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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.