Prefect Associate Certification Course - Live Online - Jan. 28-29, 2025

The Prefect Associate Certification Course (PACC) is an immersive training where you will learn how to build data workflows you can trust with Prefect.

This is a two-day course. You must attend both days to receive your certification.

In this introductory guided experience you will learn how to use Prefect from Prefect employees.

Outcomes

You will leave the course with the skills to make your workflows resilent and scalable.

You'll learn how to

• schedule workflows
• use automatic retries
• customize logging
• get notified when workflows fail
• gain insights and take actions in the UI
• run workflows only when needed with caching
• declare, manage, and resolve incidents
• create interactive workflows that can pause for human input
• build event-driven workflows

With successful completion of the course you will receive the Prefect Associate Certification digital badge.

Who is this course for?

This course is appropriate for data engineers, software engineers, data platform engineers, analytics engineers, machine learning engineers, MLOps engineers, and data scientists who know at least Python basics.

Course requirements

A computer with Zoom and Slack, where you can install Python packages and fetch data from the internet is required. Participants are expected to participate for the full time with their cameras on.

Schedule

This is a two-day course from 12pm ET - 3pm ET, both days. You must attend both days to receive your certification.

The course Zoom link and Slack instructions will be sent via email prior to the start of the course.

Previous Prefect Certification Course participant feedback

• "I thought it was great! Really enjoyed how much hands-on material there was."
• " Had an awesome time! Such a great break from my usual day-to-day."
• " The Prefect staff are SO smart and helpful. Thank you, thank you, thank you."
• " Very useful for getting the overview of the system."
• " I really enjoyed it. I am looking forward to using Prefect more."

Course Structure

The course is designed to be a supportive, hands-on experience to foster collaboration and creativity.

The course is broken down into six modules with the following structure:

• Discussion and instruction: 15-30 minutes to introduce the module's core concepts
• Lab: Hands-on-keyboard activities to reinforce core concepts

Prefect employees will be on hand to answer questions during labs.

Code of Conduct

Prefect Technologies, Inc. is dedicated to providing a respectful, harassment-free community for all training attendees. Please review our Code of Conduct, which applies (as applicable) to our training events. Prefect Technologies, Inc. representatives may take reasonable action in response to violations of our Code of Conduct, up to and including expulsion from the event and electronic communications channels, without refund for any paid fees.

Legal

By enrolling, attending and/or participating in this training, you grant Prefect Technologies, Inc. (“Prefect”) the irrevocable right and permission to take and use visual/audio images (including, but not limited to, photographs, video/audio recordings) related to your participation in this training (“Images”) and agree that all rights related to such Images (including reproductions) are the sole property of Prefect. You also understand and agree that, as a participant, you may be identified by name, likeness, and/or biographical information in accompanying printed or internet information prior to, during, and after the Event. You understand and agree that content may appear in any manner or media without notifying you, including, but not limited to, streamed live or replayed on Prefect’s publicly accessible websites, social media accounts, publications, promotional materials, and advertisements. Prefect’s right and permission to use the content survives your separation from your employer (as applicable). You understand that Prefect will be the sole copyright owner of content and material. You acknowledge that your participation in training is completely voluntary, as is your consent to these terms and conditions. You understand and acknowledge that media representatives (print, radio, television, internet, or other journalists, collectively, the “Media”), may attend the training. You agree to being quoted, recorded, photographed, used, published, or referenced by the Media.

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