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Question 81

You work for a retailer that sells clothes to customers around the world. You have been tasked with ensuring that ML models are built in a secure manner. Specifically, you need to protect sensitive customer data that might be used in the models. You have identified four fields containing sensitive data that are being used by your data science team: AGE, IS_EXISTING_CUSTOMER, LATITUDE_LONGITUDE, and SHIRT_SIZE. What should you do with the data before it is made available to the data science team for training purposes?

A.Tokenize all of the fields using hashed dummy values to replace the real values.
B.Use principal component analysis (PCA) to reduce the four sensitive fields to one PCA vector.
C.Coarsen the data by putting AGE into quantiles and rounding LATITUDE_LONGTTUDE into single precision. The other two fields are already as coarse as possible.
D.Remove all sensitive data fields, and ask the data science team to build their models using non-sensitive data.

Correct Answer: C

The best option for protecting sensitive customer data that might be used in the ML models is to coarsen the data by putting AGE into quantiles and rounding LATITUDE_LONGITUDE into single precision. This option has the following advantages:
It preserves the utility and relevance of the data for the ML models, as the coarsened data still captures the essential information and patterns that the models need to learn. For example, putting AGE into quantiles can group the customers into different age ranges, which can be useful for predicting their preferences or behavior. Rounding LATITUDE_LONGITUDE into single precision can reduce the precision of the location data, but still retain the general geographic region of the customers, which can be useful for personalizing the recommendations or offers.
It reduces the risk of exposing the personal or private information of the customers, as the coarsened data makes it harder to identify or re-identify the individual customers from the data. For example, putting AGE into quantiles can hide the exact age of the customers, which can be considered sensitive or confidential. Rounding LATITUDE_LONGITUDE into single precision can obscure the exact location of the customers, which can be considered sensitive or confidential.
The other options are less optimal for the following reasons:
Option A: Tokenizing all of the fields using hashed dummy values to replace the real values eliminates the utility and relevance of the data for the ML models, as the tokenized data loses all the information and patterns that the models need to learn. For example, tokenizing AGE using hashed dummy values can make the data meaningless and irrelevant, as the models cannot learn anything from the random tokens. Tokenizing LATITUDE_LONGITUDE using hashed dummy values can make the data meaningless and irrelevant, as the models cannot learn anything from the random tokens.
Option B: Using principal component analysis (PCA) to reduce the four sensitive fields to one PCA vector reduces the utility and relevance of the data for the ML models, as the PCA vector may not capture all the information and patterns that the models need to learn. For example, using PCA to reduce AGE, IS_EXISTING_CUSTOMER, LATITUDE_LONGITUDE, and SHIRT_SIZE to one PCA vector can lose some information or introduce noise in the data, as the PCA vector is a linear combination of the original features, which may not reflect their true relationship or importance. Moreover, using PCA to reduce the four sensitive fields to one PCA vector may not reduce the risk of exposing the personal or private information of the customers, as the PCA vector may still be reversible or linkable to the original data, depending on the amount of variance explained by the PCA vector and the availability of the PCA transformation matrix.
Option D: Removing all sensitive data fields, and asking the data science team to build their models using non-sensitive data reduces the utility and relevance of the data for the ML models, as the non-sensitive data may not contain enough information and patterns that the models need to learn. For example, removing AGE, IS_EXISTING_CUSTOMER, LATITUDE_LONGITUDE, and SHIRT_SIZE from the data can make the data insufficient and unrepresentative, as the models may not be able to learn the factors that influence the customers' preferences or behavior. Moreover, removing all sensitive data fields from the data may not be necessary or feasible, as the data protection legislation may allow the use of sensitive data for the ML models, as long as the data is processed in a secure and ethical manner, and the customers' consent and rights are respected.
Reference:
Protecting Sensitive Data and AI Models with Confidential Computing | NVIDIA Technical Blog Training machine learning models from sensitive data | Fast Data Science Securing ML applications. Model security and protection - Medium Security of AI/ML systems, ML model security | Cossack Labs Vulnerabilities, security and privacy for machine learning models

Question 82

Your team is building an application for a global bank that will be used by millions of customers. You built a forecasting model that predicts customers1 account balances 3 days in the future. Your team will use the results in a new feature that will notify users when their account balance is likely to drop below $25. How should you serve your predictions?

A.1. Build a notification system on Firebase
2. Register each user with a user ID on the Firebase Cloud Messaging server, which sends a notification when the average of all account balance predictions drops below the $25 threshold
B.1. Create a Pub/Sub topic for each user
2. Deploy an application on the App Engine standard environment that sends a notification when your model predicts that a user's account balance will drop below the $25 threshold
C.1. Create a Pub/Sub topic for each user
2 Deploy a Cloud Function that sends a notification when your model predicts that a user's account balance will drop below the $25 threshold.
D.1 Build a notification system on Firebase
2. Register each user with a user ID on the Firebase Cloud Messaging server, which sends a notification when your model predicts that a user's account balance will drop below the $25 threshold

Question 83

An employee found a video clip with audio on a company's social media feed. The language used in the video is Spanish. English is the employee's first language, and they do not understand Spanish. The employee wants to do a sentiment analysis.
What combination of services is the MOST efficient to accomplish the task?

