2.1 Understand Prompt Engineering Principles and Patterns (roles, Instructions, Constraints) AI-TECHNICAL-PRACTITIONER Practice Questions (Page 2)

Questions 6–10

1. 6foundation · easy

   Which prompt is the best example of instruction-based prompting?

   • AYou are a technical writer. Summarize this article.
   • BHere is an example summary. Now summarize this article.
   • CSummarize the article, but do not exceed 50 words.
   • DSummarize the following article in three bullet points.
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2. 7application · medium

   A data analyst wants the LLM to extract the 'source IP', 'destination IP', and 'port' from a firewall log line. The analyst provides the model with two examples of correctly formatted extractions before asking it to process a new log line. Which prompt pattern is being used?

   • AChain-of-thought prompting
   • BZero-shot prompting
   • CFew-shot prompting
   • DRole-based prompting
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4. 8foundation · easy

   A network engineer wants the AI model to respond to a troubleshooting question as if it were a senior Cisco TAC engineer. Which prompt engineering technique directly achieves this?

   • AStarting the prompt with 'Act as a senior Cisco TAC engineer'
   • BAdding a constraint that limits the response to 100 words
   • CIncluding a few examples of correct troubleshooting steps in the prompt
   • DAdding a chain-of-thought instruction to think step by step
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5. 9expert · hard

   A data science team is using an LLM to classify customer support tickets into 'Billing', 'Technical', or 'Other'. Initial zero-shot results are inconsistent. The team has a labeled dataset of 50 example tickets. They want to improve accuracy without fine-tuning the model. Which approach is most effective?

   • AUse a chain-of-thought prompt that asks the model to reason about each ticket before classifying it.
   • BUse a role-based prompt that assigns the model the role of a 'senior support manager'.
   • CUse a few-shot prompt with 5 diverse examples from the labeled dataset, including the correct category for each.
   • DUse a zero-shot prompt that explicitly states the three categories and asks for a single-word answer.
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6. 10application · medium

   A content creator wants the LLM to write a blog post about 'network automation'. The creator needs the post to be between 500 and 600 words, written for a beginner audience, and must not mention any specific vendor products. Which prompt is best?

   • A"Write a blog post about network automation for beginners."
   • B"Act as a tech blogger. Write about network automation."
   • C"Write a short blog post about network automation. Avoid vendor names."
   • D"Write a 500-600 word blog post about network automation for beginners. Do not mention any specific vendor products."
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