CCAR-P · Study Guide

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Domain 4

Evaluation, Testing & Optimization

6 build exercises to practice the concepts in this domain.

4.1Beginner30 minutes

4.1 — Define a balanced metric pack for a support copilot

What you will learn

  • Name quality, latency, cost, safety, and security metrics
  • Set floors/ceilings with owners
  • Tie metrics to user outcomes
4.2Intermediate40 minutes

4.2 — Design a mixed-method eval suite for policy RAG

What you will learn

  • Cover happy, edge, and adversarial cases
  • Mix automated and human labels
  • Version the dataset with the system
4.3Intermediate35 minutes

4.3 — Plan a controlled A/B for a prompt change

What you will learn

  • Isolate one primary factor
  • Define power/traffic assumptions
  • Write ship criteria for quality and cost
4.4Advanced40 minutes

4.4 — Diagnose a failing golden set with a decision tree

What you will learn

  • Reproduce with fixed inputs and traces
  • Separate prompt, retrieval, grounding, and model mismatch
  • Pick the smallest justified fix
4.5Intermediate40 minutes

4.5 — Optimize a hot-path assistant under a quality floor

What you will learn

  • Profile tokens and latency
  • Apply trim and prefix cache before tier changes
  • Re-measure quality after each cut
4.6Advanced40 minutes

4.6 — Design quality monitoring with an alert→fixture loop

What you will learn

  • Define quality/cost SLIs beyond uptime
  • Plan redaction and request_id joins
  • Wire alerts to runbooks and eval capture