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IBM Certified watsonx AI Assistant Engineer v1 - Professional
IBM professional certification validating design, build, deployment, and back-end integration of watsonx Assistant solutions.
Licensing authority: IBM
Initial by examination
- Availability
- Live English exam without a published withdrawal date. Future appointments depend on availability; no particular seat is guaranteed for 2026-11-25 through 2027-02-28.
- Award Requirement
- Pass C1000-180 and accept the IBM Certification Agreement before issuance.
- Preparation
- IBM presumes on-the-job experience and recommends learning resources and a preparedness assessment; classes do not guarantee certification. Study Guide p. 8 presents conditional scheduling advice after an assessment pass, while p. 2 characterizes the assessment as a preparedness indicator. The current credential Requirements list identifies only C1000-180, and the current examination record has no prerequisite examination. No additional mandatory assessment is inferred.
- Registration
- Schedule through Pearson VUE with a candidate profile; test-center candidates must bring required identification. Online proctoring requires an appropriate private environment and system test.
- School Arrangements
- No mandatory course, school enrollment, or institution-specific arrangement is established by the in-scope requirements.
IBM watsonx AI Assistant Engineer v1 - Professional
- Provider
- Pearson VUE; IBM-managed events are also described by the official delivery provider.
- Format
- English proctored answer-scored certification examination; the current owner record enables multiple-choice, build-list and hot-area item types without publishing their shares.
- Exam questions
- Total questions: 60.
- Time limit
- 90 minutes
- Passing score
- 40 questions to pass
- Exam fee
- Indicative United States price: $200 USD; applicable taxes and locale availability may affect purchase.
Examination outline
Conversational AI Design (16%)
- Understand industry use cases
- Apply conversational design best practices
- Design conversational flow
- Design a handoff strategy / Live Agent transfer
- Design domain, channel, topic, content, and integrations
Build conversational flows (20%)
- Build actions and responses
- Configure the built-in AI capabilities
- Debug and test
Build back-end integrations (10%)
- Build extension to integrate with external services
- Understand and implement webhooks
Integrate with watsonx (12%)
- Integrate with watsonx.ai for generative AI capabilities
- Build conversational search using the RAG pattern
Multi-modal integration (10%)
- Understand cross-channel management
- Integrate with telephony, SMS, and other channels
- Build digital web chats
Analyze and improve the assistant (12%)
- Use analytics to review the Assistant
- Improve performance of the assistant based on analysis
Publish across multiple environments (8%)
- Understand the environment options
- Preview and share during development
Administration (12%)
- Manage access with Identity and Access Management
- Secure the Assistant
- Design for high-availability and disaster-recovery
- Back-up and restore data
- Understand and manage the pricing plans
Examination sources
- IBM controlling exam-objective statement
Exam Objectives, introduction and Sections 1-8
- IBM adoption of the linked detailed Study Guide
Exam sidebar, Study Guide PDF
- IBM C1000-180 detailed Study Guide
PDF pp. 1-7, cover, Purpose of Exam Objectives, Detailed Exam Objectives Sections 1-8
- IBM published domain allocations
OBJECTIVES[0..7], EXAM_OBJECTIVE_TITLE and PERCENTAGE_OF_OBJECTIVE_QUESTIONS
- IBM examination scoring and duration
Exam Objectives, exam facts
- IBM published item-type flags
ITEMTYPE_MULTIPLE_CHOICE through ITEMTYPE_HOT_AREA
- IBM exam language, US price and registration
Exam sidebar, languages and price
- Pearson VUE IBM delivery options
Register to take your IBM certification exam online or at a test center
- IBM-managed events
About the exams
- Future appointment seat condition
Scheduling exams at Pearson VUE Test Centers, advance scheduling
- Candidate account creation
Profile creation, no Candidate Testing ID
- Test-center identification
On the day of the exam, what to bring