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AWS Certified Generative AI Developer - Professional

Questions
75
Minutes
180
Exam fee
$300
Passing score
750

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Short answer

AIP-C01 is the exam for the AWS Certified Generative AI Developer - Professional certification, for developers who integrate foundation models into applications on AWS. The exam has 75 questions in 180 minutes, costs $300 and takes 750 of 1,000 to pass.

Sources: exam page, exam guide

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Edition 1.0, October 2026

How many questions and how long?

The AIP-C01 exam has 75 questions in 180 minutes. Question types: Multiple choice (one correct response and three distractors) and multiple response (two or more correct responses out of five or more options; all must be selected). Unanswered questions are scored as incorrect; there is no penalty for guessing.

Source: AWS exam page

The exam

Questions
75
Time
180 minutes
Languages
English, Japanese, Korean, and Simplified Chinese

What does it cost?

The AIP-C01 exam costs $300.

Exam fee $300

Source: AWS exam page

What score do you need to pass?

The AIP-C01 passing score is 750, on a scale of 100-1,000.

Source: AWS exam guide

What does the exam cover?

The AIP-C01 exam covers five domains, weighted 31% / 26% / 20% / 12% / 11%.

Source: AWS exam guide

  • D131%

    Foundation Model Integration, Data Management, and Compliance

  • D226%

    Implementation and Integration

  • D320%

    AI Safety, Security, and Governance

  • D412%

    Operational Efficiency and Optimization

  • D511%

    Testing, Validation, and Troubleshooting

31% / largest

Foundation Model Integration, Data Management, and Compliance

  1. 1.1Analyze requirements and design solutions
  2. 1.2Select and configure FMs
  3. 1.3Data validation and processing pipelines
  4. 1.4Vector store solutions
  5. 1.5Retrieval mechanisms
  6. 1.6Prompt engineering and governance
Domain 1 on AWS
26% of the exam

Implementation and Integration

  1. 2.1Agentic AI and tool integrations
  2. 2.2Model deployment strategies
  3. 2.3Enterprise integration architectures
  4. 2.4FM API integrations
  5. 2.5Application integration patterns and developer tools
Domain 2 on AWS
20% of the exam

AI Safety, Security, and Governance

  1. 3.1Input and output safety controls
  2. 3.2Data security and privacy
  3. 3.3Governance and compliance
  4. 3.4Responsible AI principles
Domain 3 on AWS
12% of the exam

Operational Efficiency and Optimization

  1. 4.1Cost optimization
  2. 4.2Application performance
  3. 4.3Monitoring systems
Domain 4 on AWS
11% of the exam

Testing, Validation, and Troubleshooting

  1. 5.1Evaluation systems
  2. 5.2Troubleshooting
Domain 5 on AWS

Inside the study bundle

Study guide chapters

Eleven chapters. Chapters 3 to 8 cover the five exam domains, weighted like the exam.

  1. 01 What the exam is p. 3
  2. 02 The Bedrock and AWS generative AI landscape p. 8Foundation
  3. 03 Foundation models: selection, invocation, resilience, customization p. 13Domain 1 / 31%
  4. 04 Retrieval, vector stores and prompt governance p. 22Domain 1 / 31%
  5. 05 Agents, deployment and enterprise integration p. 31Domain 2 / 26%
  6. 06 Safety, security and governance p. 40Domain 3 / 20%
  7. 07 Cost, performance and monitoring p. 47Domain 4 / 12%
  8. 08 Evaluation and troubleshooting p. 53Domain 5 / 11%
  9. 09 Final review p. 57
  10. 10 Sources p. 65
  11. 11 Edition and updates p. 67

Look inside the study guide

Three pages of the Edition 1.0 study guide: the contents and the first two pages of a chapter.

Page 2 of the study guide, the contents, with each chapter, its page and its domain weight
Study guide, page 2: Contents
Page 13 of the study guide, the first page of Chapter 3, Foundation models: selection, invocation, resilience, customization, with the chapter's introduction
Study guide, page 13: Chapter 3, Foundation models: selection, invocation, resilience, customization
Page 14 of the study guide, the second page of Chapter 3, Foundation models: selection, invocation, resilience, customization
Study guide, page 14: Chapter 3, continued

What is free here, and what is in the bundle?

