RAG, agents and production GenAI preparation

Databricks Generative AI Engineer Associate Practice Exams

Practice the decisions involved in designing, building, evaluating, governing, deploying and monitoring generative AI applications on Databricks.

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Generative AI Engineer preparation areas

Application design

Translate requirements into prompts, models, tools, agent flows and solution components appropriate to the use case.

RAG data preparation

Choose source data, parsing, chunking, embeddings, retrieval and re-ranking strategies while protecting data quality.

Development and deployment

Work with agents, MLflow, Vector Search, Model Serving, Unity Catalog and production deployment decisions.

Evaluation and governance

Evaluate response and retrieval quality, use human feedback, apply guardrails, monitor behavior and govern access.

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Practice the complete GenAI application lifecycle

Stage Decisions to practice
Design Requirements, prompts, model and agent architecture
Prepare Documents, chunks, embeddings and retrieval quality
Build Tools, chains, agents, guardrails and experiment tracking
Deploy Serving, access, dependencies and operational constraints
Evaluate Quality metrics, feedback, monitoring and governance

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A practical GenAI study workflow

  1. Map every current objective to a small hands-on application.
  2. Build and evaluate a basic RAG or agent workflow end to end.
  3. Take a timed mock exam and group errors by lifecycle stage.
  4. Review explanations and reproduce weak decisions in Databricks.

Free GenAI Engineer Associate sample question

Scenario: A RAG assistant retrieves relevant documents, but answers cite distracting passages. What should the team try first?

  1. Increase the temperature substantially.
  2. Add retrieval evaluation, improve chunking, and apply re-ranking before generation.
  3. Remove the source documents from the application.
  4. Replace human evaluation with latency alone.

Correct answer: B. Retrieval evaluation identifies where relevance degrades; better chunks and re-ranking can improve the context passed to the model. The other options do not address retrieval quality.

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Is GenAI Engineer Associate right for you?

Choose it if you work with Python, prompts, RAG, agents, evaluation or production GenAI applications and want to validate Databricks-specific implementation decisions. If your focus is classical model development, compare the Machine Learning Associate route on the Databricks hub.

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