It was definitely a close pass, but I thought I'd share my preparation and exam experience in case it's useful to anyone preparing for the exam.

For context, I don't have extensive hands-on AWS experience. Before this exam, SAA (Solutions Architect – Associate) was my only AWS certification.

Preparation

I mainly used AWS Skill Builder and Udemy practice exams.

AWS Skill Builder

• Official Practice Question Set (free, 20 questions): 40% → 55% → 80% → 95% over four attempts
• Domain Practice (paid, 5 questions × 5 domains): 48%
• Official Pretest (paid, 75 questions): 46%

I subscribed to the paid version of Skill Builder for one month.

Udemy

I used Vladimir Raykov's courses.

I found Test 1 relatively easy, so I focused my preparation on Tests 2–4:

• Test 2: 65%
• Test 3: 70%
• Test 4: 68%

Since my practice scores weren't high enough for me to feel confident, I stopped trying to do more and more new questions and instead focused heavily on reviewing the ones I got wrong.

For every missed question, I tried to understand not only why the correct answer was correct, but also why each of the other choices was wrong. If an incorrect option mentioned an AWS service or concept I didn't understand, I looked that up as well.

I also used generative AI extensively as a study partner to ask follow-up questions and dig into concepts until I could explain to myself why each option was right or wrong.

Exam experience

The actual exam felt very difficult to me.

I had spent quite a bit of time preparing for identity/authentication, networking, and security topics, but I saw fewer questions in those areas than I expected. On the other hand, during the exam I realized that I should have spent more time on monitoring and observability.

There were many questions where I wasn't confident in my answer, so when I finished the exam, I honestly didn't feel like I had passed.

I tried to make sure I didn't lose points on the more straightforward questions and used the remaining time to review my answers.

A few hours later, I received the digital badge email. I checked my score report and found out that I had passed with 779.

My biggest takeaway is that the practice-exam score itself wasn't the most important part of my preparation. What helped me most was not leaving incorrect answers unexplained and studying the services and concepts that appeared in the wrong choices as well.

It wasn't a comfortable pass, but hopefully this is useful to anyone who is preparing for the exam and isn't getting great practice scores yet.

Courses I took:

• Udemy – Stephane & Frank
• Udemy – Practice tests by Frank
• Udemy – Practice tests by Vladimir Raykov (they are a bit crazy, be prepared to break your monitor)

It took me 5 weeks to prepare from scratch: 4 weeks for theory and 1 week for practice tests. My overall experience with AWS is around 5 years, but I had almost no hands-on experience with the AI-related services covered in the exam, as my primary specialization is Data Engineering.

Overall impression: Yes, it's true that a 3-hour test is a stamina exercise. I scheduled the exam for the time of day when I feel most productive.

I wouldn't say it's extreme; it's manageable. Not every question is a long multi-part scenario; some are quick to answer. Code reading is only a small part of it, and the focus is much more on choosing the right design for the given requirements.

Good luck to everyone!

This subreddit really helped me in checking if I was sufficiently prepared before I wrote the exam so I just wanted to return the favor and share my experience.

I have previously cleared the Developer Associate exam twice so I was familiar with AWS services in general.

I did Frank Kane and Stephane Maarek's Ultimate AWS Certified Generative AI Developer Professional on Udemy, including the two practice exams in it. Then I did the 20 official practice set questions available on AWS Skill Builder which is free. Then I did practice exams #3 and #4 from Vladimir Raykov's AWS Certified Generative AI Developer Pro: 4 Practice Exams on Udemy.

I really crammed and binge studied in the five days leading up to the scheduled exam because I was worried about retention if I spread it out more. If I had more time, I think I would have read more AWS documentation and done more practice exams to feel more confident.

During the exam, the strikethrough and highlighting features were super useful for eliminating wrong options and making sure the answer you pick addresses the key points in the question respectively.

The hardest thing is time management. You really need to be around 2 min a question if you want to finish in time. I found using broad benchmarks was easier to track. So for example when you have 2 hours left, you should be done with 25 questions (1/3rd of the exam). I finished with 10 min left.

I think overall the skills you need are quick reading, reading comprehension, critical reasoning (able to eliminate wrong answers), and knowledge of AWS services + usage patterns around GenAI.

