You can see it againUnder pressure people bring back shapes and positions long after the wording has gone.
Picture superiority · Shepard 1967, Standing 1973
AWSAWS Certified Generative AI Developer - Professional
The AWS Certified Generative AI Developer - Professional certification validates your ability to design, implement, and deploy generative AI solutions on AWS. It is for developers and AI practitioners who build production-grade applications using foundation models, RAG, and agentic AI. Earning it demonstrates advanced, hands-on expertise in integrating FMs into real-world business workflows.
Exam formatMultiple choice and multiple response
DeliveryPearson VUE
Passing score750 out of 1000
Free questions230
Content last reviewed 7 August 2026 · Up to date
The certification
What AIP-C01 proves, and what it asks of you
What this certification covers, who it is written for, and what the exam itself looks like on the day.
2domains
9objectives
72concepts
US $300exam fee
What it is
What this certification is
What it validates, who it is written for, and the experience it assumes.
About this certification
The AWS Certified Generative AI Developer - Professional (AIP-C01) exam validates a candidate's ability to effectively integrate foundation models (FMs) into applications and business workflows. This certification demonstrates practical knowledge of how to implement GenAI solutions into production environments by using AWS technologies.
The exam covers the full lifecycle of a GenAI application: designing solutions with vector stores and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), integrating FMs into workflows, applying prompt engineering, implementing agentic AI, and optimizing for cost, performance, and business value. It also validates your ability to implement security, governance, and Responsible AI practices, and to troubleshoot, monitor, and evaluate GenAI applications.
Who it’s for
This certification is for individuals who perform a GenAI developer role and want to validate their advanced technical skills and experience in designing, implementing, and deploying AI solutions on AWS. The target candidate should have 2 or more years of experience building production-grade applications on AWS or with open-source technologies, general AI/ML or data engineering experience, and 1 year of hands-on experience implementing GenAI solutions.
Recommended experience
2+ years building production-grade applications on AWS or with open-source technologies, general AI/ML or data engineering experience, and 1 year of hands-on experience implementing GenAI solutions. Experience with AWS compute, storage, and networking services; Understanding of AWS security best practices and identity management; Experience with AWS deployment and infrastructure as code (IaC) tools; Familiarity with AWS monitoring and observability services; Understanding of AWS cost optimization principles
The syllabus
What you’ll learn
Every domain and objective AWS measures, with the weight they carry on the exam.
The official AWS exam outline · checked 7 August 2026 · See the source
Content Domain 1: Foundation Model Integration, Data Management, and Compliance
- Task 1.1: Analyze requirements and design GenAI solutions.
- Task 1.2: Select and configure FMs.
- Task 1.3: Implement data validation and processing pipelines for FM consumption.
- Task 1.4: Design and implement vector store solutions.
- Task 1.5: Design retrieval mechanisms for FM augmentation.
- Task 1.6: Implement prompt engineering strategies and governance for FM interactions.
Content Domain 2: Implementation and Integration
- Task 2.1: Implement agentic AI solutions and tool integrations.
- Task 2.2: Implement model deployment strategies.
- Task 2.3: Design and implement enterprise integration architectures.
On the day
The exam itself
Everything AWS publishes about sitting it, and nothing we inferred.
Prerequisites
No mandatory prerequisites — this certification has no required predecessor exam or credential.
Exam codeAIP-C01
CertificationAWS Certified Generative AI Developer - Professional
Exam formatMultiple choice and multiple response
Questions65 scored questions (plus 10 unscored)
Passing score750 out of 1000
DeliveryPearson VUE
LanguagesEnglish
PricingUS $300
Certification levelProfessional
After you pass
Where this credential goes next
The path AWS lays out, how the credential is kept, and where to book.
Step-by-step path to AWS Certified Generative AI Developer - Professional
Credential earnedAWS Certified Generative AI Developer - Professional Professional level certification Renewal and maintenance
AWS Certifications are valid for 3 years. Maintain your certification by retaking the exam or completing a recertification assessment. Stay current with the latest technologies and maintain your certification.
Learn more about renewal requirements Lifecycle status
This certification is currently active and available. AWS maintains this certification to validate current skills and industry relevance.
Exam status: ActiveMaintained by AWS
Exam registration
Register for the exam through Pearson VUE, AWS’s authorized testing partner.
Schedule your examVisit the official AWS certification page for exam policies and requirements.
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And when you are serious, your coach Pip takes over
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Questions people ask
Is the AIP-C01 exam available in languages other than English?
The exam guide is available in English. AWS offers some exams in Spanish (Latin America) and Spanish (Spain), but this exam is not listed among them.
Does the AIP-C01 exam include any hands-on or lab-based components?
The exam guide describes multiple choice and multiple response question types only. It does not mention a hands-on or lab-based component.
What job roles does the AWS Certified Generative AI Developer - Professional credential map to?
It is intended for individuals who perform a GenAI developer role, with hands-on experience implementing GenAI solutions.
Can I recertify by passing a different AWS exam?
AWS Certifications are valid for 3 years. You can maintain your certification by retaking the exam or completing a recertification assessment.
How do I schedule the AIP-C01 exam?
