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A company uses Amazon Bedrock with a custom model deployed via Amazon SageMaker. They want to monitor for data drift in input prompts over time. Which AWS service is best suited for this?
Hard2A company is building a multi-modal application that processes images and text to answer questions about product defects. Which foundation model approach is BEST?
Hard3Refer to the exhibit. You are trying to invoke a foundation model via Amazon Bedrock but receive this error. What should you do to resolve it?
Hard4A company wants to build a chatbot that responds to customer queries using a foundation model. They need low latency and want to avoid managing infrastructure. Which AWS service should they use?
Easy5Refer to the exhibit. An IAM policy is attached to a user. Which models can the user invoke?
Hard6A financial services company is deploying a foundation model on Amazon Bedrock to generate compliance reports from internal audit logs. The model must not output any personally identifiable information (PII). They have configured a Bedrock Guardrail with sensitive information filters set to the 'HIGH' sensitivity level. During testing in a staging environment, testers still observed PII being occasionally generated in the report outputs. The guardrail did not block these instances because the PII was embedded in a context that the guardrail's pattern matching did not catch (e.g., structured JSON data with embedded names). The company requires a solution that minimizes latency and cost, as they process thousands of reports daily. They cannot afford to increase inference time significantly due to strict SLAs. They also want to avoid re-engineering the entire solution. Which additional step should they take to effectively eliminate PII leakage while maintaining performance?
Hard7A company is using Amazon Bedrock to generate code snippets. Developers report that the generated code sometimes contains security vulnerabilities. Which action should the team take to mitigate this risk?
Easy8A company wants to use a foundation model to automatically moderate user-generated content. The model must filter out inappropriate content with high accuracy. Which Amazon service is best suited for this task?
Easy9A startup needs to build a real-time text translation feature for a customer chat application. Latency must be under 200 ms per request. Which AWS approach is BEST suited?
Easy10A company is building a chatbot using Amazon Bedrock. They want to ensure the model's responses are grounded in company-specific data and that harmful content is filtered out. Which two services or features should they use? (Choose TWO.)
Medium11A data scientist wants to quickly experiment with a pre-trained LLM for text generation without writing any code. Which AWS service is MOST suitable?
Easy12A startup is using Amazon Bedrock to power a virtual assistant. They need to ensure that personally identifiable information (PII) is not included in the model's responses. Which feature should they enable?
Medium13A financial services company needs to use a foundation model for sensitive data analysis. They require that all data remains within a VPC and no data leaves the AWS network. Which solution should they choose?
Hard14Refer to the exhibit. You receive this response from Amazon Bedrock. What is the most likely cause of the incomplete information?
Medium15Which TWO of the following are benefits of using Amazon Bedrock for building applications with foundation models?
Easy16A company is using Amazon Bedrock to generate product descriptions. They notice that the model sometimes produces descriptions that contain factual errors about the products. Which TWO actions should they take to improve factual accuracy?
Hard17A developer is building a RAG-based Q&A bot with Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases. They need a managed vector store for document embeddings. Which service should they use?
Medium18A healthcare company needs to use a foundation model for analyzing medical records while complying with HIPAA. They plan to use Amazon Bedrock. What should they do to meet HIPAA requirements?
Hard19A company uses Amazon Bedrock to generate product descriptions. They need to ensure outputs do not contain offensive language. Which service should they integrate to filter content?
Hard20A company is building a customer support chatbot using Amazon Bedrock. They need to store conversation history for context across sessions. Which AWS service is best suited for this purpose?
Easy21A security engineer creates the above IAM policy to allow a user to invoke an Amazon Bedrock model. However, invocation fails. What is the issue?
Hard22Which TWO techniques can reduce the cost of running a fine-tuned foundation model on Amazon SageMaker? (Choose TWO.)
Easy23A marketing team is using a foundation model to generate marketing copy. Which THREE of the following should they consider to ensure responsible and cost-effective use?
Hard24A company is using a foundation model on Amazon Bedrock to generate customer support responses. They notice that the model sometimes produces harmful or offensive content. Which approach is MOST effective to mitigate this issue?
