Best AWS AI Practitioner practice exams in 2026 (an honest comparison)

The short version: Tutorials Dojo has the best-value AIF-C01 question bank, Stephane Maarek's Udemy set is the most popular, AWS Skill Builder has the only practice exam written by the people who write the real one, and CrushCert adds adaptive practice plus hands-on labs. Most people who pass combine two of them.

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We build AI Practitioner prep ourselves, so weigh our own entry accordingly — the rest is an honest rundown of what people actually use to pass the AWS Certified AI Practitioner (AIF-C01), and who each option is genuinely best for.

Quick comparison

1. Tutorials Dojo

BEST VALUETutorials Dojo's AIF-C01 practice exams are the same formula that made them the community favorite for Cloud Practitioner and Solutions Architect: timed mode, review mode, section-based tests by domain, and a 65-question final test, with a long explanation for every option. One year of access is listed at about $10–15, and there is a free sampler so you can judge the writing style before paying.

Best for: realistic, cheap volume in the last week or two before the exam. Trade-off: it's a question bank, not a course, and the sets are fixed — it won't steer you toward the topics you keep missing.

2. Stephane Maarek (Udemy)

MOST POPULARStephane Maarek's "Practice Exams | AWS Certified AI Practitioner" set has 260 unique questions and a 4.6 rating from more than 9,000 reviews, which makes it the most-used AIF-C01 practice set anywhere. Udemy's list price is higher, but it sells for about $15 during the near-constant sales. His companion video course is the most common way people learn the material in the first place.

Best for: people who took his course and want questions in the same voice. Trade-off: four fixed exams — once you've seen them twice, you've seen them. Pair it with something that asks the same concepts differently.

3. AWS Skill Builder (official)

MOST AUTHENTICAWS Skill Builder has a free 20-question Official Pretest and Official Practice Question Set for AIF-C01, plus a full 65-question Official Practice Exam that is only included with the paid subscription (about $29 a month). Those questions come from the same team that writes the real exam, so the wording, difficulty and the newer question types (ordering and matching) are exactly what you'll see.

Best for: one honest dress rehearsal a few days before test day. Trade-off: the free set is small, and $29 for a single practice exam is poor value as your only resource. Do the free pretest early; decide about the subscription late.

4. CrushCert

LABS + ADAPTIVEThat's us. CrushCert pairs an adaptive AIF-C01 question bank (140+ original questions, checked against exam guide v1.2 and topped up in November 2026, every one with an explanation) with hands-on labs the other options don't have: match the managed AI services to their jobs, choose prompt engineering vs RAG vs fine-tuning for a scenario, match responsible-AI tooling to the risk, and a troubleshooting ticket where a support bot is hallucinating and you fix the RAG pipeline. Timed mock exams are scored to the real 700 cutoff, and a readiness score tells you when to book. $10/mo for this exam alone, or $19/mo for the Associate plan, which also covers Cloud Practitioner and Developer Associate plus the CompTIA and Cisco associate exams.

Best for: the judgment-call questions (which approach, which service) that make up most of the two generative-AI domains. Trade-off: our bank is smaller than Maarek's 260, and a subscription suits steady study over a few weeks more than a one-night cram. Here's CrushCert's AI Practitioner prep.

5. Whizlabs

Whizlabs sells an AIF-C01 practice-test bundle with a large question count and frequent discounts. Reviews of its question quality are more mixed than for Tutorials Dojo, so treat it as a third set for extra volume rather than your primary one. One caution: some third-party blogs (including Whizlabs's own) list the passing score as 720. The official exam guide says 700.

Free resources worth your time

• AWS Skill Builder Official Pretest — 20 real-style questions, free, and the exam-prep standard course for AIF-C01.
• Tutorials Dojo free sampler — a handful of questions in their house style.
• The exam guide itself — the in-scope services list is the single best study checklist, and it's where you'll find out about version changes first.
• Andrew Brown's free AIF-C01 course on YouTube (via freeCodeCamp) — a solid free foundation if you'd rather not pay for Maarek's course.

Our honest recommendation

Learn the concepts with Stephane Maarek's course or Andrew Brown's free one, and do the free Skill Builder pretest in week one to see the real question style. Drill the judgment calls with an adaptive bank plus labs (where CrushCert fits). Then stress-test with Tutorials Dojo until two timed exams in a row come back at 800+. Not sure how long that takes? See how long to study for the AWS AI Practitioner, or jump straight to the day-by-day study plan.

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