Parallel Function Calling Quiz

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1. In a parallel function call, what does the model return in one response?
   • The model trains on several datasets at once
   • The model requests several tool calls in a single response
   • Two models answer the same question
   • Tools call the model repeatedly
2. Who actually executes the tools concurrently?
   • The language model itself
   • The application or harness
   • The user's browser only
   • The model provider's billing system
3. Which pair of calls should NOT be issued in parallel?
   • Weather lookups for three different cities
   • Searching two unrelated topics
   • Creating a folder and then writing a file into that folder
   • Fetching orders and support tickets for one customer
4. How should results be matched to their tool calls?
   • By the order they finish
   • By their position in the list
   • By the call identifier
   • By the length of each result
5. Two of five parallel searches time out. What is the best response?
   • Discard all five results
   • Return the three successes and two clear errors so the model can retry the failures
   • Crash the agent
   • Pretend the failed searches returned empty results without saying so
6. Why use Promise.allSettled or asyncio.gather with return_exceptions?
   • So one failed call does not discard the other results
   • To make calls run one at a time
   • To encrypt tool outputs
   • To reduce the number of tools
7. Roughly how long does a parallel batch of independent calls take?
   • The sum of all call durations
   • About the duration of the slowest call
   • Zero time
   • Always exactly one second
8. What helps prevent retries of side-effecting tools from duplicating actions?
   • Idempotency keys
   • Longer tool descriptions
   • Higher model temperature
   • Removing call identifiers