AWS Certified AI Practitioner (AIP-C01) Complete Prep Guide (2026)

Introduction

AWS launched the AWS Certified AI Practitioner (AIP-C01) certification to address the rapid rise of Generative AI in cloud workloads. Designed for developers, solution architects, and technical project managers, this exam tests foundational AI/ML concepts and hands-on AWS GenAI services.

Core Topics Tested on AIP-C01

1. Fundamentals of AI and ML (20%)

• Core differences between supervised, unsupervised, reinforcement learning, and generative AI models.
• Machine Learning lifecycle: Data prep, feature engineering, model training, evaluation, and deployment.
• Key metrics: Precision, Recall, F1-Score, RMSE, BLEU, and ROUGE for LLM evaluation.

2. Generative AI Concepts (24%)

• Understanding Foundation Models (FMs), Large Language Models (LLMs), and Multimodal FMs.
• Fine-tuning vs Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) vs Prompt Engineering.
• Embeddings, Vector Databases, and Semantic Search concepts.

3. Applications of Foundation Models with Amazon Bedrock (28%)

• Amazon Bedrock: Model Access, Guardrails for Bedrock, Agents for Amazon Bedrock, Knowledge Bases for Bedrock (RAG).
• Choosing the right FM (Claude, Llama, Titan, AI21) based on cost, latency, and task context.
• Amazon Q Developer and Amazon Q Business integrations across AWS.

4. Responsible AI, Security & Compliance (28%)

• Data privacy in Amazon Bedrock: Confirming customer data is NOT used to train base AWS models.
• Addressing hallucinations, bias, toxicity, and prompt injection attacks using Guardrails.
• IAM role configuration for AI workloads and AWS KMS encryption.

How to Prepare

• Hands-on with Bedrock Playground: Practice invoking FMs, setting system prompts, and attaching Guardrails in the AWS Console.
• RAG Architecture Architecture Knowledge: Understand how Bedrock Knowledge Bases sync with OpenSearch Serverless, Pinecone, or Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Vector.
• Practice Tests: Take realistic 65-question practice exams to get comfortable with scenario-based questions.