A.Amazon Transcribe, Amazon Translate and Amazon SageMaker BlazingText
B.Amazon Transcribe, Amazon Comprehend, and Amazon SageMaker seq2seq
C.Amazon Transcribe, Amazon Translate, and Amazon SageMaker Neural Topic Model (NTM)
D.Amazon Transcribe, Amazon Translate, and Amazon Comprehend

Question 84

You work for a bank. You have created a custom model to predict whether a loan application should be flagged for human review. The input features are stored in a BigQuery table. The model is performing well and you plan to deploy it to production. Due to compliance requirements the model must provide explanations for each prediction. You want to add this functionality to your model code with minimal effort and provide explanations that are as accurate as possible What should you do?

A.Create an AutoML tabular model by using the BigQuery data with integrated Vertex Explainable Al.
B.Create a BigQuery ML deep neural network model, and use the ML. EXPLAIN_PREDICT method with the num_integral_steps parameter.
C.Upload the custom model to Vertex Al Model Registry and configure feature-based attribution by using sampled Shapley with input baselines.
D.Update the custom serving container to include sampled Shapley-based explanations in the prediction outputs.

Correct Answer: C

The best option for adding explanations to your model code with minimal effort and providing explanations that are as accurate as possible is to upload the custom model to Vertex AI Model Registry and configure feature-based attribution by using sampled Shapley with input baselines. This option allows you to leverage the power and simplicity of Vertex Explainable AI to generate feature attributions for each prediction, and understand how each feature contributes to the model output. Vertex Explainable AI is a service that can help you understand and interpret predictions made by your machine learning models, natively integrated with a number of Google's products and services. Vertex Explainable AI can provide feature-based and example-based explanations to provide better understanding of model decision making. Feature-based explanations are explanations that show how much each feature in the input influenced the prediction.
Feature-based explanations can help you debug and improve model performance, build confidence in the predictions, and understand when and why things go wrong. Vertex Explainable AI supports various feature attribution methods, such as sampled Shapley, integrated gradients, and XRAI. Sampled Shapley is a feature attribution method that is based on the Shapley value, which is a concept from game theory that measures how much each player in a cooperative game contributes to the total payoff. Sampled Shapley approximates the Shapley value for each feature by sampling different subsets of features, and computing the marginal contribution of each feature to the prediction. Sampled Shapley can provide accurate and consistent feature attributions, but it can also be computationally expensive. To reduce the computation cost, you can use input baselines, which are reference inputs that are used to compare with the actual inputs. Input baselines can help you define the starting point or the default state of the features, and calculate the feature attributions relative to the input baselines. By uploading the custom model to Vertex AI Model Registry and configuring feature-based attribution by using sampled Shapley with input baselines, you can add explanations to your model code with minimal effort and provide explanations that are as accurate as possible1.
The other options are not as good as option C, for the following reasons:
* Option A: Creating an AutoML tabular model by using the BigQuery data with integrated Vertex Explainable AI would require more skills and steps than uploading the custom model to Vertex AI Model Registry and configuring feature-based attribution by using sampled Shapley with input baselines. AutoML tabular is a service that can automatically build and train machine learning models for structured or tabular data. AutoML tabular can use BigQuery as the data source, and provide feature-based explanations by using integratedgradients as the feature attribution method. However, creating an AutoML tabular model by using the BigQuery data with integrated Vertex Explainable AI would require more skills and steps than uploading the custom model to Vertex AI Model Registry and configuring feature-based attribution by using sampled Shapley with input baselines. You would need to create a new AutoML tabular model, import the BigQuery data, configure the model settings, train and evaluate the model, and deploy the model. Moreover, this option would not use your existing custom model, which is already performing well, but create a new model, which may not have the same performance or behavior as your custom model2.
* Option B: Creating a BigQuery ML deep neural network model, and using the ML.EXPLAIN_PREDICT method with the num_integral_steps parameter would not allow you to deploy the model to production, and could provide less accurate explanations than using sampled Shapley with input baselines. BigQuery ML is a service that can create and train machine learning models by using SQL queries on BigQuery. BigQuery ML can create a deep neural network model, which is a type of machine learning model that consists of multiple layers of neurons, and can learn complex patterns and relationships from the data. BigQuery ML can also provide feature-based explanations by using the ML.EXPLAIN_PREDICT method, which is a SQL function that returns the feature attributions for each prediction. The ML.EXPLAIN_PREDICT method uses integrated gradients as the feature attribution method, which is a method that calculates the average gradient of the prediction output with respect to the feature values along the path from the input baseline to the input. The num_integral_steps parameter is a parameter that determines the number of steps along the path from the input baseline to the input. However, creating a BigQuery ML deep neural network model, and using the ML.EXPLAIN_PREDICT method with the num_integral_steps parameter would not allow you to deploy the model to production, and could provide less accurate explanations than using sampled Shapley with input baselines. BigQuery ML does not support deploying the model to Vertex AI
* Endpoints, which is a service that can provide low-latency predictions for individual instances.
BigQuery ML only supports batch prediction, which is a service that can provide high-throughput predictions for a large batch of instances. Moreover, integrated gradients can provide less accurate and consistent explanations than sampled Shapley, as integrated gradients can be sensitive to the choice of the input baseline and the num_integral_steps parameter3.
* Option D: Updating the custom serving container to include sampled Shapley-based explanations in the prediction outputs would require more skills and steps than uploading the custom model to Vertex AI Model Registry and configuring feature-based attribution by using sampled Shapley with input baselines. A custom serving container is a container image that contains the model, the dependencies, and a web server. A custom serving container can help you customize the prediction behavior of your model, and handle complex or non-standard data formats. However, updating the custom serving container to include sampled Shapley-based explanations in the prediction outputs would require more skills and steps than uploading the custom model to Vertex AI Model Registry and configuring feature-based attribution by using sampled Shapley with input baselines. You would need to write code, implement the sampled Shapley algorithm, build and test the container image, and upload and deploy the container image. Moreover, this option would not leverage the power and simplicity of Vertex Explainable AI, which can provide feature-based explanations natively integrated with Vertex AI services4.
References:
* Preparing for Google Cloud Certification: Machine Learning Engineer, Course 3: Production ML Systems, Week 4: Evaluation
* Google Cloud Professional Machine Learning Engineer Exam Guide, Section 3: Scaling ML models in production, 3.3 Monitoring ML models in production
* Official Google Cloud Certified Professional Machine Learning Engineer Study Guide, Chapter 6:
Production ML Systems, Section 6.3: Monitoring ML Models
* Vertex Explainable AI
* AutoML Tables
* BigQuery ML
* Using custom containers for prediction

