CompTIA AI Fundamentals Training

Offered by VEGA Institute – Mauritius

Course Overview

 AI Fundamentals Course Objectives 

Explain foundational concepts and terminology of modern AI and generative AI. 

• Define AI, machine learning, and generative AI. 
• Distinguish generative AI from traditional software and search. 
• Identify major AI tools and models. 

Identify and classify appropriate AI use cases for common academic, personal, and workplace tasks, including when AI should not be used. 

• Classify common tasks as good or poor candidates for AI support. 
• Distinguish lower-risk and higher-risk ways of using AI. 
• Demonstrate cumulative understanding of AI concepts and skills. 

Apply responsible, ethical, and secure AI practices, including awareness of risks such as bias, privacy, intellectual property concerns, hallucinations, and misuse. 

• Identify key AI risks (bias, hallucinations, privacy, IP). 
• Analyze the potential impact of ethical concerns in AI use on individuals, communities, and the broader world. 
• Apply basic privacy and security concepts to AI use. 
• Recognize when disclosure and caution are required. 
• Identify safe and ethical uses of AI-generated media. 
• Evaluate AI-suggested options for plausibility and risk. 

Design effective AI prompts using clear role–task–context–format structures. 

• Identify components of an effective prompt. 
• Define and recognize context files. 
• Select safe, relevant context sources. 
• Configure simple context-aware AI interactions. 

Conduct multi-turn, conversational interactions with AI, using iterative refinement strategies to progressively improve outputs. 

• Construct basic role–task–context–format prompts. 
• Treat AI interactions as conversations. 
• Use follow-up prompts to refine, correct, and deepen outputs. 

Evaluate AI-generated content for accuracy, quality, bias, and fitness for purpose. 

• Compare weak and strong prompts by output quality. 
• Identify common AI errors and hallucinations. 
• Detect bias and low-quality content. 
• Maintain focus during multi-turn AI sessions. 
• Select prompts for different audiences, tones, and formats. 

Use AI tools to support common professional communication and content tasks while maintaining human accountability. 

• Use AI to overcome creative blocks, generate initial ideas, and draft and revise communications. 
• Apply multiple course skills to integrated AI use scenarios. 

Leverage AI as a tutor, explainer, and study partner to generate practice materials and clarify concepts while maintaining academic integrity. 

• Use AI to explain concepts at appropriate levels. 
• Generate practice materials and study aids with AI templates. 
• Recognize acceptable vs. misconduct in AI-supported studying. 

Use AI as a thought partner and decision aide to analyze scenarios, surface options, and combine AI suggestions with human judgment for simple decisions. 

• Use AI as a thought partner in simple decision scenarios. 

Identify everyday tasks suitable for basic AI-enabled automation. 

• Identify tasks suitable for AI-enabled automation. 

Define common AI-supported workflow patterns and the role of human-in-the-loop oversight. 

• Describe common AI-supported workflow patterns. 
• Explain human-in-the-loop oversight for AI agents and automation. 

Communicate transparently about AI use in academic and professional work, including how AI contributed to outputs and how it was verified. 

• Select appropriate methods to verify AI outputs. 
• Explain decisions for combining AI output with human judgment. 
• Identify when and how to disclose AI use. 
• Select clear, nontechnical explanations of AI use and limitations. 

Recognize how AI and related technologies are reshaping work and skill demands across industries. 

• Identify how AI is used in everyday tools and workplaces. 
• Recognize how AI is changing work across industries and common patterns in how roles, skills, and tasks are shifting. 
• Recognize roles in AI-augmented workflows (prompter, verifier, editor). 
• Describe how AI and related tech are reshaping work across industries. 

Leverage AI ethically for career preparation (i.e., identifying AI-related skills in job descriptions, crafting résumés and cover letters, and preparing for interviews). 

Apply AI ethically for career preparation (e.g., creating resumes, cover letters, and interview preparation). 

Identify AI-related skills in job descriptions. 

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