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10 Top AIOps Certifications

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What are some of the best AIOps certifications for IT pros?

When the productivity of an enterprise screeches to a halt because of a glitch, everyone will look to IT for the solution. AIOps is the AI that can help IT prevent and solve such issues by autonomously monitoring systems, tracking usage and identifying anomalies. Here, we look at some of the top certifications in AIOps for IT professionals.

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1. AIOps Fundamentals

Certifying organization: Great Learning

Skills learned: Dive into the core principles of AI for operations with this quick course that brings you up to speed on the essential concepts, capabilities and benefits of AI in the IT setting. Explore the roles of AI and  in IT and learn strategies for leveraging AI in your operations. You learn what AI is capable of in IT and the steps for putting AI into action in your IT infrastructure.

Duration: 45 minutes

Cost: Currently free

2. AIOps Fundamentals for Beginners

Certifying organization: Udemy

Skills learned: If you’re looking for a place to start in AIOps, this course is an option. Though the course is presented by an animated character voiced by the instructor, it is a thorough overview. After an introduction to the basics, you get help implementing an AIOps roadmap, a look at a project workflow and an overview of various deployment types. Using industry use cases and real-world examples, you come away with a fundamental understanding of AIOps challenges, solutions and best practices.

Duration: Three hours

Cost: Currently $13.99

3. AIOps Foundation (AIOF) Certification

Certifying organization: Learning Tree International

Skills learned: This instructor-led training program covers a range of topics, such as the origins of AIOps, the technology that has brought us to this point, the process for implementing an AIOps initiative in your organization and the benefits of AIOps. You learn about the basic concepts of AI, types of machine learning models and the relationship between AIOps, MLOps, DevOps and site reliability. There are options for taking the course in person and online.

Duration: Two days

Test: Exam

Cost: Currently $2,195

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4. AIOps Mastery: Reducing Log Costs and Optimizing Operations

Certifying organization: Udemy

Skills learned: This course covers AIOps concepts and how to set up infrastructure for efficient log analysis, implement AIOps applications with automated alerts, monitor costs and bring AI solutions to your network. You learn to deploy and configure generative AI models and gain hands-on skills along the way, by using Kubernetes, ElasticSearch, Kibana and the AI models Ollama and Llama 3.

Requirements: Basic knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker, an understanding of Linux, experience with DevOps tools, basic knowledge of networking and access to three virtual machines and one DMS.

Duration: 3.5 hours

Cost: Currently $13.99

5. AIOps Foundation

Certifying organization: PeopleCert

Skills learned: This offering is only a certification test. If you’ve been studying on your own and are confident in your knowledge, this certification proves that you know how to leverage AI and machine learning to analyze data, identify issues and automate tasks. Starting with the fundamentals, the exam covers the history and context of AI in IT and then digs into how AIOps can be used as an organizational framework and how it affects site reliability, security and the complexity of your systems. The exam also covers big data, supervised and unsupervised machine learning and metrics. The organization will connect you to a training center near you or online to prep for the test, or you can use your own knowledge and research.

Duration: One hour

Test: Open-book exam

Cost: Currently $270

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6. Applied AI for IT Operations

Certifying organization: LinkedIn Learning

Skills learned: In this intermediate-level course, an IT professional walks you through the issues IT teams face in an increasingly challenging technical world. They explain, through examples, how AI technology can help speed up the IT team’s system analysis and response time to incidents. Along the way, they use the tools you need to do this yourself — Python, Jupyter Notebooks, Keras and deep learning techniques — to demonstrate hands-on solutions to real-world problems. They also explain in detail what AI is capable of when it comes to assisting the IT team with practical problems.

Duration: 1.5 hours

Cost: LinkedIn Learning is $40 a month after a one-month free trial

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7. Artificial Intelligence Essentials: AIOps

Certifying organization: Pluralsight

Skills learned: Skill up your technical team in this intermediate-level course on applying AI to IT operations. The program starts with an introduction to AI and how it can help an IT team work more efficiently. You explore use cases to help you understand the implications and potential for the business. You learn about the capabilities of the tools and how AI can help monitor networks and assist the operations team. You emerge from this course with a solid understanding of how AI can be applied in your organization to boost the efficiency and effectiveness of the IT team.

Duration: One hour

Cost: Currently $29 a month after a 10-day trial

8. IBM Certified Administrator - Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps v. 3.2

Certifying organization: IBM Training

Skills learned: With this certification in hand, you can prove your extensive knowledge of IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps v. 3.2. These tools include IBM Watson’s AI Manager, Event Manager and Metric Manager. The test assumes you have on-the-job experience and studied by digging into the training assets IBM provides to bolster your skills. This series of video classes ranges from an overview to the specifics of installing, administering and configuring the tools. You are tested on your ability to configure, operate, manage and troubleshoot the platform.

Test: 1.5 hours

Cost: A subscription to IBM Learning currently costs $3,504 a year per seat

9. AIOps Foundation Certified

Certifying organization: DevOps Institute

Skills learned: The course covers the history and origins of AIOps, the patterns that preceded it and the current technology context. You come away with a solid understanding of the process of combining big data analytics, machine learning, algorithms, automation and optimization into a single tool capable of improving and speeding your IT team’s operations. The program covers how these tools fit into the organization, data, machine learning, metrics, use cases, the impact of AIOps and strategies for implementing AIOps in an organization.

Requirements: Familiarity with IT terminology and related work experience

Duration: One hour

Test: Yes

Cost: Currently $270

10. AIOps Foundation Certification

Certifying organization: GSDC

Skills learned: This certification exam is focused on assessing the knowledge and skills you need to evolve in this rapidly evolving field. If you pass the exam, you demonstrate that you understand the core principles of AIOps technology and can apply AI techniques in IT operations, manage incidents using advanced methods, automate and optimize IT processes, master machine learning algorithms, recognize the business impact of AIOps implementation, demonstrate problem-solving abilities in complex environments and understand AIOps concepts.

Requirements: Experience working in an IT environment

Test: An exam and practice tests

Cost: Currently $100

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About the Author
Christina X. Wood

Christina X. Wood is a working writer and novelist. She has been covering technology since before Bill met Melinda and you met Google. Wood wrote the Family Tech column in Family Circle magazine, the Deal Seeker column at Yahoo! Tech, Implications for PC Magazine and Consumer Watch for PC World. She writes about technology, education, parenting and many other topics. She holds a B.A. in English from the University of California, Berkeley. Connect with Christina X. Wood:

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