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PECB Certified Artificial Intelligence Professional Course & Exam Australia

The technical AI credential — machine learning, deep learning, NLP, computer vision, robotics, plus AI security, ethics, and governance. Published Self-Study enrolment starts from $829 + GST and includes the official exam access stated on this page. Instructor-led delivery for organisations can be scoped on request; no public cohort is implied unless confirmed dates, mode, venue and trainer are shown.

Available Australia-wide, in New Zealand and across Asia Pacific — and, because self-study and eLearning are delivered online through the myPECB platform, from anywhere in the world. Instructor-led organisational delivery can be scoped on request; no public cohort or classroom venue is implied unless confirmed details are shown. Base prices are published in AUD, and every course page supports available local currencies including NZD. An Australian billing address adds 10% GST; a non-Australian billing address has no Australian GST.

The PECB PECB Certified Artificial Intelligence Professional (CAIP) Self-Study course costs A$829 excluding GST (A$911.90 including 10% GST for an Australian billing address) through Aegentra Academy, an official PECB authorised training partner in Australia. That price includes the official PECB examination voucher, the full course materials, 12 months of myPECB access, and one free exam resit within 12 months. Typical total learning effort is 40–50 hours. A separate eLearning option is not currently published. For non-Australian billing addresses, Australian GST is not charged and any applicable local taxes are determined at checkout.

Instructor-led delivery is enquiry-only. Aegentra Academy is not currently publishing scheduled live online or classroom cohorts. Contact us to arrange a class for your organisation; Self-Study is available without waiting for a cohort.

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Official course provider
PECB
Professional pathway
AI Professional
Typical total learning effort
40–50 hours
Self-Study · access period, not effort
12 months access
Initial attempt and one free retake
2 exam attempts included
/ Purchase order

PECB Certified Artificial Intelligence Professional (CAIP) course price and enrolment options

Australian totals above include 10% GST. For non-Australian billing addresses, Australian GST is not charged; any applicable local taxes are determined at checkout.

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Online classes are arranged through the Aegentra Academy team for individual learners and groups.

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/ What you get

What's included in the PECB Certified Artificial Intelligence Professional (CAIP) course fee

The official PECB course and exam package starts at A$829 + GST — with no separate exam fee after enrolment. Optional Aegentra Labs exam preparation is clearly priced separately.

Course materials
  • PECB Certified Artificial Intelligence Professional slide deck (digital)
  • Practical examples and exercises throughout
  • 12 months access via myPECB
  • Attestation of course completion worth 31 CPD credits
Exam package
  • Certification and examination fees included in the course price
  • Three-hour exam across seven competency domains
  • One free retake within 12 months of the initial exam date
  • PECB Certified Artificial Intelligence Professional credential pathway after an exam pass and approved PECB application
Hands-on labs
  • Practical labs delivered in a virtual environment, accessed through the browser
  • Machine learning workflow — supervised and unsupervised
  • Neural networks and deep learning architectures including CNNs
  • NLP with transformers and large language models
/ Exam requirements & credential

PECB Certified Artificial Intelligence Professional (CAIP) exam format, duration and pass mark

The exam voucher is included in your enrolment, and so is one free resit if you don’t pass first time. Both the exam and the credential are issued directly by PECB.

Format
Mixed multiple-choice and scenario-based questions
Duration
3 hours
Questions
Multi-section exam covering 7 competency domains
Pass mark
70%
Language
English (other PECB languages available on request)
Credential experience requirements

A single credential — PECB Certified Artificial Intelligence Professional — awarded on passing the exam, attesting two years of artificial intelligence experience, and signing the PECB Code of Ethics. No project experience is required. Maintained through continuing professional development (CPD) credits.

An exam pass is the first step. You must submit PECB's certification application and required declarations and references. PECB decides whether the requirements for the requested credential tier are met.

/ Before you enrol

Clear answers about price, tax, exams, and certification.

These answers use this course's current catalogue record and PECB's published exam, certification, and maintenance policies.

What is included in the PECB Certified Artificial Intelligence Professional (CAIP) course fee?

The published price is A$829 for Self-Study, before tax. It includes the official PECB course materials, 12 months of access, the first exam attempt, one free retake, and the certification application fee. PECB’s partner-course policy also includes the first year of the Annual Maintenance Fee where maintenance applies; Foundation and Provisional credentials are maintenance-exempt. There is no separate first-exam or certification-application charge after enrolment.

What will PECB charge to maintain the PECB Certified Artificial Intelligence Professional (CAIP) credential?

