missing or corrupted features.
• Data augmentation: Artificially increasing the size and diversity of the training data by applying random transformations, such as cropping, flipping, rotating, scaling, etc. This can help the model learn more invariant and generalizable features and reduce the risk of overfitting to specific patterns in the training data.

The other options are not likely to fix the issue of overfitting, and may even worsen it:

• A longer training time: This can lead to more overfitting, as the model will have more chances to fit the noise and details in the training data that are not relevant for the validation data.
• Making the network larger: This can increase the model capacity and complexity, which can also lead to more overfitting, as the model will have more parameters to learn and adjust to the training data.
• Using a different optimizer: This can affect the speed and stability of the training process, but not necessarily the generalization ability of the model. The choice of optimizer depends on the characteristics of the data and the model, and there is no guarantee that a different optimizer will prevent overfitting.

References:

• Regularization (machine learning)
• Image Classification: Regularization
• How to Reduce Overfitting With Dropout Regularization in Keras

• Explanation: Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that allows you to analyze data stored in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so you only pay for the queries that you run and there is no infrastructure to manage.
• To optimize the query performance of Athena, one of the best practices is to convert the data into a columnar format, such as Apache Parquet or Apache ORC. Columnar formats store data by columns rather than by rows, which allows Athena to scan only the columns that are relevant to the query, reducing the amount of data read and improving the query speed. Columnar formats also support compression and encoding schemes that can reduce the storage space and the data scanned per query, further enhancing the performance and reducing the cost.
• In contrast, plaintext CSV files store data by rows, which means that Athena has to scan the entire row even if only a few columns are needed for the query. This increases the amount of data read and the query latency. Moreover, plaintext CSV files do not support compression or encoding, which means that they take up more storage space and incur higher query costs.
• Therefore, the Machine Learning Specialist should transform the dataset to Apache Parquet format to minimize query runtime.

References:

• Top 10 Performance Tuning Tips for Amazon Athena
• Columnar Storage Formats

Using compressions will reduce the amount of data scanned by Amazon Athena, and also reduce your S3 bucket storage. It’s a Win-Win for your AWS bill. Supported formats: GZIP, LZO, SNAPPY (Parquet) and ZLIB.

 Based on the model evaluation results, this is a viable model for production because the model is 86% accurate and the cost incurred by the company as a result of false positives is less than the false negatives. The accuracy of the model is the proportion of correct predictions out of the total predictions, which can be calculated by adding the true positives and true negatives and dividing by the total number of observations. In this case, the accuracy of the model is (10 + 76) / 100 = 0.86, which means that the model correctly predicted 86% of the customers’ churn status. The cost incurred by the company as a result of false positives and false negatives is the loss or damage that the company suffers when the model makes incorrect predictions. A false positive is when the model predicts that a customer will churn, but the customer actually does not churn. A false negative is when the model predicts that a customer will not churn, but the customer actually churns. In this case, the cost of a false positive is the incentive that the company offers to the customer who is predicted to churn, which is a relatively low cost. The cost of a false negative is the revenue that the company loses when the customer churns, which is a relatively high cost. Therefore, the cost of a false positive is less than the cost of a false negative, and the company would prefer to have more false positives than false negatives. The model has 10 false positives and 4 false negatives, which means that the company’s cost is lower than if the model had more false negatives and fewer false positives.

To leverage the NVIDIA GPUs on Amazon EC2 P3 instances, the Machine Learning Specialist needs to build the Docker container to be NVIDIA-Docker compatible. NVIDIA-Docker is a tool that enables GPU-accelerated containers to run on Docker. It automatically configures the container to access the NVIDIA drivers and libraries on the host system. The Specialist does not need to bundle the NVIDIA drivers with the Docker image, as they are already installed on the EC2 P3 instances. The Specialist does not need to organize the Docker container’s file structure to execute on GPU instances, as this is not relevant for GPU compatibility. The Specialist does not need to set the GPU flag in the Amazon SageMaker Create TrainingJob request body, as this is only required for using Elastic Inference accelerators, not EC2 P3 instances. References: NVIDIA-Docker, Using GPU-Accelerated Containers, Using Elastic Inference in Amazon SageMaker

