Professional · CAIP
Certified AI Practitioner
Prove you can choose, debug and control AI systems in production.
Founding price $99 · list $299 · one attempt · See a sample certificate
- 60 questions · 130 minutes
- Online, proctored
- Valid 1 year
Sample question · from the free course
Not an exam item
A member lookup for an account with no bookings returns {"error": "no results"} with the error flag set. The agent retries it three times, then reports that it could not reach the booking service. What is the defect?
Overview
A scenario-based exam for engineers who build with models, retrieval and agents. Instead of testing definitions, most questions give you evidence from a working system — a trace, a log, a cost report — and ask what you would do.
Exam domains
The weight of each domain in the exam.
- Models, Prompting and Context16%
- Retrieval and Data Lifecycle11%
- Agents and Reliable Integrations21%
- Evaluation and Observability15%
- Security, Privacy and Authority15%
- Software Engineering and Operation12%
- Problem Framing, Economics and Delivery10%
What you will prove
- Choose the right approachKnow when a prompt, retrieval, fine-tuning or plain code is the right tool — and what each one costs.
- Diagnose failures from evidenceRead a trace or a log and find the step where a model, a retriever or an agent went wrong.
- Keep agents under controlSet limits on time, money and retries, put approvals where they matter, and fail safely.
- Measure quality honestlyBuild evaluations that predict how a system behaves in production, not just in a demo.
- Secure what the model can reachEnforce permissions, contain prompt injection, and keep one customer's data away from another.
- Ship it and run itRoll out safely, monitor what matters, and know the real cost of every correct answer.
How certification works
Get exam access
$99 founding price (list $299) for one attempt. Need extra time or another adjustment? Ask before you book.
Have your identity checked
A person reviews your photo ID and a selfie before the exam can start.
Sit the exam online
60 questions in 130 minutes, proctored in your browser. Answers save as you go; if your connection drops, you come back to the same exam.
Get your result
Marked against the pass mark fixed when you begin: a provisional 74% today (how it's set). Every result can be appealed.
Share your credential
A certificate and a public record with your unique ID. Valid for 1 year; renew it with continuing education or by passing again.
Preparation
Certified AI Practitioner
7 modules · 40 lessons · about 18 hours of reading · 194 practice questions. Free with an account, and never a condition of being certified.
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