Which of the following is an example of grounding a prompt?

Asking the AI to 'be creative' in its response

Providing a product manual and asking the AI to answer questions based only on that manual

Asking the AI to 'write a summary of the latest news'

Asking the AI to 'answer from your general knowledge'

Which scenario best illustrates the use of defensive prompting?

A user asks the AI to generate a response without any context or examples

A user asks the AI to 'write a poem' without any additional instructions

A user provides a detailed prompt that specifies the format, constraints, and asks the AI to state if it is unsure

A user repeatedly sends the same prompt until the AI gives a different answer

What is the purpose of grounding an AI model's response with relevant source material?

To make the response longer and more detailed

To ensure the response is written in a specific tone

To make the model's response more creative

To anchor the response in verifiable information, reducing the risk of hallucinations

A marketing team uses an AI to generate product descriptions. The first draft contains a factual error about a product feature. The team wants to correct it efficiently. Which approach is best?

Ask the AI to generate a completely new description.

Accept the draft and manually correct the error in a text editor.

Ask the AI to make the description more exciting and engaging.

Point out the specific error in the draft and ask the AI to correct it while keeping the rest of the description unchanged.

What is the purpose of a verification prompt, such as 'Check your answer against the provided data'?

To instruct the AI to cross-check its response with the given information, reducing errors

To make the response more creative

To speed up the response generation

To make the AI model more confident in its response

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2.4 Explain Defensive Prompting and Mitigation Strategies for AI-generated Errors (e.g., Hallucinations) AI-TECHNICAL-PRACTITIONER Practice Questions (Page 2)

Part of the Prompt Engineering domain, which accounts for 15% of the AI-TECHNICAL-PRACTITIONER exam. Cisco does not publish an official question count, but from its 60-minute exam (~25–40 total, ~4–6 in this domain), expect 1–2 from this objective — we provide 35 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)

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9 Concepts in This Objective

Defensive Prompting Overview
Hallucination Types and Causes
Prompt Structuring Techniques
Grounding and Context Provision
Constraint and Format Specification
Verification and Cross-Checking Prompts
Uncertainty Expression and Confidence Elicitation
Iterative Refinement and Feedback Loops
Mitigation Strategies for Hallucinations

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A marketing team uses an AI to generate product descriptions. The first draft contains a factual error about a product feature. The team wants to correct it efficiently. Which approach is best?
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