# Technologies and concepts that might appear on the exam
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The following list contains technologies and concepts that might appear on the exam. This list is non-exhaustive and is subject to change. The order and placement of the items in this list is no indication of their relative weight or importance on the exam:
+ Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
+ Vector databases and embeddings
+ Prompt engineering and management
+ Foundation model (FM) integration
+ Agentic AI systems
+ Responsible AI practices
+ Content safety and moderation
+ Model evaluation and validation
+ Cost optimization for AI workloads
+ Performance tuning for AI applications
+ Monitoring and observability for AI systems
+ Security and governance for AI applications
+ API design and integration patterns
+ Event-driven architectures
+ Serverless computing
+ Container orchestration
+ Infrastructure as code (IaC)
+ CI/CD for AI applications
+ Hybrid cloud architectures
+ Enterprise system integration