Judgment, not recall

• Part 2 · The seven blueprint domains

  Domain 1 · Prompting and Task Execution

  2026-09-13 · 3 min read

  Fourteen percent, and the one domain most candidates assume is the whole exam. Its four objectives say otherwise

  Judgment, not recall

• Part 2 · The seven blueprint domains

  Domain 2 · Output Evaluation and Validation

  2026-09-13 · 3 min read

  Twenty-one percent, the heaviest of the seven, and the first of the guide's three published sample items comes from it — which is unlikely to be an accident

  Heaviest domainsJudgment, not recall

• Part 2 · The seven blueprint domains

  Domain 3 · Product and Model Selection

  2026-09-13 · 2 min read

  Twelve percent, the domain with the most names to actually know, and where the guide's second published sample item lives

  Judgment, not recall

• Part 2 · The seven blueprint domains

  Domain 6 · Governance, Risk, and Responsible Use

  2026-09-13 · 3 min read

  Fifteen percent, and the guide's third published sample lives here — with a rationale that gives away how the whole domain thinks

  Heaviest domainsJudgment, not recall

• Part 2 · The seven blueprint domains

  Domain 7 · Troubleshooting and Optimization

  2026-09-13 · 2 min read

  Ten percent, the lightest of the seven, and the one whose objectives overlap the others most

  Judgment, not recall

• Part 3 · Reading the questions, and doing the work

  Reading the items — working through all three official samples

  2026-09-13 · 3 min read

  The guide publishes three samples with rationale, and all three rationales share one shape — which is worth more than the questions themselves

  Judgment, not recall

• Part 3 · Reading the questions, and doing the work

  Decision tools that work across domains

  2026-09-13 · 3 min read

  Four questions that settle items in several domains at once, each drawn from the guide rather than invented as an exam trick

  Judgment, not recall

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