Career Roadmap
AWS AI Engineer: Zero to Hero
This roadmap covers the complete AWS AI engineering path for 2026, reflecting the restructured AWS AI certification landscape. MLS-C01 (Machine Learning Specialty) retired March 31, 2026. AWS has replaced it with three credentials targeting distinct roles - AIF-C01 for AI practitioners, MLA-C01 for ML engineers who deploy and operate ML systems, and AIP-C01 for generative AI developers building production AI applications. The roadmap is structured around the actual exam domains and weights for all three certifications. Use ExamOS practice quizzes at every step to make progress measurable before each exam attempt.
Embark on your career roadmap by setting a target and staying accountable
Set targetStep 0 - Engineering and data foundations
Build the programming, data, and cloud foundations that every AWS AI engineering task depends on. These fundamentals are assumed throughout all three certification tracks.
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Step 0 - Engineering and data foundations
Build the programming, data, and cloud foundations that every AWS AI engineering task depends on. These fundamentals are assumed throughout all three certification tracks.
- Python proficiency — functions, classes, decorators, async/await, virtual environments, pandas, numpy, boto3
- Data fundamentals — structured versus unstructured data, CSV, JSON, Parquet, data types, missing values, outliers
- Statistics basics — mean, median, variance, distributions, correlation, what matters for ML without deep math
- SQL basics — SELECT, JOIN, WHERE, GROUP BY — enough to query data from RDS or Athena for ML pipelines
- Git and version control — reproducible ML workflows, experiment tracking, model versioning
- Linux command line — navigating, scripting, running Python scripts, managing files and permissions
- Cloud and AWS basics — what managed services are, the shared responsibility model, cost concepts
💡 Python fluency is explicitly required for MLA-C01 and AIP-C01. Basic scripting is not sufficient. You need to be able to write real SageMaker SDK code, build Bedrock API integrations, and read complex boto3 examples.
💡 Pandas and data manipulation are specifically tested in MLA-C01 Domain 1 (Data Preparation, 28%). Candidates who cannot manipulate tabular data in Python will struggle with the data preparation sections of both SageMaker Studio labs and exam scenarios.
💡 Numpy and scikit-learn are useful context for understanding what SageMaker is doing under the hood, even if you won't write custom training code for most MLA-C01 scenarios.
Step 1 - AWS fundamentals and cloud architecture (CLF-C02 or SAA-C03)
Build the AWS service and architecture knowledge that all three AI certification tracks assume. AI services on AWS sit on top of core infrastructure — IAM, S3, networking, and compute appear in every AI workflow.
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Step 1 - AWS fundamentals and cloud architecture (CLF-C02 or SAA-C03)
Build the AWS service and architecture knowledge that all three AI certification tracks assume. AI services on AWS sit on top of core infrastructure — IAM, S3, networking, and compute appear in every AI workflow.
- Amazon S3 — bucket design, prefixes, object storage for ML datasets, lifecycle policies, data lake patterns
- AWS IAM — roles, policies, least-privilege access for SageMaker and Bedrock, service-linked roles, cross-account access
- Amazon VPC — private subnets for ML infrastructure, VPC endpoints for SageMaker, security groups
- AWS Lambda — serverless compute for ML inference triggers, event-driven AI pipelines
- Amazon CloudWatch — logs and metrics for ML workloads, alarms, dashboards
- AWS networking basics — how SageMaker, Bedrock, and Lambda connect to S3, databases, and external services
Certifications
💡 CLF-C02 is the right starting credential for candidates without existing AWS experience. Candidates with general AWS experience should skip it and proceed to Step 2.
💡 SAA-C03 is a stronger foundation for the AIP-C01 track if you plan to pursue the full path, since production GenAI architectures require genuine AWS architectural knowledge. However it is not required before starting AI-specific preparation.
💡 Use ExamOS quizzes to confirm IAM and S3 understanding before moving into AI-specific services. Both appear throughout MLA-C01 and AIP-C01 exam scenarios as security and access control considerations.
Step 2 - AI and ML fundamentals (AIF-C01)
Build foundational understanding of AI, ML, and generative AI concepts mapped to AWS services. AIF-C01 is the first formal credential in the path and validates the conceptual foundation all subsequent technical work builds on.
