Beginner SML-401 ⏱ 8 weeks 📚 10 topics

Agentic AI Foundations: Agents, Tools, and Memory Certification

Build your first AI agents from scratch — learn how agents use tools, maintain memory, and complete multi-step tasks autonomously. Free beginner course.

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What You'll Demonstrate

  • Understand how AI agents plan, use tools, and iterate toward a goal
  • Build agents using LangChain that can search, reason, and report
  • Implement short-term and long-term memory for stateful agents
  • Design multi-agent workflows with clear task boundaries
  • Add safety guardrails to prevent unintended agent actions

Topics Covered by This Exam

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What Are AI Agents?

60 minutes

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The ReAct Pattern: Reason + Act

90 minutes

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Tool Use: Giving LLMs Capabilities

120 minutes

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Memory Systems for Agents

90 minutes

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Building Your First Agent with LangChain

150 minutes

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Agent Evaluation: Measuring What Matters

90 minutes

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Multi-Agent Systems: Introduction

120 minutes

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Safety and Guardrails for Agents

90 minutes

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Connecting Agents to Real APIs

120 minutes

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Capstone: Research and Report Agent

300 minutes

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Adaptive Exam Format

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Progressive Difficulty

Questions advance from Easy → Medium → Hard as you proceed through the exam

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Single & Multi Select

Mix of single-answer and multi-answer questions to assess depth of knowledge

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Randomised Bank

Questions are drawn randomly from a larger question bank — no two exams are the same

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Badge & Certificate

Digital badge and printable certificate issued immediately upon passing