The exam facts and 5 sample questions are free on this site. The study guide chapters and the two practice exams are in the bundle.

Item Free on this site In the bundle
Exam facts and change log Yes, with links to the AWS sources Chapter 1 of the study guide sums up the exam's format and scoring.
5 sample questions Yes No. None of the 5 appear in the practice exams.
Domain chapters and final review No Yes, in the study guide
Two practice exams with answer keys No Yes, 150 questions with an explanation for every answer

Questions before you buy

Is this official?

No, the AIP-C01 bundle is not official. Overqual is independent and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by AWS.

Does it include real exam questions?

No, the AIP-C01 bundle contains no exam questions, and every practice question is original.

How is the AIP-C01 bundle different from AWS's free materials?

AWS's free pages set out what the AIP-C01 exam covers. The AIP-C01 bundle adds a 67-page study guide that covers every exam domain, and two practice exams with 150 original questions, every answer explained. When AWS revises the exam, a new edition follows if the changes warrant it, included while your access lasts.

How do I get updates?

Updates to the AIP-C01 bundle arrive as new editions. Every bundle includes 6 months of access: download the PDFs, and any new editions, until 6 months after your purchase date. Download each new edition at overqual.com/download with the license key from your receipt email. The change log on the exam facts page says what changed.

Can I get a refund?

No. Sales of the AIP-C01 bundle are final, because downloaded PDFs cannot be returned. Read the free exam facts and try the 5 free sample questions first. If a download fails or you paid twice by mistake, contact Overqual to have the download fixed or the second payment refunded.

Does AIP-C01 replace the AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty exam?

No. AWS retired AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty with a last exam date of Mar 31, 2026, and lists the AWS Certified Generative AI Developer - Professional among the certifications its holders can move to (AWS Training and Certification blog, October 2025). The two exams test different work: the AIP-C01 exam guide puts model development and training out of scope and tests integrating foundation models into applications.

Does the AIP-C01 exam include hands-on labs?

The AIP-C01 exam guide lists two question types, multiple choice and multiple response, and no lab items (exam guide). The exam has 75 questions: 65 scored and 10 unscored, and the unscored questions are not identified. The skill statements name specific service features, so hands-on practice with those features still helps.

Can I still take the AIP-C01 beta exam?

No. The last day to take the AIP-C01 beta was Mar 31, 2026 (AWS Training and Certification blog, March 2026). The standard exam is open for registration: 75 questions in 180 minutes for $300 (certification page), refreshed to reflect service changes including Amazon Bedrock AgentCore.

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Which AWS services are in scope?

Amazon Bedrock and its managed features are at the center of the AIP-C01 outline. Around it, the skill statements name the compute, integration, data, security and operations services a production application uses. The in-scope list in the AWS exam guide is marked non-exhaustive and subject to change.

Source: AWS in-scope services page

Amazon Bedrock

  • Amazon Bedrock (streaming APIs, cross-Region inference, prompt caching, batch inference, Provisioned Throughput)
  • Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases
  • Amazon Bedrock Guardrails
  • Amazon Bedrock Prompt Management
  • Amazon Bedrock Prompt Flows
  • Amazon Bedrock Model Evaluations
  • Amazon Bedrock Data Automation
  • Amazon Titan embeddings

Guardrails, Data Automation and Model Evaluations are named in the skill statements; the in-scope list names Amazon Bedrock, Knowledge Bases, Prompt Management, Prompt Flows and AgentCore as entries.

Agents, orchestration and integration

  • Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
  • Strands Agents
  • AWS Agent Squad
  • Model Context Protocol (MCP)
  • AWS Step Functions
  • AWS Lambda
  • Amazon API Gateway
  • Amazon EventBridge
  • Amazon SQS
  • AWS AppConfig

Strands Agents, AWS Agent Squad and MCP appear in the skill statements, not in the in-scope service list.

