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Question 116

You are building a TensorFlow model for a financial institution that predicts the impact of consumer spending on inflation globally. Due to the size and nature of the data, your model is long-running across all types of hardware, and you have built frequent checkpointing into the training process. Your organization has asked you to minimize cost. What hardware should you choose?

A.A Vertex AI Workbench user-managed notebooks instance running on an n1-standard-16 with 4 NVIDIA P100 GPUs
B.A Vertex AI Workbench user-managed notebooks instance running on an n1-standard-16 with an NVIDIA P100 GPU
C.A Vertex AI Workbench user-managed notebooks instance running on an n1-standard-16 with a non-preemptible v3-8 TPU
D.A Vertex AI Workbench user-managed notebooks instance running on an n1-standard-16 with a preemptible v3-8 TPU

Correct Answer: D

The best hardware to choose for your model while minimizing cost is a Vertex AI Workbench user-managed notebooks instance running on an n1-standard-16 with a preemptible v3-8 TPU. This hardware configuration can provide you with high performance, scalability, and efficiency for your TensorFlow model, as well as low cost and flexibility for your long-running and checkpointing process. The v3-8 TPU is a cloud tensor processing unit (TPU) device, which is a custom ASIC chip designed by Google to accelerate ML workloads.
It can handle large and complex models and datasets, and offer fast and stable training and inference. The n1-standard-16 is a general-purpose VM that can support the CPU and memory requirements of your model, as well as the data preprocessing and postprocessing tasks. By choosing a preemptible v3-8 TPU, you can take advantage of the lower price and availability of the TPU devices, as long as you can tolerate the possibility of the device being reclaimed by Google at any time. However, since you have built frequent checkpointing into your training process, you can resume your model from the last saved state, and avoid losing any progress or data. Moreover, you can use the Vertex AI Workbench user-managed notebooks to create and manage your notebooks instances, and leverage the integration with Vertex AI and other Google Cloud services.
The other options are not optimal for the following reasons:
* A. A Vertex AI Workbench user-managed notebooks instance running on an n1-standard-16 with 4 NVIDIA P100 GPUs is not a good option, as it has higher cost and lower performance than the v3-8 TPU. The NVIDIA P100 GPUs are the previous generation of GPUs from NVIDIA, which have lower performance, scalability, and efficiency than the latest NVIDIA A100 GPUs or the TPUs. They also have higher price and lower availability than the preemptible TPUs, which can increase the cost and complexity of your solution.
* B. A Vertex AI Workbench user-managed notebooks instance running on an n1-standard-16 with an NVIDIA P100 GPU is not a good option, as it has higher cost and lower performance than the v3-8 TPU. It also has less GPU memory and compute power than the option with 4 NVIDIA P100 GPUs, which can limit the size and complexity of your model, and affect the training and inference speed and quality.
* C. A Vertex AI Workbench user-managed notebooks instance running on an n1-standard-16 with a
* non-preemptible v3-8 TPU is not a good option, as it has higher cost and lower flexibility than the preemptible v3-8 TPU. The non-preemptible v3-8 TPU has the same performance, scalability, and efficiency as the preemptible v3-8 TPU, but it has higher price and lower availability, as it is reserved for your exclusive use. Moreover, since your model is long-running and checkpointing, you do not need the guarantee of the device not being reclaimed by Google, and you can benefit from the lower cost and higher availability of the preemptible v3-8 TPU.
References:
* Professional ML Engineer Exam Guide
* Preparing for Google Cloud Certification: Machine Learning Engineer Professional Certificate
* Google Cloud launches machine learning engineer certification
* Cloud TPU
* Vertex AI Workbench user-managed notebooks
* Preemptible VMs
* NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPU

Question 117

You work at a mobile gaming startup that creates online multiplayer games Recently, your company observed an increase in players cheating in the games, leading to a loss of revenue and a poor user experience. You built a binary classification model to determine whether a player cheated after a completed game session, and then send a message to other downstream systems to ban the player that cheated Your model has performed well during testing, and you now need to deploy the model to production You want your serving solution to provide immediate classifications after a completed game session to avoid further loss of revenue. What should you do?

A.Import the model into Vertex Al Model Registry. Use the Vertex Batch Prediction service to run batch inference jobs.
B.Save the model files in a Cloud Storage Bucket Create a Cloud Function to read the model files and make online inference requests on the Cloud Function.
C.Save the model files in a VM Load the model files each time there is a prediction request and run an inference job on the VM.
D.Import the model into Vertex Al Model Registry Create a Vertex Al endpoint that hosts the model and make online inference requests.

