AWS Certified AI Practitioner: Foundations
An independent study guide for the AIF-C01 exam blueprint: AI and ML fundamentals, generative AI, foundation model applications, responsible AI, and security and governance. Written from scratch against the April 2026 v1.1 guide, and not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Amazon Web Services. It reproduces no exam questions.
6 modules · 40 lessons · 10 hr 17 min · prepares for AIF-C01
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Starts with: What the AIF-C01 exam measures
Modules
- Orientation: what AIF-C01 measuresWhat the AWS Certified AI Practitioner exam is, the five domains and their weights, the service surface it expects you to recognise, and how the April 2026 revision changed it. Read this first: it also sets out what this guide is and is not.4 lessons55 min
- Domain 1: Fundamentals of AI and MLFree account20% of the exam. What AI, machine learning and deep learning actually are, the kinds of learning and inference, how to tell a good AI use case from a bad one, and the machine learning lifecycle.7 lessons1 hr 46 min
- Domain 2: Fundamentals of generative AIFree account24% of the exam. Tokens, embeddings and vectors, how foundation models work, the model lifecycle, token pricing and context engineering, agentic AI and MCP, and the AWS generative AI stack.9 lessons2 hr 17 min
- Domain 3: Applications of foundation modelsFree accountThe largest domain at 28%. Choosing and configuring a model, retrieval-augmented generation and vector stores, customisation and its costs, prompt engineering and its risks, fine-tuning, and evaluating both the model and the business outcome.10 lessons2 hr 39 min
- Domain 4: Guidelines for responsible AIFree account14% of the exam. What responsible AI means in practice, bias and variance, datasets and their effects, guardrails and bias detection, legal and reputational risk, and transparent, explainable models.5 lessons1 hr 17 min
- Domain 5: Security, compliance and governanceFree account14% of the exam. Securing AI systems on AWS, data lineage and secure data engineering, the threats specific to AI systems, grounding against hallucination, and the governance, compliance and audit obligations that follow.5 lessons1 hr 23 min