Realistic practice exam based on the most recent AWS Certified Machine Learning Specialty exam.
Just like the actual exam this practice test has
Test 1: 30 questions
Test 2: 65 questions and takes 170 minutes
Questions are mapped based on the actual exam domains:
Data Engineering
Exploratory Data Analysis
Modeling
Machine Learning Implementation and Operations.
Suggested background knowledge
Data Engineering
AWS services:
Glue, EMR ( Apache Spark, Hive metastore), Athena
Kinesis family (Streams, data analytics, firehose, video streams)
S3, QuickSight
Data/File formats (Avro, Parquet, CSV, protobuf recordIO)
Exploratory Data Analysis
Handling missing values (Imputation: median, mean, most frequent, using ML model)
Feature scaling
Feature engineering
Handling outliers
One-hot encoding
Binning
Text preprocessing
Modeling
supervised machine learning ( Classification and Regression Algorithms)
unsupervised machine learning ( K-Means clustering, PCA)
Hyperparameter tuning ( supervised machine learning, deep learning)
Performance metrics ( accuracy, RMSE, F1 score, AUC, ROC, Precision, Recall)
Tuning deep learning networks ( how to prevent overfitting)
AWS ML services: Lex, Polly, Transcribe, Translate, Comprehend
SageMaker built-in algorithms: BlazingText, Object2Vec, DeepAR, LDA, Linear Learner, etc.
ML Implementation and Operations
Amazon SageMaker train and deploy a model
Inference pipeline, batch transform, inference endpoints, production variants, hosting services
Amazon SageMaker security (data encryption at rest and in transit)
Distributed training on Amazon SageMaker ( Using GPUs)
AWS SageMaker roles
Bring your own model container ( e.g. developed using scikit-learn)
Customize SageMaker built-in algorithm containers
How to develop and deploy deep learning models on frameworks such as Tensoflow, MXNeT