Medium25A company uses Amazon Bedrock to build a question-answering system. Which THREE features of Amazon Bedrock can improve answer accuracy? (Choose three.)
Easy26A company is building a chatbot using Amazon Bedrock. They want to provide up-to-date information from a continuously changing database. Which TWO services can be used as a data source for a Bedrock knowledge base? (Select TWO.)
Medium27A marketing firm uses Amazon Bedrock to generate ad copy. They notice that the generated text often includes factual inaccuracies about their products. Which technique would most effectively reduce these inaccuracies?
Hard28A media company is using Amazon Bedrock to generate marketing copy with a foundation model. They want to ensure the output adheres to brand voice guidelines (e.g., friendly, professional). Which prompt engineering strategy is most effective for this requirement?
Hard29A healthcare company uses Amazon Bedrock to generate patient summaries. They need to ensure no protected health information (PHI) is leaked in the output. Which AWS service can they use to detect and mask PHI in text?
Medium30A startup needs to generate product descriptions from bullet points using a foundation model. They want a fully managed serverless experience. Which AWS service should they use?
Easy31A company is using Amazon Bedrock to generate images. They want to ensure the outputs comply with content policies. Which TWO AWS services can help? (Choose two.)
Medium32A multinational corporation uses a foundation model via Amazon Bedrock to translate internal communication documents from English to multiple languages. They notice that the translations often miss company-specific jargon and acronyms, leading to confusion. The company has a glossary of approved translations for terms like 'Project Atlas' and 'Operation Synergy.' They want to improve translation accuracy quickly and with minimal effort. What approach should they take?
Medium33A developer is using Amazon Bedrock to generate text summaries. The output sometimes includes irrelevant information. What is the most effective prompt engineering technique to improve relevance?
Medium34A data scientist is fine-tuning a foundation model on SageMaker. They want to prevent overfitting. Which THREE actions can help? (Select THREE.)
Hard35A financial services company uses a foundation model for document analysis. They need to ensure the model does not output sensitive customer information from its training data. What is the most effective mitigation?
Hard36Which THREE are best practices for ensuring generated content complies with corporate brand guidelines when using Amazon Bedrock?
Hard37A company fine-tunes a foundation model on SageMaker using a custom dataset. They notice the training job takes too long. Which optimization technique is specifically designed to reduce training time for foundation models?
Medium38A company is using Amazon Bedrock to generate marketing content. They want to evaluate the quality of the generated text. Which TWO metrics are most appropriate for evaluating text quality?
Medium39A developer sends the above request to Amazon Bedrock with Anthropic Claude. The model returns a response that stops before reaching 500 tokens. What is the most likely reason?
Hard40A data science team is fine-tuning a foundation model on Amazon SageMaker. Which THREE steps are part of the best practice? (Choose three.)
Hard41An e-commerce company uses Amazon Bedrock to generate product descriptions. They notice the descriptions are too long and contain repetitive phrases. Which parameter adjustment can help?
Medium42A company runs a chatbot using a large language model on Amazon Bedrock. They notice high latency during peak hours. Which action would be MOST effective to reduce latency without degrading response quality?
Medium43A developer is using Amazon Bedrock to build a chatbot that answers customer queries. The chatbot must only respond based on the provided company documentation. Which approach best meets this requirement?
Easy44A company uses Amazon Bedrock to generate marketing copy. The summaries are too verbose. Which parameter should be decreased to directly limit the length of the output?
Medium45A healthcare company is using Amazon Bedrock to summarize patient notes. The compliance team requires that no patient data is used to improve the underlying foundation model. Which configuration should the team choose?
Medium46A healthcare organization is using Amazon Bedrock to analyze medical images and generate radiology reports. They need to comply with HIPAA regulations and ensure patient data is not used for model training. Which configuration should they use?
Hard47A company is using Amazon Bedrock to generate code snippets. They want to ensure the generated code is secure. Which TWO practices should they implement?
Easy48A developer invokes an Amazon Bedrock model and receives the above response. What does the 'stopReason' field indicate?
