AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Explanation

This is Zero-shot Prompting because:

1. No examples provided: The prompt does not include any example responses or demonstrations of what the AI should do.

2. Direct instruction: The user simply asks the AI to perform a task without showing it how to do it first.

3. No context or prior examples: The text explicitly states "No example responses or context are provided beforehand."

Key Differences:

• Zero-shot Prompting: Asking the model to perform a task without any examples.

• Few-shot Prompting: Providing a few examples to demonstrate the desired behavior.

• Chain-of-Thought Prompting: Asking the model to show its reasoning step-by-step.

• Contextual Prompting: Providing relevant background information or context.

Since the student asks the AI to explain cloud computing without providing any examples or context, this is a classic example of zero-shot prompting where the model must rely on its pre-trained knowledge to generate an appropriate response.