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WGU D685 OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT AND PA NEWEST 2025
TEST BANK| D685 PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF PROMPT
OA & PA EXAM WITH COMPLETE 250 REAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS/ ALREADY
GRADED A+ (MOST RECENT!!)
A person wants to use an AI-based search tool to help them find
information about homesteading. What is the risk of writing a poor
prompt?
1. Greater data usage
2. Opinion-based information
3. Imprecise results
4. Outdated results - Correct Answer -Imprecise results
What is the component of a prompt that includes background knowledge
and relevant facts that contextualize a user's query about a career
change?
1. Input content
2. Context
3. Output format
4. Persona - Correct Answer -Context
Which advantage results from detailed prompt descriptions?
1. Facilitation of more accurate responses
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2. Wider range of response generation
3. Greater level of generative creativity
4. Better use of computing resources - Correct Answer -Facilitation of
more accurate responses
Which advantage results from the inclusion of context and goals in
prompt writing?
1. Faster rate of response
2. Improved interface appeal
3. Adaptability and responsiveness
4. Greater machine learning rate - Correct Answer -Adaptability and
responsiveness
What is a benefit of creating prompts with specific personas?
1. Enhanced emotional comprehension
2. Better memory of past conversations
3. More user-friendly interactions
4. Greater response speed - Correct Answer -More user-friendly
interactions
What is a risk of neglecting clarity and specificity when writing a
prompt?
1. Blatant misinformation
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2. Narrow responses
3. Misunderstood queries
4. Conflicting personas - Correct Answer -Misunderstood queries
Which method of prompt engineering expects a generalized response
from a language model because there are no relevant training examples
given in the prompt?
1. Cognitive verifier pattern
2. Zero-shot
3. Generated knowledge
4. Self-consistency - Correct Answer -Zero-shot
Which method of prompt engineering enhances a model's performance
by providing limited contextual examples to help guide the response?
1. Least to most
2. Few-shot
3. Cognitive verifier pattern
4. Self-consistency - Correct Answer -Few-shot
What is the advanced prompting technique that involves repeated
prompting, with each prompt increasing in its level of complexity?
1. Generated knowledge
2. Zero-shot
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3. Least to most
4. Few-shot - Correct Answer -Least to most
A person writes a prompt to find the distance between two points on the
coordinate plane. The prompt includes, "Explain the process step-by-
step."What is the prompting technique that is demonstrated?
1. Generated knowledge
2. Chain of thought (COT)
3. Few-shot
4. Self-consistency - Correct Answer -Chain of thought (COT)
A person wants to use generative AI to write portions of a play script.
Part of a particular prompt includes, "You are an independent
teenager."What is the key prompt component demonstrated in the
scenario?
1. Output format
2. Persona
3. Instructions
4. Context - Correct Answer -Persona
A person wants an AI chatbot to write about a math topic. One part of
the prompt is "in the form of song lyrics."What is the key prompt
component demonstrated in the scenario?
1. Output format
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WGU D685 OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT AND PA NEWEST 2025
TEST BANK| D685 PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF PROMPT
OA & PA EXAM WITH COMPLETE 250 REAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS/ ALREADY
GRADED A+ (MOST RECENT!!)
A person wants to use an AI-based search tool to help them find
information about homesteading. What is the risk of writing a poor
prompt?
1. Greater data usage
2. Opinion-based information
3. Imprecise results
4. Outdated results - Correct Answer -Imprecise results
What is the component of a prompt that includes background knowledge
and relevant facts that contextualize a user's query about a career
change?
1. Input content
2. Context
3. Output format
4. Persona - Correct Answer -Context
Which advantage results from detailed prompt descriptions?
1. Facilitation of more accurate responses
pg. 1
,2|Page
2. Wider range of response generation
3. Greater level of generative creativity
4. Better use of computing resources - Correct Answer -Facilitation of
more accurate responses
Which advantage results from the inclusion of context and goals in
prompt writing?
1. Faster rate of response
2. Improved interface appeal
3. Adaptability and responsiveness
4. Greater machine learning rate - Correct Answer -Adaptability and
responsiveness
What is a benefit of creating prompts with specific personas?
1. Enhanced emotional comprehension
2. Better memory of past conversations
3. More user-friendly interactions
4. Greater response speed - Correct Answer -More user-friendly
interactions
What is a risk of neglecting clarity and specificity when writing a
prompt?
1. Blatant misinformation
pg. 2
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2. Narrow responses
3. Misunderstood queries
4. Conflicting personas - Correct Answer -Misunderstood queries
Which method of prompt engineering expects a generalized response
from a language model because there are no relevant training examples
given in the prompt?
1. Cognitive verifier pattern
2. Zero-shot
3. Generated knowledge
4. Self-consistency - Correct Answer -Zero-shot
Which method of prompt engineering enhances a model's performance
by providing limited contextual examples to help guide the response?
1. Least to most
2. Few-shot
3. Cognitive verifier pattern
4. Self-consistency - Correct Answer -Few-shot
What is the advanced prompting technique that involves repeated
prompting, with each prompt increasing in its level of complexity?
1. Generated knowledge
2. Zero-shot
pg. 3
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3. Least to most
4. Few-shot - Correct Answer -Least to most
A person writes a prompt to find the distance between two points on the
coordinate plane. The prompt includes, "Explain the process step-by-
step."What is the prompting technique that is demonstrated?
1. Generated knowledge
2. Chain of thought (COT)
3. Few-shot
4. Self-consistency - Correct Answer -Chain of thought (COT)
A person wants to use generative AI to write portions of a play script.
Part of a particular prompt includes, "You are an independent
teenager."What is the key prompt component demonstrated in the
scenario?
1. Output format
2. Persona
3. Instructions
4. Context - Correct Answer -Persona
A person wants an AI chatbot to write about a math topic. One part of
the prompt is "in the form of song lyrics."What is the key prompt
component demonstrated in the scenario?
1. Output format
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