AWS Certified AI Practitioner (AIF-C01) -Everything You Need

I’ve designed this course to give you everything you need to prepare and pass confidently the AWS Certified AI Practitioner (AIF-C01) exam — No need to look beyond this course.

The course includes in-depth video lectures, section-wise Exam Essentials revision lectures, section quizzes, and 2 full-length practice tests to help you assess your readiness.

And when you’re ready for your final revision, you’ll have an Exam Essentials Guide containing the key concepts, important points, and exam-focused takeaways covered throughout the course. Use it for a quick and focused revision before your exam.

So, No endless whitepapers. No searching through countless videos. No jumping between different resources. Everything you need for your AI Practitioner exam preparation is brought together in one complete course.

Try to get the most out of this course. All the best!

~Chetan

About this course:

• This course provides you everything to pass your AWS Certified AI Practitioner - Foundational Exam (AIF-C01)

• This course contains 12hrs of detailed lectures including 30+ demonstrations and walkthroughs to make sure that you understand the concepts to its core. Also, this is a COMPLETE course which means I won't ask you to go through any other videos, white-papers or documentation.

• No prior IT or Cloud or AI experience required. This course can be taken by absolute beginners including students.

• Only thing required to complete this course and pass your exam is - Your sincere efforts and dedication.

Course topics:

• Domain 1 - Fundamentals of AI and Machine Learning

  • AI, ML, Deep Learning and Generative AI

  • How Machines learn?

  • Machine Learning Lifecycle - Business Problem -> ML Problem Framing -> Data Collection -> Data Preparation -> Model Training -> Model Evaluation -> Model Inference and Model Optimization

  • AWS AI Services - Rekognition, Polly, Transcribe, Translate, Textract, Comprehend, Personalize, Forecast, Kendra, Lex

  • Amazon SageMaker AI

    • Data Wrangler, Ground Truth & Feature Store, SageMaker Studio, Canvas & JumpStart

    • SageMaker Training Jobs

    • SageMaker Endpoints - Real-time, Batch Transform, Asynchronous, Serverless

    • SageMaker Clarify, SageMaker Model Monitor, Model Cards and Model Registry

    • SageMaker Pipelines, Mlflow and SageMaker Autopilot (MLOps)

• Domain 2 - Fundamentals of Generative AI

  • Foundation Models (FMs) and Large Language Models (LLMs)

  • Transformer Architecture

  • Prompt Engineering

  • Vector Embedding and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)

• Domain 3 - Applications of Foundation Models

  • Amazon Bedrock

    • Foundation Model (FM) catalog in Bedrock

    • Bedrock Guardrails

    • Bedrock Monitoring and Logging

    • Bedrock Pricing (old and new)

  • Prompt Engineering and RAG in Amazon Bedrock

    • Prompt Engineering & components of a Prompt

    • Prompt Techniques - Zero shot, Few shots, Chain-of-thought, ReAct & Negative prompting

    • Model response optimization parameters - Temperature, Top-K, Top-P, Stop sequence

    • Prompt templates

    • Prompt attacks

    • Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases (RAG)

    • Amazon Bedrock Vector Databases - Amazon OpenSearch, Amazon Aurora, Amazon Neptune, S3 Vectors

  • Customizing Foundation Models

    • Transfer Learning, Model Fine-tuning & Model Continued-Pretraining

    • Amazon SageMaker Jumpstart

    • Model Distillation (Teacher -> Student models)

    • Small Language Models (SLMs) and Edge deployment

  • Foundation Model Evaluation

    • Business Metrics - User/Customer satisfaction, Avg response time, Conversion rate etc.

    • Technical Metrics - Accuracy, Robustness, Toxicity, Fairness, BLEU, ROUGE, BERTScore and more

    • FM Evaluation Methods - Automated Evaluation, LLM-as-Judge, Human-based review

    • BLEU Score, ROUGE & BERTScore

  • AI Agents

    • Why AI Agents?

    • Demo - Banking Assistant Chatbot vs AI Agent

    • AI Agent Frameworks - LangGraph, LangChain, CrewAI, Strands, AutoGen etc.

    • Amazon Bedrock Agent (Classic)

    • Amazon Bedrock AgentCore (New)

      • AgentCore components - Runtime, Harness, Gateway, Memory, Identity, Browser and more.

    • Agent Communication - MCP (Model Context Protocol) and A2A (Agent-to-Agent)

  • AWS Generative AI Application Services

    • Amazon Q - Amazon Q Developer, Q in Console, Q in Connect

    • Amazon Quick Suite (Formerly Amazon QuickSight + Amazon Q Business)

      • Amazon Quick Modules - Chat/Agents, Index, Research, Flows, Automate, Apps etc.

    • AWS DevOps Agent, AWS Security Agent, AWS Kiro Agent (Coding assistant)

    • AWS Party Rock

• Domain 4 - Guidelines for Responsible AI

  • What is Responsible AI and why its important?

  • Responsible AI Features and Dimensions - Fairness, Explainability, Transparency and more

  • Common Risks and challenges of AI - Bias, Variance, Hallucination, Toxicity, Plagiarism, Nondeterminism & more

  • AI Model Interpretability vs Complexity Trade-offs

  • AWS Services and Tools for Responsible AI

    • AI Service Cards

    • Amazon Bedrock Guardrails

    • Amazon SageMaker Clarify

    • Amazon Augmented AI (A2I)

  • Responsible AI Best Practices

• Domain 5 - Security, Compliance, and Governance for AI Solutions

  • AWS Services/Features for AI Security

    • Access and Permissions - AWS IAM

    • Network Security - AWS VPC, PrivateLink

    • Data Security - Amazon S3 Bucket Policy, Amazon KMS, Amazon Macie

    • AI Agent Security - AgentCore Identity, AgentCore Policy, AWS IAM

  • AWS Services/Features for AI Governance and Compliance

    • AWS Config

    • AWS CloudTrail

    • Amazon Inspector

    • AWS Trusted Advisor

    • AWS Artifact

    • AWS Audit Manager

    • AI Service Cards and SageMaker Model Cards

  • Additional Topics

    • Secure Data Engineering

    • AI response Grounding Techniques

    • AWS Generative AI Scoping Matrix

      
      

+ Section Quizzes (~150 questions)

Practice Tests:

• Full Practice Test 1 - Exam level (65 questions)

• Full Practice Test 2 - Challenging level (65 questions)

Downloads:

• Download Full course slides

• Download Exam Essentials guide

• Download Exam Cheat Sheet

This course also comes with:

• Lifetime access to all future updates

• A responsive instructor in the Q&A Section

• Udemy Certificate of Completion Ready for Download

• A 30-Day "No Questions Asked" Money Back Guarantee!