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Applied AI Prep

From models to meaningful products

A focused path into applied AI. Build understanding of language models, retrieval, agents and the evaluation that makes them useful, through worked answers, two project-based courses and interactive diagrams.

The Applied AI Prep home page
  • 854worked interview questions
  • 214concepts with self-check drills
  • 76lessons in 2 courses
  • 424answers with interactive diagrams
  • 53company interview guides
  • 25documented interview loops

Counted from the published library on 9 November 2026.

Who it prepares.

  • Applied AI Engineer
  • Forward Deployed Engineer
  • Machine learning engineers
  • Solutions engineers and architects

What it goes deep on.

  • LLMs & RAG
  • Agents & tool use
  • GPUs & accelerators
  • MLOps, DevOps & SRE
  • AI security & safety
  • System design
  • Coding
  • ML & data science
  • Behavioral & customer rounds
  • Evaluation
  • Training & fine-tuning
  • Inference & serving
  • Cloud, Kubernetes & infrastructure

A dedicated topic, course or trackCovered within other topics

The Applied AI Engineer interview, worked out in full.

A look at what you work with on appliedaiprep.com.

The applied AI concept map: 214 concepts across 10 tracks

The applied AI concept map: 214 concepts across 10 tracks

A project lesson: build a retrieval system over your own documents

A project lesson: build a retrieval system over your own documents

10 interview topics

  1. LLM & GenAI fundamentals
  2. RAG & agent system design
  3. Coding & DSA
  4. Machine learning & data science
  5. SQL & data engineering
  6. System design for AI in production
  7. MLOps & ML engineering
  8. ML infrastructure & GPUs
  9. AI security, privacy & governance
  10. Behavioral & project deep-dives

What Premium unlocks.

  • Every answer across all topics, ordered easy to hard
  • Both courses end to end: 76 lessons with hands-on projects
  • Interviewer follow-ups and the traps that fail candidates
  • Mastery tracking that shows what to study next

Free answers and lessons in every topic stay free. Premium opens the rest.

Applied AI Prep on its own$256 months
All 8 platforms, bought separately$40012 months: 2 terms on each platform
All-Access Pass$6912 months on all 8, Applied AI Prep included. You save $331.
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