PCEA Certification Course in Australia

The PCEA credential proves you can apply Python to real automation, reducing manual effort and errors across IT, business and operations. Automation skills are in demand wherever teams want to work faster and more reliably, and this is a recognised, practical first step.

With Logitrain the official PCEA-30-01 exam fee is included, you keep the digital course material, and every course carries our price beat guarantee. Train in person in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, or live online across Australia, with the exam delivered online on demand through the OpenEDG Testing Service.

There are no hard prerequisites, but PCEA assumes basic Python ability.

We recommend Python at the level of the PCEP Certified Entry-Level Python Programmer course, or equivalent experience with files, functions and control flow.

Candidates can achieve this certification by passing the following exam.

• PCEA-30-01, Certified Entry-Level Automation Specialist with Python

You can book and sit the exam within three months of finishing your course. It is delivered online on demand through the OpenEDG Testing Service with live online proctoring, so you can take it from home, the office, or any private space with a webcam, microphone and reliable internet connection.

Exam format: single-select, multiple-select and input-based items across six blocks, with a passing score of 75 percent.

This course includes the full PCEA course material in digital format, yours to keep for revision before the exam.

• Identify tasks that are suitable for automation
• Explain the benefits and limitations of automation
• Run and configure Python scripts from the command line
• Pass arguments and manage environments
• Apply logging and monitoring with the logging module
• Automate files and folders with os and shutil
• Process text, CSV and JSON data
• Run external programs with subprocess
• Fetch web content and call APIs with requests
• Parse web pages with BeautifulSoup
• Schedule recurring tasks with the schedule library
• Send notifications and generate simple reports
• Build reliable, traceable automations
• Document automation scripts clearly

This course is likely to add to the employment related skills of the participants. The skills developed are likely to be used in the course of being an employee or working in a business.

• IT operations staff automating routine work
• Business analysts automating reports and data entry
• Developers adding automation to their toolkit
• Support and administration staff reducing manual tasks
• Anyone wanting practical Python automation skills

• What automation is and where it helps
• Tasks that suit automation and tasks that do not
• The benefits of automation: consistency, accuracy and speed
• Challenges and limitations of automation
• Return on investment from automation
• Running Python from the command line
• Passing command line arguments
• Working with environment variables
• Configuring scripts for different environments
• Introduction to logging
• Logging levels and handlers
• Monitoring script behaviour
• Automating files and folders with os
• Copying and moving files with shutil
• Reading and writing text files
• Processing CSV data
• Working with JSON data
• Running external commands with subprocess
• Capturing command output
• Fetching web content with requests
• Calling and reading APIs
• Parsing HTML with BeautifulSoup
• Extracting data from web pages
• Scheduling tasks with the schedule library
• Building recurring jobs
• Sending notifications
• Generating simple reports
• Making automations reliable and traceable
• Handling errors in automation scripts
• Documenting and maintaining automations

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Got a team to train? Logitrain can deliver the PCEA Certified Entry-Level Automation Specialist with Python course in house at your premises anywhere in Australia, with the same trainer, course material, mock test and included official exam as the public courses. It suits teams who want everyone trained together on dates that suit the business.

What is the PCEA certification?

PCEA, Certified Entry-Level Automation Specialist with Python, is an entry level credential from the OpenEDG Python Institute that proves you can use Python to automate routine, well defined tasks.

Is the exam included in the course fee?

Yes. The official PCEA-30-01 exam fee is included, and you can sit the exam within three months of finishing the course.

Do I need experience before this course?

You should have basic Python ability. PCEP level or equivalent is recommended before you start.

Which exam version does this course cover?

The course prepares you for the current PCEA-30-01 exam.

How long is the PCEA course?

Two days full time, or two weeks part time across evenings or weekends.

Where can I train?

In person in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Canberra, or live online in real time anywhere in Australia.

What can I automate after this course?

File and folder tasks, data processing across text, CSV and JSON, web and API requests, and scheduled jobs with notifications and reporting.