A county public-health analytics team is asked to promote a production candidate whose only history is an undocumented notebook run. What should they require?
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Short Explanation
Undocumented notebook lore is not a flight log—production candidates need tracked params and metrics first.
Full Explanation
A county public-health analytics team asked to promote a production candidate whose only history is an undocumented notebook run should require tracked experiments with logged parameters and metrics before that run can be a production candidate. Associate MLOps treats promotion as a governed step: params explain how the model was built, metrics prove how it performed, and tracking ties both to a durable run identity. An undocumented notebook is a research scratchpad, not an audit trail for public-health scoring that may affect residents.
Promoting immediately because notebooks are always sufficient audit trails fails by concept: notebooks rarely capture complete, immutable params/metrics history and are easy to edit without lineage. Accepting hallway screenshots as the complete experiment record fails because informal images are not structured, comparable experiment data. Deleting all prior tracked runs so the notebook stands alone fails by destroying the very evidence base promotion should rely on.
Exam caveat: notebooks are useful for exploration, but production candidacy on the exam requires tracked params and metrics.
Operational check: block the public-health promotion ticket until a tracker entry exists with hyperparameters, evaluation metrics, data tags, and a run ID that matches the artifact being promoted.