Data, retrieval and ML

  • Amazon OpenSearch Service
  • Amazon Aurora (pgvector)
  • Amazon S3
  • Amazon DynamoDB
  • Amazon SageMaker AI (Model Registry, JumpStart, Processing, Data Wrangler, Clarify)
  • AWS Glue (Data Quality, Data Catalog)
  • Amazon Comprehend
  • Amazon Textract
  • Amazon Transcribe

Security, governance and operations

  • IAM
  • AWS KMS
  • Amazon VPC and AWS PrivateLink
  • Amazon Macie
  • AWS CloudTrail
  • Amazon CloudWatch and CloudWatch Logs
  • AWS X-Ray
  • AWS Cost Explorer
  • AWS Cost Anomaly Detection
  • AWS Well-Architected Tool

AWS Budgets, AWS Cost and Usage Report and AWS Savings Plans are on the out-of-scope list; AWS Direct Connect, AWS Transit Gateway and AWS VPN are too.

How is it delivered?

The AIP-C01 exam is proctored, at a Pearson VUE test center or online.

Delivery
Proctored, at a Pearson VUE test center or online
Languages
English, Japanese, Korean, and Simplified Chinese
Prerequisites
None
Validity
3 years
Retakes
14 calendar days after a failed attempt; no limit on attempts; the full fee applies to each attempt

Source: AWS exam page

What are the key dates?

The dates AWS has published for AIP-C01.

Nov 18, 2025
Beta registration opened
Mar 31, 2026
Beta closed

Source: AWS exam page

Fact sheet

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Questions
75 Source: AWS exam page
Time
180 minutes Source: AWS exam page
Fee
$300 Source: AWS exam page
Passing score
750 Source: AWS exam guide
Score range
100-1,000 Source: AWS exam guide
Question types
Multiple choice (one correct response and three distractors) and multiple response (two or more correct responses out of five or more options; all must be selected). Unanswered questions are scored as incorrect; there is no penalty for guessing. Source: AWS exam guide
Languages
English, Japanese, Korean, and Simplified Chinese Source: AWS exam page
Delivery
Proctored, at a Pearson VUE test center or online Source: AWS exam page
Validity
3 years Source: AWS page
Prerequisites
None Source: AWS exam page
Retakes
14 calendar days after a failed attempt; no limit on attempts; the full fee applies to each attempt Source: AWS page
Domain weights
D1 31% / D2 26% / D3 20% / D4 12% / D5 11% Source: AWS exam guide
Scored questions
65 Source: AWS exam guide
Unscored questions
10 Source: AWS exam guide
Scoring model
Compensatory; pass or fail; no per-section minimum Source: AWS exam guide
Outline structure
5 content domains, 20 tasks, 98 skills Source: AWS exam guide
Target candidate
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 Source: AWS exam guide
Out-of-scope job tasks
Model development and training; advanced ML techniques; data engineering and feature engineering Source: AWS exam guide
Lab items
None listed: the exam guide names only multiple-choice and multiple-response question types Source: AWS exam guide
Service names on the exam
Official short names (for example Amazon SNS); the exam's Help feature lists the short and full names Source: AWS page
Language accommodation
30-minute extension on request for non-native English speakers taking the exam in English Source: AWS page
Rescheduling
Up to 24 hours before the appointment, at most twice per appointment; a no-show forfeits the fee Source: AWS page
Results
Within 5 business days in the AWS Certification Account; most AWS exams do not display a pass/fail result at the end of the test Source: AWS page
Standard exam refresh
The standard version was refreshed to reflect changes in AWS services, including the addition of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Source: AWS page
Related retirement
AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty: last exam date Mar 31, 2026 Source: AWS page

What has changed, and when?

Changes to the exam and to the products it covers, newest first.

  1. The beta exam closed. AWS page
  2. AWS opened registration for the standard exam, refreshed to reflect changes in AWS services such as Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. AWS page
  3. Beta registration opened, for an 85-question, 205-minute beta with an Early Adopter badge for the first 5,000 candidates to pass. AWS page
  4. AWS announced the AWS Certified Generative AI Developer - Professional certification. AWS page

To watch AWS directly, check the exam page.

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