1Z0-1127-25 Practice Test 2 — 25 Questions

Question 1

A company deploys a large language model on a dedicated AI cluster with 4 nodes. The model requires 128 GB of memory per instance, but the nodes have only 64 GB each. During inference, the nodes experience out-of-memory errors. What is the best solution?

Choose an answer to begin — your selection is scored in the full session.

Accepted Answer

Enable model parallelism across nodes. Model parallelism splits the model's layers or parameters across multiple nodes, allowing the 128 GB model to be distributed across the 4 nodes (each with 64 GB) so that no single node exceeds its memory capacity. This is the best solution because it directly addresses the memory constraint without requiring additional hardware or sacrificing inference throughput, and it is a standard technique for deploying large language models on distributed AI clusters.

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Increase the number of nodes to 8

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Upgrade to higher memory node shapes

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Reduce the batch size in inference requests

Question 2

A healthcare company is using OCI GenAI to generate patient summaries from clinical notes. The model output sometimes includes hallucinated medical facts, such as incorrect dosages or diagnoses, which could be dangerous. The team needs to improve factual accuracy while maintaining data privacy. They have a large collection of internal medical knowledge bases (clinical guidelines, drug databases) that are stored in OCI Object Storage. The current implementation uses a zero-shot prompt with the base Cohere Command model. The data science team has limited GPU resources and wants to avoid building a complex pipeline. Which course of action best addresses the hallucination problem?

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Implement a RAG pipeline that retrieves relevant documents from the internal knowledge bases and includes them in the prompt.. A Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline directly addresses hallucination by grounding the model's output in verified, internal medical knowledge bases stored in OCI Object Storage. This approach retrieves relevant clinical guidelines or drug database entries and includes them in the prompt, providing factual context without requiring fine-tuning or complex GPU-intensive pipelines. It also preserves data privacy by keeping sensitive medical data within OCI and avoids exposing it to external model training.

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Increase the temperature parameter to 0.9 to encourage more deterministic outputs.

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Use prompt engineering to add 'Only provide facts that are absolutely certain.'

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Fine-tune the Cohere model on a publicly available medical dataset like PubMed.

Question 3

A team is deploying a generative AI model using OCI Functions for serverless inference. They are experiencing cold start latency of over 10 seconds for the first invocation after idle periods. What is the best strategy to reduce cold start latency?

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Use provisioned concurrency to keep a set number of function instances warm.. OCI Functions supports provisioned concurrency, which keeps a specified number of instances warm. Option A (increasing memory) can reduce cold start but not as effectively. Option C (reducing timeout) might cause failures. Option D (using OCI Data Flow) is for data processing, not inference.

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Migrate the inference to OCI Data Flow for better performance.

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Reduce the function timeout to force faster execution.

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Increase the memory allocation for the function.

Question 4

Refer to the exhibit. An administrator receives the error shown when attempting to deploy a custom model. What is the most likely cause?

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The user or service does not have permission to read the model artifact from Object Storage. The error indicates that the deployment process cannot access the model artifact stored in Object Storage. In OCI Generative AI, the service must have read permission on the bucket and object to download the artifact. If the user or service principal lacks the necessary IAM policy (e.g., `allow service generative-ai to read objects in compartment X where target.bucket.name='Y'`), the deployment fails with this access-denied error.

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The compartment ID is incorrect

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The model artifact file is corrupted

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The dedicated AI cluster ID is invalid

Question 5

A user wants to access the OCI Generative AI service programmatically. Which credential method is recommended for use in a production application running on OCI Compute?

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Instance principal. Instance principal authentication is the recommended method for production applications running on OCI Compute because it allows the application to authenticate with OCI services without managing or embedding any credentials. The OCI Compute instance assumes a dynamic group and IAM policy that grants it permissions, and the SDK automatically handles token exchange via the instance metadata service, eliminating the need for long-lived secrets.

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API signing keys

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User password and OCID

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Resource principal

Question 6

Refer to the exhibit. A developer encounters this error. Which action should they take to resolve the issue?

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Wait and retry after some time.. The error indicates a rate limit or throttling issue, typically returned by the OCI Generative AI service when the API request quota is exceeded. Waiting and retrying after the cooldown period allows the rate limit to reset, which is the correct resolution for transient throttling errors.

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Change the model to cohere.command-light.

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Increase the max-tokens value.

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Decrease the temperature to 0.0.

