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Course Outline

MCP Fundamentals and Business Value

  • Understanding what MCP is and why organisations are adopting it.
  • The problems MCP helps solve in AI integration.
  • Comparing MCP with direct API integration and other tool connection approaches.
  • Common enterprise use cases and expected benefits.

Core Architecture and Components

  • The roles of hosts, clients, and servers.
  • How tools, resources, and prompts are utilised.
  • The request and response flow in a typical MCP interaction.
  • Local and remote deployment patterns.

Setting Up a Basic MCP Workflow

  • Preparing the working environment.
  • Reviewing a simple MCP server configuration.
  • Connecting a client to an MCP server.
  • Running and validating a basic workflow.

Designing Useful MCP Integrations

  • Selecting the appropriate capability for a business scenario.
  • Structuring tools for safe and effective actions.
  • Using resources to provide relevant context.
  • Using prompts to enhance consistency and usability.

Security, Governance, and Operations

  • Considerations for access control, permissions, and authentication.
  • Safely handling sensitive business data.
  • Practices for trust, approval, and oversight.
  • Monitoring, maintenance, and operational best practices.

Implementation Planning and Next Steps

  • Identifying realistic use cases for an initial rollout.
  • Key design decisions and practical trade-offs.
  • Planning adoption in enterprise environments.
  • Course review, summary, and next steps.

Requirements

  • Fundamental understanding of AI assistants, APIs, and business application workflows.
  • Experience using web applications, developer tools, or enterprise software platforms.
  • Basic technical or programming knowledge.

Intended Audience

  • AI engineers and application developers.
  • Solution architects and technical leads.
  • Product teams and IT professionals assessing AI integration options.
 7 Hours

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