1Z0-1127-25 Prompt Engineering Practice Question
What is the primary goal of chain-of-thought prompting?
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Encourage step-by-step reasoning to improve accuracy on multi-step problems
Chain-of-thought encourages the model to perform step-by-step reasoning before arriving at an answer, improving performance on complex tasks.
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Prevent the model from hallucinating
Why it's wrong here
It may reduce hallucinations but is not the primary goal.
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Make the output more creative
Why it's wrong here
Creativity is not the aim; accuracy on reasoning is.
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Reduce output token count
Why it's wrong here
Chain-of-thought often increases token count due to reasoning steps.
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Encourage step-by-step reasoning to improve accuracy on multi-step problems
Why this is correct
Correct: it breaks down reasoning into intermediate steps.
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