Question 7

A company is deploying a chatbot powered by OCI Generative AI. They want to inject the conversation history into the model prompt to maintain context. However, they notice that after a long conversation, the model starts to ignore earlier messages. What is the most likely cause?

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The model has a limited context window size.. The model's context window size limits the total number of tokens (input + output) it can process at once. When the conversation history grows beyond this limit, older messages are truncated or dropped, causing the model to lose context from earlier parts of the conversation. This is a fundamental constraint of transformer-based models like those used in OCI Generative AI.

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The model's max_tokens limit is too low, truncating the prompt.

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The top_p parameter is set to 1, causing deterministic output.

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The temperature setting is too high, causing randomness.

Question 8

Which THREE components are essential for a production-grade generative AI deployment on OCI? (Select THREE)

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OCI Logging for audit. A is correct because OCI Logging provides centralized audit logging for all API calls and resource changes in the generative AI deployment. This is essential for compliance, security monitoring, and troubleshooting in a production environment, as it captures detailed logs of model invocations, data access, and configuration changes.

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OCI Vault for secrets

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OCI Data Flow for data processing

Question 9

During deployment of a generative AI model, the inference endpoint returns high latency and timeouts. The model is deployed on a dedicated AI cluster with multiple nodes. What is the most likely cause?

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The cluster nodes are configured with insufficient parallelism or the model is not properly parallelized across nodes. High latency and timeouts in a distributed AI inference deployment typically indicate that the model workload is not efficiently distributed across the cluster nodes. Option C is correct because insufficient parallelism—either due to misconfigured node resources (e.g., insufficient vCPUs, GPU cores, or memory bandwidth) or improper model sharding/parallelization—causes some nodes to become bottlenecks while others remain underutilized, leading to queuing delays and eventual timeouts.

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The inference request batch size is too small

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The model is too large for the cluster memory

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The client-side network is slow

Question 10

Which TWO factors most directly impact the consistency of text generated by an LLM when the same prompt is used multiple times?

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Top_p. Top_p (nucleus sampling) directly impacts consistency by controlling the cumulative probability threshold for token selection. A lower Top_p (e.g., 0.1) restricts the model to only the most probable tokens, reducing randomness and making outputs more deterministic across repeated prompts. This parameter, along with Temperature, is a primary lever for managing output variability in LLMs.

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Batch size

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Max_tokens

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Seed

Question 11

A company wants to use OCI Generative AI to summarize customer reviews. Which model parameter should be adjusted to control the creativity of the summary?

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Temperature. Temperature controls the randomness of token selection in the model's output distribution. A higher temperature (e.g., 0.9) makes the summary more creative and diverse, while a lower temperature (e.g., 0.1) makes it more deterministic and focused. For summarizing customer reviews, adjusting temperature directly influences how novel or conservative the generated text will be.

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Frequency penalty

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Top-k

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Presence penalty

Question 12

Your team is deploying a generative AI model for a clinical decision support system. The model must meet HIPAA compliance requirements. You have trained a model using OCI Data Science and now need to deploy it so that patient data is protected. The application requires real-time inference. Which set of actions should you take to ensure compliance while maintaining low latency?

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Deploy in a private VCN subnet, use a service gateway, store keys in OCI Vault, and enable OCI Logging and OCI Audit. Deploying the model in a private VCN subnet ensures the inference endpoint is not exposed to the internet, meeting HIPAA's requirement for network isolation. Using a service gateway allows private connectivity to OCI services without traversing the internet, while storing encryption keys in OCI Vault enables customer-managed key control for data at rest. Enabling OCI Logging and OCI Audit provides the necessary audit trail for compliance, and the private subnet with service gateway keeps latency low by avoiding internet hops.

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Use OCI Functions with API Gateway and allow anonymous access

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Deploy in a public subnet with HTTPS and enable OCI Audit

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Use OCI Data Flow for batch inference and store results in Object Storage with SSE

Question 13

A developer runs an OCI GenAI chat request with system prompt "You are a sarcastic assistant." The output is offensive. How can the developer enforce safety policies?

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Use the OCI GenAI content moderation filter.. The OCI GenAI content moderation filter is specifically designed to enforce safety policies by detecting and blocking offensive, harmful, or policy-violating content in both input prompts and model outputs. By enabling this filter, the developer can prevent the model from generating offensive responses even when a system prompt like 'You are a sarcastic assistant' encourages undesirable behavior.

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Change model to LLAMA.

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Increase maxTokens.

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Set temperature to 0.

