AWS Certified Generative AI Developer Professional AIP-C01 Practice Questions with Explan…
Questions
A support assistant must answer from 50,000 internal articles that change daily, cite sources, and avoid retraining. Which design fits?
- RAG over a managed knowledge base
- Monthly full fine-tuning on all articles
- Pre-training a new model from scratch
- Prompting a model with no retrieval at all
A team must quickly prove whether a GenAI idea delivers value before investing in production. What should come first?
- A small proof of concept with clear success metrics
- A full multi-Region production rollout
- Fine-tuning three models in parallel
- Buying a year of Provisioned Throughput
Which Well-Architected resource offers GenAI-specific guidance on design trade-offs?
- The Generative AI Lens
- The SaaS Lens
- The IoT Lens
- The Games Industry Lens
A design must balance answer quality, latency under 2 seconds, and cost per request. What should drive model choice?
- Tests on the team's own tasks and targets
- The model with the most parameters available
- Whichever model was released most recently
- The model with the longest name in the catalog
Which requirement most strongly suggests RAG over fine-tuning?
- Answers must reflect knowledge that changes every week
- Output must follow a fixed, specialized brand voice
- The model must learn a new structured output format
- Responses must use a domain's specialized writing style
Which requirement most strongly suggests fine-tuning?
- A specialized style prompting can't reach
- Answers must cite today's policy documents
- Data changes every hour across sources
- The team has no labeled examples at all
Which statement about designing for model portability is correct?
- Abstract calls behind a unified interface like Converse
- Hardcode one provider's request format everywhere
- Avoid any abstraction to save a few milliseconds
- Store prompts inside compiled application binaries
An app must call several Bedrock models with one consistent request and response format. Which API fits?
- The Bedrock Converse API
- Model-specific InvokeModel bodies
- The Bedrock control plane API
- The SageMaker training API
A model must be swapped for a newer version without code changes. Which design fits?
- Keep the model ID in AppConfig
- Hardcode the model ID in every function
- Ask users to choose the model each time
- Redeploy the whole stack for every change
Bedrock requests are throttled during regional peaks. Which feature spreads load across Regions?
- A cross-Region inference profile for the geography
- Provisioned Throughput in one Region only
- A larger max_tokens value on each request
- Batch inference jobs scheduled nightly
A workload needs guaranteed, consistent throughput for a model. Which option fits?
- Provisioned Throughput
- On-demand inference with no reservation
- Batch inference with a daily schedule
- Cross-Region inference with a global profile
A team fine-tuned an open-weight model elsewhere and wants to serve it through Bedrock APIs. Which feature fits?
- Bedrock Custom Model Import of the weights
- Bedrock continued pre-training on the base model
- Bedrock Knowledge Bases with a custom parser
- Bedrock Marketplace model subscriptions
A smaller, faster model should be trained to imitate a larger model for one task. Which Bedrock feature fits?
- Model distillation
- Continued pre-training
- Prompt caching
- Cross-Region inference
Which inference parameter limits sampling to the most likely tokens whose probabilities add up to a threshold?
- Top-p
- Max tokens
- Stop sequences
- Temperature only
A model must stop generating as soon as it outputs the string ###. Which parameter fits?
- A stop sequence
- Top-k
- Temperature
- A system prompt
Which model type converts text into vectors for semantic search?
- An embedding model
- An image generation model
- A speech synthesis model
- A text-to-SQL model
A domain has lots of unlabeled text, and the model needs better domain vocabulary. Which customization fits?
- Continued pre-training
- Instruction fine-tuning only
- Prompt caching
- Raising temperature
Lowering temperature makes a model's outputs more deterministic.
Scanned PDFs with tables must be parsed into clean text before indexing. Which option fits?
- Advanced FM-based parsing
- Default text parsing only
- Uploading the PDFs as images to S3
- Converting the PDFs to ZIP files
Documents must be checked for missing fields and duplicates before they feed a model. Which service fits?
- AWS Glue Data Quality
- Amazon Bedrock Guardrails
- Amazon Kendra connectors
- AWS Glue Schema Registry checks
Customer emails must be stripped of PII before being sent to a model. Which approach fits?
- Detect and redact PII in a preprocessing step
- Send raw emails and filter outputs only
- Encrypt emails and send them anyway
- Ask customers not to include PII
Images, audio, and text from one claim must be processed together. Which capability fits?
- A multimodal pipeline with suitable models
- A text-only tokenizer for everything
- A relational database trigger
- A CloudFront cache behavior
Large batches of documents must be enriched by a model asynchronously at lower cost. Which option fits?
- Bedrock batch inference
- Real-time streaming calls
- Provisioned Throughput for an hour
- A larger context window
Model inputs must follow a fixed JSON schema before submission. Where should validation happen?
