AWS Certified Machine Learning Specialty Exam Study Guide [MLS-C01]

Preparing for the AWS Certified Machine Learning Specialty exam? Don't know where to start? This post is the AWS Certified Machine Learning Certificate Study Guide (with links to each objective in the exam domain).

I have curated a detailed list of articles from AWS documentation and other blogs for each objective of the AWS Certified Machine Learning (MLS-C01) exam. Please share the post within your circles so it helps them to prepare for the exam.

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Data Engineering – 20%

Create data repositories for machine learning

Using Amazon S3 as a data repository

Using Amazon Redshift as a data source

Using Amazon RDS Database as an Amazon ML Datasource

Identify and implement a data-ingestion solution

Data Ingestion methods in AWS

Understand how data is ingested with Amazon SageMaker and a Data Lake on AWS

Case Study: How Kinect Energy ingests data to forecast energy prices

Identify and implement a data-transformation solution

Data transformations in Amazon Machine Learning:

1. N-gram Transformation

2. Orthogonal Sparse Bigram (OSB) Transformation

3. Lowercase Transformation

4. Remove Punctuation Transformation

5. Quantile Binning Transformation

6. Normalization Transformation

7. Cartesian Product Transformation

Amazon SageMaker Batch Transform

Example: Transform dataset from numpy.array format to the CSV format

Data Rearrangement: Create datasource based on a section of the input data

Exploratory Data Analysis – 24%

Sanitize and prepare data for modeling

Prepare your data in Amazon Machine Learning

Use Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth for Data Labeling

Prepare data in Amazon SageMaker

Perform feature engineering

Understanding the Importance of Feature Transformation

Feature Processing in Amazon Machine Learning

Feature Processing using Spark & Scikit-learn in SageMaker

Analyze and visualize data for machine learning

Analyzing data for Machine Learning

1. Analyzing Data with Amazon Machine Learning

2. Explore, Analyze & Process data

Visualizing data for Machine Learning

1. Visualizing the distribution of data

2. Visualizing insights for binary models

3. Visualizing insights for Regression models

4. Visualizing insights for Multi-class Models

5. Visualizing Results in Amazon SageMaker Studio

6. Visualize Model Analysis in Amazon SageMaker Studio

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Modeling – 36%

Frame business problems as machine learning problems

A news article on Applying Machine Learning To Business Problems by Carlos Escapa

Slides from the same session by Carlos

Other interesting articles/experiences to read:

1. Resources from AWS: Formulating the Problem

2. Resources from Amazon: Solving Business Problems with Amazon ML

3. This course from Google is great for understanding the ML Problem framing

4. A Step-by-Step Guide to Machine Learning Problem Framing from Medium

5. Frame a problem as a machine learning problem from Data Science Central

Framing Business Problems for Automatic Machine Learning

Select the appropriate model(s) for a given machine learning problem

Amazon Machine Learning: Types of ML Models

Excellent article on how to select an ML algorithm (although for Azure ML)

Review all the built-in algorithms in SageMaker to understand their applicability:

Supervised Learning Algorithms:

DeepAR forecasting (Forecasts time series using Neural Networks)

Factorization Machines (Captures interactions between features)

Image Classification Algorithm (Multi-label image classification)

K-Nearest Neighbors Algorithm (Predicts similar items by evaluating distance)

Linear Learner Algorithm (for Classification or Regression problems)

Object2Vec Algorithm (General-purpose algorithm)

Object Detection Algorithm (Classifies objects in images)

Sequence-to-Sequence Algorithm (for text summarization)

Unsupervised Learning Algorithms:

IP Insights Algorithm (Learns the usage patterns of IPv4 addresses)

K-Means (Finds discrete groups within data)

Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) Algorithm (Unsupervised learning algorithm)

Neural Topic Model (NTM) Algorithm (organize a corpus of documents into topics)

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) Algorithm (for reducing the dimensionality)

Random Cut Forest (RCF) Algorithm (Detects anomalous data points in a data set)

Other Machine Learning Algorithms:

BlazingText Algorithm (Text Classification)

Semantic Segmentation Algorithm (tags every pixel in an image with a label)

XGBoost Algorithm

Train machine learning models

Build, Train, and Deploy a Machine Learning Model with SageMaker

Train a Model with Amazon SageMaker

Incremental training of model in SageMaker

Training with Amazon EC2 Spot Instances

Other AWS documentation items to review:

Understanding the training process

Train a Deep Learning model

Perform hyperparameter optimization

Understanding the Training Parameters

Hyperparameters available in Amazon ML

How does Hyperparameter Tuning work?

Defining Hyperparameter Ranges

Example of a Hyperparameter Tuning Job

Best Practices for Hyperparameter Tuning

Evaluate machine learning models

Evaluate ML Models:

1. Binary Model Insights

2. Multiclass Model Insights

3. Regression Model Insights

Understand the Cross-validation technique for evaluating ML Models

Evaluating Model Fit: Underfitting vs. Overfitting

Evaluate Model Accuracy of the following:

1. Binary Classification

2. Multiclass Classification

3. Regression Models

Machine Learning Implementation and Operations – 20%

Build machine learning solutions for performance, availability, scalability, resiliency, and fault tolerance

Performance:

1. Review the ML Model's Predictive Performance

Availability:

1. Deploy Multiple Instances Across Availability Zones

Scalability:

1. Amazon SageMaker: Infinitely Scalable Machine Learning Algorithms

2. Review this Whitepaper: Power Machine Learning at Scale

3. Scaling Machine Learning from 0 to millions of users

Resiliency:

1. Resiliency in Amazon SageMaker

2. AWS' approach to operational resilience

Recommend and implement the appropriate machine learning services and features for a given problem

All Machine Learning solutions on AWS

Details of each ML/AI services in AWS

Apply basic AWS security practices to machine learning solutions

Review the whitepaper on AWS Security processes

Protect Data at Rest

Protect Data in Transit

Secure access to Amazon SageMaker with IAM Roles

Monitoring:

1. Monitor Amazon SageMaker with Amazon CloudWatch

2. Record user actions/interactions with SageMaker with AWS CloudTrail

Let Amazon SageMaker securely connect to resources in VPC

Deploy and operationalize machine learning solutions

2 ways to deploy your model:

a. Amazon SageMaker hosting services (to set up an endpoint to get predictions)

Deploy a Model on Amazon SageMaker Hosting Services

Example: Deploying a Model to Amazon SageMaker Hosting Services

b. Amazon SageMaker batch transform (to get predictions on the entire dataset)

Overview: Deploying a model with Amazon SageMaker batch transform

Deploy the Model with Batch Transform

Review deployment best practices

Troubleshoot Amazon SageMaker Model Deployments

This brings us to the end of the AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty [MLS-C01] Exam Preparation Study Guide

What do you think? Let me know in the comments section if I have missed out on anything. Also, I love to hear from you about how your preparation is going on!

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