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Module 11 Knowledge Check

Questions: 10 Pass mark: 8 out of 10 Retries: allowed after reading feedback

Instructions

Choose the best answer. The goal is to check whether you can apply failure modes, privacy, and human gates to your own work, not whether you can recall the wording of a unit.

Questions

1. The expensive AI failures are…

A. the obviously wrong ones B. the quiet ones that read well C. the slow ones D. the long ones

2. Invention, missing context and false confidence are told apart by asking…

A. how long the output is B. could this have been right for someone? C. which tool produced it D. how confident it sounds

3. Invention concentrates in…

A. greetings B. numbers, dates, citations, clause numbers and prices C. adjectives D. paragraph length

4. Guards against these failures…

A. remove them B. reduce the rate but do not remove the failure C. make review unnecessary D. work only for long outputs

5. Bias in everyday AI-assisted work usually appears as…

A. obvious statements B. small cumulative differences in how groups are described C. refusals D. formatting errors

6. The quickest fairness check is…

A. the absence test B. the swap test C. the example test D. the receiving test

7. A privacy gate differs from a privacy guideline because…

A. it is longer B. it is a step in the workflow with a decision attached C. it is written down D. it applies to more data

8. The privacy gate step people most often skip is…

A. identifying the category B. checking whether the person could still be identified C. recording the decision D. choosing the tool

9. Deciding data categories in advance rather than per task makes the gate…

A. stricter B. a lookup rather than a judgement C. slower D. optional

10. A stop condition without an alternative route will…

A. work well B. be ignored, because it is an obstacle rather than a gate C. escalate automatically D. apply only once

Answers

1. B

An obviously wrong output costs nothing; you reject it.

2. B

If yes, it is missing context; if no, it is invention.

3. B

Treat any of these you did not supply as unverified by default.

4. B

Which is why review is a step rather than a fallback.

5. B

One group described in warmer terms than another doing the same thing.

6. B

Change the name, gender, age or place, and see whether the tone changes.

7. B

Advice is followed inconsistently under time pressure.

8. B

Removing a name is not anonymisation when the details identify the person.

9. B

That is what makes it survive a busy week.

10. B

For each condition, write who to ask or what to do instead.

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