Question 85

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

A.Use latitude, longitude, and product type as features. Use profit as model output.
B.Use latitude, longitude, and product type as features. Use revenue and expenses as model outputs.
C.Use product type and the feature cross of latitude with longitude, followed by binning, as features. Use profit as model output.
D.Use product type and the feature cross of latitude with longitude, followed by binning, as features. Use revenue and expenses as model outputs.

Correct Answer: C

Option A is incorrect because using latitude, longitude, and product type as features, and using profit as model output is not the best way to develop an ML model to predict the company's profitability for a new line of naturally flavored bottled waters in different locations. This option does not capture the interaction between latitude and longitude, which may affect the profitability of the product. For example, the same product may have different profitability in different regions, depending on the climate, culture, or preferences of the customers. Moreover, this option does not account for the granularity of the location data, which may be too fine or too coarse for the model. For example, using the exact coordinates of a city may not be meaningful, as the profitability may vary within the city, or using the country name may not be informative, as the profitability may vary across the country.
Option B is incorrect because using latitude, longitude, and product type as features, and using revenue and expenses as model outputs is not a suitable way to develop an ML model to predict the company's profitability for a new line of naturally flavored bottled waters in different locations. This option has the same drawbacks as option A, as it does not capture the interaction between latitude and longitude, or account for the granularity of the location data. Moreover, this option does not directly predict the profitability of the product, which is the target variable of interest. Instead, it predicts the revenue and expenses of the product, which are intermediate variables that depend on other factors, such as the price, the cost, or the demand of the product. To obtain the profitability, we would need to subtract the expenses from the revenue, which may introduce errors or uncertainties in the prediction.
Option C is correct because using product type and the feature cross of latitude with longitude, followed by binning, as features, and using profit as model output is a good way to develop an ML model to predict the company's profitability for a new line of naturally flavored bottled waters in different locations. This option captures the interaction between latitude and longitude, which may affect the profitability of the product, by creating a feature cross of these two features. A feature cross is a synthetic feature that combines the values of two or more features into a single feature1. This option also accounts for the granularity of the location data, by binning the feature cross into discrete buckets. Binning is a technique that groups continuous values into intervals, which can reduce the noise and complexity of the data2. Moreover, this option directly predicts the profitability of the product, which is the target variable of interest, by using it as the model output.
Option D is incorrect because using product type and the feature cross of latitude with longitude, followed by binning, as features, and using revenue and expenses as model outputs is not a valid way to develop an ML model to predict the company's profitability for a new line of naturally flavored bottled waters in different locations. This option has the same advantages as option C, as it captures the interaction between latitude and longitude, and accounts for the granularity of the location data, by creating a feature cross and binning it. However, this option does not directly predict the profitability of the product, which is the target variable of interest, but rather predicts the revenue and expenses of the product, which are intermediate variables that depend on other factors, as explained in option B.
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Feature cross
Binning
[Profitability]
[Revenue and expenses]
[Latitude and longitude]
[Product type]

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