Certification
Certification: Chain of Thought and Step-Back Prompting
Prove you can use Chain of thought in your own job: five written questions made for your work, scored by an AI examiner. Certificate for LinkedIn.
The exam
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No multiple choice: five written questions about your own job, scored by an AI examiner against the course rubric. Pass with 70% or more and your certificate is issued at once, with a public page and an "Add to LinkedIn" button.
What the exam covers
Written questions about your own job, across the 6 chapters
No multiple choice. You tell us your job and a real task; you get five open questions written for that job, such as writing a full prompt with the framework, fixing a weak prompt and choosing the right framework. An AI examiner (DeepSeek) scores each answer against the course rubric and explains the score. Pass with 70% or more.
- 01What chain of thought is2:53
- 02Reasoning models changed the rules2:29
- 03Step-back prompting2:12
- 04Analogical prompting and self-ask2:40
- 05Showing working you can check2:01
- 06Reasoning prompts in your job2:51
About this certification
This certification shows that you can use Chain of thought, Zero-shot chain of thought, Step-back prompting, Analogical prompting in real work, not just recite the letters. It belongs to the course Chain of Thought and Step-Back Prompting.
How the exam works
The exam has no multiple choice. You tell us your job and one real task. You then get five written questions made for that job: write a complete prompt with the framework, fix a weak prompt, choose the right framework for a situation, and explain why a part of the framework matters. An AI examiner (DeepSeek) scores each answer from 0 to 10 against the course rubric and explains the score. Pass with 70% or more and your certificate is issued at once, with a public page and an "Add to LinkedIn" button. You can retake it with new questions.
What you will be able to do
- Write chain of thought prompts with task, data, steps and format
- Choose reasoning effort instead of padding prompts with reminders
- Apply step-back prompting to plans, policies and briefs
- Use analogical prompting and self-ask to gather context first
- Request working, assumptions and unsure flags you can review
- Verify figures and logic before anything important goes out
Jobs this certification suits
Our AI checked this certification against 500 jobs; these get the most out of it. Each job links to its learning path.