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Certified Artificial Intelligence Practitioner®
A vendor-neutral AI certification validating practical artificial intelligence and machine learning knowledge.
Licensing authority: CertNexus
Initial by examination
- Agreement
- Acceptance of the CertNexus Candidate Agreement at the beginning of the examination is required for the examination to launch.
- Certification
- Earn the certification by passing the AIP-210 examination; training, readiness assessment and test preparation are not separate mandatory examinations.
- Delivery exclusions
- The current handbook excludes residents of Iran, North Korea, Syria and Sudan; delivery and seat availability remain subject to the published provider policies.
- Eligibility
- No application fee, supporting documentation or other eligibility verification measures for examination eligibility; no examination prerequisites and no mandatory training. The published background knowledge, course list and 1–3 years of professional exposure describe preparation/target candidates and are not additional examination dependencies.
- Evidence Claim Ids
- ["national-caip-route-adoption-20261025","national-caip-registration-20261025","national-caip-assessment-20261025"]
- Identification
- Generally bring registration confirmation and a government-issued ID; the administering testing center determines the specific acceptable identification requirements.
- Scheduling
- Rolling appointments may be scheduled in advance or on the testing day, subject to availability; create or use a Pearson VUE account, select the exam from the catalog, schedule and pay or redeem a voucher. In-person Pearson VUE and Pearson OnVUE proctoring are published options.
- Vouchers
- Vouchers are non-refundable, non-transferable and non-exchangeable, and expire 18 months from purchase unless otherwise noted; all attempts must use a valid voucher.
Certified Artificial Intelligence Practitioner®
- Provider
- Pearson VUE
- Format
- Proctored multiple-choice / multiple-response examination; in person at Pearson VUE test centers or online through Pearson OnVUE.
- Exam questions
- Scored questions: 80.
- Time limit
- 120 minutes, including 5 minutes for the Candidate Agreement and 5 minutes for the Pearson VUE tutorial.
- Passing score
- 60% or 59% depending on exam form; forms have been statistically equated.
Examination outline
Understanding the Artificial Intelligence Problem (26%)
- Describe how artificial intelligence and machine learning are used to solve business problems
- Analyze the use cases of ML algorithms to rank them by their success probability
- Research Learning Systems
- Analyze machine learning system use cases
- Communicate with stakeholders
- Identify potential ethical concerns
Engineering Features for Machine Learning (20%)
- Recognize relative impact of data quality and size to algorithms
- Explain data collection/transformation process in ML workflow
- Work with textual, numerical, audio, or video data formats
- Transform numerical and categorical data
- Address business risks, ethical concerns, and related concepts in data exploration/feature engineering
Training and Tuning ML Systems and Models (24%)
- Design machine and deep learning models
- Optimize the algorithm
- Train, validate, and test data subsets
- Evaluate the model
- Address business risks, ethical concerns, and related concepts in training and tuning
Operationalizing ML Models (30%)
- Deploy a model
- Secure a pipeline (includes maintenance)
- Maintain the model postproduction
- Address business risks, ethical concerns, and related concepts in operationalizing the model
Examination sources
- CertNexus CAIP certification process
The CAIP Certification Process, step 1, adopted blueprint hyperlink
- CertNexus AIP-210 Exam Blueprint v1.10
PDF page 4, Exam Objective Statement and complete Domain / % of Examination table
- CertNexus AIP-210 Exam Blueprint v1.10
PDF page 5, boxed scope qualification before Objectives
- CertNexus AIP-210 Exam Blueprint v1.10
PDF page 5, Domain 1.0 and Objectives 1.1–1.6
- CertNexus AIP-210 Exam Blueprint v1.10
PDF page 5, Domain 2.0 and Objectives 2.1–2.5
- CertNexus AIP-210 Exam Blueprint v1.10
PDF page 5, Domain 3.0 and Objectives 3.1–3.3
- CertNexus AIP-210 Exam Blueprint v1.10
PDF page 6, Objectives 3.4–3.5
- CertNexus AIP-210 Exam Blueprint v1.10
PDF page 6, Domain 4.0 and Objectives 4.1–4.4
- CertNexus AIP-210 Exam Blueprint v1.10
PDF pages 6–7, complete Acronym / Expanded Form table
- CertNexus AIP-210 Exam Blueprint v1.10
PDF page 4, Exam Specifications
- CertNexus Exam and Candidate Handbook
Certification Exam Policies, 6.5, score report and independent pass result
- CertNexus CAIP exam page
CAIP Certification FAQs, How many questions are on the CAIP exam?
- CertNexus AIP-210 Exam Blueprint v1.10
PDF page 3, Candidate Eligibility
- Pearson VUE CertNexus US program
Schedule or Purchase an Exam, appointment instructions
- CertNexus Exam and Candidate Handbook
Certification Exam Policies, 6.1, voucher conditions
- CertNexus Exam and Candidate Handbook
Opening notice, required Candidate Agreement
- CertNexus Exam and Candidate Handbook
Certification Exam Policies, 4.6, identification
- CertNexus Exam and Candidate Handbook
Certification Exam Policies, 5, delivery exclusions
- CertNexus CAIP exam voucher
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