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AIF-C01 Practice Question: Build a customer service chatbot that answers…
A company wants to build a customer service chatbot that answers questions about their internal policy documents. The documents are updated monthly, and the team cannot afford to retrain a model each time. Which approach is MOST appropriate?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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Use Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with the policy documents indexed in a vector store
RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) allows the LLM to retrieve relevant document sections at inference time, so knowledge stays current without retraining. The other options either require expensive retraining for each update or lack document grounding.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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Train a custom model from scratch on the policy documents each month
Why it's wrong here
Training from scratch requires massive compute resources and weeks of time — entirely disproportionate for monthly document updates.
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Fine-tune a base LLM on the policy documents monthly
Why it's wrong here
Fine-tuning is expensive and time-consuming; monthly cycles are impractical and fine-tuned knowledge becomes stale immediately after cutoff.
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Use a larger foundation model with a longer context window and paste all documents into each prompt
Why it's wrong here
Pasting all documents into every prompt is expensive, hits context limits for large document sets, and does not scale as the document library grows.
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Use Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with the policy documents indexed in a vector store
Why this is correct
RAG retrieves relevant document chunks at query time, ensuring the chatbot always answers from the latest uploaded documents without any model retraining.
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