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1Z0-1127-25 Prompt Engineering Practice Question

Which prompt engineering technique asks the model to explain its reasoning process step-by-step before arriving at the final answer?

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Chain-of-thought prompting

Chain-of-thought prompting explicitly instructs the model to think step by step, improving reasoning accuracy.

Answer analysis

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Chain-of-thought prompting
Why this is correct
Chain-of-thought prompts the model to produce intermediate reasoning steps.
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Tree-of-thought prompting
Why it's wrong here
Tree-of-thought explores multiple reasoning branches, not a single chain.
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Self-consistency
Why it's wrong here
Self-consistency is an ensemble method that uses multiple chain-of-thought runs.
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Zero-shot prompting
Why it's wrong here
Zero-shot gives no examples or reasoning steps.

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