How to Label Employee-Only Image Data With Maximum Accuracy?
Short answer
CD Create an Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth annotation job and staff it with a private workforce of employees so only authorized staff label the images.
Question
Which combination of steps should the ML engineer take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
Key Takeaways
The question tests the pairing of a managed labeling service with the correct workforce type for confidential data, and the trap is picking a public crowdsourcing option or assuming a model can label itself in a supervised setting.
Building a supervised image model requires accurate ground-truth labels, and for confidential employee-only images the labeling must happen inside a controlled private workforce. This page establishes that Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth annotation jobs staffed by a private team (C and D) satisfy both the accuracy and the access-restriction requirements.
Common mistake: Choosing Amazon Mechanical Turk (E) because it is cheap and crowdsourced, ignoring that the images are restricted to employees — a public workforce would break the access requirement even if labeling throughput were higher.
Expert Analysis
Why the Answer Is Correct
Supervised deep learning needs human-provided labels, and the requirement for "highest possible accuracy" on images that "only employees should access" maps directly to Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth plus a private workforce. Option C creates the annotation job with the labeling task and its requirements defined, which is the mechanism Ground Truth uses to collect high-quality labels. Option D supplies the workers: a private workforce configured so that only authenticated employees can open the labeling portal, run the job, and review results. Together they deliver managed labeling with human review loops and no exposure of the data outside the organization.
Why the Other Options Are Wrong
Option A (Amazon Rekognition automatic labeling) offers no guarantee of accuracy against your own taxonomy and gives no employee-controlled review path, so it cannot satisfy "highest possible accuracy". Option B is not supervised learning at all — as one commenter put it, "This describes unsupervised learning, not supervised learning" — because letting the model infer its own labels defeats the purpose of a labeled training set. Option E uses Amazon Mechanical Turk, whose workers are outside the organization; as another voter noted, "its public crowdsourcing and data needs to be viewed only by employees", so it violates the access constraint regardless of cost or speed.
Community Comment Notes
Every substantive voter converged on C and D, with bigdata2ml summarizing the split cleanly: "C - Supervised learning requires labels, Ground Truth can start labeling the images, D- Private team setup in Ground Truth can review the images". Another commenter dismissed the automated options because "Human validation is superior", and techrunnerisme added that "Supervised learning would require labelled data". Chelseajcole reduced it to the essentials: create the job with C, and with D "only employee to run". The lone vote for B appears to be a misread of the supervised requirement rather than a competing interpretation.
Official Reference
- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/latest/dg/sms-workforce-private.html
- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/latest/dg/sms.html
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Exam Strategy
When a stem says "Choose two", look for a service-plus-configuration pair: Ground Truth creates the job, and the workforce option decides who does the work. Any answer that routes confidential data to a public crowd or that skips labeling entirely contradicts an explicit constraint in the stem.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is Amazon Mechanical Turk wrong for labeling employee-only images?
Could Amazon Rekognition label the images well enough instead of Ground Truth?
Discussion 6 contributions
Compiled from public community threads and reader submissions, lightly edited for clarity. Handles and vote tallies are shown as recorded, and comments reflect the views of individual contributors.
From public community threads 6
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bigdata2ml 👍 1C - Supervised learning requires labels, Ground Truth can start labeling the images, D- Private team setup in Ground Truth can review the images (E- Mechanical turk is public reviewers, so not applicable to use case)
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821aa36 👍 1A. and B. = Not the highest accuracy from the options. Human validation is superior. E. No, because its public crowdsourcing and data needs to be viewed only by employees.
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techrunnerisme 👍 1B won't be accurate. Supervised learning would require labelled data.
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TheWheelsofSteel 👍 1This describes unsupervised learning, not supervised learning
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Seidor_Analytics 👍 1 Answered BI’d roll with B — seems like the most solid choice.
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Chelseajcole 👍 1C: create job D:only employee to run
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