- In a preprocessing step before the call
- Only after the model responds
- Nowhere, since models fix bad input
- Inside the model's system prompt only
A team needs a serverless vector store with hybrid search for a Bedrock knowledge base. Which fits?
- Amazon OpenSearch Serverless
- Amazon DynamoDB with TTL
- Amazon ElastiCache without vectors
- Amazon Redshift Spectrum
A company wants the lowest-cost vector storage for a large, infrequently queried embedding corpus. Which option fits?
- Amazon S3 Vectors
- OpenSearch with provisioned nodes
- An in-memory cache cluster
- Provisioned IOPS EBS volumes
An app already uses Aurora PostgreSQL and wants vectors next to relational data. What should it use?
- The pgvector extension in the existing Aurora cluster
- Aurora zero-ETL integration to Redshift
- An Aurora Global Database secondary Region
- Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL
Retrieval must return only documents a user's department can see. Which feature fits?
- Metadata filters on the user's department
- A larger embedding dimension for all chunks
- A Guardrails denied topic per department
- A separate model for each department
Which index type offers fast, high-recall approximate nearest-neighbor search at higher memory cost?
- HNSW
- B-tree
- Bitmap
- Hash
Documents change daily in S3. How should the vector index stay current?
- Incremental data source syncs
- Rebuild the model every day
- Delete the index every hour
- Store vectors only in memory
Titan Text Embeddings V2 lets you choose smaller vector sizes. What is the trade-off?
- Less storage, some accuracy risk
- Higher accuracy and higher cost
- No effect on storage or cost
- Faster training of the FM itself
Long documents lose context when split into small chunks. Which chunking strategy keeps both detail and context?
- Hierarchical chunking
- No chunking at all
- Fixed 50-token chunks
- Random chunk sizes
Chunks often break mid-idea, hurting relevance. Which strategy splits by meaning?
- Semantic chunking
- Fixed-size chunking
- Character chunking
- No overlap chunking
Exact product codes are missed by vector search alone. What helps?
- Hybrid search
- Higher temperature
- Smaller chunks only
- Removing metadata
A complex question needs facts from several documents. What improves retrieval?
- Query decomposition
- Retrieving only one result
- Disabling reranking
- Using a shorter prompt
An app needs retrieved passages only, to build its own prompt. Which Knowledge Bases API fits?
- Retrieve
- RetrieveAndGenerate
- InvokeAgent
- CreateDataSource
Relevant passages are retrieved but ranked poorly. What should be added?
- A reranker model
- A larger model only
- More chunk overlap
- A higher top-p
A team needs enterprise search over SharePoint and Confluence with built-in connectors as a RAG retriever. Which fits?
- Amazon Kendra
- Amazon Athena
- AWS Glue DataBrew
- Amazon MQ
Prompts must be versioned, tested, and reused across apps with variables. Which feature fits?
- Bedrock Prompt Management
- Bedrock Guardrails versions
- Bedrock batch inference jobs
- Parameter Store with no testing
A model must always return valid JSON for downstream parsing. What helps most?
- Define a schema with tool use
- Raise the temperature
- Ask it to be creative
- Remove the system prompt
Instructions about tone and rules should apply to every turn of a conversation. Where should they go?
- The system prompt
- The first user message only
- The stop sequences
- The model's ID
A model must reason through multi-step math before answering. Which technique helps?
- Chain-of-thought prompting
- Zero-shot prompting with lower top-p
- Shorter prompts with no instructions
- Negative prompting about math errors
Several prompts must run in a fixed sequence, passing outputs along, with no custom code. Which feature fits?
- Bedrock Flows
- Bedrock Guardrails
- S3 Lifecycle rules
- AWS Budgets
Who should be able to change production prompts?
- Approved roles, with review
- Anyone with console access
- Every end user of the app
- No one, ever, after launch
Few-shot examples in a prompt can improve output consistency.
Which store suits a knowledge graph plus vector search for connected entities in RAG?
- Amazon Neptune Analytics
- Amazon S3 Glacier storage
- Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
- AWS Glue DataBrew recipes
Larger chunks always improve retrieval accuracy.
A model needs domain style changes from 5,000 labeled prompt-response pairs. Which customization fits?
- Fine-tuning the model
- Continued pre-training only
- Prompt caching only
- Retrieval with no examples
A Bedrock agent must call an internal order API. How is the API exposed to the agent?
- An action group with an OpenAPI schema
- A Guardrails denied topic list
- A Knowledge Base data source
- A Prompt Management variable
An agent should hand control back to the app to execute an action itself, such as a local transaction. Which feature fits?
- Return of control
- Prompt caching
- Cross-Region inference
- Batch inference