GenAI & Foundation Models
How GenAI Gets Used
7 min+60 XPStep 1/10
Prompt engineering, exam form
The entry exams define prompt engineering simply: designing the input text to get the output you want.
The techniques they name:
- Zero-shot — just ask, no examples: 'Translate this to French'
- Few-shot — give examples to match: 'Here are two examples of the format I want… now you do the third'
- Chain-of-thought — ask it to reason step-by-step before answering
You'll be asked to identify which technique a scenario describes.
insight
Few-shot is the one exams love most. Any time a question mentions 'showing the model examples,' it's few-shot prompting.