Easy49A developer receives the above response from invoking a Bedrock model. Which field indicates that the model completed its response normally?
Easy50A company uses Amazon Bedrock to build a conversational AI. They want to enforce role-based access to the model. Which AWS service should they use?
Easy51A company fine-tunes a foundation model on SageMaker JumpStart for sentiment analysis. After deployment, the model shows bias toward positive sentiment. Which action should be taken to mitigate bias?
Hard52Which parameter controls the randomness of generated text in a foundation model?
Hard53A startup uses Amazon Bedrock with a provisioned throughput to generate product images. They now have unpredictable traffic and want to reduce costs. What should they do?
Easy54A developer is calling the Amazon Bedrock InvokeModel API to generate text with the AI21 Labs Jurassic-2 Mid model. The API call includes a maxTokens parameter, but the request fails with the error shown in the exhibit. What is the most likely cause of this error?
Easy55A company uses Amazon Bedrock to build a chatbot. The chatbot needs to answer questions based on internal company documents. Which AWS service should be integrated with Bedrock to enable Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) without managing infrastructure?
Easy56A company is using Amazon Bedrock to generate marketing copy. They want to evaluate the quality of the generated text. Which metric is MOST suitable for assessing the relevance and coherence of the content?
Medium57A company uses Amazon Bedrock to generate code. They want to ensure the code follows security best practices and does not contain vulnerabilities. Which approach is most effective?
Hard58Which TWO actions are best practices when deploying foundation models on Amazon SageMaker for production? (Choose TWO.)
Medium59Refer to the exhibit. A user invokes Claude v2 using the AWS CLI. The response is truncated. What is the most likely cause?
Medium60A company uses Amazon Bedrock to generate product descriptions. They notice that the output sometimes contains incorrect information. What should they do to improve accuracy?
Easy61A developer wants to experiment with a foundation model for code generation without writing any code. Which AWS service provides a playground for models like CodeWhisperer?
Easy62Refer to the exhibit. The training job is failing with an error 'CUDA out of memory'. Which hyperparameter change is MOST likely to resolve the issue?
Medium63A data scientist is using a foundation model to summarize long documents. Which TWO of the following steps are most likely to improve the quality of the summaries?
Medium64A team deployed a text generation model on Amazon Bedrock. They want to monitor for toxic content in model outputs. Which evaluation approach is MOST effective?
Medium65A developer is using Amazon Bedrock to generate code snippets. The model often produces insecure code. Which prompt engineering technique is MOST effective to improve security?
Easy66A data scientist uses Amazon Bedrock. The model responses are too long. Which parameter should they adjust to limit the output length?
Medium67A company uses a foundation model for real-time translation in a chat application. The latency is high. Which optimization would reduce latency the most?
Medium68Refer to the exhibit. A data scientist created this endpoint config for a foundation model in Amazon SageMaker. However, the endpoint fails to scale under load. What is the most likely reason?
Medium69A developer is trying to invoke the Claude v2 model in Amazon Bedrock from a Lambda function. The Lambda function's IAM role has the following policy attached: { "Version": "2012-10-17", "Statement": [ { "Effect": "Allow", "Action": "bedrock:InvokeModel", "Resource": "*" } ] } When the Lambda function runs, it receives the error shown in the exhibit. Which additional step is most likely needed to resolve this issue?
Medium70Refer to the exhibit. A developer deploys this CloudFormation stack but the agent fails to query the knowledge base. What is a likely cause?
Hard71A company is using Amazon Bedrock to build a text-to-SQL application. They want to ensure that the generated SQL queries are valid and safe. Which approach is BEST?
Medium72A startup is deploying a foundation model on Amazon SageMaker for real-time inference. They notice high latency (over 2 seconds per request). Which action is most likely to reduce latency?
Easy73Which TWO of the following are valid methods to reduce the risk of foundation models generating harmful or biased content?
Hard74An e-commerce company uses Amazon Bedrock to generate product descriptions from keywords. Some descriptions contain inaccurate details about product specifications. Which approach should the company take to reduce factual errors?