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Step 2 - AI and ML fundamentals (AIF-C01)
Build foundational understanding of AI, ML, and generative AI concepts mapped to AWS services. AIF-C01 is the first formal credential in the path and validates the conceptual foundation all subsequent technical work builds on.
- AI versus ML versus deep learning — distinctions, when each applies, what AWS services belong to each category
- Supervised learning — classification, regression, labeled data requirements, evaluation metrics (accuracy, precision, recall, F1, AUC)
- Unsupervised learning — clustering, dimensionality reduction, anomaly detection and their business applications
- Reinforcement learning — reward functions, policy optimization, AWS DeepRacer as the most cited example
- The ML lifecycle — data collection, preparation, training, evaluation, deployment, monitoring
- Foundation models and generative AI — what makes a model foundational, text generation, image generation, multimodal models
- AWS AI services overview — Amazon Rekognition, Comprehend, Textract, Transcribe, Polly, Translate and when to use managed services versus custom models
- Amazon SageMaker overview — the unified ML platform, Studio, JumpStart, Canvas
- Amazon Bedrock overview — managed foundation model access, model providers, API patterns
- Responsible AI — bias, fairness, explainability, AWS tools (Clarify, Bedrock Guardrails)
- AI security and governance — data privacy in ML, model security, AWS security services for AI workloads
Certifications
💡 AIF-C01 does not require coding. It validates conceptual understanding and the ability to map business problems to appropriate AI/ML approaches and AWS services. This is the right level for candidates starting their AI journey or who work with AI in a business context without building models.
💡 85 questions, 90 minutes, 700/1000 passing score, $100 USD. No prerequisites. Up to 6 months of AI/ML exposure on AWS recommended.
💡 Use ExamOS quizzes to test AI concept understanding and service selection reasoning. The key skill AIF-C01 tests is not memorizing definitions but classifying use cases correctly — knowing whether a described problem is supervised classification, unsupervised clustering, or a GenAI use case.
Step 3 - MLA-C01 Domain 1 — Data Preparation for Machine Learning (28%)
Build the data engineering skills that underpin every ML workflow. Data Preparation is the largest MLA-C01 domain at 28% and the one most technical candidates underweight because it seems less exciting than model training.
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Step 3 - MLA-C01 Domain 1 — Data Preparation for Machine Learning (28%)
Build the data engineering skills that underpin every ML workflow. Data Preparation is the largest MLA-C01 domain at 28% and the one most technical candidates underweight because it seems less exciting than model training.
- Data ingestion — S3 as the primary data lake, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams for real-time ingestion, AWS Database Migration Service, AWS Glue crawlers
- AWS Glue — ETL jobs, Glue Studio visual interface, Glue Data Catalog, partitioning strategies for ML data
- Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler — data exploration, 300+ built-in transformations, bias detection during preparation, export to pipelines
- Feature engineering — encoding categorical variables, scaling numerical features, handling missing values, feature selection
- Amazon SageMaker Feature Store — online versus offline stores, feature group design, sharing features across teams
- Data quality and validation — SageMaker Data Quality Monitor, schema validation, data drift detection during ingestion
- Data labeling — Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth, labeling job types, active learning for efficient labeling
- Data splitting — train/validation/test splits, stratified sampling, time-series data splitting
- Data storage for ML — S3 data lake patterns, partitioning for efficient training data access, manifest files
💡 SageMaker Feature Store is specifically tested on MLA-C01. Know the difference between the online store (low-latency reads for real-time inference) and the offline store (batch access for training). Feature group design decisions — which features to group together, how to handle feature freshness — appear in exam scenarios.
💡 SageMaker Ground Truth labeling jobs have specific configuration options (automated labeling with active learning, workforce types including Amazon Mechanical Turk, private workforce, and vendor workforce). The exam tests when to use each workforce type based on data sensitivity and labeling complexity.
💡 Build a complete data pipeline using Glue and SageMaker Data Wrangler before your exam. The preparation scenarios the exam tests assume hands-on familiarity with how these tools actually work.
💡 Use ExamOS for data preparation scenario practice that tests service selection decisions for described data characteristics and pipeline requirements.
