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Question 1hardmultiple choice

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A data scientist fine-tuned a model on OCI Gen AI using a dedicated AI cluster. After deployment, the model gives inaccurate results. Which troubleshooting step should they take first?

A
Switch to a different base model
Why wrong: Base model may not be the root cause if fine-tuning data is flawed.
B
Increase the cluster size
Why wrong: Cluster size affects performance, not accuracy.
C
Use a serverless endpoint
Why wrong: Endpoint type does not fix accuracy issues.
D
Check the training data for bias or quality issues
Training data quality directly impacts model accuracy.

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Question 2hardmultiple choice

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Refer to the exhibit. The API Gateway fails to invoke the Generative AI service. What is the most likely missing configuration?

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Architecture:
- User -> API Gateway -> OCI Generative AI Service (Cohere Command Model)
- API Gateway has a custom authorizer that validates JWT tokens.
- The Generative AI service endpoint is private, accessible only from the VCN.

A
The API Gateway does not have an internet gateway.
Why wrong: Internet gateway is not needed for private access.
B
The JWT token is expired.
Why wrong: JWT validation is at the authorizer level; if expired, the authorizer would reject before reaching the service.
C
The Generative AI model is not deployed.
Why wrong: Model deployment is separate; the error would be 'model not found'.
D
The API Gateway is not in the same VCN as the service's private endpoint.
Private endpoints require the caller to be in the same VCN or have a service gateway.

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Question 3hardmulti select

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A troubleshooting scenario: A RAG system returns no results for certain queries. The index exists and has documents. Which TWO are likely causes?

A
The search algorithm is set to exact (brute-force) and index is small
Why wrong: Exact search still finds matches if they exist.
B
The query embedding dimension does not match the index dimension
Dimension mismatch causes search errors or zero results.
C
The query is too long for the embedding model
Why wrong: Models typically truncate long inputs, but still produce an embedding.
D
The index has not been refreshed after adding new documents
Why wrong: New documents are immediately searchable unless refresh interval is disabled.
E
The embedding model used for indexing is different from the one used for query
Different models produce incompatible embeddings, so no results match.

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Question 4hardmultiple choice

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An AI engineer observes that the RAG application fails to retrieve relevant documents for certain user queries, despite having a comprehensive knowledge base. The issue appears to be a semantic gap between query phrasing and document content. Which technique should the engineer implement first to address this?

A
Switch from dense to sparse vector embeddings
Why wrong: Sparse embeddings may not solve semantic mismatch.
B
Apply query expansion techniques before embedding the user query
Query expansion broadens the query to capture more relevant documents.
C
Implement a re-ranking model to reorder retrieved results
Why wrong: Re-ranking only reorders existing results, not address missing relevant documents.
D
Increase the chunk overlap to ensure more context
Why wrong: Overlap may help boundary issues but not semantic gap.

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Question 5hardmultiple choice

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A developer implements a RAG chatbot using OCI Generative AI with streaming enabled. The chatbot fails to remember earlier conversation turns during a session. What is the most likely cause?

A
The max_tokens parameter is set too low.
Why wrong: Max tokens controls output length, not memory.
B
The streaming endpoint does not support conversation history.
Why wrong: Streaming itself does not affect memory; history must be managed in the request.
C
The application does not include previous messages in the request.
Session memory requires the client to send the conversation history in the messages list.
D
The temperature parameter is too high.
Why wrong: Temperature affects randomness, not memory.

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Question 6hardmulti select

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A developer is troubleshooting low recall in a vector search. Which THREE factors should be checked? (Choose three.)

A
Embedding model quality and relevance to domain
A model not trained on similar data may produce poor embeddings.
B
Chunk size and overlap strategy
Improper chunking can cause important information to be missed or poorly represented.
C
Quality of the query embedding generation
If the query is not embedded correctly, the search will not align with semantic intent.
D
The number of results returned (k) in the search
Why wrong: While k affects recall, the question is about underlying factors causing low recall, not tuning parameters.
E
The LLM's temperature setting
Why wrong: Temperature affects generation randomness, not retrieval recall.

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Question 7mediummultiple choice

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An AI specialist is troubleshooting why a fine-tuned model produces inconsistent results across different inference calls. What is the most likely cause?

