AI Agents for Beginners
AI Agents for Beginners is a free beginner-level course from Microsoft, typically completed in ~20 hours (around 20 study hours).
- Price
- Free
- Duration
- ~20 hours
- Level
- Beginner
- Study hours
- 20 hours
- Provider
- Microsoft
About this course
Understand what agentic systems can and cannot do — essential grounding for product decisions and roadmaps.
What you will be able to do
- Explain how agents plan, call tools and hold state
- Explain how supervised and unsupervised learning differ
- Explain the product discovery-to-delivery lifecycle
- Build a working agent or automated workflow
- Prioritise a backlog against evidence and business value
- Train and evaluate models on a prepared dataset
Highlights
- Completely free
- Non-hardcore technical
- Design pattern vocabulary
Questions people ask
How much does AI Agents for Beginners cost?
AI Agents for Beginners is free. Some providers charge separately for a verified certificate.
How long does AI Agents for Beginners take?
The provider lists ~20 hours. That works out at roughly 20 study hours in total.
Is AI Agents for Beginners suitable for beginners?
It is pitched at beginner level, so no prior experience is assumed.
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