Mastering AWS Certified AI Practitioner AIF-C01 - Hands On! (Udemy.com)
Includes practice test + exercises! AWS AIF-C01 Certification Prep Course. Bedrock, SageMaker, AI Fundamentals, and more
Created by: Sundog Education by Frank Kane
Last updated September 2026
What you will learn
- What to Expect on the AWS Certified AI Practitioner AIF-C01 Exam
- Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, and Machine Learning fundamentals
- Machine Learning design principles
- Use cases for AI, Generative AI (GenAI) and Machine Learning
- Building Machine Learning systems and MLOps with SageMaker
- Building Generative AI systems with Amazon Bedrock
- Amazon Q Business and Q Developer
- Model training and fine-tuning techniques with AWS
- Evaluating and measuring your machine learning models
- Responsible AI, security, and governance
Course Description
NEW! UPDATED FOR V 1.1 OF THE EXAM - this certification was substantially modified in April of 2026. Our course has new content on AgentCore, Strands Agents, Agentic workflow patterns, and Bedrock Prompt Management in response - as well as an all-new practice test built against the new exam guide. Make sure your other prep resources are for the current exam, not the old one!
Get certified by Amazon for your knowledge of artificial intelligence and machine learning! It's hard to imagine a certification that would carry more weight in today's era of generative AI.
The AWS Certified AI Practitioner (AIF-C01) exam isn't just for developers - it's aimed at a wide variety of roles in the technology space. Whether you're a PM, manager, sales or marketing professional, or developer - the concepts behind artificial intelligence, GenAI, and machine learning (ML) aren't as hard as you think. This course starts with the basics, explaining things in plain English and with simple examples. No coding required!
We will go deep for those who want it, though. Hands-on activities will give you practice in building a custom chatbot using Amazon Bedrock and Knowledge Bases, building Guardrails for AI safety, and building a fully-fledged LLM agent armed with tools to extend an AI application - all just using the AWS console on the web. And demo videos walk you through training and using machine learning models using Amazon SageMaker.
You'll be fully prepared for the exam with an included full-length 65-question practice test, a 20-question warm-up exam, and 80 quiz questions in the style of AWS exams. You'll also get a PDF copy of the course slides and a PDF study guide to further help you prepare for the exam.
Unlike other AWS certifications, there is a big business focus on this one. In addition to how the tech works, we'll also review best practices for the entire AI and machine learning lifecycle, the dimensions of "responsible AI," and best practices for security and governance with AI.
Some topics we'll cover include:
Fundamental concepts and terminologies of AI, ML, and Generative AI
How deep learning and large language models (LLM's) work
Evaluating and measuring AI models
Machine learning design principles
Machine learning operations (MLOps)
Use cases of AI, ML, and GenAI
Prompt engineering
Building machine learning pipelines with SageMaker
Common machine learning algorithms
Building generative AI applications with Amazon Bedrock
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
LLM Agents with Strands and AgentCore
Amazon Quick
High-level AWS AI and machine learning services
Model training and fine-tuning techniques
Responsible AI
AI Governance and Security
Although this is a course about AI, it is not AI-generated! You'll learn from a real human instructor who passed the real exam, with real human experience in building AI applications in a professional setting.
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Instructor
Hey, I'm Frank Kane. I have successfully passed the AIF-C01 exam myself, and have ensured this course contains everything you need to know. I spent nine years working for Amazon from the inside as a senior engineer and senior manager, and I'm best known for my top-selling courses in "big data", data analytics, machine learning, AI, Apache Spark, system design, and Elasticsearch. I've been awarded 26 issued patents in the field of machine learning.
I've been teaching on Udemy since 2015, where I've reached over one million students all around the world!
I've worked hard to keep this course up to date with the latest developments in AWS's machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies, and to make sure you're prepared for the latest version of this exam. Let's dive in and get you ready!
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This course also comes with:
Lifetime access to all future updates
9+ hours of video training
Course slides and study guide in PDF form
80 quiz questions to assess your readiness
A responsive instructor in the Q&A Section
Udemy Certificate of Completion Ready for Download
A 30 Day "No Questions Asked" Money Back Guarantee!
Join us in this course if you want to pass the AWS Certified AI Practitioner exam and master the world of AI and machine learning on the AWS platform!
Instructor Details
- 4.6 Rating
1,095 Reviews
Sundog Education by Frank Kane
Sundog Education's mission is to make highly valuable career skills in data engineering, data science, generative AI, AWS, and machine learning accessible to everyone in the world. Our consortium of expert instructors shares our knowledge in these emerging fields with you, at prices anyone can afford.
As a senior manager at Amazon during its early years, Frank Kane led large technical teams, managed multi-year projects, and served as a "bar-raiser" - interviewing thousands and hiring hundreds across the company.
