Exercises: RAG Engineering

Concept Drills

• Explain RAG vs fine-tuning.
• Compare fixed, semantic, and heading-based chunking.
• Explain vector search and hybrid search.
• Explain faithfulness and citation correctness.

Build Drills

• Parse three document formats.
• Implement chunking with metadata.
• Store embeddings in a vector database.
• Retrieve top-k chunks for a query.
• Add citations to answers.
• Add metadata filtering.

Failure Drills

• Ask questions with no answer in the documents.
• Add conflicting documents.
• Add a malicious instruction inside a document.
• Test permission-restricted documents.

Output

• RAG ingestion script.
• Retrieval report.
• Answer evaluation report.
• Security notes.