Design a Prompt That Elicits a Specifically Formatted Response GENERATIVE-AI-ENGINEER-ASSOCIATE Practice Questions (Page 1)

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1. 1expert · hard

   A team is building a prompt to classify support tickets into categories: 'hardware', 'software', 'network', or 'other'. The downstream system only accepts these exact lowercase strings. The team's current prompt is: 'Classify the ticket into one of these categories: hardware, software, network, other.' The model sometimes returns 'Hardware' or 'Network Issue'. The team has tried adding 'Use lowercase' to the prompt, but the issue persists. What is the most effective way to enforce the exact enumeration?

   • AAdd a few-shot example showing a ticket description and the corresponding output 'hardware' (or another exact category).
   • BIncrease the temperature to 0.0 to make the output more deterministic.
   • CAdd 'Do not use any other words' to the user prompt.
   • DAdd 'Use the exact category names' to the system prompt.
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2. 2foundation · easy

   A user asks: 'Summarize this article in three bullet points.' Which prompt role is this?

   • ASystem prompt
   • BFew-shot example
   • CModel output
   • DUser prompt
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4. 3application · medium

   A team is writing a prompt to extract the 'name' and 'email' from a business card. The current prompt is: 'Extract the name and email from this business card.' The model sometimes returns the name as 'John A. Smith' and sometimes as 'Smith, John A.', and the email sometimes includes 'mailto:' prefix. The downstream system requires the name in 'First Last' format and the email without any prefix. Which prompt is the most unambiguous?

   • A'Extract the name and email. Return them as a JSON object.'
   • B'Extract the name and email. Use standard formats.'
   • C'Extract the name and email. Be accurate.'
   • D'Extract the name in First Last format and the email as a plain email address without any prefix.'
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5. 4application · medium

   A company is deploying a model that generates SQL queries from natural language. The system prompt currently contains the formatting rule: 'Always return the SQL query without any additional text.' A user asks: 'Can you also explain the query?' The model responds with an explanation followed by the SQL. What is the most likely reason for this behavior, and what is the best fix?

   • AThe system prompt was not specific enough. The fix is to add 'Do not provide explanations, even if asked.' to the system prompt.
   • BThe user prompt was ambiguous. The fix is to rephrase the user prompt to be clearer.
   • CThe user prompt overrode the system prompt. The fix is to move the formatting rule to the user prompt.
   • DThe model is not capable of following system prompts. The fix is to use a different model.
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6. 5foundation · easy

   Which prompt instruction is the most unambiguous for requesting a list of items?

   • AOutput the items in a list.
   • BProvide a bulleted list of exactly three items, each on its own line.
   • CGive me a few items.
   • DList the items.
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