Free Sample — 15 Practice Questions
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Question 31
Your company sells hiking and camping gear online.
You need a generative AI solution that can interact with customers, ask questions about their needs, and escalate to a human agent if necessary.
What solution should you use?
A. a chatbot
B. predictive AI
C. a recommendation engine
D. computer vision
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Correct Answer: A
Explanation:
A chatbot is the appropriate generative AI solution for interacting with customers in natural language, asking follow-up questions to understand their needs, recommending products, and escalating conversations to a human agent when required. Predictive AI forecasts outcomes, recommendation engines suggest products but do not manage conversational interactions, and computer vision analyzes images.
Question 47
What is considered a best practice when forming an AI adoption team in an enterprise environment?
A. Include primarily IT and project management staff initially to streamline deployment, adding governance and compliance roles later.
B. Include procurement and vendor management specialists early to evaluate AI tools, involving business teams once a platform is selected.
C. Include representatives from legal, leadership, and business units to align AI initiatives with organizational priorities.
D. Include only data scientists and engineers at first to validate technical feasibility, then add other stakeholders later.
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Correct Answer: C
Explanation:
Enterprise AI adoption is most effective with a cross-functional team from the outset. Including legal, executive leadership, and business unit representatives helps align AI initiatives with organizational strategy, governance, compliance, risk management, and business value, rather than focusing only on technical deployment.
Question 33
Your company plans to use generative AI to help build a website that will showcase various existing products.
Which capability best describes a benefit of using generative AI for this project? More than one answer choice may achieve the goal. Select the BEST answer.
A. creating product descriptions based on product specifications
B. designing a new product based on customer requirements
C. translating product descriptions into a different language
D. analyzing product sales to identify patterns and trends
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Correct Answer: A
Explanation:
Creating product descriptions from product specifications is a core generative AI capability that directly supports building a website showcasing existing products. Translating text is an AI capability but is not the best fit for the stated goal, designing a new product changes the project scope, and analyzing sales patterns is predictive/analytical rather than generative.
Question 14
You have a business unit that uses an AI solution to process loan applications.
You discover that the solution rejects the application of all applicants that are older than 60 years of age.
Which Microsoft responsible AI principle is this violating?
A. accountability
B. transparency
C. reliability and safety
D. fairness
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Correct Answer: D
Explanation:
Rejecting all applicants solely because they are older than 60 is discriminatory treatment based on age, a protected or sensitive attribute in many contexts. This violates the Microsoft Responsible AI principle of fairness, which aims to ensure AI systems do not create unjustified bias or unequal outcomes for different groups.
Question 32
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Select the answer that correctly completes the sentence.
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Correct Answer: can produce new and original content.
Explanation:
Generative AI creates new content, while predictive AI focuses on forecasting or classifying outcomes from existing data. Dataset size and accuracy are not the defining distinction.
Question 24
Your company manages a website that publishes daily news articles.
You need to recommend an AI solution that can analyze text and identify the main people, locations, and companies mentioned in the articles.
What should you include in the recommendation?
A. Azure Language in Foundry Tools
B. Azure Vision in Foundry Tools
C. Content Safety in Foundry Control Plane
D. Azure Speech in Foundry Tools
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Correct Answer: A
Explanation:
Azure AI Language provides named entity recognition (NER) and other natural language processing capabilities to identify people, organizations, and locations in text. Vision is for images, Speech is for audio, and Content Safety focuses on harmful content rather than entity extraction.
Question 25
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Select the answer that correctly completes the sentence.
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Correct Answer: Azure Language in Foundry Tools
Explanation:
Azure AI Language provides built-in Personally Identifiable Information (PII) detection and redaction for text extracted from documents. The other options do not directly provide PII detection and redaction.
Question 46
Your company is developing an AI-powered customer support agent.
You need to ensure that the solution follows Microsoft responsible AI principles.
