FREE Beginner 🎓 Certificate Course

Certified Prompt Engineering — Foundations

A 40-lesson certified program from the Prompt Engineering Academy - the same lessons and exam serve mcqnepal.com and the PromptHub AI app.

⏱ 12.0 hours 📚 40 lessons 👨‍🎓 0 enrolled

📖 Course Overview

This program is part of the merged MCQNepal x PromptHub AI academy: one content library, two doors - the website and the Android app.

Each of the 40 lessons teaches one focused topic with a practical example and carries its own exam question. The final exam draws a randomised 20-question set from the full 40-question bank at a 65% pass mark. Complete every lesson to unlock the exam and earn a publicly verifiable certificate.

📖 Full Curriculum — 40 Topics

What is Artificial IntelligenceNarrow AI vs General AIWhat is Machine LearningWhat are Large Language ModelsHow models are trainedTokens and context windowsStrengths and limits of AIAI hallucinations explainedHow LLMs generate textTemperature and randomnessTop-p and samplingSystem, user, and assistant rolesWhy models forgetKnowledge cutoffsDeterministic vs creative tasksMultimodal modelsWhat is a promptThe R-C-T-F patternBeing specificSetting the output formatGiving contextConstraints and guardrailsCommon prompt mistakesIterating on promptsRole promptingContext promptingZero-shot promptingFew-shot promptingInstruction clarityOutput templatesDelimiters and sectionsAsking for reasoningChoosing good examplesExample orderingLabelling examplesHow many examplesNegative examplesFormat-only few-shotDynamic few-shotFew-shot pitfalls

🗂 Lessons

▶️ 1. What is Artificial Intelligence Preview 8 min 🔒 2. Narrow AI vs General AI 8 min 🔒 3. What is Machine Learning 8 min 🔒 4. What are Large Language Models 8 min 🔒 5. How models are trained 8 min 🔒 6. Tokens and context windows 8 min 🔒 7. Strengths and limits of AI 8 min 🔒 8. AI hallucinations explained 8 min 🔒 9. How LLMs generate text 8 min 🔒 10. Temperature and randomness 8 min 🔒 11. Top-p and sampling 8 min 🔒 12. System, user, and assistant roles 8 min 🔒 13. Why models forget 8 min 🔒 14. Knowledge cutoffs 8 min 🔒 15. Deterministic vs creative tasks 8 min 🔒 16. Multimodal models 8 min 🔒 17. What is a prompt 8 min 🔒 18. The R-C-T-F pattern 8 min 🔒 19. Being specific 8 min 🔒 20. Setting the output format 8 min 🔒 21. Giving context 8 min 🔒 22. Constraints and guardrails 8 min 🔒 23. Common prompt mistakes 8 min 🔒 24. Iterating on prompts 8 min 🔒 25. Role prompting 8 min 🔒 26. Context prompting 8 min 🔒 27. Zero-shot prompting 8 min 🔒 28. Few-shot prompting 8 min 🔒 29. Instruction clarity 8 min 🔒 30. Output templates 8 min 🔒 31. Delimiters and sections 8 min 🔒 32. Asking for reasoning 8 min 🔒 33. Choosing good examples 8 min 🔒 34. Example ordering 8 min 🔒 35. Labelling examples 8 min 🔒 36. How many examples 8 min 🔒 37. Negative examples 8 min 🔒 38. Format-only few-shot 8 min 🔒 39. Dynamic few-shot 8 min 🔒 40. Few-shot pitfalls 8 min

📝 Practice Quiz

Certified Prompt Engineering — Foundations - Practice Quiz — check your understanding before the final exam.

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🎯 Final Exam (30 min)

Pass with 65%+ to earn your certificate. Unlocks after all lessons are completed.

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🎓 Certificate included

Complete all lessons and pass the final exam to receive a verified PDF certificate with QR verification.