PECB’s current maintenance policy lists no maintenance fee for Foundation, Provisional, or Transition credentials. For all other PECB certifications, the published fee is $390 per three-year certification cycle, together with the applicable CPD requirements and continued adherence to the PECB Code of Ethics. PECB sets this fee and may change it, so check the linked policy before renewal.

Can I pay in NZD or another currency, and when is Australian GST added?

Yes. Every Academy course supports AUD and multiple local currencies, including NZD, USD, SGD, GBP, EUR, INR, AED, MYR, PHP, IDR, and VND when a live quote is available. Currency and tax are separate: an Australian billing address adds 10% GST, while a non-Australian billing address has no Australian GST. For example, an Australian working in New Zealand may pay in NZD and use an Australian billing address, but 10% GST will still be added because the billing address is Australian.

What is the difference between Self-Study and eLearning for PECB Certified Artificial Intelligence Professional (CAIP)?

The currently published self-paced option is Self-Study at A$829 before tax, using the official PECB slide-based materials. A separate recorded eLearning price is not currently published for this course. The official exam package is still included, and instructor-led delivery is available only when a confirmed cohort is shown or arranged with Aegentra Academy.

Can I sit the PECB Certified Artificial Intelligence Professional (CAIP) exam remotely from New Zealand or another time zone?

Yes. PECB publishes remote online exam sessions that candidates can take from home or another suitable location through the PECB Exams application. The published course record lists these exam facts: duration — 3 hours; format — Mixed multiple-choice and scenario-based questions; assessment — Multi-section exam covering 7 competency domains; pass mark — 70%; language — English (other PECB languages available on request). New Zealand candidates should choose a published session that suits their local time, meet PECB’s identity and technical requirements, and complete the system check before exam day. PECB’s general exam policy does not publish a New Zealand restriction.

Which credential tier will I receive after the PECB Certified Artificial Intelligence Professional (CAIP) exam, and who assesses it?

A single credential — PECB Certified Artificial Intelligence Professional — awarded on passing the exam, attesting two years of artificial intelligence experience, and signing the PECB Code of Ethics. No project experience is required. Maintained through continuing professional development (CPD) credits. Passing the exam does not by itself award a credential or guarantee the highest experience-based tier. PECB requires an online certification application and reference contact details, and its Certification Department decides whether the education, professional experience, and field-related project activity requirements are met.

What evidence does PECB accept for the experience or project hours for PECB Certified Artificial Intelligence Professional (CAIP)?

PECB’s public certification-process page does not publish a closed list of documents that automatically proves project hours. It requires the online application and contact details for references who may be contacted to validate your experience. Keep a dated activity log showing the organisation or client, your role, the field-related project activity, dates, responsibilities, and hours; retain employer or client confirmations, statements of work, timesheets, or similar records in case PECB asks for support. The PECB Certification Department assesses the application and makes the final decision.

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/ Training prerequisites

What you should know before starting PECB Certified Artificial Intelligence Professional (CAIP)

  • A working understanding of data concepts — the course moves quickly from foundations into machine learning.
  • No specific certification is required, but this is the technical track: expect model-building content rather than governance-only material.
/ Who this course is for

Who should take the PECB Certified Artificial Intelligence Professional (CAIP) course

  • AI professionals actively involved in developing and implementing AI technologies
  • Experienced AI practitioners refining their knowledge and leadership skills
  • Data scientists developing and optimising AI models
  • IT managers overseeing AI projects and initiatives
  • Risk and compliance officers managing AI-related risks and regulatory compliance
  • Executives — CIOs, CEOs, and COOs — involved in AI decision-making
  • Professionals moving toward executive-level AI roles
/ What you'll learn

By the end of this course you’ll be able to:

  • Explain the foundational principles of AI and its various applications.
  • Conduct data analysis and create meaningful visualisations to support AI projects.
  • Apply machine learning techniques to real-world problems — supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning.
  • Implement simple neural networks and advanced deep learning architectures such as CNNs.
  • Understand NLP systems and computer vision methodologies.
  • Understand robotics and expert systems for AI-driven automation.
  • Identify and mitigate AI risks while ensuring compliance with regulations.
  • Develop ethical AI strategies aligned with organisational values and societal needs.
/ Curriculum

PECB Certified Artificial Intelligence Professional (CAIP) course curriculum

5 modules, fully on-demand. Click any module to see the topics inside.

