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Section 1
Fundamentals
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Preview: Foundation Models
Preview includes- 4 of 14 lesson topics
- 1 overview segment
- 3 core concepts
- 2 exam tips
Lesson Topics
- Prompt Lab
- Ibm AI Engineering Practice Concept
- Variables
- Greedy Decoding with a Temperature of 0.0
Overview
The exam tests the foundational elements of working with foundation models within IBM's watsonx.ai environment. Understanding these concepts is critical for effectively prompting, testing, tuning, and generating text with these powerful models.
Core Concepts
- **Prompt Lab:** A workspace within watsonx.ai for creating, managing, and testing reusable prompts. It's a tool for experimentation and refinement, *not* for creating entirely new foundation models.
- **Variables:** Allow you to create prompt templates that accept dynamic values at runtime, making prompts more flexible and reusable. Think of them as placeholders for data that changes with each invocation.
- **Greedy Decoding with Temperature 0.0:** This setting ensures deterministic output, meaning the model will consistently produce the same response for the same input. It eliminates randomness in the token selection process.
Exam Tips
- Pay close attention to the wording of questions, especially when differentiating between Prompt Lab and model training.
- Understand the purpose of each generation parameter and how it affects the output. Consider the trade-offs between randomness and determinism.
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Prompting
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Model Building
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Deployment
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Retrieval
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Governance
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Combined Governance
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SDK
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Frameworks
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Big Data
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Section 12
RAG Details
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