AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer – Associate (MLA-C01) — Question 164

A company is developing a new ML model to rank customers in order of their potential to pay back loans. The company needs to use an Amazon SageMaker AI built-in algorithm.

Which algorithm should the company use to meet these requirements?

Answer options

• A. XGBoost
• B. K-means clustering
• C. Principal component analysis (PCA)
• D. Neural Topic Model (NTM)

Correct answer: A

Explanation

The correct choice is A. XGBoost is a powerful algorithm suitable for ranking tasks, including predicting loan repayment potential. The other options, such as K-means clustering and PCA, are not appropriate for this predictive modeling task, and NTM is more suited for topic modeling rather than customer ranking.