AITECH is the newer of Cisco's two AI certifications, aimed at technical staff rather than infrastructure specialists. The 810-110 exam is 60 minutes long, costs $150 or the equivalent in Cisco Learning Credits, and passing it earns the Cisco AI Technical Practitioner certification. Third-party sources put it at around 55 questions. It can also be used toward recertification of other Cisco credentials. The official exam page lists six topic areas: generative AI models, prompt engineering, AI ethics and security, data research and analysis, AI for code and workflow optimization, and agentic AI.
Cisco does not publish weights on that page. Third-party prep sites claim a split of roughly 15 to 20% per domain, but I could not confirm that from Cisco directly, so treat those numbers with care. The topic list is decent for an entry-level exam written in 2026. Agentic AI, including tool use and the Model Context Protocol, gets its own domain, and AI-assisted coding is in there too. That is more current than a lot of foundations exams from bigger names. My problem is positioning.
Nothing in the topic list is about networking, security appliances or anything Cisco actually sells. It is a general AI literacy exam, and for that there are plenty of cheaper or free options. Cisco's own Networking Academy has free AI courses, and the free AI Business Practitioner badge on Cisco U. covers much of the same ground for non-technical staff.
The confusion over whether the exam is 810-110 or 800-110 across Cisco pages is a small sign of a programme that launched in a hurry. Where it does make sense is for existing Cisco certification holders. If you need continuing education credits anyway, sitting AITECH is a cheap way to recertify and pick up an AI credential at the same time. For anyone else, I would put the $150 toward something more specific.