MLS-C01 Exam Results

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Question 16

A company is using Amazon SageMaker to build a machine learning (ML) model to predict customer churn based on customer call transcripts. Audio files from customer calls are located in an on-premises VoIP system that has petabytes of recorded calls. The on-premises infrastructure has high-velocity networking and connects to the company's AWS infrastructure through a VPN connection over a 100 Mbps connection.

The company has an algorithm for transcribing customer calls that requires GPUs for inference. The company wants to store these transcriptions in an Amazon S3 bucket in the AWS Cloud for model development.

Which solution should an ML specialist use to deliver the transcriptions to the S3 bucket as quickly as possible?

Options:

Order and use an AWS Snowball Edge Compute Optimized device with an NVIDIA Tesla module to run the transcription algorithm. Use AWS DataSync to send the resulting transcriptions to the transcription S3 bucket.

Order and use an AWS Snowcone device with Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances to run the transcription algorithm Use AWS DataSync to send the resulting transcriptions to the transcription S3 bucket

Order and use AWS Outposts to run the transcription algorithm on GPU-based Amazon EC2 instances. Store the resulting transcriptions in the transcription S3 bucket.

Use AWS DataSync to ingest the audio files to Amazon S3. Create an AWS Lambda function to run the transcription algorithm on the audio files when they are uploaded to Amazon S3. Configure the function to write the resulting transcriptions to the transcription S3 bucket.

Answer:

Explanation:

The company needs to transcribe petabytes of audio files from an on-premises VoIP system to an S3 bucket in the AWS Cloud. The transcription algorithm requires GPUs for inference, which are not available on the on-premises system. The VPN connection over a 100 Mbps connection is not sufficient to transfer the large amount of data quickly. Therefore, the company should use an AWS Snowball Edge Compute Optimized device with an NVIDIA Tesla module to run the transcription algorithm locally and leverage the GPU power. The device can store up to 42 TB of data and can be shipped back to AWS for data ingestion. The company can use AWS DataSync to send the resulting transcriptions to the transcription S3 bucket in the AWS Cloud. This solution minimizes the network bandwidth and latency issues and enables faster data processing and transfer.

Option B is incorrect because AWS Snowcone is a small, portable, rugged, and secure edge computing and data transfer device that can store up to 8 TB of data. It is not suitable for processing petabytes of data and does not support GPU-based instances.

Option C is incorrect because AWS Outposts is a service that extends AWS infrastructure, services, APIs, and tools to virtually any data center, co-location space, or on-premises facility. It is not designed for data transfer and ingestion, and it would require additional infrastructure and maintenance costs.

Option D is incorrect because AWS DataSync is a service that makes it easy to move large amounts of data to and from AWS over the internet or AWS Direct Connect. However, using DataSync to ingest the audio files to S3 would still be limited by the network bandwidth and latency. Moreover, running the transcription algorithm on AWS Lambda would incur additional costs and complexity, and it would not leverage the GPU power that the algorithm requires.

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AWS Snowball Edge Compute Optimized
AWS DataSync
AWS Snowcone
AWS Outposts
AWS Lambda

Question 17

A manufacturing company has structured and unstructured data stored in an Amazon S3 bucket. A Machine Learning Specialist wants to use SQL to run queries on this data.

Which solution requires the LEAST effort to be able to query this data?

Options:

Use AWS Data Pipeline to transform the data and Amazon RDS to run queries.

Use AWS Glue to catalogue the data and Amazon Athena to run queries.

Use AWS Batch to run ETL on the data and Amazon Aurora to run the queries.

Use AWS Lambda to transform the data and Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics to run queries.

Answer:

Explanation:

Using AWS Glue to catalogue the data and Amazon Athena to run queries is the solution that requires the least effort to be able to query the data stored in an Amazon S3 bucket using SQL. AWS Glue is a service that provides a serverless data integration platform for data preparation and transformation. AWS Glue can automatically discover, crawl, and catalogue the data stored in various sources, such as Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, etc. AWS Glue can also use AWS KMS to encrypt the data at rest on the Glue Data Catalog and Glue ETL jobs. AWS Glue can handle both structured and unstructured data, and support various data formats, such as CSV, JSON, Parquet, etc. AWS Glue can also use built-in or custom classifiers to identify and parse the data schema and format1 Amazon Athena is a service that provides an interactive query engine that can run SQL queries directly on data stored in Amazon S3. Amazon Athena can integrate with AWS Glue to use the Glue Data Catalog as a central metadata repository for the data sources and tables. Amazon Athena can also use AWS KMS to encrypt the data at rest on Amazon S3 and the query results. Amazon Athena can query both structured and unstructured data, and support various data formats, such as CSV, JSON, Parquet, etc. Amazon Athena can also use partitions and compression to optimize the query performance and reduce the query cost23

