AWS AIF-C01: Fundamentals of AI and ML
The provider lists this domain at 20% of the exam.
In plain English
The vocabulary of machine learning: what a model is, how it learns from data, how it is measured, and how it is used once it is trained.
What the provider lists under it
- Basic AI concepts and terminology
- Practical use cases for AI
- The AI/ML development lifecycle
- Types of inferencing
- Types of learning: supervised, unsupervised, reinforcement
- Model performance and business metrics
Terms worth knowing
- Supervised vs unsupervised learning: Supervised learning trains on labelled examples. Unsupervised learning looks for structure in unlabelled data.
- Overfitting: When a model learns its training data too closely and does badly on new data.
- Model drift: A model getting worse over time because the real world no longer looks like its training data.
Quick answers
How much of the AWS AIF-C01 exam is Fundamentals of AI and ML?
The provider lists it at 20% of the exam, according to the AWS exam guide (version 1.2).
What topics are in Fundamentals of AI and ML?
Basic AI concepts and terminology; Practical use cases for AI; The AI/ML development lifecycle; Types of inferencing; Types of learning: supervised, unsupervised, reinforcement; Model performance and business metrics.
The other AWS AIF-C01 domains
- Fundamentals of GenAI (24% of the exam)
- Applications of Foundation Models (28% of the exam)
- Guidelines for Responsible AI (14% of the exam)
- Security, Compliance, and Governance for AI Solutions (14% of the exam)
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