Azure Data Scientists Associate Practice Exam

True or False: The Publish button in Azure Machine Learning Designer deploys the model as a web service endpoint.

1. True

2. False

3. Conditional

4. Only in specific scenarios

The correct answer is: False

The claim that the Publish button in Azure Machine Learning Designer deploys the model as a web service endpoint is false. While it's true that Azure Machine Learning allows for the deployment of models to create services, the Publish functionality specifically is more about saving and managing your Azure Machine Learning pipeline rather than deploying the model as a web service. Typically, to create a web service endpoint, users would need to follow additional steps after publishing the pipeline, such as selecting the appropriate pipeline and using the "Deploy" option, which may involve configuring a deployment target and defining the runtime environment. The ability to deploy models correctly involves knowing which service to use based on your goals, whether it is to operationalize a model for real-time predictions or batch scoring. Thus, the notion that simply clicking "Publish" directly results in a web service deployment is misleading and highlights the need to understand the Azure Machine Learning deployment process more comprehensively.