Associate
Certified AI Application Builder — Foundations
A practitioner credential for developers who design and ship AI-augmented applications — covering model APIs, prompting patterns, retrieval, evaluation, and production safeguards.
Who it's for: Software developers, full-stack engineers, integrations engineers
What you'll prove
- Choose appropriate models and decoding parameters for a given task
- Structure prompts using few-shot, role, and chain-of-thought patterns
- Design retrieval-augmented architectures with relevant chunking
- Implement output validation, schema-constrained generation, and guards
- Instrument an AI feature with eval harnesses and rollback paths
- Apply rate limiting, prompt-injection mitigation, and PII redaction
Exam format
- Duration90 min
- Items55
- Item typesMultiple choice, Multiple select, Scenario
- Exam languagesEnglish, Hindi
Sample questions
An LLM-backed feature occasionally returns malformed JSON that breaks the downstream parser. Which mitigation has the smallest impact on latency while making schema violations near-zero?
A RAG pipeline retrieves 12 chunks per query and the model consistently cites only the first two. Which change is MOST likely to improve answer grounding?
Pricing & renewal
- Exam fee$149 USD
- Valid for3 years
- Renewal$99
What candidates say
Testimonials from our first certified cohort are coming soon.