Automation Anywhere Certification Training Course Syllabus

Overview: This comprehensive Automation Anywhere certification course spans 8 weeks, with each module requiring approximately 6-8 hours of study and hands-on practice. You’ll progress from RPA fundamentals to advanced cognitive automation, building real-world bots using Automation Anywhere Enterprise. The curriculum emphasizes practical skills in bot creation, orchestration via Control Room, and integration with enterprise systems. Each module includes guided projects that simulate industry scenarios, culminating in a capstone project to demonstrate end-to-end automation proficiency. Lifetime access ensures you can revisit content anytime.

Module 1: RPA & Automation Anywhere Fundamentals

Estimated time: 7 hours

• Introduction to Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
• Understanding the Intelligent Automation (IA) roadmap
• Automation Anywhere platform architecture and components
• Installing Automation Anywhere and navigating the Control Room dashboard
• Creating and running a basic 'Hello World' bot

Module 2: Bot Creator – UI & File Automation

Estimated time: 7 hours

• Using Screen Recorder for task automation
• Object cloning and UI element interaction
• Simulating keystrokes and mouse actions
• Automating file and folder operations
• Scraping web data and exporting to Excel

Module 3: Logic & Control – Variables, Loops & Error Handling

Estimated time: 7 hours

• Working with variables and data types
• String manipulation and data formatting
• Implementing conditional logic and decision blocks
• Using loops for iterative processing
• Designing error handling and retry mechanisms

Module 4: Control Room & Orchestration

Estimated time: 7 hours

• Deploying bots to Control Room
• Managing user roles and permissions
• Securing credentials with Credential Vault
• Queue management and workload distribution
• Scheduling jobs and monitoring execution metrics

Module 5: IQ Bot – Cognitive Data Extraction

Estimated time: 7 hours

• Understanding IQ Bot architecture
• Classifying and processing unstructured documents
• Extracting data from varied PDF layouts
• Validating extracted data using validation stations
• Training IQ Bot models for invoice processing

Module 6: MetaBots & API Automation

Estimated time: 7 hours

• Designing reusable MetaBots for modular automation
• Calling REST APIs and handling JSON/XML responses
• Integrating with cloud services (Azure, AWS)
• Building a MetaBot for currency rate retrieval
• Embedding MetaBots into task bots

Module 7: Enterprise App Automation

Estimated time: 7 hours

• Automating SAP GUI transactions
• Working with Citrix and virtual environments
• Terminal emulation for legacy systems
• Integrating with Outlook and email automation
• Generating and distributing reports via email

Module 8: Security, Best Practices & Capstone Project

Estimated time: 7 hours

• Implementing bot security and governance policies
• Performance tuning and logging strategies
• Designing a complete purchase order processing workflow
• Testing, debugging, and deploying the automation
• Presenting the final RPA solution

Prerequisites

• Familiarity with basic computer operations and enterprise software
• Understanding of business process workflows
• Access to an Automation Anywhere Enterprise license or trial environment

What You'll Be Able to Do After

• Architect and build end-to-end RPA solutions using Automation Anywhere
• Automate complex business processes involving UI, files, and databases
• Orchestrate and monitor bots at scale using Control Room
• Extract data from unstructured documents using IQ Bot
• Integrate automations with APIs and enterprise applications like SAP and Outlook