Certification
Certification: Decomposition Prompting
Prove you can use Decomposition in your own job: five written questions made for your work, scored by an AI examiner. Certificate for LinkedIn.
The exam
Take the certification exam
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.
- 01Why big prompts fail3:08
- 02Least-to-most2:39
- 03Plan-and-solve2:46
- 04Skeleton of thought2:38
- 05Tree of thoughts2:36
- 06Decompose and delegate in your job2:51
About this certification
This certification shows that you can use Least-to-most, Plan-and-solve, Skeleton of thought, Tree of thoughts in real work, not just recite the letters. It belongs to the course Break It Down: Least-to-Most, Plan-and-Solve and Tree of Thoughts.
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
- Explain why one giant prompt gives shallow answers
- Apply least-to-most to solve sub-problems in order
- Use plan-and-solve to get approval before work starts
- Create a skeleton outline before writing long documents
- Explore several branches with tree of thoughts
- Build a reusable step list and delegate single steps