AIF-C01
AIF-C01: AWS Certified AI Practitioner
Everything you need for AWS Certified AI Practitioner AIF-C01: format, passing score, the five domains, a study plan and free sample questions.
- Duration
- 90 min
- Questions
- 65 (50 scored)
- Passing score
- 700 / 1000
- Price
- $100 USD
AIF-C01 is the AWS Certified AI Practitioner exam: AWS’s foundational certification for people who use AI and machine learning on AWS without necessarily building it. AWS describes the target candidate as having up to six months of exposure to AI/ML on AWS.
The scope statement is unusually explicit, and it is the most useful thing to read before you start. AWS states that the following are out of scope: developing or coding models, data or feature engineering, hyperparameter tuning, building AI/ML pipelines, statistical analysis of models, implementing security protocols, and developing governance frameworks.
In other words: you must know what these things are and when they apply. You are not expected to do any of them.
What the exam covers
| Domain | Weight |
|---|---|
| Fundamentals of AI and ML | 20% |
| Fundamentals of GenAI | 24% |
| Applications of Foundation Models | 28% |
| Guidelines for Responsible AI | 14% |
| Security, Compliance, and Governance for AI Solutions | 14% |
Generative AI dominates. Domains 2 and 3 together are 52% of the scored content — more than half the exam is about foundation models, how they work and how they are applied. Classic AI and ML fundamentals account for 20%, and the two governance-flavoured domains 14% each.
Where to start
Read the exam format first — the scoring model has a detail worth knowing. Then the study plan, which follows the weighting rather than the domain order.
AIF-C01 guides
- AIF-C01 exam format: questions, score and costThe AIF-C01 format: 90 minutes, 65 questions of which 50 are scored, $100, passing score 700, four question types and compensatory scoring.
- AIF-C01 vs MLA-C02: which AWS AI exam?AIF-C01 is foundational and for people who use AI on AWS. MLA-C02 is associate level for engineers who build it. How to choose.
- AIF-C01 study plan: pass in 4 weeksA four-week AIF-C01 study plan weighted by the five AWS domains, with more than half the time on generative AI and foundation models.
- AIF-C01 sample questions: 5 worked examplesFive worked AWS Certified AI Practitioner AIF-C01 sample questions across the five domains, each with an explained answer.
- AIF-C01 fundamentals of AI and ML explainedThe AIF-C01 fundamentals domain explained: AI versus ML versus deep learning, learning types, classic problem shapes and which AWS service fits.
- AIF-C01 fundamentals of GenAI explainedThe AIF-C01 generative AI domain explained: foundation models, tokens and context windows, prompt engineering, Amazon Bedrock and where GenAI fails.
- AIF-C01 applications of foundation modelsThe largest AIF-C01 domain explained: RAG versus fine-tuning, model selection, evaluating output, embeddings and vector stores, and agents.
- AIF-C01 guidelines for responsible AIThe AIF-C01 responsible AI domain explained: bias and fairness, transparency and explainability, robustness, guardrails and the human role.
- AIF-C01 security, compliance and governanceThe AIF-C01 security domain explained: the shared responsibility model for AI, IAM, data protection, compliance concepts and AI governance basics.
- Is AIF-C01 worth it? Who should take itIs AWS Certified AI Practitioner worth taking? Who benefits, what the $100 price gets you, and when to go straight to MLA-C02 instead.
- Free AIF-C01 practice questions: 20 with answers20 free AWS AI Practitioner practice questions across all five domains, with an explanation for every answer.
- AIF-C01 study resourcesFree AWS material that covers AIF-C01, how much hands-on time is useful, and which resources to ignore.
- AIF-C01 cheat sheetA one-page AWS AI Practitioner reference: domain weights, key concepts, and the over-preparation trap.
- Is AIF-C01 hard? Exam difficulty explainedIs AIF-C01 hard? No, it is a foundational exam, but 65 questions in 90 minutes and all-or-nothing multi-answer items catch unprepared people.
- AIF-C01 career: who it suits and what nextWhich jobs AWS Certified AI Practitioner fits, what it does not prove about builders, and which AWS exam AWS itself suggests after AIF-C01.
- AIF-C01 renewal, validity and retake rulesHow AIF-C01 stays valid for three years, three ways to renew it on AWS, the 14-day retake wait, and the Italian and German retirement in October 2026.
- AIF-C01 study scenarios: three profilesHow long AIF-C01 preparation takes for a developer, a business-side candidate and an ML-leaning analyst, with hours tied to the five domain weights.
- AIF-C01 prerequisites: what you need firstWhat AWS expects before AIF-C01: up to six months of AI/ML exposure on AWS, core service familiarity, and what you can skip, with a quick self-check.