Step 4 - MLA-C01 Domain 2 — ML Model Development (26%)
Select and implement ML modeling approaches, train models, tune hyperparameters, and evaluate performance on AWS. The second largest MLA-C01 domain at 26%.
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Step 4 - MLA-C01 Domain 2 — ML Model Development (26%)
Select and implement ML modeling approaches, train models, tune hyperparameters, and evaluate performance on AWS. The second largest MLA-C01 domain at 26%.
- SageMaker built-in algorithms — XGBoost, Linear Learner, BlazingText, K-Means, PCA, Image Classification, Object Detection and when each is appropriate
- Algorithm selection — matching ML problem type (classification, regression, clustering, NLP, CV) to appropriate algorithm
- SageMaker training jobs — training instance selection, GPU versus CPU, spot instance training for cost optimization
- SageMaker Experiments — tracking training runs, comparing hyperparameters, organizing experiment results
- Hyperparameter tuning — SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning (AMT), Bayesian optimization versus random search, defining objective metrics
- Model evaluation — confusion matrices, ROC curves, regression metrics, how to interpret evaluation results for business decisions
- Model versioning — SageMaker Model Registry, model groups, approval workflows for production deployment
- Transfer learning on AWS — SageMaker JumpStart pre-trained models, fine-tuning with custom data
- Custom training containers — when to use custom Docker containers versus built-in algorithms
💡 SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning (hyperparameter optimization) appears in scenarios where candidates need to improve model performance without manual tuning. Know the difference between Bayesian optimization (uses previous results to guide next trial) and random search (trials are independent) and when AWS recommends each.
💡 Algorithm selection is tested at the scenario level. Know the characteristics that point to each algorithm type. XGBoost for tabular data classification/regression, K-Means for clustering without labels, BlazingText for text classification and word embeddings, Image Classification for labeled image datasets.
💡 Model Registry approval workflows matter for MLOps scenarios. Know how to configure model approval status (PendingManualApproval, Approved, Rejected) and how pipeline steps trigger based on approval status.
💡 Use ExamOS for model development scenario practice that tests algorithm selection decisions and hyperparameter tuning configuration for described ML problems.
Step 5 - MLA-C01 Domain 3 — Deployment and Orchestration of ML Workflows (22%)
Deploy ML models to production endpoints, automate ML workflows with pipelines, and implement CI/CD for ML systems.
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Step 5 - MLA-C01 Domain 3 — Deployment and Orchestration of ML Workflows (22%)
Deploy ML models to production endpoints, automate ML workflows with pipelines, and implement CI/CD for ML systems.
- SageMaker inference endpoints — real-time endpoints, serverless inference, asynchronous inference, batch transform and when each is appropriate
- Endpoint configuration — instance type selection, auto scaling for inference, multi-model endpoints for cost optimization
- Deployment strategies — blue/green deployments, canary releases, shadow deployments for safe model updates
- SageMaker Pipelines — pipeline steps (Processing, Training, Evaluation, Condition, RegisterModel, CreateModel), step dependencies, pipeline parameters
- AWS Step Functions for ML — when to use Step Functions versus SageMaker Pipelines, integrating non-SageMaker steps
- CI/CD for ML — CodePipeline triggering SageMaker Pipelines on code changes, automated model retraining workflows
- Container management — ECR for custom model containers, SageMaker container toolkit, multi-container endpoints
- SageMaker Projects — MLOps templates, Git integration, automated pipeline triggers
- Batch inference at scale — SageMaker Batch Transform configuration, output handling, cost optimization
💡 Inference endpoint type selection is one of the most consistently tested MLA-C01 topics. Real-time for low-latency synchronous requests, Serverless for infrequent requests with unpredictable traffic (eliminates cold instances), Asynchronous for large payloads or long processing times, Batch Transform for offline prediction on datasets.
💡 SageMaker Pipelines step types and their conditions are tested at a configuration level. Know what a Condition step does (branches pipeline execution based on evaluation results), what triggers a RegisterModel step, and how pipeline parameters are passed between steps.
💡 The difference between SageMaker Pipelines and AWS Step Functions for ML orchestration appears in scenarios. SageMaker Pipelines is native to the ML workflow with built-in ML step types. Step Functions is appropriate when the workflow includes non-ML steps or requires more complex branching logic.
