Microsoft

Microsoft AI & ML Engineering Professional Certificate

Duration

6 months at 7 hours a week (provider headline)the five courses are listed at 36, 45, 43, 21 and 31 hours, and the FAQ says each course will take approximately 35-40 hours. Provider estimates, not an elapsed completion promise.

Level

Intermediate level

Format

Online Professional Certificate on Coursera, 5 course series, flexible schedule, learn at your own paceMicrosoft recommends taking the courses in the order listed; ends with a capstone project

Credential

Professional Certificate

Prerequisites

Intermediate programming knowledge of Python is required. The programme FAQ "What background knowledge is necessary?" also lists awareness of common business processes and workflows in a corporate context (monitoring, reporting, ticketing, troubleshooting/debugging, quality testing, escalation) and of common corporate approaches to technology infrastructure and operations (governance, policy and protocol, version control, cloud architecture, CI/CD, DevSecOps practices, agile practices and tools). Microsoft also lists basic knowledge of AI and ML capabilities and of generative AI and pretrained large language models; familiarity with statistics is recommended. You need a license to Microsoft Azure (or a free trial version) and appropriate hardware; the page notes the free Azure trial is time limited and may expire before completion of the program.