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A free 30-question diagnostic for AWS Certified AI Practitioner (AIF-C01). Answer at your own pace, then review a domain-by-domain readiness signal with fully explained reasoning for every question.

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  • 30 Questions
  • 24 Single-Answer / 6 Multi-Answer
  • 5 Domains
  • 54 minutes (~1.8 minutes per question based on the official exam)

Who This Diagnostic Is For

This assessment is for learners preparing for AWS Certified AI Practitioner (AIF-C01) who want an honest, evidence-based signal of where they stand today. Every question is original CertShield content, technically validated against current official documentation (Version 1.1, effective April 30, 2026) and peer-reviewed by subject-matter experts before publication.

What It Measures

Questions sampled per domain in this 30-question set.
DomainQuestions
Applications of Foundation Models9
Fundamentals of AI and ML6
Fundamentals of GenAI7
Guidelines for Responsible AI4
Security, Compliance, and Governance for AI Solutions4

Limitations of this diagnostic: 30 questions cannot cover every exam objective with equal depth. Domains with fewer than three questions are labelled "Limited evidence" in your results and can never cause a readiness downgrade on their own. This is not an official exam, an accredited course, or a pass-rate prediction.

Technically validated: Completed September 15, 2026, against the official AWS Certified AI Practitioner (AIF-C01) exam guide (Version 1. See the assessment methodology for how scoring, confidence and readiness safeguards work.

About the Official AWS Certified AI Practitioner Exam

Sourced directly from the official AWS Certified AI Practitioner Exam Guide, published by Amazon Web Services (AWS) — Version 1.1, effective April 30, 2026.

Questions
65 total questions (50 count toward the score; 15 are unscored pretest items used by AWS to evaluate future exam content and are not identified to the candidate)
Time Limit
90 minutes
Passing Score
700 on a scaled 100–1,000 range (compensatory scoring across the whole exam; no minimum is required in any individual domain)
Registration Fee
$100 USD
Delivery
Pearson VUE — available both at an authorized testing center and via online proctoring
Validity
3-year certification cycle; recertify by passing the current version of this exam, or by earning AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer - Associate, before expiration

Official exam domains this diagnostic mirrors:

  • Applications of Foundation Models 28%
  • Fundamentals of GenAI 24%
  • Fundamentals of AI and ML 20%
  • Guidelines for Responsible AI 14%
  • Security, Compliance, and Governance for AI Solutions 14%

Who this certification is for:

AWS recommends up to 6 months of exposure to AI/ML technologies on AWS; the target candidate uses AI/ML solutions on AWS but does not necessarily build them. There is no formal certification prerequisite, though AWS recommends familiarity with core AWS services, the shared responsibility model, IAM, and AWS pricing models.

Developing or coding AI/ML models, hyperparameter tuning, building AI/ML pipelines, and implementing governance frameworks are explicitly listed as out of scope for the target candidate. Version 1.1 (effective April 30, 2026) added objectives on agentic AI, Model Context Protocol (MCP), multi-agent communication patterns, token-based pricing, context engineering, model distillation, and hallucination-grounding techniques — domain weights and total question counts were unchanged by this revision. A separate, unrelated static PDF mirror of this exam guide found during validation displayed a mismatched "Version 1.4" label and older domain content; the authoritative source (docs.aws.amazon.com) confirms Version 1.1 as current, and this file is validated against that authoritative version only.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How many questions are on the AWS Certified AI Practitioner (AIF-C01) exam?

65 total questions (50 count toward the score; 15 are unscored pretest items used by AWS to evaluate future exam content and are not identified to the candidate)

How long is the AWS Certified AI Practitioner (AIF-C01) exam?

90 minutes

What is the passing score for AWS Certified AI Practitioner (AIF-C01)?

700 on a scaled 100–1,000 range (compensatory scoring across the whole exam; no minimum is required in any individual domain)

How much does the AWS Certified AI Practitioner (AIF-C01) exam cost?

$100 USD

What topics are covered in the AWS Certified AI Practitioner (AIF-C01) exam?

The exam covers Applications of Foundation Models 28%, Fundamentals of GenAI 24%, Fundamentals of AI and ML 20%, Guidelines for Responsible AI 14%, and Security, Compliance, and Governance for AI Solutions 14%.

Who is the AWS Certified AI Practitioner (AIF-C01) exam for?

AWS recommends up to 6 months of exposure to AI/ML technologies on AWS; the target candidate uses AI/ML solutions on AWS but does not necessarily build them. There is no formal certification prerequisite, though AWS recommends familiarity with core AWS services, the shared responsibility model, IAM, and AWS pricing models.

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