ISTQB CT-AI - ISTQBCertified Tester AI Testing Exam

A. The difficulty of defining criteria for improvement before the model can be accepted.

Defining criteria for improvement is a challenge in the acceptance of AI models, but it is not directly related to the performance drop in real-world scenarios. It relates more to the evaluation and deployment phase rather than affecting the model's real-time performance post-deployment.

B. The fast pace of change did not allow sufficient time for testing.

This can significantly affect the model's performance. If the system is self-learning, it needs to adapt quickly, and insufficient testing time can lead to incomplete learning and poor performance.

C. The unknown nature and insufficient specification of the operating environment might have caused the poor performance.

This is highly likely to affect performance. Self-learning AI systems require detailed specifications of the operating environment to adapt and learn effectively. If the environment is insufficiently specified, the model may fail to perform accurately in real-world scenarios.

D. There was an algorithmic bias in the AI system.

Algorithmic bias can significantly impact the performance of AI systems. If the model has biases, it will not perform well across different scenarios and data distributions.

Given the context of the self-learning nature and the need for real-time adaptability, optionAis least likely to describe the fall in performance because it deals with acceptance criteria rather than real-time performance issues​​.

The syllabus defines clustering as:

“Clustering: This is when the problem requires the identification of similarities in input data points that allows them to be grouped based on common characteristics or attributes. For example, clustering is used to categorize different types of customers for the purpose of marketing.”

(Reference: ISTQB CT-AI Syllabus v1.0, Section 3.1.2, page 26 of 99)

The syllabus clearly explains the structure of a deep neural network (DNN):

"A deep neural network comprises three types of layers. The input layer receives inputs... Between the input and output layers are hidden layers made up of artificial neurons, which are also known as nodes."

(Reference: ISTQB CT-AI Syllabus v1.0, Section 6.1, page 45 of 99)

The syllabus explains that supervised learning requires correctly labeled data so the algorithm can learn the relationship between input features and output labels:

"In supervised learning, the algorithm creates the ML model from labeled data during the training phase. The labeled data is used to infer the relationship between the input data and output labels."

(Reference: ISTQB CT-AI Syllabus v1.0, Section 3.1.1)