The other options are not valid or require more effort to query the data stored in an Amazon S3 bucket using SQL. Using AWS Data Pipeline to transform the data and Amazon RDS to run queries is not a good option, as it involves moving the data from Amazon S3 to Amazon RDS, which can incur additional time and cost. AWS Data Pipeline is a service that can orchestrate and automate data movement and transformation across various AWS services and on-premises data sources. AWS Data Pipeline can be integrated with Amazon EMR to run ETL jobs on the data stored in Amazon S3. Amazon RDS is a service that provides a managed relational database service that can run various database engines, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, etc. Amazon RDS can use AWS KMS to encrypt the data at rest and in transit. Amazon RDS can run SQL queries on the data stored in the database tables45 Using AWS Batch to run ETL on the data and Amazon Aurora to run the queries is not a good option, as it also involves moving the data from Amazon S3 to Amazon Aurora, which can incur additional time and cost. AWS Batch is a service that can run batch computing workloads on AWS. AWS Batch can be integrated with AWS Lambda to trigger ETL jobs on the data stored in Amazon S3. Amazon Aurora is a service that provides a compatible and scalable relational database engine that can run MySQL or PostgreSQL. Amazon Aurora can use AWS KMS to encrypt the data at rest and in transit. Amazon Aurora can run SQL queries on the data stored in the database tables. Using AWS Lambda to transform the data and Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics to run queries is not a good option, as it is not suitable for querying data stored in Amazon S3 using SQL. AWS Lambda is a service that can run serverless functions on AWS. AWS Lambda can be integrated with Amazon S3 to trigger data transformation functions on the data stored in Amazon S3. Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is a service that can analyze streaming data using SQL or Apache Flink. Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics can be integrated with Amazon Kinesis Data Streams or Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose to ingest streaming data sources, such as web logs, social media, IoT devices, etc. Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is not designed for querying data stored in Amazon S3 using SQL.

Question 18

A data science team is planning to build a natural language processing (NLP) application. The application’s text preprocessing stage will include part-of-speech tagging and key phase extraction. The preprocessed text will be input to a custom classification algorithm that the data science team has already written and trained using Apache MXNet.

Which solution can the team build MOST quickly to meet these requirements?

Options:

Use Amazon Comprehend for the part-of-speech tagging, key phase extraction, and classification tasks.

Use an NLP library in Amazon SageMaker for the part-of-speech tagging. Use Amazon Comprehend for the key phase extraction. Use AWS Deep Learning Containers with Amazon SageMaker to build the custom classifier.

Use Amazon Comprehend for the part-of-speech tagging and key phase extraction tasks. Use Amazon SageMaker built-in Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) algorithm to build the custom classifier.

Use Amazon Comprehend for the part-of-speech tagging and key phase extraction tasks. Use AWS Deep Learning Containers with Amazon SageMaker to build the custom classifier.

Question 19

A media company is building a computer vision model to analyze images that are on social media. The model consists of CNNs that the company trained by using images that the company stores in Amazon S3. The company used an Amazon SageMaker training job in File mode with a single Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instance.

Every day, the company updates the model by using about 10,000 images that the company has collected in the last 24 hours. The company configures training with only one epoch. The company wants to speed up training and lower costs without the need to make any code changes.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options:

Instead of File mode, configure the SageMaker training job to use Pipe mode. Ingest the data from a pipe.

Instead Of File mode, configure the SageMaker training job to use FastFile mode with no Other changes.

Instead Of On-Demand Instances, configure the SageMaker training job to use Spot Instances. Make no Other changes.

Instead Of On-Demand Instances, configure the SageMaker training job to use Spot Instances. Implement model checkpoints.

Answer:

Explanation:

The solution C will meet the requirements because it uses Amazon SageMaker Spot Instances, which are unused EC2 instances that are available at up to 90% discount compared to On-Demand prices. Amazon SageMaker Spot Instances can speed up training and lower costs by taking advantage of the spare EC2 capacity. The company does not need to make any code changes to use Spot Instances, as it can simply enable the managed spot training option in the SageMaker training job configuration. The company also does not need to implement model checkpoints, as it is using only one epoch for training, which means the model will not resume from a previous state1.

The other options are not suitable because:

Option A: Configuring the SageMaker training job to use Pipe mode instead of File mode will not speed up training or lower costs significantly. Pipe mode is a data ingestion mode that streams data directly from S3 to the training algorithm, without copying the data to the local storage of the training instance. Pipe mode can reduce the startup time of the training job and the disk space usage, but it does not affect the computation time or the instance price. Moreover, Pipe mode may require some code changes to handle the streaming data, depending on the training algorithm2.
Option B: Configuring the SageMaker training job to use FastFile mode instead of File mode will not speed up training or lower costs significantly. FastFile mode is a data ingestion mode that copies data from S3 to the local storage of the training instance in parallel with the training process. FastFile mode can reduce the startup time of the training job and the disk space usage, but it does not affect the computation time or the instance price. Moreover, FastFile mode is only available for distributed training jobs that use multiple instances, which is not the case for the company3.
Option D: Configuring the SageMaker training job to use Spot Instances and implementing model checkpoints will not meet the requirements without the need to make any code changes. Model checkpoints are a feature that allows the training job to save the model state periodically to S3, and resume from the latest checkpoint if the training job is interrupted. Model checkpoints can help to avoid losing the training progress and ensure the model convergence, but they require some code changes to implement the checkpointing logic and the resuming logic4.

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