| Question.26 A company is converting a large number of unstructured paper receipts into images. The company wants to create a model based on natural language processing (NLP) to find relevant entities such as date, location, and notes, as well as some custom entities such as receipt numbers. The company is using optical character recognition (OCR) to extract text for data labeling. However, documents are in different structures and formats, and the company is facing challenges with setting up the manual workflows for each document type. Additionally, the company trained a named entity recognition (NER) model for custom entity detection using a small sample size. This model has a very low confidence score and will require retraining with a large dataset. Which solution for text extraction and entity detection will require the LEAST amount of effort? (A) Extract text from receipt images by using Amazon Textract. Use the Amazon SageMaker BlazingText algorithm to train on the text for entities and custom entities. (B) Extract text from receipt images by using a deep learning OCR model from the AWS Marketplace. Use the NER deep learning model to extract entities. (C) Extract text from receipt images by using Amazon Textract. Use Amazon Comprehend for entity detection, and use Amazon Comprehend custom entity recognition for custom entity detection. (D) Extract text from receipt images by using a deep learning OCR model from the AWS Marketplace. Use Amazon Comprehend for entity detection, and use Amazon Comprehend custom entity recognition for custom entity detection. |
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Correct Answer: C
The best solution for text extraction and entity detection with the least amount of effort is to use Amazon Textract and Amazon Comprehend. These services are:
* Amazon Textract for text extraction from receipt images. Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that can automatically extract text and data from scanned documents. It can handle different structures and formats of documents, such as PDF, TIFF, PNG, and JPEG, without any preprocessing steps. It can also extract key-value pairs and tables from documents1
* Amazon Comprehend for entity detection and custom entity detection. Amazon Comprehend is a natural language processing service that can identify entities, such as dates, locations, and notes, from unstructured text. It can also detect custom entities, such as receipt numbers, by using a custom entity recognizer that can be trained with a small amount of labeled data2 The other options are not suitable because they either require more effort for text extraction, entity detection, or custom entity detection. For example:
* Option A uses the Amazon SageMaker BlazingText algorithm to train on the text for entities and custom entities. BlazingText is a supervised learning algorithm that can perform text classification and word2vec. It requires users to provide a large amount of labeled data, preprocess the data into a specific format, and tune the hyperparameters of the model3
* Option B uses a deep learning OCR model from the AWS Marketplace and a NER deep learning model for text extraction and entity detection. These models are pre-trained and may not be suitable for the specific use case of receipt processing. They also require users to deploy and manage the models on Amazon SageMaker or Amazon EC2 instances4
* Option D uses a deep learning OCR model from the AWS Marketplace for text extraction. This model has the same drawbacks as option B. It also requires users to integrate the model output with Amazon Comprehend for entity detection and custom entity detection.
1: Amazon Textract – Extract text and data from documents
2: Amazon Comprehend – Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML)
3: BlazingText – Amazon SageMaker
4: AWS Marketplace: OCR
| Question.27 A machine learning (ML) specialist uploads a dataset to an Amazon S3 bucket that is protected by server-side encryption with AWS KMS keys (SSE-KMS). The ML specialist needs to ensure that an Amazon SageMaker notebook instance can read the dataset that is in Amazon S3. Which solution will meet these requirements? (A) Define security groups to allow all HTTP inbound and outbound traffic. Assign the security groups to the SageMaker notebook instance. (B) Configure the SageMaker notebook instance to have access to the VPC. Grant permission in the AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key policy to the notebook’s VPC. (C) Assign an IAM role that provides S3 read access for the dataset to the SageMaker notebook. Grant permission in the KMS key policy to the 1AM role. (D) Assign the same KMS key that encrypts the data in Amazon S3 to the SageMaker notebook instance. |
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Correct Answer: C
When an Amazon SageMaker notebook instance needs to access encrypted data in Amazon S3, the ML specialist must ensure that both Amazon S3 access permissions and AWS Key Management Service (KMS) decryption permissions are properly configured. The dataset in this scenario is stored with server-side encryption using an AWS KMS key (SSE-KMS), so the following steps are necessary:
* S3 Read Permissions: Attach an IAM role to the SageMaker notebook instance with permissions that allow the s3:GetObject action for the specific S3 bucket storing the data. This will allow the notebook instance to read data from Amazon S3.
* KMS Key Policy Permissions: Grant permissions in the KMS key policy to the IAM role assigned to the SageMaker notebook instance. This allows SageMaker to use the KMS key to decrypt data in the S3 bucket.
These steps ensure the SageMaker notebook instance can access the encrypted data stored in S3. The AWS documentation emphasizes that to access SSE-KMS encrypted data, the SageMaker notebook requires appropriate permissions in both the S3 bucket policy and the KMS key policy, making Option C the correct and secure approach.
| Question.28 An insurance company is developing a new device for vehicles that uses a camera to observe drivers’ behavior and alert them when they appear distracted The company created approximately 10,000 training images in a controlled environment that a Machine Learning Specialist will use to train and evaluate machine learning models During the model evaluation the Specialist notices that the training error rate diminishes faster as the number of epochs increases and the model is not accurately inferring on the unseen test images Which of the following should be used to resolve this issue? (Select TWO) (A) Add vanishing gradient to the model (B) Perform data augmentation on the training data (C) Make the neural network architecture complex. (D) Use gradient checking in the model (E) Add L2 regularization to the model |
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Correct Answer: B,E
The issue described in the question is a sign of overfitting, which is a common problem in machine learning when the model learns the noise and details of the training data too well and fails to generalize to new and unseen data. Overfitting can result in a low training error rate but a high test error rate, which indicates poor performance and validity of the model. There are several techniques that can be used to prevent or reduce overfitting, such as data augmentation and regularization.
