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DBA-AI / Advanced

AI Systems & Automation

Explore ai fundamentals, prompt engineering, ai agents. Work through applied exercises and develop a project you can explain, test, and improve.

Digital Business (DBA series) — this prefix is academy branding, not a doctoral degree or other academic award.

A certificate issued by this academy is a certificate of completion only. It is not accredited. It is not approved by the Ohio State Board of Career Colleges and Schools (SBCCS) or any other state agency. No income or employment outcome is promised.

12 modules≈135 learner hoursSelf-paced draft
YOUR TAKEAWAYS

What you will practice

  • Explain transformer/LLM fundamentals and failure modes
  • Apply prompt engineering and agent design patterns
  • Integrate LLM APIs with cost, safety, and evaluation controls
  • Build and evaluate multi-agent workflows
  • Assess AI product and security/governance tradeoffs
  • Deploy and defend a live AI system capstone under human review
THE LEARNING PLAN

Inside the course

  1. 01AI Fundamentals
  2. 02Prompt Engineering
  3. 03AI Agents
  4. 04DBA-AI-104 — GitHub & Version Control for AI Projects
  5. 05DBA-AI-201 — Building Autonomous AI Agents
  6. 06DBA-AI-202 — LLM API Integration & Development
  7. 07AI Products
  8. 08AI Security
  9. 09Workforce Architecture
  10. 10DBA-AI-303 — Responsible AI & Ethics in Practice
  11. 11DBA-AI-401 — Capstone I: Production Deployment
  12. 12DBA-AI-402 — Capstone II: Evaluation, Impact & Defense
TRY THE MATERIAL

A little of what is inside.

EXCERPT FROM THE STUDENT MATERIAL
Artificial intelligence is not magic — it is mathematics applied to pattern recognition at enormous scale. The community entrepreneur who understands what AI actually is, how large language models actually work, and what they can and cannot do has a decisive strategic advantage over the majority of the business world that is either blindly adopting AI tools or blindly avoiding them. This module builds the conceptual and technical foundation that makes every subsequent AI module meaningful rather than mechanical.

Excerpt from DBA-AI. The full curriculum is not publicly downloadable in this preview.