AWS Certified AI Practitioner: the honest guide
Everything Amazon Web Services (AWS) publishes about AIF-C01, in one place: what the exam asks, how the domains are weighted, and what it takes to be ready.
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Multiple choice and multiple response, plus the newer AWS item types: ordering, matching, and case studies with several questions on one scenario.
- Multiple choice
- Multiple response
- Drag and drop
The highlighted formats are the ones you cannot answer from memory alone. AWS, AI Practitioner exam guide ↗
Domain breakdown and official weightings
From the official AWS exam guides. Applications of Foundation Models is the heaviest domain at 28 percent, followed by Fundamentals of Generative AI at 24 percent.
- Fundamentals of AI and ML20%
- Fundamentals of Generative AI24%
- Applications of Foundation Models28%
- Guidelines for Responsible AI14%
- Security, Compliance, and Governance for AI Solutions14%
What comes after passing
AWS certifications last three years. Recertifying means passing the current version of the exam, or a higher one in the same track, at full price. The 50 percent benefit voucher from your last pass applies.
Where people go next
Costs across the full renewal cycle are on the AI Practitioner cost page.
Frequently asked questions
Who is AIF-C01 for?
The AI equivalent of Cloud Practitioner: people who work near AI projects and need the vocabulary and the service map rather than engineering depth. It asks what a foundation model is and when to use Bedrock, not how to tune one.
Is it a coding exam?
No. It is concept and service selection throughout: prompt engineering basics, retrieval augmented generation as an idea, and which AWS AI service fits a described need. No notebooks, no code reading.
AIF or Cloud Practitioner first?
They are siblings, not a sequence. CLF covers general AWS; AIF covers AI on AWS. Take the one nearer your work, or CLF first if you are new to AWS entirely, since AIF assumes basic cloud vocabulary.
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