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AIF-C01 exam prep

AWS Certified AI Practitioner

AI and ML basics, generative AI, foundation model applications, responsible AI, and security and governance on AWS, starting from zero.

practice questions
286
chapters
21
slide decks
17
practice exams
2

The exam at a glance

Duration
90 minutes
Questions
65: 50 scored, 15 unscored (not marked)
Passing score
700 / 1000, scaled
Retake
14 days after a failed attempt
Validity
3 years

Source: AWS Certified AI Practitioner (AIF-C01) exam guide, version 1.2 (October 29, 2026)

What the exam covers

Every objective in the official study guide has a chapter, a slide deck and practice questions.

  1. Fundamentals of AI and ML

    20% of the exam

    1. 1.1 AI concepts and terminology
    2. 1.2 Practical use cases and AWS AI services
    3. 1.3 The AI/ML development lifecycle
  2. Fundamentals of GenAI

    24% of the exam

    1. 2.1 Generative AI concepts
    2. 2.2 Capabilities and limitations of GenAI
    3. 2.3 AWS services for building GenAI applications
  3. Applications of Foundation Models

    28% of the exam

    1. 3.1 Designing applications with foundation models
    2. 3.2 Prompt engineering
    3. 3.3 Training and fine-tuning foundation models
    4. 3.4 Evaluating foundation models and FM applications
  4. Guidelines for Responsible AI

    14% of the exam

    1. 4.1 Developing responsible AI systems
    2. 4.2 Transparent and explainable models
  5. Security, Compliance, and Governance for AI Solutions

    14% of the exam

    1. 5.1 Securing AI systems
    2. 5.2 Governance and compliance for AI
  6. Foundations

    Background, not scored

    1. 0.1 AWS cloud essentials
    2. 0.2 Security and cost basics on AWS

Sample questions

Three original questions from the bank, with their explanations.

Applications of Foundation Models · From chapter 3.1 Designing applications with foundation models

Larkspur has two candidate models for its assistant with similar quality, speed and price in testing. Next year it plans to train the chosen model further on its own question-and-answer examples. Only one of the two supports fine-tuning on Bedrock. Which criterion should decide?

Choose an answer

Fundamentals of GenAI · From chapter 2.1 Generative AI concepts

A model's documentation says it accepts up to 8,000 tokens per request. Larkspur's returns policy is 7,500 words long. A developer says it will fit with room to spare. Why is that claim risky?

Choose an answer

Fundamentals of AI and ML · From chapter 1.1 AI concepts and terminology

Larkspur's fraud model is a decision tree trained on past orders. A vendor's photo checker uses a neural network with many layers. Which statement is correct?

Choose an answer

How you will study

Learn each objective with a chapter and a slide deck, practice with a drill that brings back what you miss, then rehearse with timed exams weighted like the real one.

  1. 1

    Learn

    Understand it, then remember it

    Chapters with decision tables and exam traps · Slide decks with step-by-step animated diagrams · A study map of the whole exam on one page

  2. 2

    Practice

    Practice what you are about to forget

    Reviews spaced at 1, 3, 7, 14 and 30 days · Only the chapters you have finished, unless you choose more · An explanation for every option, right or wrong

  3. 3

    Pass

    Rehearse the real thing

    From a 5-question warm-up to a full-length exam · Longer Azure exams end with a complete case study · Mastery per domain against the weights the exam uses

FAQ

AIF-C01 FAQ

What does the AIF-C01 exam cover?

AIF-C01 (AWS Certified AI Practitioner) covers Fundamentals of AI and ML (20%), Fundamentals of GenAI (24%), Applications of Foundation Models (28%), Guidelines for Responsible AI (14%) and Security, Compliance, and Governance for AI Solutions (14%). 3jumps teaches each objective in 21 chapters.

How many AIF-C01 practice questions are there?

286 original practice questions, including 2 full practice exams. Every option has its own explanation.

How long is the AIF-C01 exam and what is the passing score?

Time: 90 minutes. Passing score: 700 / 1000, scaled. Confirm on the official exam page before you book.

Are these real AIF-C01 exam questions?

No. Every question is original, written from the official objectives and checked against AWS's documentation. 3jumps never uses exam dumps and is not affiliated with AWS.

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