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(a) confuses it with a model registry. (c) attributes an AutoML-style responsibility it doesn't have. (d) overstates its scope beyond features.",{"id":128,"topic":9,"difficulty":111,"body":129,"options":130,"correct_key":115,"explanation":139},"019f94fd-69d0-7442-9f64-a885b3dbcc1f","In feature store terminology, what is the main difference between the 'offline store' and the 'online store'?",[131,133,135,137],{"key":115,"text":132},"The offline store holds large historical feature data for training, optimized for batch reads; the online store holds the latest feature values, optimized for low-latency single-key lookups at serving time.",{"key":118,"text":134},"The offline store is for text data only, while the online store is exclusively for numerical features. 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(b), (c), and (d) misattribute the distinction to data type, lifecycle stage, or deployment region rather than access pattern and latency.",{"id":141,"topic":9,"difficulty":142,"body":143,"options":144,"correct_key":124,"explanation":153},"019f94fd-69d0-7df1-8b60-b086ec9b1906",2,"What is 'training-serving skew'?",[145,147,149,151],{"key":115,"text":146},"A statistical measure of how imbalanced the label distribution is in the training set. This kind of reasoning often comes from generalizing too far from a single observed case.",{"key":118,"text":148},"The tendency of a model's accuracy to decrease as more layers are added during training. It's the kind of assumption that seems safe until you actually trace through the underlying implementation.",{"key":121,"text":150},"The gap in wall-clock time between when a model finishes training and when it is deployed to serve traffic. 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