A collaborative filtering recommendation engine is a type of machine learning system that can improve sales for a company by using the large amount of information the company has on users’ behavior and product preferences to predict which products users would like based on the users’ similarity to other users. A collaborative filtering recommendation engine works by finding the users who have similar ratings or preferences for the products, and then recommending the products that the similar users have liked but the target user has not seen or rated. A collaborative filtering recommendation engine can leverage the collective wisdom of the users and discover the hidden patterns and associations among the products and the users. A collaborative filtering recommendation engine can be implemented using Apache Spark ML on Amazon EMR, which are two services that can handle large-scale data processing and machine learning tasks. Apache Spark ML is a library that provides various tools and algorithms for machine learning, such as classification, regression, clustering, recommendation, etc. Apache Spark ML can run on Amazon EMR, which is a service that provides a managed cluster platform that simplifies running big data frameworks, such as Apache Spark, on AWS. Apache Spark ML on Amazon EMR can build a collaborative filtering recommendation engine using the Alternating Least Squares (ALS) algorithm, which is a matrix factorization technique that can learn the latent factors that represent the users and the products, and then use them to predict the ratings or preferences of the users for the products. Apache Spark ML on Amazon EMR can also support both explicit feedback, such as ratings or reviews, and implicit feedback, such as views or clicks, for building a collaborative filtering recommendation engine12

 The best model for predicting housing prices based on a historical dataset with 32 features is linear regression. Linear regression is a supervised learning algorithm that fits a linear relationship between a dependent variable (housing price) and one or more independent variables (features). Linear regression can handle multiple features and output a continuous value for the housing price. Linear regression can also return the coefficients of the features, which indicate how each feature affects the housing price. Linear regression is suitable for this problem because the outcome of interest is numerical and continuous, and the model needs to capture the linear relationship between the features and the outcome.

References:

• AWS Machine Learning Specialty Exam Guide
• AWS Machine Learning Training - Regression vs Classification in Machine Learning
• AWS Machine Learning Training - Linear Regression with Amazon SageMaker

The best indicators that an ML-based solution is suitable for this scenario are D and E, because they imply that the historical sensor data is sufficient and relevant for building a predictive maintenance model. This model can use machine learning techniques such as regression, classification, or anomaly detection to learn from the past data and forecast future failures or issues12. Having high granularity and diversity of data can improve the accuracy and generalization of the model, as well as enable the detection of complex patterns and relationships that are not captured by simple rule-based thresholds3.

The other options are not good indicators that an ML-based solution is suitable, because they suggest that the historical sensor data is incomplete, inconsistent, or inadequate for building a predictive maintenance model. These options would require additional data collection, preprocessing, or augmentation to overcome the data quality issues and ensure that the model can handle different scenarios and types of cranes4 .

References:

• 1: Machine Learning Techniques for Predictive Maintenance
• 2: A Guide to Predictive Maintenance & Machine Learning
• 3: Machine Learning for Predictive Maintenance: Reinventing Asset Upkeep
• 4: Predictive Maintenance with Machine Learning: A Complete Guide
• : [Machine Learning for Predictive Maintenance - AWS Online Tech Talks]

Amazon SageMaker Experiments is a service that helps track, compare, and evaluate different iterations of ML models. It can be used to capture key parameters such as the number of features and the sample count from a PySpark script that runs as a SageMaker processing job. A SageMaker processing job is a flexible and scalable way to run data processing workloads on AWS, such as feature engineering, data validation, model evaluation, and model interpretation.

References:

• Amazon SageMaker Experiments
• Process Data and Evaluate Models

The correct solution for updating the software on a SageMaker notebook instance is to stop and then restart the notebook instance. This will automatically apply the latest security and software updates provided by SageMaker1

The other options are incorrect because they either do not update the software or require unnecessary steps. For example:

• Option A calls the CreateNotebookInstanceLifecycleConfig API operation. This operation creates a lifecycle configuration, which is a set of shell scripts that run when a notebook instance is created or started. A lifecycle configuration can be used to customize the notebook instance, such as installing additional libraries or packages. However, it does not update the software on the notebook instance2
• Option B creates a new SageMaker notebook instance and mounts the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume from the original instance. This option will create a new notebook instance with the latest software, but it will also incur additional costs and require manual steps to transfer the data and settings from the original instance3
• Option D calls the UpdateNotebookInstanceLifecycleConfig API operation. This operation updates an existing lifecycle configuration. As explained in option A, a lifecycle configuration does not update the software on the notebook instance4

References:

• 1: Amazon SageMaker Notebook Instances - Amazon SageMaker
• 2: CreateNotebookInstanceLifecycleConfig - Amazon SageMaker
• 3: Create a Notebook Instance - Amazon SageMaker
• 4: UpdateNotebookInstanceLifecycleConfig - Amazon SageMaker

 To use a custom algorithm in Amazon SageMaker, the Docker container image must have an executable file named train that acts as the ENTRYPOINT for the container. This file is responsible for running the training code and communicating with the Amazon SageMaker service. The train file must be in the PATH of the container and have execute permissions. The other options are not valid ways to package the Docker container for Amazon SageMaker. References:

