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Course Description

Python FastAI Interview Practice Questions is your ultimate resource for mastering one of the most powerful deep learning libraries in the world, specifically designed for developers and data scientists who need to move beyond basic tutorials into professional-grade implementation. This comprehensive course bridges the gap between high-level abstractions and low-level customization, offering a deep dive into the DataBlock API, the nuances of Transfer Learning strategies, and the mathematical intuition behind the 1cycle policy and Mixed-Precision training. Whether you are preparing for a high-stakes technical interview or optimizing a mission-critical production pipeline, these questions will challenge your understanding of Loss Functions, Custom Callbacks, and Inference Optimization using FastAPI. You won't just memorize syntax; you will learn how to interpret model behavior through ClassConfusion, handle class imbalance, and secure your model weights against adversarial attacks, ensuring you possess the "Senior" level expertise required to justify your architectural decisions to stakeholders and successfully deploy .pkl models at scale.

Exam Domains & Sample Topics

Data Blocks & Preprocessing: DataBlock API, Custom Transforms, and DataLoaders.
Architectures & Transfer Learning: Fine-tuning, U-Nets, and the "Layered API."
Optimization & Callbacks: 1cycle policy, Learning Rate Finder, and Mixed-Precision.
Validation & Interpretation: Interpretation classes, Focal Loss, and Class Confusion.
Production & Security: Model exporting, FastAPI integration, and Adversarial Defense.

Sample Practice Questions

1. When using learn.fine_tune(epochs, base_lr), what specifically happens during the first phase of training?

A) All layers are trained simultaneously with a discriminative learning rate.
B) The entire model is frozen, and only the optimizer state is updated.
C) The body of the model is frozen, and only the newly added head is trained for one epoch.
D) The head is frozen, and the pre-trained weights are updated to match the new data distribution.
E) The learning rate is automatically decayed using a cosine annealing schedule over all epochs.
F) The model performs a random search to find the optimal weight initialization for the head.

Correct Answer: C Overall Explanation: The fine_tune method is a high-level wrapper in FastAI designed for transfer learning. It automates a two-stage process: first, it freezes the pre-trained body to train only the head, then it unfreezes the whole model to train everything together.

Option A is incorrect: This describes a later stage or a specific discriminative training approach, not the initial phase of fine_tune.
Option B is incorrect: If the entire model were frozen, no weights would update, making training useless.
Option C is correct: FastAI freezes the body and trains the randomly initialized head for one epoch to prevent "catastrophic forgetting" of pre-trained features.
Option D is incorrect: It is the body that is frozen, not the head.
Option E is incorrect: While cosine annealing is used, it describes the scheduler, not the freezing/unfreezing logic of the first phase.
Option F is incorrect: FastAI uses standard initialization (like Kaiming or Xavier), not a random search.

2. You are seeing "Out of Memory" (OOM) errors on your GPU. Which FastAI feature should you implement first to reduce memory pressure without changing the batch size?

A) learn. to_fp32()
B) learn. to_fp16()
C) LabelSmoothing()
D) MixUp()
E) WeightDecay(0.1)
F) FlattenedLoss()

Correct Answer: B Overall Explanation: Mixed-precision training (to_fp16) allows the model to use half-precision floating-point numbers for certain operations, significantly reducing GPU memory usage and speeding up training on compatible hardware.

Option A is incorrect: to_fp32 is the default full precision; it would not save memory.
Option B is correct: Mixed precision reduces the memory footprint of weights and gradients.
Option C is incorrect: Label smoothing is a regularization technique, not a memory optimization.
Option D is incorrect: MixUp is a data augmentation technique that helps with generalization but can actually slightly increase memory overhead.
Option E is incorrect: Weight decay is a regularization penalty; it does not affect peak memory usage.
Option F is incorrect: This is a utility for handling loss shapes and has no impact on GPU VRAM constraints.

3. In the context of the FastAI DataBlock API, what is the primary purpose of the get_x and get_y arguments?

A) To define the loss function and the metric for the learner.
B) To specify the validation split percentage.
C) To define the functions that extract the input data and the target labels from the raw items.
D) To determine whether the model uses a ResNet or a Transformer architecture.
E) To set the image augmentation parameters like rotation and zoom.
F) To convert the final model into a .pkl file for deployment.

Correct Answer: C Overall Explanation: The DataBlock serves as a blueprint. Since raw data (like a CSV or a folder of files) can be structured in many ways, get_x and get_y tell FastAI exactly how to "grab" the features and labels from each entry.

Option A is incorrect: These are defined in the Learner, not the DataBlock.
Option B is incorrect: This is handled by the splitter argument.
Option C is correct: They act as the "pointers" to your independent and dependent variables.
Option D is incorrect: Architecture is defined during the creation of the Learner (e.g., vision_learner).
Option E is incorrect: This is handled by batch_tfms or item_tfms.
Option F is incorrect: Exporting is done via learn.export().

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