01Day 1 — Foundations of AI and data analysis
  • Training course objectives and structure
  • Fundamental concepts and principles of artificial intelligence
  • Data analysis and visualisation
02Day 2 — Machine learning
  • Foundations of data science and machine learning
  • The machine learning workflow
  • Supervised learning
  • Unsupervised learning
  • Advanced ML and broader applications
03Day 3 — Natural language processing and deep learning
  • Foundational NLP concepts
  • Classical and intermediate NLP techniques
  • Modern NLP — transformers and large language models
  • NLP applications and future directions
  • Fundamental concepts of deep learning
  • Deep learning architectures and advanced techniques
04Day 4 — Computer vision, robotics, AI governance, ethics, and security
  • Generative models and specialised architectures
  • Deep learning and future directions
  • Computer vision
  • Robotics
  • AI security
  • AI ethics
  • AI governance and strategy
05Day 5 — Certification exam
  • PECB Certified Artificial Intelligence Professional exam
  • Three hours across the seven competency domains
/ Career signal

Why employers value PECB Certified Artificial Intelligence Professional (CAIP).

The technical half of the PECB AI pair

CAIM is about governing an AI portfolio; CAIP is about the systems themselves — how a model is built, what a transformer does, why a computer vision pipeline fails. If your role requires you to challenge a vendor’s technical claims or review a data scientist’s approach rather than only their documentation, this is the credential that supports it.

Breadth is the point

Seven exam domains span AI fundamentals, data analysis, machine learning, deep learning and NLP, computer vision and robotics, AI security, and AI ethics and governance. That breadth suits people who need working fluency across the whole AI stack rather than depth in one model family — technical leads, consultants, and executives who must make judgement calls across all of it.

Where it shows up in Australian job descriptions

AI Engineer, AI Solutions Architect, Data Science Lead, Head of AI, and technical consulting roles. It also suits risk and compliance officers who have inherited AI oversight and need genuine technical literacy — not just policy vocabulary — to review use cases credibly.

AI security is its own domain

Domain 6 covers AI security specifically, which is unusual in a general AI credential — model integrity, data poisoning, and the security posture of AI systems rather than only their outputs. It pairs naturally with an ISO 27001 or ISO 42001 credential.

/ Where this lands in Australia

Industries that hire PECB Certified Artificial Intelligence Professional (CAIP) talent.

Organisations building AI rather than buying it

Where an in-house team is training or fine-tuning models, the governing questions become technical: whether the data supports the claim, whether the architecture suits the problem, whether the evaluation is honest. CAIP is aimed at the people answering those.

Financial services and insurance

Model risk management requires people who can interrogate a model rather than only its documentation. The machine learning and deep learning domains support that conversation directly.

Defence, government, and critical infrastructure

AI security as a discrete competency domain matters where systems are adversarially exposed. Understanding how AI systems fail under attack is a different skill from understanding how they perform in testing.

Consulting and advisory

Advisers reviewing client AI programmes need enough technical range to assess what has actually been built. The breadth across ML, NLP, computer vision, and robotics is well matched to that reviewing role.

/ Study plan

How to prepare for the PECB Certified Artificial Intelligence Professional (CAIP) exam.

Plan your study around these checkpoints.

  1. 01Study to the seven domains rather than the five days — the exam splits AI security and AI ethics/governance into separate domains even though both sit inside Day 4.
  2. 02Be able to place each technique: supervised vs unsupervised vs reinforcement learning, and which problems each suits. Domain 3 rewards knowing when to reach for what.
  3. 03Understand what a transformer changed about NLP relative to classical techniques. Modern NLP is explicitly on the agenda and is the fastest-moving part of the syllabus.
  4. 04Do the labs rather than reading them. Implementing even a simple neural network makes the deep learning domain substantially easier to reason about.
  5. 05Treat AI security as its own subject — model-specific failure modes, not general information security. It carries a full domain.
  6. 06Practise connecting the technical and the ethical: the final domain asks you to develop AI strategies aligned with organisational values, which is a judgement question, not a recall one.
/ Library
Certification guide

AI Certification Australia (CAIP & CAIM)

Step-by-step certification process, realistic AUD costs, audit timelines, and how this course fits into a wider readiness program — senior-engineer written, updated for 2026.

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/ Related reading

Related PECB AI credentials resources

Free companion reading for anyone studying artificial intelligence management and practice — the practitioner track alongside ISO 42001 governance:

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How these course facts are governed

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Exam rules and policies

Links checked 11 August 2026.

Editorial accountability

Harry Sidhu owns publication of this record. A separate course-specific substantive reviewer has not yet been recorded.

Substantive review status

Official source links are checked separately. A course-specific substantive review date will be published when completed.

/ Accreditation

How can I verify the PECB Certified Artificial Intelligence Professional (CAIP) credential pathway?

