Production generative AI systems require more than good prompts; they need systematic experimentation, rigorous evaluation, and managed model customization. This course teaches the core operational practices that make GenAI solutions reliable and continuously improvable.

Prompt, RAG & Evaluation Operations

Prompt, RAG & Evaluation Operations
This course is part of Microsoft Generative AI Operations (GenAIOps) Professional Certificate

Instructor: Microsoft
Access provided by Vanderbilt University
Recommended experience
What you'll learn
Design prompt versioning frameworks with variant experimentation, A/B testing methodology, and governance controls using Microsoft Foundry.
Execute structured RAG pipeline experiments across chunking, embedding, and retrieval configurations using the Azure OpenAI Evaluation SDK.
Build automated evaluation frameworks with quality and safety thresholds and human-in-the-loop review processes.
Design fine-tuning operations, including dataset versioning, LoRA configuration, model registry, and evaluation against baseline.
Skills you'll gain
- Verification And Validation
- Decision Intelligence
- Fine-tuning
- Prompt Engineering Tools
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation
- Prompt Patterns
- Responsible AI
- Development Testing
- Software Development
- Machine Learning
- Large Language Modeling
- Model Training
- Embeddings
- MLOps (Machine Learning Operations)
- Data Science
- Computer Science
Tools you'll learn
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