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What you will practice
- A logistics company is exploring Amazon Machine Learning (ML) services to enhance its predictive analytics, s…
- A financial services company is exploring the use of generative AI to automate report generation and enhance…
- A data analytics company is developing a knowledge management system using Amazon Bedrock to power its AI-dri…
- A retail company needs to perform sentiment analysis for its customer service audio calls. Which AWS services…
- A healthcare analytics company has developed a machine learning model to predict patient outcomes based on hi…
- A media company has developed an AI-based image generation model to create promotional materials, but it has…
Answers and explanations
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Q1. A logistics company is exploring Amazon Machine Learning (ML) services to enhance its predictive analytics, such as optimizing delivery routes and forecasting demand. The data science team needs to understand the key features and capabilit…
Answer: A,B. Amazon Polly is used to deploy high-quality, natural-sounding human voices in dozens of languages || Amazon Comprehend service uses machine learning to find insights and relationships in the text
Amazon Polly converts text into lifelike speech, and Amazon Comprehend uses natural language processing to extract insights from text. The distractors mismatch the services, such as pairing Transcribe with conversational interfaces instead of Lex.
Q2. A financial services company is exploring the use of generative AI to automate report generation and enhance customer insights. As part of this effort, the team is evaluating different AI models and technologies, including Foundation Model…
Answer: B. FMs use self-supervised learning to create labels from input data, however, fine-tuning an FM is a supervised learning process
Foundation models rely on self-supervised learning to generate implicit labels from vast amounts of raw data. Fine-tuning customizes the model for specific tasks using labeled examples, which makes it a supervised learning process.
Q3. A data analytics company is developing a knowledge management system using Amazon Bedrock to power its AI-driven insights. As part of this project, the company needs to store and retrieve embeddings efficiently for a variety of use cases…
Answer: C. OpenSearch Serverless vector store
Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock natively defaults to OpenSearch Serverless for vector storage. Although it supports Pinecone and Aurora, the default store is automatically created if you do not provide one.
Q4. A retail company needs to perform sentiment analysis for its customer service audio calls. Which AWS services would you recommend for this requirement?
Answer: A. Amazon Transcribe and Amazon Comprehend
Amazon Transcribe converts audio calls into text. Amazon Comprehend then runs sentiment analysis on that text. Avoid Rekognition for audio, as it handles computer vision tasks.
Q5. A healthcare analytics company has developed a machine learning model to predict patient outcomes based on historical medical data. During testing, the model demonstrates high accuracy and performs well on the training dataset, but once de…
Answer: C. The company should use hyperparameters for model tuning, which involves adjusting parameters such as regularization, learning rates, and dropout rates to enhance the model's ability to generalize well to new data
Hyperparameter tuning adjusts regularization and dropout rates to prevent overfitting, improving model generalization. While adding data helps, hyperparameter tuning specifically targets the gap between training and production.
Q6. A media company has developed an AI-based image generation model to create promotional materials, but it has noticed that the model consistently produces biased outputs, such as generating fewer images representing certain demographic grou…
Answer: D. Augment the data by generating new instances of data for underrepresented groups
Data augmentation directly balances underrepresented groups by creating new synthetic training examples, which mitigates bias. Manual correction is not scalable, regularization only prevents overfitting, and switching models ignores the root cause of bad data.
Q7. A retail company is looking to implement AI-driven solutions to enhance its in-store operations, such as automating inventory management and improving security through visual monitoring. The company wants to leverage pre-trained computer v…
Answer: A. Amazon Rekognition
Amazon Rekognition offers pre-trained computer vision capabilities that you can customize for specific business needs. Textract is strictly for text extraction, while SageMaker is a broader service requiring you to build models from scratch.
Q8. The marketing department at a retail company is working on a campaign for the upcoming Thanksgiving holidays. The department wants to exclude competitive brand names or sensitive topics from the content produced via generative AI prompts…
Answer: C. Negative prompting
Negative prompting tells a generative AI model exactly what concepts or terms to exclude from its output. This is ideal for blocking competitor names or sensitive topics, whereas few-shot or chain-of-thought prompt techniques are used to guide desired content.
Q9. A technology consulting firm is working with clients to implement generative AI solutions and needs to help them understand the differences between various AI models. In particular, the firm is evaluating the use of Foundation Models (FMs)…
Answer: A. Foundation Models serve as a broad base for various AI applications by providing generalized capabilities, whereas Large Language Models are specialized for understanding and generating human language
Foundation Models are broad, general-purpose systems trained on massive datasets for various modalities like text or images. Large Language Models are a specialized subset of this category focused exclusively on understanding and generating human language.
Q10. A marketing analytics company is using generative AI to create custom reports and insights based on client data. The team is focused on improving the quality and relevance of the AI-generated content by refining how they interact with the…
Answer: D. Instructions, Context, Input data, Output Indicator
A well-crafted prompt consists of instructions, context, input data, and an output indicator. Remember that hyperparameters and parameters are configured at the model level, not manually embedded directly within the prompt text itself.
Q11. A customer support company is using a large language model developed with Amazon Bedrock to enhance its automated chatbot's ability to understand and respond accurately to customer queries. To improve the chatbot's performance, the company…
Answer: C. The data should include user-input along with the correct user intent, providing examples of user queries and the corresponding intent
Few-shot prompting teaches the model by pairing user inputs with their corresponding correct intent. Providing matching input and response pairs might show the final answer, but it fails to explicitly demonstrate the intermediate intent classification step.
Q12. A company has deployed several machine learning models on Amazon Bedrock to provide real-time predictions and analytics for its clients. To maintain operational transparency and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, the company n…
Answer: A. The company should enable model invocation logging, which allows for detailed logging of all requests and responses during model invocations in Amazon Bedrock
Enabling model invocation logging in Amazon Bedrock captures the actual prompt inputs and generated outputs for auditing. CloudTrail only tracks control plane API calls for account security and does not record the payload data of the model responses.
Q13. A manufacturing company has developed a machine learning model to automate the process of identifying and classifying different types of materials — such as metals, plastics, and fabrics — in images captured from its production line. To en…
Answer: B. Confusion matrix
A confusion matrix evaluates classification models by showing true positives, true negatives, false positives, and false negatives. Mean Absolute Error and Root Mean Squared Error are regression metrics designed for continuous numerical predictions instead of categorical ones.
Q14. A robotics company is exploring different machine learning techniques to improve the decision-making capabilities of its autonomous robots. The team is particularly interested in reinforcement learning as a way to enable the robots to lear…
Answer: A. Reinforcement learning involves an agent interacting with an environment by taking actions and receiving rewards or penalties, learning a policy to maximize cumulative rewards over time
Reinforcement learning uses an agent that interacts with an environment, receiving rewards or penalties to maximize cumulative success. It does not rely on labeled datasets like supervised learning or group unlabeled data like unsupervised learning.
Q15. A biotechnology company is using a Foundation Model (FM) in Amazon Bedrock to analyze complex genetic data and provide insights for new drug development. However, the company wants to enhance the model's performance to make it an expert sp…
Answer: C,D. The company should use Domain Adaptation Fine-Tuning, which involves fine-tuning the model on domain-specific data to adapt its knowledge to that particular domain || The company should use Continued Pre-Training, which involves further training the model on a large corpus of domain-specific data, enhancing its ability to understand domain-specific terms, jargon, and context
Domain Adaptation Fine-Tuning and Continued Pre-Training are the correct approaches because they use large amounts of unlabeled or labeled domain-specific data to teach the model specialized terminology and patterns. On the exam, remember that reinforcement learning relies on human feedback rather than raw domain knowledge.
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