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C1000-177 Exam Topics and Domains
C1000-177 is organized into 5 weighted domains. Expect to work with IBM watsonx.ai, scikit-learn, pandas, AutoAI, and more.
Evaluate the Business Problem
Translate business objectives into Data Science/ML/AI solutions
Translate business objectives into Data Science/ML/AI solutions
Formulate the hypothesis to be tested
Formulate the hypothesis to be tested
Identify appropriate tools for analysis
Identify appropriate tools for analysis
Perform Exploratory Data Analysis
Visually examine the data for data understanding
Visually examine the data for data understanding
Assess data characteristics to guide future processing
Assess data characteristics to guide future processing
Conduct statistical analysis of data
Conduct statistical analysis of data
Visualize data to identify patterns/trends
Visualize data to identify patterns/trends
Deselect features that have minimal predictive value
Deselect features that have minimal predictive value
Development Tools and Techniques
Assess which modeling and statistical techniques are best suited
Assess which modeling and statistical techniques are best suited
Select the appropriate environment and libraries
Select the appropriate environment and libraries
Pre-Processing and Feature Engineering
Integrate data from different sources and formats
Integrate data from different sources and formats
Normalize data
Normalize data
Mitigate imbalanced data
Mitigate imbalanced data
Handle data anomalies and missing values
Handle data anomalies and missing values
Identify the Best Categorical Data Encoding Techniques
Identify the Best Categorical Data Encoding Techniques
Transform Features
Transform Features
Select Relevant Features
Select Relevant Features
Model Selection, Training, Evaluation, and Presentation
Identify adequate Machine Learning Model
Identify adequate Machine Learning Model
Split the data to support model evaluation
Split the data to support model evaluation
Choose appropriate model metrics to assess model performance
Choose appropriate model metrics to assess model performance
How do I earn this certification?
Passing C1000-177 earns the IBM Certified watsonx Data Scientist - Associate certification. It sits in the Data, Analytics, and AI track.
- IBM Data Science Professional Certificate Broader data science fundamentals training on Coursera before attempting certification
- IBM Certified watsonx Generative AI Engineer - Associate For professionals more interested in generative AI and foundation models on watsonx
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What's changed on this exam?
- ACTIVE
- Last content update: 2025-01-01
- IBM watsonx.ai Latest (SaaS) Core platform for the C1000-177 exam; all exam objectives are built around watsonx.ai capabilities • Release date: 2025-01-01
- IBM AutoAI Integrated in watsonx.ai Tested as an automated ML pipeline tool for model selection, feature engineering, and hyperparameter tuning • Release date: Continuous updates
Who should take this exam?
- Fundamental data science skills and knowledge
- Experience using IBM watsonx.ai to solve business problems with machine learning solutions
- Python programming experience
- R programming experience
- Understanding of descriptive statistics
- Knowledge of predictive analytics
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