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MS-900 · Question #273

A company plans to use Copilot Chat to summarize email and documents. You need to ensure that the Copilot Chat prompt has all the necessary information to provide complete responses. Which element…

The correct answer is A. expectation to format the level of detail required. When crafting Copilot Chat prompts for summarization tasks, the prompt must include clear expectations about formatting and level of detail to guide the AI in producing complete and useful responses.

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Question

A company plans to use Copilot Chat to summarize email and documents. You need to ensure that the Copilot Chat prompt has all the necessary information to provide complete responses. Which element should the company include in the prompt?

Exhibit

MS-900 question #273 exhibit

Options

  • Aexpectation to format the level of detail required
  • Bcomparison of different pieces of text to identify similarities
  • Cclassification of text based on its content
  • Dgeneration of new text

How the community answered

(64 responses)
  • A
    89% (57)
  • B
    6% (4)
  • C
    3% (2)
  • D
    2% (1)

Why each option

When crafting Copilot Chat prompts for summarization tasks, the prompt must include clear expectations about formatting and level of detail to guide the AI in producing complete and useful responses.

Aexpectation to format the level of detail requiredCorrect

Including expectations about format and level of detail is a core prompt engineering principle for Copilot Chat; by specifying how the output should be structured (e.g., bullet points, paragraph length, depth of summary), the user ensures Copilot has enough context to tailor its response appropriately. This directly addresses completeness of responses when summarizing emails and documents, as Copilot needs explicit guidance on the desired output format to avoid vague or overly verbose results.

Bcomparison of different pieces of text to identify similarities

Comparing different pieces of text to identify similarities is a text analysis task, not a prompt element needed to ensure complete summarization responses from Copilot Chat.

Cclassification of text based on its content

Classification of text based on content is a categorization task and does not serve as a prompt element that helps Copilot Chat produce complete summarization responses.

Dgeneration of new text

Generation of new text describes a general AI capability, not a specific prompt element that the user should include to ensure Copilot Chat provides complete and well-structured summaries.

Concept tested: Copilot Chat prompt engineering for summarization

Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/copilot/microsoft-365/prompting-tips-and-tricks

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#Copilot Chat#prompt engineering#response completeness

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