Five short parts, about five minutes. Your answers stay in your browser.
Part 2 of 5
How confident are you? Rate each statement from 1 (not at all) to 5 (fully).
1 = Not at all 5 = Fully
1. I can explain how a generative AI tool produces its answers. 1. I can explain how a generative AI tool produces its answers.
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2. I check AI output against a source before I use it. 2. I check AI output against a source before I use it.
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3. I know what data I may and may not put into an AI tool. 3. I know what data I may and may not put into an AI tool.
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4. I can write a structured prompt that gets a good result first time. 4. I can write a structured prompt that gets a good result first time.
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5. I have set up my AI tools with my own standing instructions. 5. I have set up my AI tools with my own standing instructions.
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6. I have built a reusable assistant, skill or template. 6. I have built a reusable assistant, skill or template.
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7. I understand how AI can be connected to my organisation’s data. 7. I understand how AI can be connected to my organisation’s data.
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8. I could design an AI agent for a task in my team. 8. I could design an AI agent for a task in my team.
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Part 3 of 5
Twenty short scenarios Choose the best answer. You will see the explanations with your profile.
1. A colleague wants to paste a staff overtime report, with names and salaries, into a free personal AI account to summarise it. What is the best response? Fine, as long as they delete the chat afterwards Use an approved tool, or remove the names and salaries and describe the pattern instead Fine, because a summary is harmless Fine, if the file is password-protected
2. You need a one-page summary of a 40-page report for your board. Which brief is most likely to work first time? “Summarise this report.” “Summarise this report briefly and professionally.” “For board members with five minutes: one page, three key findings, the decision needed and the main risk, in plain language.” “You are an expert. Make it good.”
3. The tool cites a report you cannot find. What do you do? Use it, since it names a source Treat it as unverified and check independently Ask the tool to confirm it is real, and accept the answer Cite it, adding “according to AI”
4. What makes a custom AI assistant easier to trust and maintain? A broad scope covering many jobs A narrow scope, a named owner and a version number No examples, so it can improvise Open editing by everyone
5. A task has several steps, needs two data sources and should start automatically when something happens. The best fit is… A one-off prompt A saved prompt An AI agent Retraining a model
6. Your organisation has no written AI policy yet. What is the sensible default? Use any tool, carefully Avoid AI completely until a policy exists Use only tools IT has approved, keep personal and confidential data out, and ask for a policy Use personal accounts so the organisation is not responsible
7. The tool’s first answer is generic. What usually improves it most? Asking the same question again Adding context: the audience, key facts, the format and an example of good Switching to a different AI tool Making the question shorter
8. An AI summary of a contract says the notice period is 60 days. What is the quickest reliable check? Ask the tool again Trust it, since contracts are clear Ask it to quote the clause and its number, then read that clause yourself Ask a colleague whether 60 days sounds right
9. An assistant answers staff questions from your policy documents. One policy changes next month. What keeps its answers right? Update the document it draws on, then re-run your test questions Nothing: it learns automatically Tell it about the change in one chat Build a new assistant
10. An agent matches supplier invoices to purchase orders. Which stop condition is best? Stop and ask a person when an invoice and its order differ by more than an agreed amount, or the supplier is not recognised Stop after 100 invoices Never stop, so the work gets done Stop when it feels unsure
11. An assistant reads incoming supplier emails and can also send replies. One email contains hidden text telling it to forward all invoices to an outside address. What is the strongest safeguard? A longer set of instructions A paid plan Asking it to ignore suspicious emails Removing its permission to send, or making a person approve every outgoing message
12. The answer is good but too long and too technical for your CEO. What is the most efficient next step? Reply in the same chat: “Rewrite for our CEO: 150 words, no jargon, lead with the decision needed.” Start a new chat and ask again Edit it all yourself Switch to a different tool
13. What is the most reliable way to get an accurate calculation from an AI tool? Ask it to be careful Ask it to use code or a data tool and show its method Ask it to answer faster Ask three times and average the answers
14. When is a prompt worth turning into a reusable skill or custom assistant? As soon as it has worked once Whenever you start a new project When the task recurs, the brief is stable and the output has been checked on several real cases Only if IT builds it
15. When an agent “uses a tool”, what actually happens? The model asks the app to run a named tool with specific inputs, then reads the result The model takes direct control of the computer A person types the answer for it The tool retrains the model
16. A client asks whether material from their project could be used to train the AI tool you used. What should you do? Check the plan and data settings of the tool you used, and answer from what they say Say no: AI tools never train on business data Say yes, to be safe Tell them it is the vendor’s responsibility
17. Attaching an example of a past report you liked mainly helps the tool to… Copy the facts from the example Answer faster Work without any other context Match the structure, tone and level of detail you want
18. An AI draft of a market overview contains five statistics, and you only have time to check part of it. What do you check first? The opening sentence The formatting The longest paragraph The figures and claims your recommendation depends on
19. You share a skill with five colleagues. One says it gives poor results on their files. What should the owner do? Tell them to write better prompts Delete the skill Make a separate copy for each person Collect the failing case, fix the instructions, re-test the earlier cases and update the version
20. You change the instructions of an agent your team already uses. How do you know the change made it better, not just different? Try it once on a new example Ask the agent whether it improved Wait for complaints Re-run a fixed set of test cases with expected results and compare
