AIF-C01 AWS Certified AI Practitioner Exam Guide (2026) [eBook: PDF + EPUB]

The AWS Certified AI Practitioner exam changed in 2026. Version 1.1 of the official AIF-C01 exam guide added agentic AI, the Model Context Protocol (MCP), context engineering, token-based pricing, prompt versioning and hallucination detection, and brought Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Kiro and Strands Agents into scope. Many study materials written before mid-2026 miss them.

This guide follows the current exam guide (version 1.1) and explains every domain in plain language:

• The exam: domains and weights, question types, scoring (700 to pass) and what changed in 2026
• Fundamentals of AI and ML: key terms, inference types, learning types, when not to use ML, the ML lifecycle, MLOps, precision vs recall
• Fundamentals of generative AI: tokens, embeddings, context engineering, agents, MCP, and the AWS generative AI services (Bedrock, SageMaker AI, JumpStart, Quick, Kiro, Strands Agents, AgentCore)
• Designing foundation model apps: model selection, temperature, RAG and Knowledge Bases, vector stores, the customisation cost ladder
• Prompt engineering, fine-tuning, distillation and evaluation (ROUGE, BLEU, BERTScore, LLM-as-a-judge)
• Responsible AI: Bedrock Guardrails, SageMaker Clarify, Model Cards, bias and explainability
• Security, compliance and governance: IAM, Macie, PrivateLink, AgentCore Identity, CloudTrail, Config, Artifact and the Generative AI Security Scoping Matrix
• "Exam trap" boxes in every chapter
• 60 original practice questions with an answer key and an explanation for every answer
• A two-week study plan, a glossary and official resources

Written by Etienne Noumen, P.Eng., creator of the AI Unraveled podcast and the AI & ML Tutor and Djamgatech exam-prep apps.

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Independent publication; not affiliated with or endorsed by Amazon Web Services. Practice questions are original and are not actual exam questions.