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AWS Certified AI Practitioner

A foundational exam: you explain AI, machine learning and generative AI concepts and choose the right AWS service. You do not build or tune models.

Questions
65 (50 scored)
Time
90 minutes
Passing score
700 / 1000
Level
Foundational

What the exam covers

Domains and key topics

Domain 120% of the exam

Fundamentals of AI and ML

  • AI vs. ML vs. deep learning
  • Supervised, unsupervised and reinforcement learning
  • The ML lifecycle: data, training, evaluation, deployment, monitoring
  • Inference types: real-time, batch, asynchronous
  • When ML is not the right answer
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Domain 224% of the exam

Fundamentals of Generative AI

  • Tokens, embeddings, vectors and context windows
  • Foundation models, LLMs and diffusion models
  • Strengths and limits: hallucinations, non-determinism
  • Cost drivers: tokens, provisioned throughput, model size
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Domain 328% of the exam

Applications of Foundation Models

  • Prompt engineering: zero-shot, few-shot, chain-of-thought
  • Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and vector stores
  • Fine-tuning vs. continued pre-training vs. RAG
  • Agents and tool use
  • Evaluating models: ROUGE, BLEU, BERTScore, human review
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Domain 414% of the exam

Guidelines for Responsible AI

  • Bias, fairness, inclusivity and robustness
  • Explainability and transparency (model cards)
  • Guardrails and content filtering
  • Human review with Amazon Augmented AI (A2I)
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Domain 514% of the exam

Security, Compliance, and Governance

  • Shared responsibility for AI workloads
  • IAM, encryption with KMS, private connectivity (VPC endpoints)
  • Data governance, lineage and retention
  • Compliance evidence: AWS Artifact, Audit Manager, Config, CloudTrail
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Know these well

Key AWS services

Amazon Bedrock

Managed access to foundation models; Knowledge Bases (RAG), Agents and Guardrails.

Amazon SageMaker AI

Build, train and deploy ML models; JumpStart, Clarify (bias), Model Monitor, Ground Truth.

Amazon Q

Generative AI assistant for business (Q Business) and developers (Q Developer).

Amazon Comprehend

Natural language processing: sentiment, entities, PII detection.

Amazon Rekognition

Image and video analysis.

Amazon Textract

Extract text, forms and tables from documents.

Amazon Transcribe / Polly / Translate

Speech to text, text to speech, language translation.

Amazon Lex

Conversational chatbots.

Amazon Kendra

Intelligent enterprise search.

Amazon Personalize

Recommendations.

How to prepare

A simple study plan

  1. 1Read the official exam guide once, end to end.
  2. 2Learn the vocabulary of domains 1 and 2 until you can explain each term in one sentence.
  3. 3Spend the most time on domain 3 (28%): prompting, RAG and fine-tuning trade-offs.
  4. 4Match each AI service to its use case until it is automatic.
  5. 5Take a timed practice exam and review every explanation, right and wrong.

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