A
The base model is not suitable
Why wrong: Unsuitable base model leads to consistently poor quality, not inconsistency.
B
The temperature is set too high
High temperature increases randomness, causing variable outputs.
C
The model is overfitted
Why wrong: Overfitting leads to consistent but poor generalization, not inconsistency.
D
The fine-tuning dataset is too small
Why wrong: Small dataset may cause overfitting, not necessarily inconsistency.

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Question 8easymulti select

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A developer is troubleshooting an OCI Generative AI inference request that returns a 400 Bad Request error. Which three common causes could result in this error? (Choose three.)

A
Incorrect endpoint URL
A wrong URL may cause the request to be malformed or routed incorrectly, resulting in a 400.
B
Invalid API key in the request header
Why wrong: An invalid API key results in a 401 Unauthorized error.
C
Missing required parameters in the request body
Required fields like 'modelId' or 'prompt' are omitted.
D
Exceeding the model's maximum token limit
The input or output exceeds the model's token limit, causing a bad request.
E
Network connectivity issues
Why wrong: Connectivity issues lead to timeouts or 5xx errors, not 400.

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Question 9easymultiple choice

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A startup is building a customer support chatbot using RAG with OCI Generative AI. They have a large corpus of FAQ documents stored as PDFs in OCI Object Storage. The developer uses OCI Language to embed the text and stores vectors in OCI OpenSearch. During testing, the chatbot often fails to answer questions because relevant FAQ entries are not retrieved. The team suspects the chunking size is too large, causing loss of specific details. After reducing chunk size, retrieval improves slightly but still misses many answers. What should the team do NEXT?

A
Use a sliding window chunking strategy with overlap
Overlap preserves context across chunk boundaries, improving recall.
B
Increase the number of retrieved chunks (k)
Why wrong: This may introduce more irrelevant chunks and increase noise.
C
Switch to a different embedding model
Why wrong: Model change is costly and may not address chunk boundary issues.
D
Manually rephrase the queries
Why wrong: Not scalable and may not fix the underlying retrieval problem.

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Question 10hardmultiple choice

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You are a cloud architect at a global e-commerce company. The company is building a RAG-based product support chatbot using OCI Generative AI Service and OCI OpenSearch. The chatbot must answer customer questions in real-time by retrieving from a product knowledge base containing over 10 million documents. The current architecture uses a single vector index with all documents, and the LLM (Cohere Command R+) returns answers in English only. The team observes that queries from non-English customers often return irrelevant results, and the chatbot sometimes fails to generate answers within the 5-second SLA. The leadership wants to support 10 languages and reduce the average response time to under 3 seconds. You need to propose a solution that improves both relevance and latency. Which course of action should you take?

A
Increase the number of OCI OpenSearch nodes and upgrade the LLM to a faster variant.
Why wrong: Scaling compute alone doesn't fix relevance; retrieval inefficiency remains.
B
Replace the embedding model with a multilingual model and partition the vector index by language to reduce search space.
Multilingual model improves relevance; partitioning improves latency.
C
Translate all non-English queries to English before retrieval and use an English-only embedding model.
Why wrong: Translation adds latency and may introduce errors.
D
Implement a caching layer for frequent queries and use a larger LLM for better accuracy.
Why wrong: Caching helps speed but not relevance for diverse languages.

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Practice scenarios

A data scientist fine-tuned a model on OCI Gen AI using a dedicated AI cluster. After deployment, the model gives inaccurate results. Which troubleshooting step should they take first?

Refer to the exhibit. The API Gateway fails to invoke the Generative AI service. What is the most likely missing configuration?

Exhibit

A troubleshooting scenario: A RAG system returns no results for certain queries. The index exists and has documents. Which TWO are likely causes?

A developer implements a RAG chatbot using OCI Generative AI with streaming enabled. The chatbot fails to remember earlier conversation turns during a session. What is the most likely cause?

A developer is troubleshooting low recall in a vector search. Which THREE factors should be checked? (Choose three.)

An AI specialist is troubleshooting why a fine-tuned model produces inconsistent results across different inference calls. What is the most likely cause?

A developer is troubleshooting an OCI Generative AI inference request that returns a 400 Bad Request error. Which three common causes could result in this error? (Choose three.)