AB-731 Certification Practice Question #53

Question

Your company has an AI solution that uses a prebuilt Azure OpenAI model to generate content.

You need to reduce the cost of solution while minimizing the impact on the quality of the generated output.

Which two actions should you perform? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

Accepted Answer

The two cost levers that lower spend while protecting output quality are switching to a cheaper but comparable model (A) and optimizing prompts to reduce token usage (C) — both are explicit Microsoft cost-optimization recommendations for Azure OpenAI, which bills per token. Content moderation (B) is a safety control, not a cost control; decreasing hosting hours (D) is irrelevant for consumption-priced prebuilt OpenAI usage and harms availability; fine-tuning (E) incurs additional training cost and effort rather than reducing it. The Suggested Answer flags C, and both commenters supply the full AC pair.

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