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Question 1easymultiple choice
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A developer is building a RAG application using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Document Understanding and OCI Generative AI. After chunking documents and generating embeddings, the developer observes that the retrieval step often returns chunks that are semantically unrelated to the query. Which action is MOST likely to improve retrieval relevance?

Question 2mediummultiple choice
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An organization stores its knowledge base in Oracle Autonomous Database and wants to build a RAG chatbot using OCI Generative AI. The chatbot must retrieve the most relevant documents based on user queries. Which indexing approach is BEST suited for efficient similarity search on text embeddings?

Question 3hardmultiple choice
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A company is deploying a RAG pipeline using OCI Data Science and OCI Generative AI. The pipeline uses a Cohere command model for generation and a Cohere embed model for retrieval. The team notices that the model occasionally produces hallucinated answers that are not supported by the retrieved context. Which strategy is MOST effective at reducing hallucinations?

Question 4mediummultiple choice
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A data scientist is building a RAG application that processes PDF invoices. The extraction step uses OCI Document Understanding to convert PDFs to text. The scientist then splits the text into chunks and generates embeddings using OCI Generative AI. However, the retrieval often misses critical fields like invoice numbers and dates. Which preprocessing step would MOST likely improve retrieval of these specific fields?

Question 5easymultiple choice
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A developer is using OCI Generative AI to build a question-answering system over a large corpus of technical manuals. The developer uses the Cohere Embed model to generate embeddings and stores them in an OCI OpenSearch cluster. Queries are slow and the team needs to reduce latency. Which approach is BEST for improving search speed while maintaining acceptable accuracy?

Question 6hardmultiple choice
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A team is deploying a RAG system that uses OCI Generative AI to answer questions about internal HR policies. The system must comply with data residency requirements: all data processing must stay within a specific OCI region. The team uses OCI Data Science for orchestration. Which architecture BEST meets the data residency requirement?

Question 7mediummultiple choice
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A developer notices that the RAG system returns irrelevant chunks when the user query contains typos or abbreviations. Which technique would BEST improve retrieval robustness for such queries?

Question 8easymulti select
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Which TWO are best practices for building a RAG application on OCI? (Choose two.)

Question 9mediummulti select
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Which THREE are valid considerations when designing a RAG pipeline that uses OCI Generative AI and OCI OpenSearch? (Choose three.)

Question 10hardmulti select
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Which TWO are common causes of poor answer quality in a RAG system built on OCI Generative AI? (Choose two.)

Question 11mediummultiple choice
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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?

Question 12hardmultiple choice
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A healthcare startup is building a chatbot that retrieves patient treatment guidelines using OCI Generative AI Service and OCI OpenSearch. They require that all retrieved documents are from approved sources only and that the system can explain which source was used for each response. Which combination of features should they implement?

Question 13easymultiple choice
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A company uses a RAG pipeline with OCI Data Science and Cohere embeddings. They notice that retrieval recall is low for domain-specific acronyms. What is the best practice to improve this?

Question 14mediummultiple choice
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A financial firm deploys a RAG application using OCI OpenSearch. They observe that the LLM sometimes generates incorrect answers that are not supported by the retrieved documents. Which technique directly addresses this issue?

Question 15hardmultiple choice
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A research institution uses OCI Data Flow to process large-scale document corpora for a RAG system. They want to minimize latency for end-user queries. Which architecture decision would most effectively reduce query latency?

Question 16easymultiple choice
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A retail company uses OCI Generative AI Service to build a RAG chatbot for product recommendations. The chatbot should consider both the user's query and the retrieved product descriptions. Which component of the RAG pipeline is responsible for combining these inputs before sending to the LLM?

Question 17mediummulti select
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Which TWO actions are best practices when deploying a RAG application using OCI OpenSearch and OCI Generative AI?

Question 18hardmulti select
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Which THREE factors should be considered when designing a vector search index for a RAG application that supports multiple languages?

Question 19mediummultiple choice
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A developer receives the above error when querying a RAG application. What is the most likely cause and recommended action?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.

error log:
{
  "timestamp": "2025-03-15T10:30:00Z",
  "source": "oci-generative-ai-inference",
  "message": "CohereClientException: 429 Too Many Requests",
  "details": {
    "retryAfter": 60,
    "modelId": "cohere.command-r-plus-08-2024"
  }
}
Question 20hardmultiple choice
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An engineer configured the above index mapping for vector search. When performing a k-NN search, the results are unexpected. What is the most likely issue?

Exhibit

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document index mapping:
{
  "settings": {
    "index": {
      "knn": true,
      "knn.space_type": "cosinesimil"
    }
  },
  "mappings": {
    "properties": {
      "content_embedding": {
        "type": "knn_vector",
        "dimension": 768,
        "method": {
          "name": "hnsw",
          "engine": "faiss",
          "space_type": "l2"
        }
      },
      "metadata": {
        "type": "object"
      }
    }
  }
}
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