Prompt Chaining Quiz

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1. What is the defining feature of prompt chaining?
   • One very long prompt that contains every instruction
   • A fixed sequence of prompts where each step's output feeds the next
   • A model that picks its own tools at run time
   • Sending the same prompt to many models at once
2. How does a prompt chain differ from an autonomous agent?
   • Chains cannot use JSON
   • Agents never call tools
   • In a chain the developer hard-codes the steps, while an agent decides its next step at run time
   • Chains always use more expensive models
3. In Anthropic's "Building Effective Agents" essay, what are "gates" in a prompt chain?
   • Programmatic checks between steps
   • Paid access tiers for the API
   • Security firewalls around the model
   • Parts of the model's neural network
4. What trade-off does prompt chaining typically make?
   • Lower accuracy for lower cost
   • No trade-off at all
   • Less debuggability for more speed
   • Extra latency for higher accuracy
5. If each of four chained steps is 95 percent reliable and failures are independent, roughly how reliable is the whole chain?
   • 95 percent
   • About 81 percent
   • About 50 percent
   • 99 percent
6. Why should each step pass forward only the information the next step needs?
   • To avoid bringing back the context bloat chaining was meant to reduce
   • Because APIs reject long inputs
   • So the model forgets its instructions
   • To make logging impossible
7. In Prompt Chaining: which statement does the guide describe as a misconception?
   • Intermediate outputs should be logged
   • Independent steps can run in parallel
   • You need a special framework to build a prompt chain
   • Structured output makes validation easier
8. How can prompt chaining sometimes lower costs instead of raising them?
   • It removes the need for output tokens
   • Providers give chains free credits
   • It avoids sending any input tokens
   • Easy steps can run on smaller, cheaper models