// AWS CERTIFIED AI PRACTITIONER · AIF-C01

AWS AI Practitioner practice test — every question explained, every domain covered

The AI Practitioner is new, and most prep for it is thin. CrushCert gives you 100 adaptive practice questions written to the official AIF-C01 guide — Bedrock, SageMaker, prompt engineering, RAG, responsible AI, and AI security — with a written explanation on every answer, hands-on labs, and a full timed mock exam. Everything for the exam, in one place.

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Written to the AIF-C01 blueprint

Questions are weighted exactly like the real exam — 20/24/28/14/14 across the five domains — so the mix you practice is the mix you'll face.

Adaptive practice

The algorithm tracks every question you miss and serves more of those topics, so your weak areas get more reps and every session moves your score.

Realistic mock exams

Full-length, timed tests that mirror the real exam — 65 questions, 90-minute countdown, question navigator, mark-for-review, and a 70% pass line so you know you're ready before exam day.

What's on the AWS AI Practitioner exam

The AI Practitioner (AIF-C01) has 65 questions in 90 minutes (50 scored, 15 unscored), scored on a 100–1,000 scale with a 700 passing score, and costs $100 USD. There are no prerequisites. The five domains and weightings:

DomainWeight
Fundamentals of AI and ML20%
Fundamentals of Generative AI24%
Applications of Foundation Models28%
Guidelines for Responsible AI14%
Security, Compliance & Governance for AI14%

CrushCert's question bank maps to every domain. Topic coverage includes:

Amazon BedrockSageMakerPrompt engineeringRAG & Knowledge BasesFine-tuningGuardrailsAmazon QResponsible AIIAM, KMS & Macie

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Sample AWS AI Practitioner practice questions

Sample — Fundamentals of Generative AI
What is retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)?
A) A training method that crawls web pages so the model's weights stay current
B) Retrieving relevant documents at query time and adding them to the prompt so the model answers from that information ✓
C) A model-compression technique that keeps only the most important parameters
D) An approach that generates synthetic training data from retrieved examples

RAG grounds the model in your data without retraining it: search a knowledge base, pull the best-matching chunks, and add them to the prompt. It reduces hallucinations and keeps answers current. Every CrushCert question includes an explanation like this.

Sample — Applications of Foundation Models
A company's knowledge changes daily, and it wants a model to answer with the latest internal documents at the lowest cost and effort. Which approach is best?
A) Fine-tune the model every night on the new documents
B) Pre-train a new foundation model on the full document set
C) Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) with a knowledge base ✓
D) Increase the model's temperature to surface newer facts

RAG injects current documents at query time, so updating the knowledge base is enough — no retraining. Fine-tuning is costly, slow, and bakes in a snapshot of data. This "RAG vs fine-tune" judgment call shows up repeatedly on the AIF-C01.

Sample — Guidelines for Responsible AI
Which AWS service helps detect bias in training data and models and explains how features influence predictions?
A) Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth
B) Amazon SageMaker Clarify ✓
C) Amazon Macie
D) AWS Audit Manager

Clarify runs bias detection before and after training and produces feature-importance explanations. Ground Truth is for labeling, Macie finds sensitive data in S3, and Audit Manager collects compliance evidence.

Sample — Security, Compliance & Governance
A company wants calls from its VPC to Amazon Bedrock to stay on the AWS private network rather than traverse the public internet. Which feature enables this?
A) An internet gateway attached to the VPC
B) A NAT gateway in a public subnet
C) An Amazon CloudFront distribution in front of Bedrock
D) A VPC interface endpoint powered by AWS PrivateLink ✓

PrivateLink endpoints give private connectivity to AWS services like Bedrock and SageMaker from inside a VPC, keeping traffic off the public internet.

Sample — Fundamentals of AI and ML
A model performs extremely well on its training data but poorly on new data it has never seen. What is this problem called?
A) Overfitting ✓
B) Underfitting
C) Data drift
D) Bias amplification

Overfitting means the model memorized the training set, including its noise, instead of learning patterns that generalize. Fixes include more data, regularization, and simpler models.

Why learners pick CrushCert

You practice the way the exam tests you. The AIF-C01 is scenario-heavy — "a company wants X, which service or approach fits?" — not definition recall. Every CrushCert question is written in that style, every explanation tells you why the other three choices are wrong, and hands-on labs drill the judgment calls — matching services to jobs, choosing prompt vs RAG vs fine-tuning, and troubleshooting a hallucinating chatbot.

Pay for one exam or all of them. AWS AI Practitioner alone is $10/month; the Associate plan is $19/month and covers all 8 Associate exams — Cloud Practitioner, CCNA, CompTIA A+, Network+, Security+ and more — so if you're stacking certs, it's all included.

You always know your readiness. A live readiness score blends your quiz accuracy, mock results, and lab performance, and points you to exactly what to study next.

A guided plan tells you what to study today. Guided Learning builds a short daily plan from your performance — a warm-up review, a lesson on your weakest topic, and flashcards, all in about 20 minutes, with spaced repetition so material comes back right before you'd forget it.

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PAIRS WELL

AWS Cloud Practitioner practice test

The other foundational AWS cert. Many people take both — the core services it covers are assumed knowledge on the AI exam.

STUDY PLAN

AWS AI Practitioner study plan: 2-week & 4-week schedules

A day-by-day AIF-C01 plan, plus a cheat sheet for the prompt vs RAG vs fine-tuning questions.

CERT QUIZ

Which certification should I take?

Not sure AI Practitioner is the right next step? A two-minute quiz maps your background and goals to a cert path.

Going further with AWS? CrushCert also covers Cloud Practitioner, Solutions Architect, Developer Associate, and SA Professional — one plan, every exam. Coming from Tutorials Dojo? See the CrushCert vs Tutorials Dojo comparison.

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AWS AI Practitioner FAQ

How many questions are on the AWS AI Practitioner exam?

The AIF-C01 has 65 questions in 90 minutes — 50 scored and 15 unscored. It costs $100 USD and is a foundational-level certification, so no prerequisites are required.

Do I need to know how to code or build ML models?

No. The AI Practitioner tests concepts and AWS AI services — what Bedrock, SageMaker, and the managed AI services do, how to prompt and ground foundation models, and responsible-AI and security practices — not Python or model training.

What score do you need to pass the AIF-C01?

700 on a 100–1,000 scale. CrushCert mock exams use a 70% pass line to mirror the real bar.

Should I take Cloud Practitioner or AI Practitioner first?

Either works — both are foundational. If you have no AWS background, Cloud Practitioner first gives you the core services the AI exam assumes. If you already know basic AWS, go straight to AI Practitioner. CrushCert covers both on one plan.