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Question 1: Core ML Development & Evaluation You are developing a fraud detection model where missing a fraudulent transaction (False Negative) is significantly more expensive than investigating a legitimate transaction flagged as fraud (False Positive). Which metric should I prioritize during model tuning?

• Options:

  • A) Accuracy

  • B) Precision

  • C) Recall (Sensitivity)

  • D) Specificity

  • E) L2 Regularization Strength

  • F) Mean Absolute Error (MAE)

• Correct Answer: C

• Explanation:

  • A) Incorrect: Accuracy is misleading in imbalanced datasets like fraud detection.

  • B) Incorrect: High precision minimizes False Positives, but we care more about missing the fraud cases here.

  • C) Correct: Recall measures the ability to find all positive instances. Increasing Recall minimizes False Negatives, which aligns with the business goal.

  • D) Incorrect: Specificity focuses on the True Negative rate, not the missed fraud cases.

  • E) Incorrect: This is a technique to prevent overfitting, not an evaluation metric.

  • F) Incorrect: MAE is used for regression tasks, not classification tasks like fraud detection.

Question 2: Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) After deploying a recommendation engine to production, you notice that the model’s performance is steadily declining over time, even though the underlying infrastructure is healthy. What is the most likely cause?

• Options:

  • A) Horizontal scaling latency.

  • B) Data drift or Concept drift.

  • C) Insufficient GPU VRAM.

  • D) A missing API gateway configuration.

  • E) High bias in the training set.

  • F) Incorrect kernel initialization.

• Correct Answer: B

• Explanation:

  • A) Incorrect: Scaling issues affect speed/availability, not the logic-based performance of the model.

  • B) Correct: Drift occurs when the statistical properties of input data or the relationship between variables change over time in production.

  • C) Incorrect: This would cause a crash or out-of-memory error, not a gradual decline in accuracy.

  • D) Incorrect: This would result in connection errors (404/502), not a performance drop.

  • E) Incorrect: Bias is an inherent property of the model from training, not a cause for a "steady decline" after deployment.

  • F) Incorrect: This affects the start of the training process, not a model already in production.

Question 3: Data Engineering for ML You are building a pipeline for a model that requires real-time predictions. The input data features change frequently throughout the day. Which storage solution is MOST appropriate for serving these features with low latency?

• Options:

  • A) A cold storage Data Lake.

  • B) A relational database using complex SQL joins.

  • C) A centralized Feature Store.

  • D) A CSV file stored on a network drive.

  • E) A standard NoSQL table without indexing.

  • F) A manual JSON lookup table.

• Correct Answer: C

• Explanation:

  • A) Incorrect: Cold storage is for archiving and has too much latency for real-time needs.

  • B) Incorrect: Complex joins in a relational DB are often too slow for real-time inference at scale.

  • C) Correct: A Feature Store is specifically designed to serve pre-computed or real-time features to models with sub-millisecond latency.

  • D) Incorrect: File I/O from a network drive is too slow and doesn't scale.

  • E) Incorrect: NoSQL can be fast, but without indexing or a feature-store wrapper, it's inefficient for ML workflows.

  • F) Incorrect: Manual lookups are not scalable or maintainable in a professional ML environment.

  
  

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