• Use Docker containers to build models - Amazon SageMaker
• Create a container with your own algorithms and models - Amazon SageMaker

Principal component analysis (PCA) is an unsupervised machine learning algorithm that attempts to reduce the dimensionality (number of features) within a dataset while still retaining as much information as possible. This is done by finding a new set of features called components, which are composites of the original features that are uncorrelated with one another. They are also constrained so that the first component accounts for the largest possible variability in the data, the second component the second most variability, and so on. By using PCA, the impact of having a large number of features that are highly correlated with each other can be reduced, as the new feature space will have fewer dimensions and less redundancy. This can make the linear models more stable and less prone to overfitting. References:

• Principal Component Analysis (PCA) Algorithm - Amazon SageMaker
• Perform a large-scale principal component analysis faster using Amazon SageMaker | AWS Machine Learning Blog
• Machine Learning- Prinicipal Component Analysis | i2tutorials

The data scientist should remove the stop words from the blog post data by using the Count Vectorizer function in the scikit-learn library, and replace the blog post data in the S3 bucket with the results of the vectorizer. This is because:

• The Count Vectorizer function is a tool that can convert a collection of text documents to a matrix of token counts 1. It also enables the pre-processing of text data prior to generating the vector representation, such as removing accents, converting to lowercase, and filtering out stop words 1. By using this function, the data scientist can remove the stop words such as “a,” “an,” and “the” from the blog post data, and obtain a numerical representation of the text that can be used as input for the NTM algorithm.
• The NTM algorithm is a neural network-based topic modeling technique that can learn latent topics from a corpus of documents 2. It can be used to recommend tags from blog posts by finding the most probable topics for each document, and ranking the words associated with each topic 3. However, the NTM algorithm does not perform any text pre-processing by itself, so it relies on the quality of the input data. Therefore, the data scientist should replace the blog post data in the S3 bucket with the results of the vectorizer, to ensure that the NTM algorithm does not include the stop words in the tag recommendations.
• The other options are not suitable for the following reasons:

References:

• Neural Topic Model (NTM) Algorithm
• Introduction to the Amazon SageMaker Neural Topic Model
• Amazon Comprehend - Entity Recognition
• sklearn.feature_extraction.text.CountVectorizer
• Principal Component Analysis (PCA) Algorithm
• Object Detection Algorithm

The best technique to improve the recall of the MLP for the target class of interest is to add class weights to the MLP’s loss function and then retrain. Class weights are a way of assigning different importance to each class in the dataset, such that the model will pay more attention to the classes with higher weights. This can help mitigate the class imbalance problem, where the model tends to favor the majority class and ignore the minority class. By increasing the weight of the target class of interest, the model will try to reduce the false negatives and increase the true positives, which will improve the recall metric. Adding class weights to the loss function is also a quick and easy solution, as it does not require gathering more data, changing the model architecture, or switching to a different algorithm.

References:

• AWS Machine Learning Specialty Exam Guide
• AWS Machine Learning Training - Deep Learning with Amazon SageMaker
• AWS Machine Learning Training - Class Imbalance and Weighted Loss Functions

Switching to an instance type that has a CPU: GPU ratio of 6:1 will reduce the training costs by using fewer CPUs and GPUs, while maintaining the same level of performance. The GPU idle time indicates that the CPU is not able to feed the GPU with enough data, so reducing the CPU: GPU ratio will balance the workload and improve the GPU utilization. A lower CPU: GPU ratio also means less overhead for inter-process communication and synchronization between the CPU and GPU processes. References:

• Optimizing GPU utilization for AI/ML workloads on Amazon EC2
• Analyze CPU vs. GPU Performance for AWS Machine Learning

 The modeling technique that the Machine Learning Specialist should use is binary classification. Binary classification is a type of supervised learning that predicts whether an input belongs to one of two possible classes. In this case, the input is the customer’s recent usage data and the output is whether or not the customer is likely to switch to a competitor in the next 30 days. This is a binary outcome, either yes or no, so binary classification is suitable for this problem. The other options are not appropriate for this problem. Time-series prediction is a type of supervised learning that forecasts future values based on past and present data. Anomaly detection is a type of unsupervised learning that identifies outliers or abnormal patterns in the data. Regression is a type of supervised learning that estimates a continuous numerical value based on the input features. References: Binary Classification, Time Series Prediction, Anomaly Detection, Regression

To access an Amazon S3 bucket in another account that is encrypted using SSE-KMS, the following are required:

• A. An AWS KMS key policy that allows access to the customer master key (CMK). The CMK is the encryption key that is used to encrypt and decrypt the data in the S3 bucket. The KMS key policy defines who can use and manage the CMK. To allow access to the CMK from another account, the key policy must include a statement that grants the necessary permissions (such as kms:Decrypt) to the principal from the other account (such as the SageMaker notebook IAM role).
• B. A SageMaker notebook security group that allows access to Amazon S3. A security group is a virtual firewall that controls the inbound and outbound traffic for the SageMaker notebook instance. To allow the notebook instance to access the S3 bucket, the security group must have a rule that allows outbound traffic to the S3 endpoint on port 443 (HTTPS).
• C. An IAM role that allows access to the specific S3 bucket. An IAM role is an identity that can be assumed by the SageMaker notebook instance to access AWS resources. The IAM role must have a policy that grants the necessary permissions (such as s3:GetObject) to access the specific S3 bucket. The policy must also include a condition that allows access to the CMK in the other account.

The following are not required or correct:

• D. A permissive S3 bucket policy. A bucket policy is a resource-based policy that defines who can access the S3 bucket and what actions they can perform. A permissive bucket policy is not required and not recommended, as it can expose the bucket to unauthorized access. A bucket policy should follow the principle of least privilege and grant the minimum permissions necessary to the specific principals that need access.
• E. An S3 bucket owner that matches the notebook owner. The S3 bucket owner and the notebook owner do not need to match, as long as the bucket owner grants cross-account access to the notebook owner through the KMS key policy and the bucket policy (if applicable).
• F. A SegaMaker notebook subnet ACL that allow traffic to Amazon S3. A subnet ACL is a network access control list that acts as an optional layer of security for the SageMaker notebook instance’s subnet. A subnet ACL is not required to access the S3 bucket, as the security group is sufficient to control the traffic. However, if a subnet ACL is used, it must not block the traffic to the S3 endpoint.

 The problem of detecting specific types of weeds and their location within the field is an example of object detection, which is a type of machine learning model that identifies and localizes objects in an image. Amazon SageMaker provides a built-in object detection algorithm that uses a single-shot multibox detector (SSD) to perform real-time inference on streaming images. The SSD algorithm can handle multiple objects of varying sizes and scales in an image, and generate bounding boxes and scores for each object category. Therefore, option C is the best approach to obtain accurate predictions.

Option A is incorrect because image classification is a type of machine learning model that assigns a label to an image based on predefined categories. Image classification is not suitable for localizing objects within an image, as it does not provide bounding boxes or scores for each object. Option B is incorrect because Apache Parquet is a columnar storage format that is optimized for analytical queries. Apache Parquet is not suitable for storing images, as it does not preserve the spatial information of the pixels. Option D is incorrect because it combines the wrong format (Apache Parquet) and the wrong algorithm (image classification) for the given problem, as explained in options A and B.

References:

• Object Detection algorithm now available in Amazon SageMaker
• Image classification and object detection using Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels and Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
• Object Detection with Amazon SageMaker - W3Schools
• aws-samples/amazon-sagemaker-tensorflow-object-detection-api

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is a service that can ingest streaming data and store it in various destinations, including Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Elasticsearch Service, and Splunk. Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose can also convert the incoming data to Apache Parquet or Apache ORC format before storing it in Amazon S3. This can reduce the storage cost and improve the performance of analytical queries on the data. Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose supports various data sources, such as Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka, AWS IoT, and custom applications. Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose can also apply data transformation and compression using AWS Lambda functions.

AWSDMS is not a valid service name. AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) is a service that can migrate data from various sources to various targets, but it does not support streaming data or Parquet format.

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a service that can ingest and process streaming data in real time, but it does not store the data in any destination. Amazon Kinesis Data Streams can be integrated with Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose to store the data in Parquet format.

Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is a service that can analyze streaming data using SQL or Apache Flink, but it does not store the data in any destination. Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics can be integrated with Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose to store the data in Parquet format. References:

• Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose - Amazon Web Services
• What Is Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose? - Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose
• Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose FAQs - Amazon Web Services

A hyperparameter tuning job is a feature of Amazon SageMaker that allows automatically finding the best combination of hyperparameters for a machine learning model. Hyperparameters are high-level parameters that influence the learning process and the performance of the model, such as the learning rate, the number of layers, the regularization factor, etc. A hyperparameter tuning job works by launching multiple training jobs with different hyperparameters, evaluating the results using an objective metric, and choosing the next set of hyperparameters to try based on a search strategy. The objective metric is a measure of the quality of the model, such as accuracy, precision, recall, etc. The search strategy is a method of exploring the hyperparameter space, such as random search, grid search, or Bayesian optimization.