Frank holds 26 issued patents in machine learning and personalization. After 9 years at Amazon and IMDb, he founded Sundog Education and has since taught over 1.1 million people in AI, ML, AWS, system design, and tech leadership. Frank has been teaching full-time for over 10 years - but is always building projects on the side with the latest emerging technologies, to better explain them to you!
Our teaching style is to simplify complex concepts - once you cut through all the notation and jargon, most of AI and machine learning is pretty easy to understand. We make these advanced topics accessible to anyone with a modest technical background, always using plain English and examples to drive it home. We make learning easy, hands-on, and fun.
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Reviews
By Mohammad Atef AbdelNaby Abdullah Elkaffa on 8/30/2026
One of the best courses preparing for AIP out there on udemy with a greatly balanced practice test. I mainly bought to check the Agentic AI material recently added in version 1.1 and it really helped me. I watched the Generative AI , FM and Agentic AI section which lasted around 3.5 hours, then did the practice test. Moreover, the practice test has been a clear reflective of the true Domains' proportion in a real exam and also including questions on the newly added 1.1 parts. Thanks a lot, Frank.
By Evan T on 2/3/2026
I had previously taken another AIF-C01 course and, unfortunately, did not grasp the content and did not pass my first attempt at the exam. I decided to start over with Frank's course, and everything clicked! He instructs in such a way that makes the concepts feel grounded and easy to understand. I'm proud to say I passed my second attempt with ease thanks to this course!
By Randal T. Cole on 1/30/2026
Evaluating this course for company use. I found the lectures clear and comprehensive. Instructor portrays deep knowledge of key concepts in the context of AWS services, and does a great job of connecting the piece parts.
By John Hayes on 12/20/2025
------------------------------------ Edit: just passed this test (thanks to practice tests from elsewhere and AWS study resources), decided to come back and change my rating from 3.5 to 2.5, allow me to explain: I think the most important factor in how valuable a course is, is instructor's motivation. For example, this makes a world of difference: (1) "I want to help students grasp these new confusing concepts." (2) "I want people to see how clever I am and to hear me talk cleverly for as long as possible." ------------------------------------ The perfect pronunciation and diction are impressive, congratulations. Even more impressive is the ability to convey basically static noise, using perfect English. You are not talking to your AI-hyping peers, stop sprinkling in wacked-out ML terms at 100 mph and slow way down. I am only 1/3 done, and will update my rating at the end, but this is absolutely miserable to try to follow along. If anyone is curious about ML and NNs, pick up "Build Your Own Neural Network" by Mr. Tariq Rashid. He does not condescend or assume you already know any of this, like this guy does, and instead guides you to build a simple NN to recognize handwriting.
By Marvin Tiu on 10/20/2025
Overall, I’d give this course a strong recommendation - it delivers excellent value for its price, provides current‐relevant material for the AIF‑C01 exam, and comes from a credible instructor. My only caveat is: don’t expect it to completely eliminate all preparation; treat it as a major pillar in your study plan, but supplement with practice exams, real‑world AWS usage, and review of the official exam guide.
By Sudip Das on 10/15/2025
Frank covers the generic concepts like ML fundamentals, application and measurements very well. While he will often hint about relevance of a content to the exam, he does not take a mere question-focused approach - which is helpful to have a good conceptual understanding and enables to answer question intuitively. Before sitting for the certification, I also tried couple practice exams from another in order to evaluate and did very well on all fundamental/generic domains. I highly recommend this course when someone wants to have a persistent knowledge in addition to passing the exam. Yes, do also try 65 question practice exam either from aws skill builder or from another instructor here.
By Jacqueline Lo on 9/16/2025
Better than Stephane's course if you want to learn the concepts instead of just pass the exam. This instructor does a better job of explaining things, so you are not just memorising keywords without much understanding. The study guide is a nice, concise cheatsheet.
By Tamás Petróczi on 3/25/2025
I like his style and the attention to details though he went way more into details on these topics than expected for the exam: * ML algorithms * Sagemaker * Neural Network history (LTU, MLP, RNN and FFNN inside-outs) Disclamer: I passed the exam and this course was a cornerstone in that.
By Osahon Elaiho on 2/23/2025
This is one of Frank Kane's best courses to date. He expertly breaks down AI and LLM concepts into a practical, quick-to-market strategy using these tools. I'm currently applying what I've learned for a demo, and the insights have been invaluable. Frank, your ability to simplify complex technologies is truly remarkable. I always look forward to your new courses. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
By Brkati Dzo on 10/7/2024
Passed the certification today, with the help of this course. Would recommend it! But guys you also need to do tests, this course will give you a great understanding of services, how to use them, and fundamental knowledge but you need practice, and stop blaming the course if you fail
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