1Z0-1127-25 Practice Test 1 — 10 Questions

Question 1

Which THREE techniques effectively reduce query latency in a RAG system?

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Pre-compute embeddings for all documents. Pre-computing embeddings for all documents eliminates the need to generate embeddings at query time, which is a computationally expensive step. By storing pre-computed vector representations, the system can directly perform similarity searches against the index, significantly reducing latency.

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Use a larger generation model

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Increase the number of shards

Question 2

A prompt engineer notices that the model sometimes generates outputs that include parts of the system prompt or user message verbatim. This is likely a symptom of which common prompt failure?

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Prompt injection vulnerabilities. Prompt injection vulnerabilities can cause the model to leak or repeat the prompt itself. This is a known failure mode where the model confuses the input with output.

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Ambiguous instructions

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Conflicting requirements

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Insufficient context

Question 3

Which model family is NOT currently available in OCI Generative AI service?

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OpenAI GPT-4. OpenAI GPT-4 is not available in OCI Generative AI service because OCI's native generative AI offerings are built on open-source and partner models like Meta Llama, Anthropic Claude, and Cohere, but not on OpenAI's proprietary models. OCI Generative AI service provides access to models hosted on OCI, and OpenAI GPT-4 is only accessible via Azure OpenAI Service or direct OpenAI API, not through OCI's managed service.

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Meta Llama

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Anthropic Claude

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Cohere

Question 4

A financial services company is deploying a RAG system for regulatory compliance queries. The system uses OCI Data Science to run a custom embedding model fine-tuned on regulatory documents. The index in OpenSearch uses cosine similarity and HNSW algorithm. Users report that queries containing synonyms to regulatory terms (e.g., "AML" vs "Anti-Money Laundering") often fail to retrieve relevant documents. Which combination of improvements would be MOST effective? (Assume budget and latency constraints)

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Implement a hybrid search combining keyword and vector search. Hybrid search (combining keyword (BM25) and vector search) catches exact synonym matches from text. Query expansion helps but may not be as reliable. Fine-tuning on synonyms is possible but time-consuming. Increasing HNSW m slightly improves recall but does not address synonym gap.

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Increase the `m` parameter in HNSW to improve recall

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Fine-tune the embedding model further on a dataset of synonyms

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Use query expansion with a thesaurus before embedding

Question 5

During fine-tuning of a large language model on OCI, you notice that the model's performance on the validation set is not improving after several epochs, but the training loss continues to decrease. What is the most likely cause?

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The model is overfitting to the training data.. When training loss decreases but validation performance stagnates or worsens, the model is overfitting to the training data. It memorizes the training examples but fails to generalize. A high learning rate might cause divergence, not this pattern. Too small training data can contribute to overfitting but is not the direct symptom. An unrepresentative validation set could cause mismatch, but the described pattern is classic overfitting.

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The learning rate is too high.

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The validation set is not representative.

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The training data is too small.

Question 6

Which three characteristics of LLMs can lead to hallucinations? (Select THREE)

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Ability to generate plausible-sounding text. LLMs are trained to generate text that is statistically plausible and coherent, but they lack mechanisms to verify factual accuracy. This means they can produce sentences that sound convincing and grammatically correct while being entirely false, which is a direct cause of hallucinations.

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Overconfidence in predictions

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Large vocabulary size

Question 7

A company wants to use OCI Generative AI to summarize customer feedback. They need low latency and high throughput. Which configuration should they choose?

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Dedicated AI cluster with base model. Dedicated AI clusters provide guaranteed compute resources (GPUs) with no multi-tenant contention, ensuring low latency and high throughput for inference workloads. Using a base model avoids the additional overhead of fine-tuning inference, which can introduce latency due to custom weight loading and optimization steps. This combination is optimal for real-time summarization of customer feedback where response time and volume are critical.

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Serverless endpoint with fine-tuned model

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Dedicated AI cluster with fine-tuned model

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Serverless endpoint with base model

Question 8

Which TWO of the following are sources of training data for fine-tuning a model in OCI Generative AI?

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OCI Object Storage bucket. OCI Object Storage is a supported source for training data when fine-tuning models in OCI Generative AI. The service can directly access data stored in Object Storage buckets via service-level integrations, allowing you to reference large datasets without local uploads.

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OCI File Storage

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OCI Database

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OCI Streaming

Question 9

Which three statements about transformer architecture are correct? (Choose three.)

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The softmax function is used in the attention mechanism to normalize attention scores.. The softmax function is applied to the raw attention scores (the dot products between queries and keys) to convert them into a probability distribution that sums to 1. This normalization allows the model to assign a relative weight to each token in the sequence, ensuring that the weighted sum of values is stable and interpretable.

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The feed-forward network applies a different set of weights for each token position.

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The encoder-decoder structure is used in GPT models.

Question 10

A developer is getting a 401 Unauthorized error when calling the OCI Generative AI inference API. What is the most likely cause?

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The request is missing or has an invalid authentication signature. A 401 Unauthorized error specifically indicates a failure in authentication, not authorization or resource availability. The OCI Generative AI inference API requires every request to include a valid signature based on the OCI Signature Version 1 algorithm (RFC 2104 HMAC-SHA256). If the request is missing the Authorization header or the signature is malformed (e.g., incorrect key ID, mismatched signing string, or expired timestamp), the API gateway rejects it with a 401 response.

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The API endpoint has reached its rate limit

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The model does not support the requested parameters

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The model is not deployed