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#1 most missed

Bedrock Agents & Action Groups

Implementation and Integration
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high-signal topic

A financial services company is building an AI assistant using Amazon Bedrock Agents that can check account balances, transfer funds between accounts, and generate monthly spending reports. The assistant must verify the user's identity before performing any financial transaction but should allow spending report generation without additional verification. The developer needs to implement this with the least operational overhead. Which architecture should the developer implement?

Correct answer
A. Create a single Bedrock Agent with three action groups. Configure the transfer and balance action groups' Lambda functions to call Amazon Cognito for identity verification before processing, while the report generation action group skips verification.

A single Bedrock Agent with separate action groups provides clean separation of concerns. Each action group has its own Lambda function and OpenAPI schema, allowing the developer to implement identity verification in the transaction-related Lambda functions while keeping the report generation Lambda simple. This is the least operational overhead approach that properly enforces security at the execution layer.

#2 most missed

Guardrails & Responsible AI

AI Safety, Security, and Governance
Review
high-signal topic

A healthcare company is deploying a patient-facing GenAI application using Amazon Bedrock. The application must: (1) never provide medical diagnoses, (2) redact any patient PII (Social Security numbers, medical record numbers) from both inputs and outputs, (3) block discussions about self-harm, and (4) log all guardrail interventions for compliance auditing. The developer has configured Bedrock Guardrails with content filters, denied topics, and sensitive information filters. Which additional configuration is required to meet ALL compliance requirements?

Correct answer
A. Enable CloudWatch logging on the guardrail and configure a sensitive information filter with regex patterns for medical record numbers, since SSN detection is built-in as a PII type

Bedrock Guardrails' sensitive information filters support built-in PII types (including SSN) and custom regex patterns for organization-specific identifiers like medical record numbers. The denied topics policy handles blocking medical diagnoses and self-harm discussions. Content filters handle harmful content categories. Enabling CloudWatch logging on the guardrail captures all intervention events for compliance auditing. This configuration addresses all four requirements natively.

#3 most missed

Fine Tuning & Continued Pre Training

Foundation Model Integration, Data Management, and Compliance
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high-signal topic

A legal technology company wants to improve a foundation model's understanding of specialized legal terminology and document structures that are not well-represented in the base model's training data. They have 50,000 unlabeled legal documents. After improving the model's legal domain understanding, they also need to train it to extract specific clause types from contracts using 5,000 labeled examples. The company wants to minimize costs while achieving the best domain-specific performance. Which approach should the developer take?

Correct answer
A. Perform continued pre-training on the 50,000 unlabeled legal documents first, then fine-tune the resulting model with the 5,000 labeled examples for clause extraction

This is the correct two-stage approach for domain adaptation. Continued pre-training on unlabeled data teaches the model domain-specific language patterns, terminology, and document structures. Fine-tuning on labeled data then teaches the model the specific task (clause extraction). This sequential approach leverages both data types optimally and is a well-established pattern in foundation model customization on Bedrock.

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