Correct Answer: D

Online inference is a process where you send a single or a small number of prediction requests to a model and get immediate responses1. Online inference is suitable for scenarios where you need timely predictions, such as detecting cheating in online games. Online inference requires that the model is deployed to an endpoint, which is a resource that provides a service URL for prediction requests2.
Vertex AI Model Registry is a central repository where you can manage the lifecycle of your ML models3. You can import models from various sources, such as custom models or AutoML models, and assign them to different versions and aliases3. You can also deploy models to endpoints, which are resources that provide a service URL for online prediction2.
By importing the model into Vertex AI Model Registry, you can leverage the Vertex AI features to monitor and update the model3. You can use Vertex AI Experiments to track and compare the metrics of different model versions, such as accuracy, precision, recall, and AUC. You can also use Vertex AI Explainable AI to generate feature attributions that show how much each input feature contributed to the model's prediction.
By creating a Vertex AI endpoint that hosts the model, you can use the Vertex AI Prediction service to serve online inference requests2. Vertex AI Prediction provides various benefits, such as scalability, reliability, security, and logging2. You can use the Vertex AI API or the Google Cloud console to send online inference requests to the endpoint and get immediate classifications4.
Therefore, the best option for your scenario is to import the model into Vertex AI Model Registry, create a Vertex AI endpoint that hosts the model, and make online inference requests.
The other options are not suitable for your scenario, because they either do not provide immediate classifications, such as using batch prediction or loading the model files each time, or they do not use Vertex AI Prediction, which would require more development and maintenance effort, such as creating a Cloud Function or a VM.
References:
* Online versus batch prediction | Vertex AI | Google Cloud
* Deploy a model to an endpoint | Vertex AI | Google Cloud
* Introduction to Vertex AI Model Registry | Google Cloud
* Get online predictions | Vertex AI | Google Cloud

Question 118

You are training a Resnet model on Al Platform using TPUs to visually categorize types of defects in automobile engines. You capture the training profile using the Cloud TPU profiler plugin and observe that it is highly input-bound. You want to reduce the bottleneck and speed up your model training process. Which modifications should you make to the tf .data dataset?
Choose 2 answers

A.Use the interleave option for reading data
B.Reduce the value of the repeat parameter
C.Increase the buffer size for the shuffle option.
D.Set the prefetch option equal to the training batch size
E.Decrease the batch size argument in your transformation

Correct Answer: A,D

The tf.data dataset is a TensorFlow API that provides a way to create and manipulate data pipelines for machine learning. The tf.data dataset allows you to apply various transformations to the data, such as reading, shuffling, batching, prefetching, and interleaving. These transformations can affect the performance and efficiency of the model training process1 One of the common performance issues in model training is input-bound, which means that the model is waiting for the input data to be ready and is not fully utilizing the computational resources. Input-bound can be caused by slow data loading, insufficient parallelism, or large data size. Input-bound can be detected by using the Cloud TPU profiler plugin, which is a tool that helps you analyze the performance of your model on Cloud TPUs. The Cloud TPU profiler plugin can show you the percentage of time that the TPU cores are idle, which indicates input-bound2 To reduce the input-bound bottleneck and speed up the model training process, you can make some modifications to the tf.data dataset. Two of the modifications that can help are:
Use the interleave option for reading data. The interleave option allows you to read data from multiple files in parallel and interleave their records. This can improve the data loading speed and reduce the idle time of the TPU cores. The interleave option can be applied by using the tf.data.Dataset.interleave method, which takes a function that returns a dataset for each input element, and a number of parallel calls3 Set the prefetch option equal to the training batch size. The prefetch option allows you to prefetch the next batch of data while the current batch is being processed by the model. This can reduce the latency between batches and improve the throughput of the model training. The prefetch option can be applied by using the tf.data.Dataset.prefetch method, which takes a buffer size argument. The buffer size should be equal to the training batch size, which is the number of examples per batch4 The other options are not effective or counterproductive. Reducing the value of the repeat parameter will reduce the number of epochs, which is the number of times the model sees the entire dataset. This can affect the model's accuracy and convergence. Increasing the buffer size for the shuffle option will increase the randomness of the data, but also increase the memory usage and the data loading time. Decreasing the batch size argument in your transformation will reduce the number of examples per batch, which can affect the model's stability and performance.

Question 119

You developed a BigQuery ML linear regressor model by using a training dataset stored in a BigQuery table.
New data is added to the table every minute. You are using Cloud Scheduler and Vertex Al Pipelines to automate hourly model training, and use the model for direct inference. The feature preprocessing logic includes quantile bucketization and MinMax scaling on data received in the last hour. You want to minimize storage and computational overhead. What should you do?

A.Create a component in the Vertex Al Pipelines directed acyclic graph (DAG) to calculate the required statistics, and pass the statistics on to subsequent components.
B.Preprocess and stage the data in BigQuery prior to feeding it to the model during training and inference.
C.Create SQL queries to calculate and store the required statistics in separate BigQuery tables that are referenced in the CREATE MODEL statement.
D.Use the TRANSFORM clause in the CREATE MODEL statement in the SQL query to calculate the required statistics.

Question 120

You work for a retail company. You have created a Vertex AI forecast model that produces monthly item sales predictions. You want to quickly create a report that will help to explain how the model calculates the predictions. You have one month of recent actual sales data that was not included in the training dataset. How should you generate data for your report?

A.Create a batch prediction job by using the actual sales data, and configure the job settings to generate feature attributions. Compare the results in the report.
B.Create a batch prediction job by using the actual sales data. Compare the predictions to the actuals in the report.
C.Generate counterfactual examples by using the actual sales data. Create a batch prediction job using the actual sales data and the counterfactual examples. Compare the results in the report.
D.Train another model by using the same training dataset as the original, and exclude some columns. Using the actual sales data create one batch prediction job by using the new model and another one with the original model. Compare the two sets of predictions in the report.

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