The Cisco AI Technical Practitioner Advanced (AITECHA) training is an expert-level continuation of the Cisco AI Technical Practitioner (AITECH) Learning track, designed for practitioners building production-grade agentic AI systems. The living domain-driven design structure ensures the curriculum evolves as the technology landscape changes. Through this training, you’ll gain an understanding of the full engineering stack for production agentic AI systems. You will start by building a working agent from the ground up, learn to structure its outputs for reliable downstream integration, connect it to external tools via the Model Context Protocol (MCP), instrument and monitor it in production, give it memory and retrieval capabilities, and finally harden it against the security threats that come with autonomous tool use. Each course builds on the last—by the end you have the skills to design, deploy, and operate agents that are production-ready, not just demo-ready.

This training also earns you 21 Continuing Education (CE) credits toward recertification.

• Build Your First Agent
• Structured Outputs and Agent Integration
• Equip the Agent: Tools, Skills, and MCP
• Memory, State, and Context Management
• Multi-Agent Orchestration with LangGraph
• Production AI Monitoring and Evaluation
• AI Agent Security and Defense

• IT and Network Engineers
• Data Analysts
• AIOPs Specialists
• Solutions Architects
• Technical Leads

There are no prerequisites for this training. However, the knowledge and skills you are recommended to have before attending this training are:

• Completion of Cisco AI Technical Practitioner (AITECH) Learning Path
• Comfortable with Python, REST APIs, and LLM API usage

These skills can be found in the following Cisco Learning Offerings:

• Cisco AI Technical Practitioner (AITECH)
• Programming for Network Engineers (PRNE)