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 Duration 14 hours

Course Outline

Introduction to Agent Builder and RAG

  • Overview of Agent Builder capabilities
  • Core RAG concepts and application scenarios
  • Real-world use cases and success stories

Environment Setup

  • Configuring the Vertex AI workspace
  • Linking search and vector stores
  • Hands-on lab: Preparing the development environment

Designing Grounded Agent Workflows

  • Defining agent objectives and dialogue flows
  • Aligning data sources with retrieval strategies
  • Hands-on lab: Constructing a conversation flow

Building RAG Pipelines

  • Indexing documents and managing embeddings
  • Utilizing retriever and re-ranker patterns
  • Hands-on lab: Assembling a RAG pipeline

Integrations and Enterprise Data

  • Establishing secure connectors to internal systems
  • Managing data governance and access controls
  • Hands-on lab: Connecting enterprise data sources

Testing, Evaluation, and Iteration

  • Conducting prompt tests and analyzing evaluation metrics
  • Applying user simulation and validation methods
  • Hands-on lab: Evaluating and tuning the agent

Deployment, Monitoring, and Maintenance

  • Reviewing deployment options and scaling factors
  • Monitoring performance, relevance, and drift
  • Creating operational playbooks for updates and rollbacks

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

  • Fundamental understanding of natural language processing
  • Practical experience with cloud services and APIs
  • Working knowledge of search engines and vector databases

Target Audience

  • Developers
  • Solution architects
  • Product managers

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