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Foundation Model Integration, Data Management, and Compliance
31%of the exam
AWSProfessional
AWS CertifiedGenerative AI Developer - Professional
Showcases advanced technical expertise in building and deploying production-ready AI solutions on AWS, and validates the ability to integrate foundation models into applications and business workflows.
What this certification assesses
The five content domains of the published AIP-C01 exam guide, with the share of scored content each one carries. The guide follows the same order.
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Implementation and Integration
26%of the exam
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AI Safety, Security, and Governance
20%of the exam
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Operational Efficiency and Optimization for GenAI Applications
12%of the exam
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Testing, Validation, and Troubleshooting
11%of the exam
Section names and weights are the published exam blueprint's own. The blueprint itself, with every objective under these sections, is in Official references.
Exam overview
Everything AWS publishes about the assessment, read from the certification page and the AIP-C01 exam guide. Follow the sources for the authoritative version of any of it.
- Professional
- Level
- Active
- Status
- 75
- Questions
- 180 minutes
- Duration
- AIP-C01
- Exam code
Published detail
- Assessment
- Multiple-choice and multiple-response questions; pass/fail, reported on a 100–1,000 scaled score using a compensatory scoring model
- Questions
- 75 in total — 65 scored and 10 unscored
- Passing score
- 750 on the 100–1,000 scaled score
- Exam provider
- Pearson VUE
- Delivery
- Pearson VUE testing centre or online-proctored
- Languages
- English, Japanese, Korean, and Simplified Chinese
- Registration fee
- $300 USD. AWS publishes further cost information, including foreign-exchange rates, on its exam pricing page
- Validity
- 3 years
- Recertification
- Pass the latest version of the AWS Certified Generative AI Developer - Professional exam, which extends the credential by 3 years
- Prerequisites
- No specific AWS certification is required before preparing for this certification
- 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 generative-AI solutions
- Target candidate
- Individuals who perform a GenAI developer role
Based on AWS's AIP-C01 exam guide.
Who this certification is for
Our reading of who this certification is most relevant to. This framing is editorial — not something the vendor publishes.
- Senior developers
- Developers and AI/ML engineers building production generative-AI systems on AWS, which is where the exam places its implementation scope.
- Platform architects
- Architects designing AWS generative-AI application architecture. AWS names the target role a GenAI developer, but architecture decisions are explicit in the exam scope.
- Certification candidates
- Engineers preparing for AIP-C01.
These groups are editorial. The experience the vendor actually recommends for the exam is a published fact, and it is in Exam overview.
Official references
Primary sources for everything on this page. Follow them for the authoritative version of any certification fact.
- Certification overview (opens in a new tab)The official page for the credential: level, duration, question count, fee, languages, testing options, and scheduling.
- AIP-C01 exam guide (opens in a new tab)The published blueprint. Five content domains, their weights, the scored/unscored split, and the scoring model.
- Exam guide on the web (opens in a new tab)The same exam guide as navigable documentation rather than a PDF.
- Schedule an exam (opens in a new tab)AWS's own scheduling entry point, and what each testing option involves.
- Certification FAQ (opens in a new tab)Program-wide answers on registration, online proctoring, results, and credentials.
- Recertification (opens in a new tab)How the credential is renewed, and what renewing it extends.
- Certification mark policy (opens in a new tab)What AWS permits a certified individual to do with the certification mark and badge.
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Study guide
Study for the AWS Certified Generative AI Developer - Professional exam
The guide follows this blueprint section by section, one decision per bite. Read it in order to prepare, or open a single bite later as a reference.
- Guide version
- October 2026
- Cost
- Free, no account
- Progress
- Stays in your browser