Question 14

A developer is testing a RAG application using OCI Generative AI. They receive an error: 'The model cohere.command-r-plus-v1:0 is not supported in this region.' What is the most likely cause?

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The model is not available in the selected OCI region.. The error message explicitly states that the model 'cohere.command-r-plus-v1:0' is not supported in the region. OCI Generative AI models are region-specific; each model is deployed only in certain OCI regions (e.g., us-ashburn-1, eu-frankfurt-1). If the selected region does not host that model, the API returns this error regardless of endpoint formatting, tenancy configuration, or model name spelling.

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The endpoint URL is incorrectly formatted.

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The tenancy is in a different availability domain.

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The model name has a typo.

Question 15

A financial institution uses OCI GenAI to power a customer support chatbot. The compliance team requires that responses are strictly consistent with regulatory guidelines and approved responses. The company has a curated set of question-answer pairs that cover common scenarios. They want to ensure that the chatbot never deviates from these approved answers. The data science team is considering various approaches to enforce this consistency. Which approach is most effective?

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Fine-tuning the model on the curated dataset of question-answer pairs.. Fine-tuning the model on the curated dataset of approved responses teaches the model to output similar responses for related questions, ensuring consistency. Option A is wrong because few-shot prompting may fail for unseen variations and does not guarantee strict adherence. Option C is wrong because using a large context window does not enforce specific content. Option D is wrong because setting a low temperature reduces randomness but does not guarantee the model will choose approved responses.

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Few-shot prompting with three example responses in every query.

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Using a large context window to include all regulatory guidelines in the prompt.

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Setting a low temperature (0.1) to make outputs deterministic.

Question 16

A manufacturing company uses OCI OpenSearch to build a RAG application that retrieves procedural documents. After deployment, queries often return outdated procedures even though the vector index was refreshed. What is the most likely cause?

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The full-text search index is not synchronized with the vector index after updates.. In a RAG application using OCI OpenSearch, the vector index and full-text search index are separate. When procedural documents are updated, the full-text search index may reflect changes immediately, but the vector index requires explicit re-indexing or synchronization to update embeddings. If the vector index is not refreshed after updates, queries can still retrieve outdated vector representations, leading to outdated results despite the index being refreshed.

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The embedding model was fine-tuned on outdated data.

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The BM25 scoring algorithm prioritizes older documents due to term frequency.

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The chunk overlap percentage is too high, causing duplicate context.

Question 17

An organization needs to select a tokenisation algorithm for a multilingual LLM that will process English, Chinese, and Korean text efficiently. Which tokenisation method is BEST suited for this requirement?

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SentencePiece. SentencePiece is language-agnostic, works directly on raw text without requiring pre-tokenisation (e.g., whitespace splitting), and handles languages like Chinese and Korean where word boundaries are not obvious. BPE and WordPiece typically require pre-tokenisation, making them less suitable for CJK languages.

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WordPiece

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Byte-Pair Encoding (BPE)

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Character-level tokenisation

Question 18

A developer notices that the ConversationalRetrievalChain in their LangChain application is not retaining context from previous turns in the conversation. Which component is most likely missing or misconfigured?

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A memory component like ConversationBufferMemory. ConversationalRetrievalChain requires a Memory component to store and retrieve chat history. Without Memory, the chain treats each query independently. The retriever, document splitter, and embeddings are responsible for retrieval and storage, not conversation history.

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A document splitter to chunk the history

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A retriever with appropriate search parameters

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An embedding model to vectorize the history

Question 19

A team fine-tuned a Cohere Command R model using the T-Few technique on a dataset of JSONL prompt/completion pairs. After deployment, they observe that the model's responses are too repetitive. Which parameter adjustment in the OCI Generative AI Playground would BEST address this issue?

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Increase frequency penalty. Increasing the frequency penalty discourages the model from repeating tokens that have already appeared, reducing repetitive outputs. Temperature and max tokens address randomness and length, not repetition specifically. Stop sequences are for terminating generation early.

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Increase max tokens

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Decrease temperature

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Add a stop sequence

Question 20

Which THREE are essential steps in the prompt engineering process for an LLM?

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Test the prompt with a variety of input examples. Testing the prompt with a variety of input examples is essential to evaluate the LLM's generalization, robustness, and sensitivity to different phrasing or contexts. This step helps identify edge cases, biases, or inconsistencies in the model's responses before deployment.

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Fine-tune the model on a domain corpus

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Quantize the model to INT8