Among the four options, option C is the most repeatable and requires the least amount of effort to use hyperparameter optimization to increase the model’s accuracy. This option involves the following steps:

• Create a hyperparameter tuning job: Amazon SageMaker provides an easy-to-use interface for creating a hyperparameter tuning job, either through the AWS Management Console, the AWS CLI, or the AWS SDKs. To create a hyperparameter tuning job, the Machine Learning Specialist needs to specify the following information:
• Set the accuracy as an objective metric: To use accuracy as an objective metric, the Machine Learning Specialist needs to ensure that the training algorithm writes the accuracy value to a file called metric_definitions in JSON format and prints it to stdout or stderr. For example, the file can contain the following content:

This means that the training algorithm prints a line like this:

• Amazon SageMaker reads the accuracy value from the line and uses it to evaluate and compare the training jobs.

The other options are not as repeatable and require more effort than option C for the following reasons:

• Option A: This option requires manually launching multiple training jobs in parallel with different hyperparameters, which can be tedious and error-prone. It also requires manually monitoring and comparing the results of the training jobs, which can be time-consuming and subjective.
• Option B: This option requires writing code to create an AWS Step Functions workflow that monitors the accuracy in Amazon CloudWatch Logs and relaunches the training job with a defined list of hyperparameters, which can be complex and challenging. It also requires maintaining and updating the list of hyperparameters, which can be inefficient and suboptimal.
• Option D: This option requires writing code to create a random walk in the parameter space to iterate through a range of values that should be used for each individual hyperparameter, which can be unreliable and unpredictable. It also requires defining and implementing a stopping criterion, which can be arbitrary and inconsistent.

References:

• Automatic Model Tuning - Amazon SageMaker
• Define Metrics to Monitor Model Performance

To create a serverless ingestion and analytics solution for high-velocity, real-time streaming data, the Data Scientist should use the following AWS services:

• AWS Glue Data Catalog: This is a managed service that acts as a central metadata repository for data assets across AWS and on-premises data sources. The Data Scientist can use AWS Glue Data Catalog to create a schema of the incoming data format, which defines the structure, format, and data types of the JSON records. The schema can be used by other AWS services to understand and process the data1.
• Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose: This is a fully managed service that delivers real-time streaming data to destinations such as Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Elasticsearch Service, and Splunk. The Data Scientist can use Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose to stream the data from the source and transform the data to a query-optimized, columnar format such as Apache Parquet or ORC using the AWS Glue Data Catalog before delivering to Amazon S3. This enables efficient compression, partitioning, and fast analytics on the data2.
• Amazon S3: This is an object storage service that offers high durability, availability, and scalability. The Data Scientist can use Amazon S3 as the output datastore for the transformed data, which can be organized into buckets and prefixes according to the desired partitioning scheme. Amazon S3 also integrates with other AWS services such as Amazon Athena, Amazon EMR, and Amazon Redshift Spectrum for analytics3.
• Amazon Athena: This is a serverless interactive query service that allows users to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. The Data Scientist can use Amazon Athena to run SQL queries against the data in Amazon S3 and connect to existing business intelligence dashboards using the Athena Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) connector. Amazon Athena leverages the AWS Glue Data Catalog to access the schema information and supports formats such as Parquet and ORC for fast and cost-effective queries4.

References:

• 1: What Is the AWS Glue Data Catalog? - AWS Glue
• 2: What Is Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose? - Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose
• 3: What Is Amazon S3? - Amazon Simple Storage Service
• 4: What Is Amazon Athena? - Amazon Athena

The best storage option for the trucking company is to use an Amazon S3-backed data lake to store the raw images, and set up the permissions using bucket policies. A data lake is a centralized repository that allows you to store all your structured and unstructured data at any scale. Amazon S3 is the ideal choice for building a data lake because it offers high durability, scalability, availability, and security. You can store any type of data in Amazon S3, such as images, videos, audio, text, etc. You can also use AWS services such as Amazon Rekognition, Amazon SageMaker, and Amazon EMR to analyze and process the data in the data lake. To ensure the data is only accessible to specific IAM users, you can use bucket policies to grant or deny access to the S3 buckets based on the IAM user’s identity or role. Bucket policies are JSON documents that specify the permissions for the bucket and the objects in it. You can use conditions to restrict access based on various factors, such as IP address, time, source, etc. By using bucket policies, you can control who can access the data in the data lake and what actions they can perform on it.

References:

• AWS Machine Learning Specialty Exam Guide
• AWS Machine Learning Training - Build a Data Lake Foundation with Amazon S3
• AWS Machine Learning Training - Using Bucket Policies and User Policies