Hugging Face Certification Test

The Hugging Face Certification Test is a free intermediate-level, 20-minute skill test from Science of Apps. It tests practical Hugging Face skill — the Hub, models and datasets, Transformers pipelines and tokenizers, fine-tuning with Trainer and PEFT, and deployment, inference and AI agents with smolagents — at the level of Hugging Face's courses in 2026 and 2027. Score 70% or more on its 20 questions to earn a verifiable Hugging Face Proficiency certificate (SOA-HF). Every question is based on published standards and research — including Transformers documentation (Hugging Face), Hugging Face Hub documentation (Hugging Face), AI Agents Course and smolagents (Hugging Face) — and each answer is explained with its source.

Take the free Hugging Face Certification Test on Science of Apps. It tests Transformers and pipelines, datasets, and tokenizers against a 2026–2027 syllabus, and passing earns a verifiable certificate you can add to LinkedIn.

Read the four skill areas on this page, then take the 20-minute test online — no fee, course or sign-up. You see every answer explained when you finish. Score 70% or more and you get a Hugging Face Proficiency certificate straight away, on screen, as a PDF and by email, with a credential ID anyone can verify.

Yes. The questions are original scenarios written by Science of Apps, and each one is based on a public source you can read: Transformers documentation (Hugging Face); Hugging Face Hub documentation (Hugging Face); AI Agents Course and smolagents (Hugging Face); Datasets documentation (Hugging Face); Tokenizers documentation (Hugging Face); LLM Course (Hugging Face). The source is shown under each question and linked in the answer review. Science of Apps doesn't copy questions from other tests.

Four skill areas with five questions each, drawn from a bank of 10 per area so a retake brings new questions: Hub, Models and Datasets (The Hub, Model cards and licences and Datasets library); Transformers, Pipelines and Tokenizers (Auto classes, Tokenisation and Inference); Fine-Tuning and Training (Trainer API, PEFT and LoRA and Evaluation); Deployment, Inference and Agents (Inference endpoints, Optimisation and AI agents). Every question is an original scenario written to the 2026–2027 standard, with the published source named under it.

Machine learning engineer, NLP engineer, AI engineer, Data scientist and ML student. It suits anyone who wants a quick, verifiable way to show Hugging Face knowledge in 2026 and 2027, from students and career switchers to experienced professionals.

Hugging Face's free courses (LLM, Agents, Deep RL) issue certificates of completion. This independent test lets you prove practical library and Hub skills with a verifiable result in 2026 and 2027.

Basic Python and machine learning concepts, plus hands-on use of transformers, datasets and the Hub — loading models, tokenising text, fine-tuning and running inference.

Yes. The test is online, in English and free everywhere — people take it from India, the US, the UK, Europe, Africa, Latin America and Asia-Pacific. Your certificate is dated with your own local date and can be verified from anywhere at scienceofapps.com/certification/verify/.

20 questions — 5 from each of 4 skill areas — with a 20-minute limit. You need 70% (14 of 20) to pass and 90% for distinction.

We rate it Intermediate: assumes hands-on experience in the role. It has 20 scenario questions — 5 from each of 4 skill areas — and a 20-minute limit. You need 70% (14 of 20) to pass and 90% for distinction.

Nothing. There is no fee to take a test, to receive the certificate, to have it emailed or to verify it, and no sign-up.

On our server, not in your browser. The answers never reach the page until you submit, so a certificate can only be earned by passing. Each certificate gets a unique credential ID stored by Science of Apps.

You see your score for each area and every question with the correct answer and why, with the published source behind it. You can retake after 30 minutes, and the retake draws questions you haven't seen yet.

No. Every certificate is dated, so it always shows when you passed. Retake a test any time for a newer date or a higher score.

Yes. After you pass, Add to LinkedIn opens the Licenses & certifications form with the certificate name, Science of Apps as the issuer, the issue date, your credential ID and the verification link filled in. You can also download it as a PDF or PNG, and it's emailed to you as a PDF.

Every certificate has a credential ID and a QR code. Scanning it, or entering the ID at scienceofapps.com/certification/verify/, shows the holder's name, the certification, the score and the issue date from our records.

No. They are Science of Apps' own assessments of applied skill. They aren't issued by a university or standards body, and they work best alongside a portfolio that shows the skills in real work.