AWS AI Practitioner Exam Explained (2026): AIF-C01 Format, Passing Score, Cost & 10 Questions
Chapters
- The Short Answer
- What the Exam Is
- Format and Question Types
- Scoring and Results
- Cost, Retakes, and Renewal
- What Changed in 2026
- The Five Domains
- Services to Know
- How to Study
- Practice Questions, Part One
- Practice Questions, Part Two
- Recap
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The AWS Certified AI Practitioner exam (AIF-C01), explained from AWS's official certification page and exam guide as of October 2026. The exam: 65 questions (50 scored + 15 unscored, not identified) in 90 minutes; four question types (multiple choice, multiple response, ordering, matching); no penalty for guessing; scaled score 100-1,000 with 700 to pass, compensatory scoring (pass overall, not per domain); US$100; at a Pearson VUE test center or online proctored. AWS publishes no pass rate. Results within five business days; retakes after 14 calendar days at the full fee; valid 3 years (renew by passing the latest version, or by earning AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer - Associate); certified holders get a 50% discount voucher. What changed in 2026: the code is still AIF-C01 and we found no new exam version announced, but exam guide version 1.1 (April 30, 2026) adds agentic AI, the Model Context Protocol, context engineering, token-based pricing, Amazon Bedrock Prompt Management and hallucination grounding, and brings Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Strands Agents, Kiro and Amazon Q into scope. AWS said the German and Italian versions retire after October 15, 2026. The five domains: Applications of Foundation Models 28%, Fundamentals of GenAI 24%, Fundamentals of AI and ML 20%, Guidelines for Responsible AI 14%, Security, Compliance and Governance for AI Solutions 14%. Then the services to know and 10 original practice questions with answers (clustering, recall, temperature, Bedrock token pricing, RAG with Knowledge Bases, few-shot prompting vs fine-tuning, ROUGE, Bedrock Guardrails, SageMaker Model Cards, the shared responsibility model). The study plan and per-domain question counts are our own estimates. Independent guide, not affiliated with Amazon Web Services.
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Chapters
0:00 The Short Answer
0:50 What the Exam Is
1:49 Format and Question Types
2:43 Scoring and Results
3:23 Cost, Retakes, and Renewal
4:01 What Changed in 2026
4:59 The Five Domains
5:57 Services to Know
6:46 How to Study
7:28 Practice Questions, Part One
9:27 Practice Questions, Part Two
11:32 Recap
Exam facts are from the official AWS Certification pages as of 2026-10-23. Fees and rules can change, so confirm on the official site before you enroll. Open Exam Hub is an independent study resource, not affiliated with Amazon Web Services (AWS). Practice questions are not from a real exam. Narration is an AI-generated voice.
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