1Z0-1127-25 Prompt Engineering Practice Question
Which prompting technique involves generating multiple independent reasoning paths and then selecting the most common answer?
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Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Self-consistency prompting
Self-consistency runs chain-of-thought multiple times and aggregates answers (e.g., by majority vote) to improve reliability. The other options are different techniques.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
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Chain-of-thought prompting
Why it's wrong here
Chain-of-thought prompts step-by-step reasoning but only a single path unless combined with self-consistency.
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Few-shot prompting
Why it's wrong here
Few-shot provides examples but does not generate multiple reasoning paths.
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Self-consistency prompting
Why this is correct
Self-consistency generates multiple reasoning chains and aggregates the results to increase robustness.
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Zero-shot prompting
Why it's wrong here
Zero-shot does not use any examples and does not involve multiple reasoning paths.
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