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    Free Practice Questions for Databricks Certified Generative AI Engineer Associate Certification

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    Key information about Databricks Certified Generative AI Engineer Associate

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    • Multiple choice
    level:

    associate (intermediate)

    renewal:

    Recertification required every two years by taking the full, currently live exam

    prerequisites:

    None required; related course attendance and six months of hands-on experience are highly recommended

    delivery method:

    Online Proctored

    registration fee:

    $200

    time limit minutes:

    90 minutes

    number of questions:

    45 multiple-choice or multiple-selection items

    certification validity:

    2 years

    Exam Topics & Skills Assessed

    Skills measured (from the official study guide)

    Domain 1: Design Applications

    Subdomain 1.1: Design Applications

    - Design a prompt that elicits a specifically formatted response - Select model tasks to accomplish a given business requirement - Select chain components for a desired model input and output - Translate business use case goals into a description of the desired inputs and outputs for the AI pipeline - Define and order tools that gather knowledge or take actions for multi-stage reasoning - Determine how and when to use Agent Bricks (Knowledge Assistant, Multiagent Supervisor, Information Extraction) to solve problems

    Domain 2: Data Preparation

    Subdomain 2.1: Data Preparation

    - Apply a chunking strategy for a given document structure and model constraints - Filter extraneous content in source documents that degrades quality of a RAG application - Choose the appropriate Python package to extract document content from provided source data and format. - Define operations and sequence to write given chunked text into Delta Lake tables in Unity Catalog - Identify needed source documents that provide necessary knowledge and quality for a given RAG application - Use tools and metrics to evaluate retrieval performance - Design retrieval systems using advanced chunking strategies - Explain the role of re-ranking in the information retrieval process

    Domain 3: Application Development

    Subdomain 3.1: Application Development

    - Select Langchain/similar tools for use in a Generative AI application. - Qualitatively assess responses to identify common issues such as quality and safety - Select chunking strategy based on model & retrieval evaluation - Augment a prompt with additional context from a user's input based on key fields, terms, and intents - Create a prompt that adjusts an LLM's response from a baseline to a desired output - Implement LLM guardrails to prevent negative outcomes - Select the best LLM based on the attributes of the application to be developed - Select an embedding model context length based on source documents, expected queries, and optimization strategy - Select a model from a model hub or marketplace for a task based on model metadata/model cards - Select the best model for a given task based on common metrics generated in experiments - Utilize MLflow and Agent Framework for developing agentic systems - Compare the evaluation and monitoring phases of the Gen AI application life cycle - Enable multi-agent systems to leverage Genie Spaces or conversational API to retrieve data

    Domain 4: Assembling and Deploying Applications

    Subdomain 4.1: Assembling and Deploying Applications

    - Code a chain using a pyfunc model with pre- and post-processing - Control access to resources from model serving endpoints - Code a simple chain according to requirements - Choose the basic elements needed to create a RAG application: model flavor, embedding model, retriever, dependencies, input examples, model signature - Register the model to Unity Catalog using MLflow - Create and query a Vector Search index - Identify how to serve an LLM application that leverages Foundation Model APIs - Explain the key concepts and components of Mosaic AI Vector Search - Identify batch inference workloads and apply ai_query() appropriately - Configure vector search for a particular solution based on number of embeddings, update frequency, latency, and cost requirements. - Configure a persistent datastore to store and retrieve intermediate memory or structured information. - Apply CI/CD best practices such as updating a Vector Search index, promoting prompts across environments, and testing individual components of an agent. - Integrate managed, external, and custom MCP servers based on a given application requirements - Apply prompt version control and manage prompt lifecycle - Develop an appropriate interactive user facing interface for an agent usage scenario (Apps, Slack, Teams, etc.)

    Domain 5: Governance

    Subdomain 5.1: Governance

    - Use masking techniques as guard rails to meet a performance objective - Select guardrail techniques to protect against malicious user inputs to a Gen AI application - Use legal/licensing requirements for data sources to avoid legal risk - Recommend an alternative for problematic text mitigation in a data source feeding a GenAI application

    Domain 6: Evaluation and Monitoring

    Subdomain 6.1: Evaluation and Monitoring

    - Select an LLM choice (size and architecture) based on a set of quantitative evaluation metrics - Select key metrics to monitor for a specific LLM deployment scenario - Evaluate agent performance using MLflow scoring and tracing - Use inference logging to assess deployed RAG application performance - Use Databricks features to control LLM costs - Use inference tables and Agent Monitoring to track a live LLM endpoint - Identify evaluation judges that require ground truth - Use AI Gateway (Inference Tables, Usage Tables, and rate limiting) to track an LLM or agent deployed via Agent Framework. - Use Databricks custom Scorers for evaluating agents and LLMs - Incorporate SME feedback to improve agent performance

    Techniques & products

    Databricks
    Generative AI
    LLM
    RAG applications
    Agentic systems
    Prompt engineering
    Vector Search
    Model Serving
    MLflow
    Unity Catalog
    Delta Lake
    LangChain
    Hugging Face Transformers
    Python
    Foundation Model APIs
    Mosaic AI Vector Search
    ai_query()
    Inference logging
    Agent Monitoring
    Metaprompts
    LLM guardrails
    Chunking strategies

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