You can schedule your exam from your AWS Certification Account with Pearson VUE, choosing between online proctoring or a testing center.
What is the retake policy if I fail the AIP-C01 exam?
AWS Certification policies cover retaking an exam. You should review the official policies for details on waiting periods between attempts.
Information freshness · Content last reviewed on 2026-08-07 Up to date
Practice free questions 230 questions, free, no account needed.
The curriculum
The whole exam, mapped and written
Every domain, every objective, and every concept AWS measures — each one written out.
2domains
9objectives
72concepts
50free pages
The domains, and what sits inside them
Every objective below is a page you can open and practise now, without an account.
The official AWS exam outline · checked 7 August 2026 · See the source
1Content Domain 1: Foundation Model Integration, Data Management, and Compliance133 questions
Task 1.1: Analyze requirements and design GenAI solutions.11 concepts · 8 pagesOpen →Task 1.2: Select and configure FMs.5 concepts · 4 pagesOpen →Task 1.3: Implement data validation and processing pipelines for FM consumption.4 concepts · 5 pagesOpen →Task 1.4: Design and implement vector store solutions.6 concepts · 3 pagesOpen →Task 1.5: Design retrieval mechanisms for FM augmentation.7 concepts · 6 pagesOpen →Task 1.6: Implement prompt engineering strategies and governance for FM interactions.6 concepts · 4 pagesOpen →
2Content Domain 2: Implementation and Integration97 questions
Not a table of contents
Every line on this map already opens
In front of every objective the practice pages are already there, free and without an account. This is one objective, opened.
Task 1.1: Analyze requirements and design GenAI solutions.8 pagesOpen →
Free in front of it
36 questions on this objective, five to a page. Every range above is a real page, open now, with no account.
Reading the map is not the same as knowing the ground
The curriculum tells you what is on the exam. Proving you know it is a different job — and it is the one the closed-book run does.
Free questions
230 questions. No account, no card.
The whole bank is open. 5 questions to a page, every answer explained, and a discussion thread on each one.
230questions
50pages
9objectives
Freealways
Browse by domain
Every objective, and every page range, is a link — so you can pick up exactly where you left off.
1Content Domain 1: Foundation Model Integration, Data Management, and Compliance133 questions
2Content Domain 2: Implementation and Integration97 questions
What a practice page gives you
1Five to a page
Short enough to finish, long enough to matter.
2Every answer explained
Not only which one is right — why the others are wrong.
3A discussion on each
Ask, answer, and vote. Every question has its own thread.
A question, and the idea behind it
Every question comes from a concept
These are not trivia. Each one is written against a concept in the book, so when you get one wrong there is somewhere to go and find out why.
The visual book
See it once. Carry it into the exam.
The pages shown here come from our AI-900 book — an example of how each concept is written in plain language and, where the idea needs one, drawn as a full page you can take in at a glance.
72concepts
230free questions
Why a picture, and not another paragraph
Three reasons, and each one is a real finding rather than a slogan.
You can see it againThe whole idea at onceWhere it starts, what happens in the middle, what comes out, and the mistake to avoid.
Multimedia principle · MayerThe look-alikes sit togetherThe pairs the exam tests are drawn side by side, so the difference is seen, not told.
Dual coding · PaivioWhat one page is made of
You are never asked to read a poster here — only to see how one is built. After that, every other page is legible at a glance.
1A numbered strip on top
The idea as a sequence, followed with a finger before a word is read.
2Panels for the parts
What it is, how the machine learns it, when it is the right tool.
3The trap, framed
The distinction the exam tests, given its own box instead of buried in prose.
4One line at the bottom
The sentence to carry into the exam room.
Open book, on purpose
Answer it with the picture beside you
This is the part that teaches. The illustration and the written explanation stay where they are while you work, so a scenario stops being a memory test and becomes something you can simply look at.
It teaches · it does not count
A smartphone uses AI to unlock when the owner looks at the camera. Which AI capability is being used?
AImage classification
BFacial recognition
COptical character recognition
DObject detection
Look at the five steps. Detect finds a face, align straightens it, encode turns it into numbers, search compares it with a stored face, and decide answers one question: is this the same person? Classification would only say “a face”. Detection would only draw a box. Neither decides whose.
Then the page shuts, and it starts counting
The same questions come back with the book closed — that run is the one that counts. After it, your coach picks one thing for tonight, sized to the time you have, and brings pages back before you lose them.
Testing effect · Roediger & Karpicke 2006 · spacing effect · Cepeda et al. 2006
Official resources
Straight from AWS
Where the exam is defined, scheduled and scored.
5official links
72concepts mapped
The source
AWS’s own pages
We link to them rather than repeat them, so nothing here goes stale behind them.
Checked against the source
Every objective on the official AWS outline already has questions here
We build from the official skills outline, not from a summary of it — 9 objectives, 72 concepts written under them, and free questions against every one. When AWS changes the outline, this page changes with it.
9objectives on the outline→72concepts written→230free questions
An official page tells you what will be asked. It cannot tell you what you will get right.
That is the only question worth answering the night before, and no link answers it. You answer it by taking the questions with the book closed, and seeing what comes back.