Essential AI

Certified AI Professional

The Essential AI course provides essential coverage of predictive AI and generative AI concepts, benefits, challenges and risks.

It is suitable for IT and business professionals that would like to receive a fundamental understanding of how contemporary AI works and how it can be applied in the real world.

Upon completing the course you will receive a digital certificate of completion, as well as a digital training badge from Acclaim/Credly. Upon getting certified you will also receive an official AI Professional digital accreditation certificate and certification badge from Acclaim/Credly, along with an account that can be used to verify your certification status.

Learning objectives

The Essential AI course is comprised of the following 2 course modules, each of which has an estimated completion time of 10 hours:

Module 1: Fundamental Predictive AI

Module 4: Fundamental Generative AI

Educational approach

20 hours of Workbook Lessons & Exercises

Supporting Video Lessons

Course Completion Certificates & Badges

Certification Exam & Practice Questions

Feature-Rich eLearning Platform

Interactive Graded Exercises, Self-Test

Printable PDFs

Lifetime Access

Mind Map Poster

Symbol Legend Poster

Lab Exercise Booklet (if applicable)

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Module 1: Fundamental Predictive AI

This course module illustrates how predictive AI can be used and applied in a range of business applications, as well as essential coverage of predictive AI practices and systems. The module explores the most common learning approaches and functional areas that AI systems are used for. All of the content is authored in easy-to-understand, plain English.

Predictive AI Business and Technology Drivers

Predictive AI Benefits, Common Risks and Challenges of Using Predictive AI

Business Problem Categories Addressed by AI

Types of Predictive AI

Common Predictive AI Learning Approaches

Understanding Predictive AI Learning and Model Training

Step-by-Step Training Loop Process

Supervised Learning, Unsupervised Learning, Continuous Learning

Heuristic Learning, Semi-Supervised Learning, Reinforcement Learning

Common Predictive AI Functional Designs, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition

Robotics, Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Speech Recognition, Natural Language Understanding (NLU)

Understanding AI Models and Neural Networks

Module 4: Fundamental Generative AI

This course module explores a range of the most important and relevant technology-related topics that pertain to contemporary cloud computing platforms. The module content does not get into implementation or programming details, but instead keeps coverage at a conceptual level, focusing on topics that address cloud service architecture, cloud security threats and technologies, virtualization and containerization.

Cloud Computing Mechanisms that Establish Architectural Building Blocks

Virtual Servers, Containers, Ready-Made Environments, Failover Systems and Pay-Per-Use Monitors

Automated Scaling Listeners, Multi-Device Brokers and Resource Replication

Understanding How Individual Cloud Computing Mechanisms Support Cloud Characteristics

An Introduction to Containerization, Container Hosting and Logical Pod Containers

A Comparison of Containerization and Virtualization

Cloud Balancing and Cloud Bursting Architectures

Common Risks, Threats and Vulnerabilities of Cloud-based Services and Cloud-hosted Solutions

Cloud Security Mechanisms used to Counter Threats and Attacks

Understanding Cloud-Based Security Groups and Hardened Virtual Server Images

Cloud Service Implementation Mediums (including Web Services and REST Services)

Cloud Storage Benefits and Challenges, Cloud Storage Services, Technologies and Approaches

Non-Relational (NoSQL) Storage Compared to Relational Storage

Cloud Service Testing Considerations and Testing Types

Service Grids and Autonomic Computing

Cloud Computing Industry Standards Organizations

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