Official PECB training through an authorised partner. PECB is accredited by IAS and UKAS as a personnel certification body under ISO/IEC 17024 and by ANAB as a certificate issuer under ANSI/ASTM E2659-24. Accreditation is program- and scope-specific—verify the applicable credential before enrolment.

Official PECB training and credential pathway. Check PECB’s current accreditation information and the applicable program scope before enrolment.

Verify Aegentra’s PECB partnershipView PECB accreditationsCheck the applicable program scope

This official PECB course is sold and supported by Aegentra Academy. PECB supplies the course material, examination and professional credential scheme. Aegentra's wider practice also runs governance, risk and compliance engagements and Microsoft 365 hardening for Australian organisations. Named eLearning trainers are credited separately on this page when the course record supplies them.

Published courses run online and self-paced through the myPECB platform, so professionals across Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra and New Zealand enrol online. Instructor-led delivery for organisations can be scoped on request. No public cohort or classroom venue is implied unless confirmed dates, mode, venue and trainer are shown on the course page. Multi-seat team pricing is available for five or more seats — email Academy@aegentra.com.au for an enterprise quote. Tax invoices with GST and ABN are issued automatically at checkout.

/ Frequently asked

PECB Certified Artificial Intelligence Professional (CAIP) — frequently asked.

Do you run live or in-person classes for this course?

The published option is self-paced study. Instructor-led delivery for organisations can be scoped on request, subject to trainer availability, learner numbers and an agreed date. Aegentra does not publish a live or classroom cohort unless its dates, delivery mode, venue (where applicable) and trainer are confirmed. Email Academy@aegentra.com.au with your requirements.

What is the difference between CAIP and CAIM?

CAIP is the technical credential — machine learning, deep learning, NLP, computer vision, robotics, and AI security, aimed at people designing and managing AI systems. CAIM is the management credential — governance, data readiness, Power BI dashboards, and no-code automation in n8n, aimed at people leading AI initiatives. CAIP goes deeper into how AI works; CAIM goes deeper into how AI is governed and reported. Many organisations want one of each rather than two of the same.

How does CAIP relate to ISO 42001?

They answer different questions. ISO/IEC 42001 is a certifiable management system standard — an organisation is audited against it. CAIP is an individual technical credential about building and securing AI systems. If you need the AIMS for a certification audit, start with ISO 42001. If you need people who can genuinely assess the systems inside that scope, CAIP is the better fit.

Do I need a data science background?

It helps. CAIP is the technical track and covers model building, deep learning architectures, and NLP techniques. The course starts from foundations, but a working understanding of data concepts will make the pace comfortable. If you want AI leadership content without the model-building depth, CAIM is the better starting point.

What does the exam cover?

Three hours across seven competency domains: fundamental concepts and principles of AI; data analysis and visualisation; building machine learning models; deep learning and natural language processing; computer vision and robotics; AI security; and AI ethics, governance, and strategy.

Are there hands-on labs?

Yes. PECB delivers practical labs in a virtual environment accessed through a web browser, so there is nothing to install locally. The labs run across the machine learning, deep learning, and NLP material.

What experience do I need for the credential?

The PECB Certified Artificial Intelligence Professional credential requires passing the exam, two years of artificial intelligence experience, and signing the PECB Code of Ethics. No project experience hours are required, and there is a single credential tier rather than a Provisional / Lead / Senior ladder.

What CPD credits do I earn?

Thirty-one CPD credits — an attestation of course completion is issued on finishing the course. These count toward the CPD requirements of ISACA, IIA Australia, and other professional bodies on submission.

Can my employer pay or reimburse?

Yes. Either complete checkout yourself and forward the Stripe tax invoice for reimbursement, or write to Academy@aegentra.com.au and we will issue an invoice direct to your organisation with payment terms. For group enrolments, request a written quote confirming the current price, payment terms and inclusions before purchase.

How long does the PECB Certified Artificial Intelligence Professional (CAIP) course take?

Self-Study — Typical total learning effort: 40–50 hours. Course-day equivalent: approximately 5 training days. A separate eLearning option and workload are not currently published for this course. These are typical total-learning-effort estimates. They are separate from the 12-month access period, exam duration, any live-class calendar span, and professional-experience requirements.

When can I start the course?

After payment, the Academy team confirms your enrolment with PECB and you receive login details by email — usually within one business day.

How long do I have access to the course?

You have 12 months of access from enrolment. That window covers the course material, the official PECB exam, and one free resit if you need it.

What if I fail the exam?

One PECB-issued resit is included in your enrolment at no extra cost. Aegentra does not publish a pass-rate claim without an audited cohort dataset.

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