AIF-C01 is a foundational AWS certification for people whose work touches AI without training the models: product and program people, analysts, consultants, and engineers who want the vocabulary before going deeper. It assumes no coding and no model training, which makes it a companion to CLF-C02 rather than a step beyond it.
Its five domains move from AI and machine learning fundamentals, through generative AI concepts, to applying foundation models, largely through Amazon Bedrock, and finish with responsible AI and the security, compliance and governance of AI workloads. Applications of Foundation Models is the largest of the five. The two governance domains are the smallest, but together they carry a real share of the exam, and they are the questions that decide whether an AI project would actually be allowed to ship.
What the exam rewards is judgement more than definitions: telling a generative problem from a predictive one, and choosing between prompting, retrieval-augmented generation and fine-tuning for a reason you can say out loud.
5 questions
Question 1 of 25
What is the difference between AI and ML?
Answer: C
ML is one approach within the broader AI field.
Question 2 of 25 · multiple response
Which of the following are examples of unsupervised learning? (Select TWO)
Answers: A, D
Clustering and topic modeling work without labels.
Question 3 of 25
A shipping company wants to estimate delivery time in hours for each package. What model output type is this?
Answer: B
Hours is a continuous quantity.
Question 4 of 25
A team must convert raw customer records into numeric inputs suitable for a model. What is this stage of the ML lifecycle?
Answer: D
Feature engineering transforms raw data into model-ready features.
Question 5 of 25
A team wants the model to learn from streaming data continuously rather than retraining from scratch. What concept is this?
Answer: B
Incremental learning updates the model as new data arrives.
6 questions
Question 6 of 25
A model trained on data up to a certain date cannot answer about later events. What is this limitation called?
Answer: B
The knowledge cutoff is the point after which the model has no training data.
Question 7 of 25
A prompt is written to ask the model to critique and revise its own first answer. What technique is this?
Answer: B
Self-critique prompts improve output through iteration.
Question 8 of 25
A team wants a model to translate documents while preserving formatting like tables. Which model capability matters?
Answer: D
Instruction-following preserves structure.
Question 9 of 25
A team fine-tunes a model and then finds it performs worse on general tasks it previously handled well. What is this called?
Answer: C
Fine-tuning can overwrite general capabilities if not managed carefully.
Question 10 of 25
A company wants to understand what 'fine-tuning' changes in a model. What is correct?
Answer: A
Fine-tuning updates weights.
Question 11 of 25
A team notices an LLM's knowledge stops at a certain date. What is this limitation called?
Answer: C
Models only know information present in their training data up to the cutoff.
7 questions
Question 12 of 25
A team wants to constrain an agent to complete tasks within a fixed number of reasoning steps. What does this control?
Answer: B
Step limits prevent unbounded agent execution.
Question 13 of 25
A RAG application returns irrelevant documents. What component most likely needs improvement?
Answer: C
Retrieval quality depends on how documents are chunked and embedded.
Question 14 of 25
A team wants to import a model they fine-tuned elsewhere into Bedrock for inference. What capability supports this?
Answer: B
Custom Model Import brings externally trained weights into Bedrock.
Question 15 of 25
A developer wants to use a foundation model from a Python application. What do they use?
Answer: C
SDK calls to Bedrock APIs integrate models into applications.
Question 16 of 25
A team fine-tunes a model but has only 200 examples. What is a likely risk?
Answer: A
Small fine-tuning sets risk overfitting.
Question 17 of 25
A team wants a model to draft responses that an agent reviews before sending. What pattern is this?
Answer: C
Drafts plus human review balance speed and control.
Question 18 of 25
A team wants to extract key-value pairs from insurance claim forms at scale. Which service fits?
Answer: C
Textract extracts form fields.
4 questions
Question 19 of 25
A team wants documentation of a model's intended use, limitations, and evaluation results. What SageMaker feature supports this?
Answer: B
Model Cards capture model metadata for governance and transparency.
Question 20 of 25
A company wants to ensure AI-generated customer messages are reviewed for tone and accuracy. Which principle does this support?
Answer: D
Review ensures accountability.
Question 21 of 25
A model used for credit decisions must not use protected attributes like race. What practice addresses this?
Answer: D
Removing protected features and checking proxies reduces discriminatory outcomes.
Question 22 of 25
A team notices a model's outputs are less accurate for non-native English speakers. What should they do?
Answer: C
Group-level evaluation and better data address disparities.
3 questions
Question 23 of 25
A company wants to prevent developers from exporting fine-tuned model weights out of AWS. What control helps?
Answer: A
Access controls prevent unauthorized export.
Question 24 of 25
An organization wants to prevent employees from using unapproved external AI tools with company data. What control helps?
Answer: D
DLP and sanctioned tools reduce shadow AI risk.
Question 25 of 25
A company wants only certain teams to invoke a specific Bedrock model. What enforces this?
Answer: D
Resource-scoped IAM permissions control model access.
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