AIF study guide
AIF · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The AWS Certified AI Practitioner (AIF-C01) is a foundational-level credential that validates a broad, working understanding of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and generative AI - and how AWS services support them. It is aimed less at people who train models and more at people who work alongside AI systems: product and project managers, analysts, sales and marketing staff, support engineers, and cloud practitioners moving into AI-adjacent roles. The AIF study guide has 5 sections and about 1,924 words.
01Fundamentals of AI and ML
Artificial intelligence is the broad goal of machines performing tasks that normally require human intelligence. Machine learning is one approach to that goal: algorithms that learn patterns from data instead of following hand-written rules.
407 words, about 2 min02Fundamentals of Generative AI
Traditional ML predicts a label or a number. Generative AI produces new content such as text, images, audio, and code.
387 words, about 2 min03Applications of Foundation Models
Amazon Bedrock: a fully managed, serverless API to foundation models from multiple providers plus Amazon models, with Knowledge Bases, Agents, Guardrails, and model evaluation. Amazon SageMaker: the full ML platform to build, train, tune, and deploy your own models; JumpStart offers open models and recipes.
377 words, about 2 min04Guidelines for Responsible AI
A responsible AI program covers fairness, explainability, privacy and security, safety, controllability, verifiability, and governance. In practice that means measuring bias, documenting intended use and limitations, protecting data, preventing harmful output, keeping humans able to intervene, and being able to audit decisions.
357 words, about 2 min05Security, Compliance, and Governance for AI Solutions
AWS secures the cloud: physical facilities, hardware, hypervisor, and the managed service itself. You secure what you put in the cloud: data classification, identity and permissions, configuration, and how prompts and outputs are handled.
396 words, about 2 min