AWS Certified AI Practitioner (AIF-C01) — Study Guide
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Fundamentals of AI and ML
This domain builds the vocabulary the rest of the exam depends on. You will learn how artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning nest inside one another, the main learning paradigms, the difference between training and inference, and where core AWS machine learning services fit. Roughly one in five scored questions comes from this domain, so a firm grasp here pays off across the whole test.
Fundamentals of Generative AI
Generative AI is the heart of this certification. This domain covers what generative AI is, the foundation models and tokens that power it, key concepts such as embeddings and prompts, and the AWS services, chiefly Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Q, that make generative AI usable. About a quarter of scored questions come from here, so know these concepts cold.
Applications of Foundation Models
This is the largest domain on the exam. It is about putting foundation models to work: engineering effective prompts, customizing models through fine-tuning, grounding answers in your own data with retrieval augmented generation, and picking the right pre-built AWS AI service for a given task. Expect more than a quarter of scored questions here, many framed as practical scenarios.
Guidelines for Responsible AI
Responsible AI is about building systems that are fair, transparent, and safe. This domain covers bias and fairness, explainability and transparency, human oversight, guardrails for generative AI, and the AWS tools that support these goals. It is roughly one in seven scored questions, and the concepts overlap heavily with the security and governance domain.
Security, Compliance, and Governance for AI Solutions
This domain applies core AWS security and governance practices to AI workloads: controlling access, protecting data, and demonstrating compliance. It is about one in seven scored questions. Many answers come down to identifying the right AWS service, so know what each governance service does.
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