What controls would you put around a model that affects credit decisions in India?
PICTURE THIS: DATA SPLIT
Fit on train, tune on val, report on test once.
Simple meaning
Versioned training data with access logs, documented features, fairness slices, human approval, and a registry that cannot be silently overwritten.
WHY — Governance instead of guessing?
Why interviewers care about Governance:
who only read docs from people who shipped.
and tied to MLOps work.
Name the idea, why it exists, then one short example.
End with when you use it and one common pitfall.
STEPS — What happens step by step?
Before you speak the answer, walk the interviewer through these steps:
- 1Versioned training data with
access logs, documented features, fairness slices, human approval, and a registry that cannot be silently overwritten.
- 2Prediction logs with retention
aligned to RBI-style audit needs, plus a rollback plan.
- 3Explainability reports for the
deployed version belong next to the artifact.
- 4Give an example
One tiny concrete case you can say aloud.
- 5Common mistake
What juniors usually get wrong.
- 6Close
When you pick this over the alternative.
EXAMPLE — See it in action
Here's a short line you can speak, broken into clear beats:
Note: Adapt this scaffold to your own project — keep it under 60–90 seconds.
Key takeaway
Versioned training data with access logs, documented features, fairness slices, human approval, and a registry that cannot be silently overwritten. Prediction logs with retention aligned to RBI-style audit needs, plus a rollback plan.