6.5 Describe Data Transformation and Mapping Within AI Agents AI-TECHNICAL-PRACTITIONER Practice Questions (Page 5)

Questions 21–25

1. 21foundation · easy

   What is the role of data mapping in an AI agent's processing pipeline?

   • AIt determines the physical storage location of the agent's data.
   • BIt defines how source data fields correspond to target fields that the agent expects.
   • CIt controls the agent's access permissions to external databases.
   • DIt specifies the algorithm the agent uses to make decisions.
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2. 22foundation · easy

   Where in an AI agent workflow does data transformation typically occur?

   • AAs a preprocessing step before the agent's core reasoning or decision-making.
   • BDuring the deployment of the agent to production.
   • CAfter the agent has generated its final output, to format the results.
   • DOnly when the agent encounters an error during processing.
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4. 23application · medium

   A customer-service AI agent receives order details from a legacy CRM. The 'order_total' field is stored as a string with a currency symbol (e.g., '$1,234.56'), while the agent's downstream pricing model requires a numeric float. Which transformation technique should the agent's preprocessing pipeline apply to this field?

   • AOne-hot encoding
   • BAggregation
   • CNormalization
   • DParsing and type casting
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5. 24expert · hard

   A customer-support AI agent uses a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workflow. User queries are embedded and compared against a vector database of past tickets. The past tickets contain a 'priority' field with values 'High', 'MEDIUM', and 'low'. The agent's response generator needs to reference priority in a consistent format. When should the priority standardization occur?

   • ADuring the tool-calling loop, each time a ticket is retrieved
   • BDuring the query embedding phase, after the user submits a query
   • CDuring the ingestion phase, before the tickets are embedded and stored in the vector database
   • DDuring the response generation phase, after retrieval
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6. 25foundation · easy

   Which transformation technique converts categorical text labels, such as 'red', 'green', and 'blue', into a numerical format for an AI agent?

   • AAggregation
   • BEncoding
   • CNormalization
   • DFiltering
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