Resources / Study guides

Revise the way the panel will test you.

Every guide is written against the same rubric your capstone and interviews are graded on — so revision and evidence-building are the same activity.

Revision notes
Module-by-module, written to be re-read the night before, not the first time.
Cheat sheets
One-page references learners keep open during labs and on the job.
Cert alignment maps
Which modules cover which external certification objectives.
Lab checklists
The exact steps a completed lab must satisfy before you call it done.
Capstone rubrics
The grading sheet — the same one hiring panels effectively use.
Guides by program

Pick your program. Get the whole pack.

Each pack covers every module in the track, plus the cheat sheets learners actually keep open during labs.

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APEX

Forward Deployed AI Engineer

210 pp
Deployment playbook: discovery → grounding → autonomy step-up
Grounding & retrieval cheat sheet with failure-class table
Autonomy ladder worksheet for your own workflow
Capstone rubric: what a defensible deployment must show
APEX

AI Product Owner

175 pp
Agent PRD template with metrics and guardrails
Eval spec writing guide, with worked examples
Value realisation model: baseline → measured outcome
Governance forum pack: risk, HITL points, review cadence

Applied AI Engineering

240 pp
Prompt architecture and tool-schema patterns
RAG tuning notes: chunking, metadata, rerankers
Cost-quality benchmark sheet template
Nightly eval harness setup checklist

Full Stack & AI Apps

195 pp
App shell patterns for agent-driven UIs
Streaming, retries and optimistic UI cheat sheet
Auth and on-behalf-of patterns for agent calls
Capstone rubric: what a production-grade app must show

Data Engineering

205 pp
SQL depth drills: windows, CTEs, null semantics
Lakehouse layout and agent-ontology modelling notes
Data contract and freshness SLA templates
Lab checklist: lineage, PII scope, row-level access

DevOps & AI Operations

185 pp
CI/CD for prompt + model releases with eval gates
OTel GenAI instrumentation cheat sheet
Spend, latency and retry dashboard recipes
On-call runbook templates for agent failure modes

Quality Engineering

160 pp
Golden and adversarial set design guide
Judge calibration and agreement measurement notes
Release gate definitions per autonomy level
Regression discipline checklist

Modern Business Analyst

150 pp
Discovery interview scripts and shadowing template
As-is / to-be mapping with cycle-time capture
Acceptance criteria written as evaluable statements
UAT pack including negative and refusal cases

ServiceNow AI Platform

190 pp
Scoped app and Flow Designer pattern notes
Integration Hub error handling and retry recipes
ACL, role and audit review checklist
Instance hygiene and upgrade regression pass
Certification alignment

What each track maps to externally.

We don't teach to the exam — but the guides mark which modules cover which certification objectives, so the exam is a by-product.

Track
Aligned certifications
Coverage
Forward Deployed AI Engineer
Azure AI Engineer Associate · AWS ML Engineer Associate
~80% objectives
AI Product Owner
PSPO I · SAFe POPM (agentic delivery modules extend both)
~70% objectives
Applied AI Engineering
Azure AI Engineer · Databricks GenAI Engineer Associate
~85% objectives
Data Engineering
Databricks Data Engineer Associate · Azure DP-203 topics
~85% objectives
DevOps & AI Operations
AWS DevOps Engineer Pro · CKA (ops modules)
~75% objectives
Quality Engineering
ISTQB AI Testing · vendor eval-tooling badges
~80% objectives
ServiceNow AI Platform
CSA · CAD · CIS (ITSM / HRSD paths)
~85% objectives

A 6-week revision plan that ends in evidence.

Use the guides in this order and you finish with a shippable artifact, not just notes.

Week 1
Fundamentals sweep
Revision notes for modules 1–3, then the cheat sheet drill set.
Week 2
Build one artifact
Follow a lab checklist end to end; commit it publicly.
Week 3
Add the eval
Golden set, adversarial cases, and a pass-rate number you can defend.
Week 4
Governance pass
Autonomy worksheet: what runs alone, what needs approval, what never.
Week 5
Question banks
Two rounds a day from the interview bank; write answers, don’t just read.
Week 6
Mock and refine
Scored mock, then close the top three gaps it exposes.
At a glance

Study Guides

Structured revision material for each Academy programme and its assessments.