LLM Architecture & Transformers
The definitive deep-dive into how large language models actually work
Key facts
- Level: Professional
- Field: Artificial Intelligence & LLMs
- Certification price: $194 (one-time payment)
- Online course: LLM Architecture & Transformers — Study Guide — $195
- Course + exam bundle: $389
- Exam: 70 multiple-choice questions · 100 minutes · passing score 75% · up to 3 attempts
- Estimated study time: about 40 hours
- Validity: 24 months
- Certification language: English
About the LLM Architecture & Transformers certification
A professional-grade certification covering the complete anatomy of decoder-only large language models. You will reason precisely about tokenization and byte-pair encoding, embeddings and weight tying, positional encodings (sinusoidal, learned, RoPE, ALiBi), the mathematics of scaled dot-product and multi-head attention, KV-caching and long-context techniques such as FlashAttention, sliding-window attention, and grouped-query attention. The exam tests deep, current understanding of normalization placement, activation functions, mixture-of-experts, numerical precision, scaling laws, and sampling — at the level expected of an ML engineer who builds and debugs transformer models in production.
Course outline
The LLM Architecture & Transformers — Study Guide course covers:
- Inputs: Tokenization, Embeddings & Positional Encoding — How raw text becomes the position-aware vectors a transformer consumes. (4 lessons)
- The Attention Mechanism — Scaled dot-product attention, causal masking, multi-head, and the long-context toolkit. (4 lessons)
- The Transformer Block & Stack — Residuals, normalization, the feed-forward network, and stacking N blocks into a decoder. (4 lessons)
- From Logits to Text & Scaling — Logits, softmax, sampling strategies, precision, scaling laws and mixture-of-experts. (4 lessons)
Frequently asked questions
- Is the LLM Architecture & Transformers certificate verifiable?
- Yes. Every certificate issued by BC Skills Academy carries a unique credential ID that anyone can check on the public verification page.
- How is the LLM Architecture & Transformers exam structured?
- It is a timed, randomized multiple-choice exam of 70 questions in 100 minutes, graded instantly; you need 75% to pass.
- Can I get a refund?
- Full refund within 7 days of purchase if you have not started the exam. Once the exam has been started or completed, the purchase is no longer refundable.