Which two actions should you perform? Select the two BEST answers. Each correct answer presents part of the solution.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
A. Retain all customer conversations.
B. Test the agent to ensure that responses are inclusive and culturally sensitive.
C. Enable the agent to operate independently.
D. Ensure that the agent can be used for multiple purposes.
E. Provide a clear disclaimer that users are interacting with an AI solution.
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Correct Answer: B, E
Explanation:
Microsoft Responsible AI principles include fairness/inclusiveness and transparency. Testing the agent for inclusive and culturally sensitive responses supports fairness and inclusiveness. Clearly informing users that they are interacting with an AI system supports transparency. Retaining all conversations is not required and may conflict with privacy principles, independent operation reduces appropriate human oversight, and multipurpose use is unrelated to responsible AI principles.
Question 30
Your company has an AI solution that uses a prebuilt Azure OpenAI model to generate content.
You need to reduce the cost of solution while minimizing the impact on the quality of the generated output.
Which two actions should you perform? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
A. Switch to an alternate model.
B. Apply content moderation.
C. Optimize the prompts.
D. Decrease the number of hosting hours for the model.
E. Fine-tune the existing model.
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Correct Answer: A, C
Explanation:
Switching to a smaller or more cost-efficient Azure OpenAI model can significantly reduce per-token costs while maintaining acceptable quality for many workloads. Optimizing prompts reduces token usage and unnecessary calls, lowering costs with minimal impact on output quality. Content moderation adds processing rather than reducing generation cost, hosting hours are not how prebuilt Azure OpenAI models are billed, and fine-tuning typically adds cost rather than reducing it.
Question 12
Your company is reviewing a new AI solution before deploying it. The company wants to ensure that the solution follows Microsoft responsible AI principles.
What is the best approach to achieve the goal? More than one answer choice may achieve the goal. Select the BEST answer.
A. Design the AI solution to automatically approve or reject customer loan applications.
B. Test the AI solution to identify and mitigate potential unfair or inconsistent outcomes in its outputs.
C. Prioritize model performance when tuning the AI solution.
D. Enable the AI solution to collect and store personal data.
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Correct Answer: B
Explanation:
Microsoft's Responsible AI principles emphasize fairness, reliability, safety, privacy, security, inclusiveness, transparency, and accountability. Testing an AI system to identify and mitigate unfair or inconsistent outcomes directly supports the fairness principle and responsible deployment. Automatically approving or rejecting loans without appropriate oversight is not a responsible-AI best practice, prioritizing performance alone ignores responsible AI considerations, and collecting personal data is not inherently aligned with responsible AI and should be minimized and governed appropriately.
Question 35
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Select the answer that correctly completes the sentence.
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Correct Answer: accuracy and relevance of AI-generated responses.
Explanation:
Prompt engineering improves how the model is guided at inference time, leading to more accurate and relevant outputs. It does not increase storage capacity or model training time.
Question 9
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Select the answer that correctly completes the sentence.
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Correct Answer: tokens
Explanation:
LLM usage is typically billed based on the number of input and output tokens processed, not documents, requests, or words.
Question 44
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For each of the following statements, select Yes if the statement is true. Otherwise, select No.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
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Correct Answer: Yes
Yes
Yes
Explanation:
Poor-quality training data can increase development and retraining costs. AI models learn patterns and relationships from training data. Non-representative datasets can lead to biased, inaccurate, or unbalanced outputs.
Question 50
Your company wants to ensure that AI solutions are used responsibly and align with company values and compliance requirements.
You need to establish governance principles for AI use.
Which two actions should you perform? Select the two BEST answers. Each correct answer presents a complete solution.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
A. Allow each department to tailor governance processes for its own AI initiatives.
B. Define accountability norms for AI decisions across business and technical teams.
C. Create a process to review AI initiatives for responsible AI alignment.
D. Assign governance ownership primarily to the AI engineering and data science teams.
E. Focus governance efforts on AI systems that handle regulated or sensitive data.
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Correct Answer: B, C
Explanation:
Effective AI governance requires clear accountability across business and technical stakeholders and a formal review process to ensure AI initiatives align with responsible AI principles, company values, and compliance requirements. Department-specific governance leads to inconsistency, governance should not rest primarily with engineering teams alone, and governance should apply broadly rather than only to systems handling regulated or sensitive data.
Question 34
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For each of the following statements, select Yes if the statement is true. Otherwise, select No.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
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Correct Answer: Yes
No
Yes
Explanation:
Prompt engineering guides model behavior. Instructions specify the task, while examples are a separate prompt component. Context provides relevant background and information for generating the response.