If a dataset contains rows with individual people and columns for year of birth, country, and income, how many of the columns are continuous and how many are categorical?
Answer(s): D
The columns can be grouped into two types--categorical and continuous columns:A column is called categorical if its value can only be one of the categories in a finite set. For example, the native country of a person (U.S., India, Japan, etc.) or the education level (high school, college, etc.) are categorical columns.A column is called continuous if its value can be any numerical value in a continuous range. For example, the capital gain of a person (e.g. $14,084) is a continuous column.Year of birth and income are continuous columns. Country is a categorical column.You could use bucketization to turn year of birth and/or income into categorical features, but the raw columns are continuous.
https://www.tensorflow.org/tutorials/wide#reading_the_census_data
Which of the following are examples of hyperparameters? (Select 2 answers.)
Answer(s): A,B
If model parameters are variables that get adjusted by training with existing data, your hyperparameters are the variables about the training process itself. For example, part of setting up a deep neural network is deciding how many "hidden" layers of nodes to use between the input layer and the output layer, as well as how many nodes each layer should use. These variables are not directly related to the training data at all. They are configuration variables. Another difference is that parameters change during a training job, while the hyperparameters are usually constant during a job.Weights and biases are variables that get adjusted during the training process, so they are not hyperparameters.
https://cloud.google.com/ml-engine/docs/hyperparameter-tuning-overview
Which of the following are feature engineering techniques? (Select 2 answers)
Answer(s): C,D
Selecting and crafting the right set of feature columns is key to learning an effective model.Bucketization is a process of dividing the entire range of a continuous feature into a set of consecutive bins/buckets, and then converting the original numerical feature into a bucket ID (as a categorical feature) depending on which bucket that value falls into.Using each base feature column separately may not be enough to explain the data. To learn the differences between different feature combinations, we can add crossed feature columns to the model.
https://www.tensorflow.org/tutorials/wide#selecting_and_engineering_features_for_the_model
You want to use a BigQuery table as a data sink. In which writing mode(s) can you use BigQuery as a sink?
Answer(s): A
When you apply a BigQueryIO.Write transform in batch mode to write to a single table, Dataflow invokes a BigQuery load job. When you apply a BigQueryIO.Write transform in streaming mode or in batch mode using a function to specify the destination table, Dataflow uses BigQuery's streaming inserts
https://cloud.google.com/dataflow/model/bigquery-io
You have a job that you want to cancel. It is a streaming pipeline, and you want to ensure that any data that is in-flight is processed and written to the output. Which of the following commands can you use on the Dataflow monitoring console to stop the pipeline job?
Answer(s): B
Using the Drain option to stop your job tells the Dataflow service to finish your job in its current state. Your job will immediately stop ingesting new data from input sources, but the Dataflow service will preserve any existing resources (such as worker instances) to finish processing and writing any buffered data in your pipeline.
https://cloud.google.com/dataflow/pipelines/stopping-a-pipeline
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