P3 warm-up · 8 questions

Warm up: Integration — RAG, MCP, Auth & Observability

A quick 8-question drill on CCAR-P P3, easy to hard. Rate your confidence as you go — a 5-minute win to find where you stand before a full practice set.

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P3 · Q1RAG anatomy / pipeline order
A team is drawing the reference architecture for a retrieval-augmented generation system. Which sequence correctly orders the core stages from raw source documents to a grounded answer?
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P3 · Q2MCP fundamentals / roles
In the Model Context Protocol, which statement correctly describes the relationship between host, client, and server?
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P3 · Q3Remote MCP + authSelect 2
A company is exposing a remote MCP server over HTTP so that a hosted agent can call internal tools on behalf of individual employees. Which TWO practices best protect this integration?
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P3 · Q4Vector store selection & index freshness
A RAG system's source documents are updated hourly, but users complain the assistant cites last week's figures. The retrieval code and prompts are unchanged. What is the most likely cause?
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P3 · Q5Rate limits / retries / idempotency
An agent bulk-calls a payment-status tool and occasionally hits HTTP 429 and transient 503s. A naive retry loop caused duplicate side effects during an incident. All options look reasonable; which is the least risky retry design?
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P3 · Q6Enterprise identity & per-user data scoping
A RAG assistant is being rolled out across an enterprise that uses OIDC SSO. Different employees must retrieve from different subsets of a shared corpus based on their group memberships. Every option below is deployable; which is the least risky way to scope retrieval per user?
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P3 · Q7Reranking & metadata filtering
A legal-research RAG returns relevant-looking passages, but many are from repealed statutes. Documents carry a 'status' field (active/repealed) and a 'jurisdiction' field. All fixes are plausible; which most precisely improves result quality?
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P3 · Q8tool_choice semantics
A developer sets tool_choice to 'auto' expecting the model to always call the weather tool on weather questions, but sometimes it answers directly. All explanations sound reasonable; which correctly describes the behavior?
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