💡 Use ExamOS for deployment scenario practice that tests endpoint type selection and pipeline configuration decisions.
Step 6 - MLA-C01 Domain 4 — ML Solution Monitoring, Maintenance, and Security (24%)
Monitor deployed ML models for performance degradation, maintain production systems, and secure ML infrastructure. The fourth domain at 24% is heavily weighted and frequently underweighted in preparation.
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Step 6 - MLA-C01 Domain 4 — ML Solution Monitoring, Maintenance, and Security (24%)
Monitor deployed ML models for performance degradation, maintain production systems, and secure ML infrastructure. The fourth domain at 24% is heavily weighted and frequently underweighted in preparation.
- SageMaker Model Monitor — data quality monitoring, model quality monitoring, bias drift monitoring, feature attribution drift monitoring
- Monitoring baselines — creating baselines from training data, configuring monitoring schedules, alert thresholds
- Data drift versus concept drift — what each means, how each is detected, and what the appropriate response is
- Model retraining triggers — automated retraining pipelines triggered by monitoring alerts, retraining strategies
- SageMaker Clarify — pre-training bias analysis, post-training bias analysis, explainability with SHAP values
- ML infrastructure security — VPC isolation for training and inference, SageMaker network configurations, PrivateLink for endpoint access
- IAM for ML — least-privilege roles for SageMaker notebooks, training jobs, endpoints, and pipelines
- Encryption for ML — data encryption at rest (KMS) and in transit (TLS), SageMaker notebook instance encryption
- SageMaker Lineage Tracking — tracking data, model, and experiment relationships for audit and reproducibility
- Cost optimization for production ML — spot instances for retraining, right-sizing inference endpoints, SageMaker Savings Plans
💡 MLA-C01 passing score is 720/1000. 85 questions, 170 minutes, approximately $150 USD. Recommended 1+ year SageMaker experience.
💡 SageMaker Model Monitor's four monitoring types (data quality, model quality, bias drift, feature attribution drift) are each tested in specific scenarios. Know what each monitors, what baseline it compares against, and what violation looks like.
💡 Data drift (input distribution changes) versus concept drift (relationship between inputs and outputs changes) is a conceptual distinction that appears in scenarios about why a model's performance is degrading even though accuracy on held-out test data looks fine.
💡 Clarify's bias detection capabilities appear in both pre-deployment (pre-training bias) and post-deployment (post-training bias and model explainability) contexts. Know the difference between group fairness metrics and what SHAP values represent at a conceptual level.
💡 Use ExamOS for monitoring scenario practice that tests model degradation detection decisions and appropriate response selection.
Step 7 - Amazon Bedrock and generative AI on AWS
Build generative AI applications using Amazon Bedrock — the managed foundation model service that is the primary platform for AWS generative AI development and the core of AIP-C01.
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Step 7 - Amazon Bedrock and generative AI on AWS
Build generative AI applications using Amazon Bedrock — the managed foundation model service that is the primary platform for AWS generative AI development and the core of AIP-C01.
- Amazon Bedrock fundamentals — model providers (Anthropic Claude, Meta Llama, Mistral, Cohere, Amazon Nova, Stability AI), API patterns, converse API
- Model selection on Bedrock — choosing between models based on capability, context window, cost, latency, and regional availability
- Bedrock Knowledge Bases — RAG implementation, S3 data source ingestion, chunking strategies, embedding model selection, OpenSearch Serverless as vector store
- Amazon OpenSearch Serverless — vector engine, k-NN indexes, approximate nearest neighbor search, hybrid search configuration
- Bedrock Agents — agent configuration, action groups, Lambda function integration, knowledge base grounding, return of control
- Bedrock Guardrails — content filters, topic denial, word filters, PII redaction, grounding checks, groundedness scores
- Bedrock model evaluation — automatic evaluation (accuracy, robustness, toxicity), human evaluation, custom metrics
- Prompt engineering on Bedrock — system prompts, few-shot examples, chain-of-thought, tool use patterns
- Amazon Q Developer — AI coding assistant, Q Developer customization with company codebases
- Amazon Q Business — enterprise AI assistant, data source connectors, access control for responses
💡 AIP-C01 is described as the hardest of the three AWS AI certifications, expecting candidates to design RAG pipelines, configure Bedrock Agents, implement guardrails, optimize for cost and latency, troubleshoot hallucinations, secure model endpoints, and make architectural decisions. 65 scored questions, 130 minutes, 750/1000 passing score, $300 USD.
