PMLE — questions

You are an ML engineer at a bank. You need to build a solution that provides transparent and understandable explanations for AI-driven decisions for loan approvals, credit limits, and interest rates. You want to build this system to require minimal operational overhead. What should you do?

You are building an application that extracts information from invoices and receipts. You want to implement this application with minimal custom code and training. What should you do?

You work for a media company that operates a streaming movie platform where users can search for movies in a database. The existing search algorithm uses keyword matching to return results. Recently, you have observed an increase in searches using complex semantic queries that include the movies’ metadata such as the actor, genre, and director. You need to build a revamped search solution that will provide better results, and you need to build this proof of concept as quickly as possible. How should you build the search platform?

You are an AI engineer that works for a popular video streaming platform. You built a classification model using PyTorch to predict customer churn. Each week, the customer retention team plans to contact customers that have been identified as at risk of churning with personalized offers. You want to deploy the model while minimizing maintenance effort. What should you do?

Your company recently migrated several of is ML models to Google Cloud. You have started developing models in Vertex AI. You need to implement a system that tracks model artifacts and model lineage. You want to create a simple, effective solution that can also be reused for future models. What should you do?

You work for a large retailer, and you need to build a model to predict customer chum. The company has a dataset of historical customer data, including customer demographics purchase history, and website activity. You need to create the model in BigQuery ML and thoroughly evaluate its performance. What should you do?

You are an AI architect at a popular photo sharing social media platform. Your organization's content moderation team currently scans images uploaded by users and removes explicit images manually. You want to implement an AI service to automatically prevent users from uploading explicit images. What should you do?

You are an ML engineer at a bank. The bank's leadership team wants to reduce the number of loan defaults. The bank has labeled historic data about loan defaults stored in BigQuery. You have been asked to use AI to support the loan application process. For compliance reasons, you need to provide explanations for loan rejections. What should you do?

You are developing a natural language processing model that analyzes customer feedback to identify positive, negative, and neutral experiences. During the testing phase, you notice that the model demonstrates a significant bias against certain demographic groups, leading to skewed analysis results. You want to address this issue following Google's responsible AI practices. What should you do?

You recently deployed an image classification model on Google Cloud. You used Cloud Build to build a CI/CD pipeline for the model. You need to ensure that the model stays up-to-date with data and code changes by using an efficient retraining process. What should you do?

You lead a data science team that is working on a computationally intensive project involving running several experiments. Your team is geographically distributed and requires a platform that provides the most effective real-time collaboration and rapid experimentation. You plan to add GPUs to speed up your experimentation cycle, and you want to avoid having to manually set up the infrastructure. You want to use the Google-recommended approach. What should you do?

You need to train a ControlNet model with Stable Diffusion XL for an image editing use case. You want to train this model as quickly as possible. Which hardware configuration should you choose to train your model?

You are the lead ML engineer on a mission-critical project that involves analyzing massive datasets using Apache Spark. You need to establish a robust environment that allows your team to rapidly prototype Spark models using Jupyter notebooks. What is the fastest way to achieve this?

You are training a large-scale deep learning model on a Cloud TPU. While monitoring the training progress through Tensorboard, you observe that the TPU utilization is consistently low and there are delays between the completion of one training step and the start of the next step. You want to improve TPU utilization and overall training performance. How should you address this issue?

You are building an ML pipeline to process and analyze both steaming and batch datasets. You need the pipeline to handle data validation, preprocessing, model training, and model deployment in a consistent and automated way. You want to design an efficient and scalable solution that captures model training metadata and is easily reproducible. You want to be able to reuse custom components for different parts of your pipeline. What should you do?

You are developing an ML model on Vertex AI that needs to meet specific interpretability requirements for regulatory compliance. You want to use a combination of model architectures and modeling techniques to maximize accuracy and interpretability. How should you create the model?

You have developed a fraud detection model for a large financial institution using Vertex AI. The model achieves high accuracy, but the stakeholders are concerned about the model's potential for bias based on customer demographics. You have been asked to provide insights into the model's decision-making process and identify any fairness issues. What should you do?

You developed an ML model using Vertex AI and deployed it to a Vertex AI endpoint. You anticipate that the model will need to be retrained as new data becomes available. You have configured a Vertex AI Model Monitoring Job. You need to monitor the model for feature attribution drift and establish continuous evaluation metrics. What should you do?

You work as an ML researcher at an investment bank, and you are experimenting with the Gemma large language model (LLM). You plan to deploy the model for an internal use case. You need to have full control of the mode's underlying infrastructure and minimize the model's inference time. Which serving configuration should you use for this task?

You are an ML researcher and are evaluating multiple deep learning-based model architectures and hyperparameter configurations. You need to implement a robust solution to track the progress of each model iteration, visualize key metrics, gain insights into model internals, and optimize training performance. You want your solution to have the most efficient and powerful approach to compare the models and have the strongest visualization abilities. How should you bull this solution?