Data augmentation is a technique that applies various transformations to the original training data, such as rotation, scaling, cropping, flipping, adding noise, changing brightness, etc., to create new and diverse data samples. Data augmentation can increase the size and diversity of the training data, which can help the model learn more features and patterns and reduce the variance of the model. Data augmentation is especially useful for image data, as it can simulate different scenarios and perspectives that the model may encounter in real life. For example, in the question, the device uses a camera to observe drivers’ behavior, so data augmentation can help the model deal with different lighting conditions, angles, distances, etc. Data augmentation can be done using various libraries and frameworks, such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras, OpenCV, etc12 Regularization is a technique that adds a penalty term to the model’s objective function, which is typically based on the model’s parameters. Regularization can reduce the complexity and flexibility of the model, which can prevent overfitting by avoiding learning the noise and details of the training data. Regularization can also improve the stability and robustness of the model, as it can reduce the sensitivity of the model to small fluctuations in the data. There are different types of regularization, such as L1, L2, dropout, etc., but they all have the same goal of reducing overfitting. L2 regularization, also known as weight decay or ridge regression, is one of the most common and effective regularization techniques. L2 regularization adds the squared norm of the model’s parameters multiplied by a regularization parameter (lambda) to the model’s objective function. L2 regularization can shrink the model’s parameters towards zero, which can reduce the variance of the model and improve the generalization ability of the model. L2 regularization can be implemented using various libraries and frameworks, such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras, Scikit-learn, etc34 The other options are not valid or relevant for resolving the issue of overfitting. Adding vanishing gradient to the model is not a technique, but a problem that occurs when the gradient of the model’s objective function becomes very small and the model stops learning. Making the neural network architecture complex is not a solution, but a possible cause of overfitting, as a complex model can have more parameters and more flexibility to fit the training data too well. Using gradient checking in the model is not a technique, but a debugging method that verifies the correctness of the gradient computation in the model. Gradient checking is not related to overfitting, but to the implementation of the model.
| Question.29 A credit card company wants to build a credit scoring model to help predict whether a new credit card applicant will default on a credit card payment. The company has collected data from a large number of sources with thousands of raw attributes. Early experiments to train a classification model revealed that many attributes are highly correlated, the large number of features slows down the training speed significantly, and that there are some overfitting issues. The Data Scientist on this project would like to speed up the model training time without losing a lot of information from the original dataset. Which feature engineering technique should the Data Scientist use to meet the objectives? (A) Run self-correlation on all features and remove highly correlated features (B) Normalize all numerical values to be between 0 and 1 (C) Use an autoencoder or principal component analysis (PCA) to replace original features with new features (D) Cluster raw data using k-means and use sample data from each cluster to build a new dataset |
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Correct Answer: C
The best feature engineering technique to speed up the model training time without losing a lot of information from the original dataset is to use an autoencoder or principal component analysis (PCA) to replace original features with new features. An autoencoder is a type of neural network that learns a compressed representation of the input data, called the latent space, by minimizing the reconstruction error between the input and the output. PCA is a statistical technique that reduces the dimensionality of the data by finding a set of orthogonal axes, called the principal components, that capture the maximum variance of the data. Both techniques can help reduce the number of features and remove the noise and redundancy in the data, which can improve the model performance and speed up the training process. References:
* AWS Machine Learning Specialty Exam Guide
* AWS Machine Learning Training – Dimensionality Reduction for Machine Learning
* AWS Machine Learning Training – Deep Learning with Amazon SageMaker
| Question.30 A company is setting up an Amazon SageMaker environment. The corporate data security policy does not allow communication over the internet. How can the company enable the Amazon SageMaker service without enabling direct internet access to Amazon SageMaker notebook instances? (A) Create a NAT gateway within the corporate VPC. (B) Route Amazon SageMaker traffic through an on-premises network. (C) Create Amazon SageMaker VPC interface endpoints within the corporate VPC. (D) Create VPC peering with Amazon VPC hosting Amazon SageMaker. |
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Correct Answer: C
To enable the Amazon SageMaker service without enabling direct internet access to Amazon SageMaker notebook instances, the company should create Amazon SageMaker VPC interface endpoints within the corporate VPC. A VPC interface endpoint is a gateway that enables private connections between the VPC and supported AWS services without requiring an internet gateway, a NAT device, a VPN connection, or an AWS Direct Connect connection. The instances in the VPC do not need to connect to the public internet in order to communicate with the Amazon SageMaker service. The VPC interface endpoint connects the VPC directly to the Amazon SageMaker service using AWS PrivateLink, which ensures that the traffic between the VPC and the service does not leave the AWS network1.
1: Connect to SageMaker Within your VPC – Amazon SageMaker