AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty is retired
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- Exam code
- MLS-C01
- Cost
- $300USD
- Questions
- 65(50 scored, 15 unscored)
- Duration
- 180minutes
- Passing score
- 750(scale 100-1000)
- Level
- Advanced
- Study guide
- How to prepare
- Format
- Multiple choice and multiple response
What the exam tests
Exam domains and official weightings
The percentage is the exam weighting; the bar is how many verified questions we hold there, so a short bar is where our bank is thin.
- Data Engineering20%0 verified
- Exploratory Data Analysis24%0 verified
- Modeling36%0 verified
- Machine Learning Implementation and Operations20%0 verified
What the exam actually asks you to do
Multiple choice and multiple response only. No simulations, no labs, and nothing to configure.
Item formats
- Multiple choice
- Multiple response
Nothing here needs a lab. Reading carefully and eliminating options is the whole skill. AWS, Machine Learning Specialty exam guide ↗
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Official Machine Learning Specialty exam page & objectives ↗Keep reading
- Machine Learning Specialty exam format
How many questions, how long, what the items look like, and how long it stays valid.
- Machine Learning Specialty passing score
The exact cut score, what kind of number it is, and the retake terms.
- How hard is Machine Learning Specialty?
An honest difficulty read from the format, the clock and the weights.
Frequently asked questions
How mathematical is MLS-C01?
Conceptually mathematical, not computationally. You will not derive gradients, but you must know why precision beat recall for a described problem, what regularization changes and which algorithm fits a data shape. Modeling alone is 36%.
MLS or the newer ML Engineer Associate?
MLA-C01 covers building and operating pipelines; MLS-C01 adds theory depth: algorithm internals, tuning strategy and evaluation design. Practitioners increasingly take MLA first and MLS when the role demands the theory.
How much of the exam is SageMaker?
A large share. Built-in algorithms, training configuration, endpoint options and debugging appear constantly, with the classic data services (Kinesis, Glue, S3) carrying the data engineering domain.