💡 AIP-C01 is a Professional-level exam. The passing score of 750 (versus 720 for MLA-C01 and 700 for AIF-C01) reflects the higher difficulty. AWS recommends 2+ years of AWS experience and 1+ year of hands-on GenAI development before attempting it.
💡 The exam prefers managed services. If you find yourself choosing a custom SageMaker deployment over Bedrock for a described use case, reconsider. Bedrock is the answer to most GenAI application questions.
💡 Build a complete Bedrock Knowledge Base with OpenSearch Serverless before your exam. The configuration details — chunking strategy selection, embedding model selection, index schema — are tested at a level that only makes sense after hands-on experience.
💡 Use ExamOS for Bedrock scenario practice that tests Knowledge Base configuration decisions, Guardrail design, and Agent action group architecture.
Step 8 - Production GenAI architecture and AIP-C01 advanced topics
Design and implement production-ready generative AI systems with appropriate security, cost management, evaluation frameworks, and operational patterns.
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Step 8 - Production GenAI architecture and AIP-C01 advanced topics
Design and implement production-ready generative AI systems with appropriate security, cost management, evaluation frameworks, and operational patterns.
- Advanced RAG patterns — HyDE (hypothetical document embeddings), query expansion, contextual compression, parent-document retrieval, self-querying retrievers
- Bedrock multi-agent architecture — orchestrating multiple specialized agents, sub-agent collaboration, result aggregation
- Model customization on Bedrock — fine-tuning with custom data, continued pre-training, when customization outperforms prompting
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore — the managed environment for deploying and scaling Bedrock agents
- LLM evaluation at production scale — automated evaluation pipelines, regression testing, A/B testing between model versions
- Bedrock cost optimization — model routing (using cheaper models for simpler tasks), caching with Bedrock semantic caching, batch inference for offline use cases
- Latency optimization — streaming responses, model distillation, prompt compression, Bedrock on-demand versus provisioned throughput
- AI security on AWS — IAM for Bedrock access control, VPC endpoints for Bedrock private access, logging with CloudTrail, encryption with KMS
- Responsible AI in production — documenting AI impact, Guardrails for compliance, monitoring for bias drift in GenAI outputs
💡 Multi-agent architectures using Bedrock Agents are increasingly tested. Know how an orchestrator agent delegates to specialist sub-agents and how action groups with Lambda integration enable agents to take real-world actions.
💡 Model customization is a specific AIP-C01 topic area. Know when fine-tuning is appropriate versus when few-shot prompting or RAG is sufficient. Fine-tuning on Bedrock requires training data in specific formats, uses managed compute, and produces a custom model version that persists.
💡 Bedrock on-demand throughput versus provisioned throughput is a cost and performance trade-off the exam tests. On-demand is pay-per-token with no guarantees. Provisioned is reserved capacity with predictable performance for consistent high-volume workloads.
💡 Use ExamOS for advanced GenAI architecture scenarios that test multi-agent design decisions and production optimization trade-offs.
Step 9 - Data engineering for AI (DEA-C01)
Build the data engineering depth that makes AI systems more reliable, scalable, and governed. DEA-C01 is a complementary credential that directly strengthens both MLA-C01 and AIP-C01 capabilities.
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Step 9 - Data engineering for AI (DEA-C01)
Build the data engineering depth that makes AI systems more reliable, scalable, and governed. DEA-C01 is a complementary credential that directly strengthens both MLA-C01 and AIP-C01 capabilities.
