
AI+ Agent™ – Course Outline
Program Overview
The AI+ Agent™ certification is designed to equip professionals with the skills required to design, build, deploy, and manage intelligent AI agents capable of autonomous decision-making and workflow automation. The program focuses on combining Large Language Models (LLMs), tool integration, reasoning frameworks, and multi-agent systems to create real-world AI solutions.
Participants will gain practical experience in agent architecture, prompt engineering, API integration, deployment pipelines, monitoring systems, and ethical AI practices. The course is highly hands-on, enabling learners to build functional AI agents that can interact with tools, retrieve information, execute tasks, and collaborate in multi-agent environments.
Course Objectives
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
• Understand core principles and types of AI agents
• Design intelligent agent architectures for real-world applications
• Apply prompt engineering and reasoning techniques for agent behavior
• Integrate external tools, APIs, and knowledge sources into agents
• Develop and test autonomous workflow automation systems
• Deploy scalable AI agents using modern infrastructure
• Monitor, evaluate, and optimize agent performance
• Apply ethical, secure, and responsible AI practices
Target Audience
• AI/ML engineers and developers
• Software engineers and system architects
• Data scientists and automation specialists
• Product managers working on AI-driven systems
• IT professionals exploring agentic AI systems
• Digital transformation and innovation teams
• Students and professionals entering AI engineering
Course Duration
• Instructor-led training: 16–24 Hours
• Self-paced learning: Flexible modular completion
Assessment & Certification
• Module-based quizzes and knowledge checks
• Practical coding and no-code exercises
• Case study analysis
• Final capstone project evaluation
Certification:
Participants will receive the AI+ Agent™ Certification from AI CERTs® upon successful completion.
Training Methodology
• Instructor-led sessions (virtual/classroom)
• Hands-on labs and live demonstrations
• Case study-based learning
• Project-based assessments
• Interactive group activities
Course Modules
Module 1: Introduction to AI Agents
• Definition and evolution of AI agents
• Core characteristics of intelligent agents
• Types of agents: reflex, goal-based, utility-based, learning agents
• Reasoning frameworks: ReAct, Chain-of-Thought, ReWOO
• Real-world applications across industries
Module 2: Agent Architecture & Design
• Principles of agent-oriented system design
• Modular architecture and scalability considerations
• Role of Large Language Models (LLMs) in agents
• Tool use and external knowledge integration
• Multi-agent collaboration systems
• Memory and context handling in agents
Module 3: Prompt Engineering & Reasoning Strategies
• Advanced prompt engineering for agents
• Instruction tuning and structured prompting
• Chain-of-thought reasoning implementation
• Task decomposition and planning strategies
• Controlling agent behavior and outputs
Module 4: Development Frameworks & Implementation
• Overview of AI agent frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, etc.)
• Building single-agent systems
• Developing tool-augmented agents
• Testing, debugging, and validation methods
• Case study: HR onboarding automation agent
• Case study: AI customer support assistant
Module 5: Multi-Agent Systems
• Introduction to multi-agent systems (MAS)
• Communication between agents
• Role-based agent design (planner, executor, reviewer)
• Coordination and task delegation strategies
• Conflict resolution in agent workflows
• Real-world enterprise use cases
Module 6: Infrastructure & Deployment
• Cloud infrastructure for AI agents
• APIs, containers, and microservices architecture
• CI/CD pipelines for agent deployment
• Scaling AI agents in production environments
• Security architecture and access control
• Deployment best practices
Module 7: Monitoring, Optimization & Lifecycle Management
• Performance monitoring of AI agents
• Logging, tracing, and observability tools
• Feedback loops and continuous improvement
• Cost optimization strategies
• Maintenance and lifecycle governance
• Case study: marketing automation agent optimization
Module 8: Ethics, Security & Responsible AI
• Bias detection in agent decision-making
• Data privacy and regulatory compliance
• Secure tool and API integration
• Hallucination risks and mitigation strategies
• Responsible AI design principles
• Trustworthy agent systems
Capstone Project: AI Agent System Development
• Define real-world problem statement
• Design end-to-end AI agent architecture
• Integrate tools, APIs, and reasoning workflows
• Implement autonomous decision-making logic
• Deploy and test working AI agent system
• Final presentation and evaluation

