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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.

4domains
  • Data Engineering20%
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  • Exploratory Data Analysis24%
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  • Modeling36%
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  • Machine Learning Implementation and Operations20%
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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 ↗

Amazon Web Services (AWS)’s free resources

Study from the source. The page below is free to read, and it is what our own questions are written from.

Official Machine Learning Specialty exam page & objectives ↗

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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.