- AWS Glue at depth — Glue ETL job types, Glue Studio, Glue DataBrew, Glue catalog governance, cross-account data sharing
- Amazon Kinesis — Data Streams (custom consumers, shard management) versus Data Firehose (managed delivery) versus Data Analytics (SQL on streaming data)
- Amazon EMR — Spark clusters for large-scale data processing, EMR Serverless for managed execution
- AWS Lake Formation — data lake governance, fine-grained access control, cross-account data sharing, data lineage
- Amazon Athena — serverless SQL on S3, query optimization, partitioning strategies, federated queries
- Data pipeline orchestration — AWS Glue workflows, Amazon MWAA (Managed Airflow), Step Functions for data pipelines
- Amazon Redshift — data warehouse for ML feature generation, Redshift ML for in-database model inference
- Data quality frameworks — AWS Glue Data Quality, deequ for data validation, Great Expectations integration
Certifications
💡 DEA-C01 is marked optional in the original roadmap but is highly recommended for AI engineers whose work involves building ML data pipelines at scale. The data engineering skills it validates — Glue, Kinesis, Lake Formation, Redshift — directly support the data preparation capabilities required for MLA-C01 and AIP-C01 production systems.
💡 Lake Formation governance is increasingly important for AI systems that need to enforce data access controls during model training and RAG retrieval. Know how Lake Formation column-level and row-level security works and how it applies to ML training datasets.
💡 Use ExamOS for data engineering scenario practice that tests pipeline design decisions for described data volume, velocity, and governance requirements.
Final step - Certification, validation, and choosing your track
The AWS AI certification landscape restructured significantly in 2026 with the retirement of MLS-C01 (March 31, 2026). The three current credentials — AIF-C01, MLA-C01, and AIP-C01 — target distinct roles that may not all be relevant to your specific career direction. AIF-C01 is the right foundation for everyone. MLA-C01 is the right specialization for ML engineers who deploy and operate SageMaker-based ML systems. AIP-C01 is the right specialization for generative AI developers building production Bedrock-powered applications. Most AI engineers will want both MLA-C01 and AIP-C01 over time, but the right sequencing depends on whether your current work is more ML engineering (MLA-C01 first) or generative AI application development (AIP-C01 first after AIF-C01). Before booking MLA-C01, ensure stable performance above 720 on timed ExamOS practice with specific strength in Data Preparation and Monitoring domains. Before booking AIP-C01, ensure you have genuine hands-on Bedrock experience — Knowledge Bases, Agents, and Guardrails — as this exam cannot be passed through documentation study alone.
Final step - Certification, validation, and choosing your track
The AWS AI certification landscape restructured significantly in 2026 with the retirement of MLS-C01 (March 31, 2026). The three current credentials — AIF-C01, MLA-C01, and AIP-C01 — target distinct roles that may not all be relevant to your specific career direction. AIF-C01 is the right foundation for everyone. MLA-C01 is the right specialization for ML engineers who deploy and operate SageMaker-based ML systems. AIP-C01 is the right specialization for generative AI developers building production Bedrock-powered applications. Most AI engineers will want both MLA-C01 and AIP-C01 over time, but the right sequencing depends on whether your current work is more ML engineering (MLA-C01 first) or generative AI application development (AIP-C01 first after AIF-C01). Before booking MLA-C01, ensure stable performance above 720 on timed ExamOS practice with specific strength in Data Preparation and Monitoring domains. Before booking AIP-C01, ensure you have genuine hands-on Bedrock experience — Knowledge Bases, Agents, and Guardrails — as this exam cannot be passed through documentation study alone.
Certifications
Realistic timeline
- 2 hours per day: approximately 7-10 months for the complete path including all three AI certifications
- 3-4 hours per day: approximately 5-6 months
- Candidates who already hold AIF-C01: approximately 5-7 months to both MLA-C01 and AIP-C01
- MLA-C01 alone: approximately 10-16 weeks after AIF-C01 with 1+ year SageMaker experience
- AIP-C01 alone: approximately 12-20 weeks after AIF-C01 with hands-on Bedrock development experience
- Steps 3-6 (MLA-C01 preparation) should receive preparation time proportional to domain weights — Data Preparation (28%) deserves the most time despite being the least glamorous domain
- Steps 7-8 (AIP-C01 preparation) require hands-on Bedrock time that cannot be substituted by reading — build real Knowledge Bases and Agents during preparation
- DEA-C01 (Step 9) is optional but strongly recommended for engineers whose role involves building data pipelines for ML training or RAG retrieval systems
- Consistency across daily sessions produces significantly better AI certification outcomes than periodic marathon sessions
Embark on your career roadmap by setting a target and staying accountable
Set target