RAG & Evaluation — CCAR-P Practice Question
A representative Claude Certified Architect - Professional (CCAR-P) exam question on RAG & Evaluation. Work through it below, then read why each option is right or wrong.
Short answer
The correct answer is B. The ingestion and retrieval layer, using relevance judgments and retrieval metrics before retuning generation.
Generation cannot ground itself in evidence it never receives. Isolating retrieval quality from answer quality prevents prompt changes from masking the root cause.
The Question
A RAG assistant gives fluent wrong answers. Retrieval logs show that the correct passage was never returned. Which component should the team improve first?
Why B is correct
Generation cannot ground itself in evidence it never receives. Isolating retrieval quality from answer quality prevents prompt changes from masking the root cause.
Why the other options are wrong
Option A does not satisfy the requirement in the scenario. Review the explanation above: the correct choice (B) is the only one that fully meets every constraint stated in the question.
Option C does not satisfy the requirement in the scenario. Review the explanation above: the correct choice (B) is the only one that fully meets every constraint stated in the question.
Option D does not satisfy the requirement in the scenario. Review the explanation above: the correct choice (B) is the only one that fully meets every constraint stated in the question.
Key idea: RAG & Evaluation
Generation cannot ground itself in evidence it never receives. Isolating retrieval quality from answer quality prevents prompt changes from masking the root cause. On the CCAR-P exam, questions in the "Integration" domain test whether you can map a scenario's constraints to the right choice. Read the requirement carefully, eliminate options that violate any single constraint, and pick the one that satisfies all of them with the least operational overhead.
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