Medium75A company wants to classify customer emails into categories (e.g., complaint, inquiry, feedback) using a foundation model. Which approach is MOST efficient?
Easy76A company is using Amazon Bedrock to generate images from text prompts. They need to ensure the generated images do not contain offensive content. Which feature should be enabled?
Medium77An organization uses SageMaker JumpStart to deploy a foundation model for real-time inference. They observe high latency. What is the most effective way to reduce latency?
Hard78Which THREE are benefits of using Amazon Bedrock over self-managing foundation models on EC2? (Choose THREE.)
Hard79A financial services company is deploying a foundation model to analyze customer sentiment from call transcripts. The model outputs must be consistent and deterministic for auditing purposes. Which parameter configuration should the company use?
Medium80Refer to the exhibit. A developer sees this error when calling Amazon Bedrock for inference. What is the MOST likely cause and recommended solution?
Hard81A research team is using Amazon Bedrock to analyze scientific papers. They want the model to generate answers based only on papers published after 2023. Which approach should they use?
Hard82A data science team is fine-tuning a Llama 2 7B model on Amazon SageMaker for a text classification task. After the first training run, they notice the loss is not decreasing and the model is overfitting to the small training set. What should the team change to mitigate overfitting?
Easy83A company uses Amazon Bedrock to generate marketing copy. They want to measure the quality of generated text compared to reference text. Which metric is most appropriate?
Medium84A company is developing a chatbot using Amazon Bedrock and wants to ensure the model's responses do not include toxic or biased language. The company has a labeled dataset of undesirable responses. Which approach should be used to fine-tune the foundation model to reduce harmful outputs?
Medium85A company wants to use a foundation model to automatically summarize lengthy documents. Which capability of foundation models is being utilized?
Easy86A company uses Amazon Bedrock to generate code snippets for internal tools. They notice that the generated code often contains security vulnerabilities such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting. The security team has compiled a comprehensive list of secure coding guidelines and examples of vulnerable patterns. The development team wants to reduce vulnerabilities without significantly slowing down the code generation process. They have tried adding the guidelines to the system prompt, but the model still produces insecure code occasionally. The team is considering additional measures. Which action should they take to most effectively eliminate security vulnerabilities in the generated code?
Medium87An e-commerce company uses a foundation model to generate personalized email subject lines. The marketing team notices that the subject lines sometimes contain product recommendations that are out of stock. Which action would best reduce the generation of out-of-stock recommendations without retraining the model?
Easy88A data scientist is fine-tuning a foundation model on Amazon Bedrock for a custom summarization task. Which THREE practices should they follow to optimize the fine-tuning process?
Hard89A developer encounters the error shown above when using Amazon Bedrock. What is the most likely cause?
Medium90An e-commerce company is using a foundation model to generate product descriptions. They want to reduce costs by caching frequently requested descriptions. Which AWS service should they use to implement a cache?
Hard91Which THREE of the following are factors to consider when selecting a foundation model for a text generation task?
Medium92A company uses Amazon Bedrock to generate summarizations of lengthy reports. Users report that the summaries are too verbose and include excessive detail. Which prompt engineering technique should the team apply to address this issue?
Medium93Which TWO AWS services can be used together to build a chatbot that leverages a foundation model for natural language understanding?
Easy94A team is fine-tuning a foundation model using SageMaker. They want to minimize training time while keeping the model's original knowledge. Which technique is BEST suited?
Hard95A data scientist is fine-tuning a foundation model on a custom dataset using Amazon SageMaker. After training, the model shows high accuracy on training data but poor on validation. Which action should be taken?
Hard96Refer to the exhibit. A developer runs this command but gets an error: 'An error occurred (AccessDeniedException) when calling the ListFoundationModels operation'. What is the most likely cause?
Easy97A company is building a chatbot using Amazon Bedrock to answer customer questions about their product catalog. The chatbot should only use information from the company's internal knowledge base and should not generate answers based on the model's pre-training data. Which feature should be enabled?
Medium98An enterprise deploys a foundation model on Amazon Bedrock with a knowledge base. Users report that the model is returning outdated information. What is the most likely cause?
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