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AIF-C01 Practice Question: A financial services company uses Amazon Bedrock…
A financial services company uses Amazon Bedrock to generate investment report summaries. They have strict compliance requirements that the model must not discuss certain topics like insider trading or unapproved financial advice. Which Bedrock feature should they use to deny these topics?
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Bedrock Guardrails
Bedrock Guardrails include topic denial policies to block specific subjects. Knowledge Bases, Agents, and prompt engineering alone cannot reliably enforce topic restrictions.
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Prompt engineering with negative instructions
Why it's wrong here
Negative instructions in a prompt are advisory text the model may still override, so they cannot reliably deny topics for compliance. Prompt engineering suits shaping tone and format. Guardrails provide configurable denied-topics filters that block restricted content deterministically.
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Bedrock Knowledge Bases
Why it's wrong here
Knowledge Bases perform retrieval-augmented generation by grounding responses in your data sources; they do not enforce content restrictions. They suit question answering over proprietary documents. Blocking prohibited topics needs Guardrails denied-topics filtering applied to the model.
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Bedrock Agents
Why it's wrong here
Bedrock Agents orchestrate API calls and multi-step task execution; they do not filter restricted subject matter from generated text. Agents suit building action-taking assistants. Denying topics such as insider trading requires Guardrails' denied-topics policy, which evaluates and blocks content.
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Bedrock Guardrails
Why this is correct
Bedrock Guardrails apply configurable denied-topics policies that block prompts and responses covering specified subjects such as insider trading or unapproved financial advice. This satisfies the compliance requirement by enforcing topic denial at inference time, independent of the underlying foundation model.
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