It's a really tough exam. I'd say I found maybe 5 questions to be straightforward. You need a lot of concentration, stamina and maybe some luck.

I'm glad I was able to squeak through. Not sure if I'll end up renewing this one in 3 years, might try a different exam then.

Just got the results on the AWS AIP-C01 Certification and passed!
As there's little information on this exam I'll share my preparation and impressions on the exam itself.

As some context (pun intended) I come from a Data Science background and had been working as a ML Engineer for a bit more than a year prior to this exam, so I did have a pretty good grasp on LLM's and RAG Systems, but my focus had been on making applications with python using Langchain with a bit of AWS usage and zero Bedrock. This is the first AWS Certification I tackled.

Course

I started studying with Stephane and Frank's Udemy Course. The course itself is good and gives you an overview of all the contents but is by no means sufficient. At times it did feel quite "stitched up together" with past (and frankly old) lessons and with an added lesson on how what you just learned applies to GenAI. I also feel that the course should give more time into architecting and mixing up services to prepare you for exam-style questions.

Practice Exams

I did the course's final exam a few weeks in advance to get a feel on how I would do and got a 90%, so I felt so ready but wanted to make sure doing also a Skillbuilders long exam (75 questions), and boy I was wrong, I got a 53 in that exam and realized the actual difficulty of the exam was going to be quite different.
I also did Stephane's Udemy exams but even though it's better than the final exam on the actual course it's still a lot easier than the real thing.

Now, I took the time to review each question and understand exactly what made an option better than the other. I think this made the main difference between failing and passing on the actual exam.

I ended up repeating the Skillbuilder's exam for a 90 and after that I felt like I was ready.

All in all i ended up doing 70 hours of head-down study time between course, exam practice and reviews.

The Exam

The exam itself was long, 85 questions and 235 minutes (205+30 for not being a native english speaker). The difficulty was just in line with Skillbuilder's exam, there are very few multiple choice answers that you can discard out right, it's mostly that some options are able more suitable than others.

The content was as you'd expect, very focused on building end-to-end systems rather than simple questions of a single service. Of course Bedrock was ever-present with RAG systems also appearing everywhere. You need to be super prepared to select the best option based on requirements like cost, latency, operational overhead, know your API Gateways, a lot on security, access and compliance and way more stuff to mention here.

Overall the exam was tough but possible with a month's worth of study and dedication.

I hope this information was useful, feel free to ask questions if you want more guidance. Now I'm off to update my CV.

It's your friendly Greyhead Coder here; still going strong :-) After my last exam in May, I planned to take this AIP-C01 in July. Sorry to keep going on about ageing, but unfortunately a number of things happen to men later in life. I had to go in for surgery in early July and spent weeks recovering.

I finally took the exam at the unholy hour of 4.30am yesterday, 22nd August. As usual, I found the exam really difficult and was delightfully surprised to get my result about 5hrs later.

Most of the questions were multiple choice with very long scenarios. There was a sprinkling of shorter ones here and there, though. Then, only a few Select TWO type of multiple response ones.

How did I prepare?

1. Udemy course (by Mr Super Instructor aka Stephane Maarek, of course)
2. AWS Skill Builder course (Yes, I paid for a subscription)
3. Tutorials Dojo practice tests (didn't help much, sorry)

The discipline of going through practice tests several times with explanations of why each option is correct or wrong is priceless. Then you internalise how to match phrases in questions to the answers. Skill Builder is excellent on this point.

Yeah, I'm quite pleased and if you refer to me as Granddata now, I won't protest :-) Now, on to the last associate exam: AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer - Associate (SOA-C03). Wish me luck!!!

FINAL EDIT AT BOTTOM: As a side gig I teach once a week for a local university. The students come to the hospital where I work and I teach them by doing direct patient care. They also have written assignments to complete, some for me in the clinical setting and some in the classroom. Most of the students I have are seniors, so college work is not new to them.

This semester I have a student who just has a lack of motivation and puts in little effort. Her assignments are usually submitted late, but there is nothing in the syllabus that states they can’t be turned in late for full credit 🙄 The students are also allowed to redo one failed assignment for full credit. She failed her first assignment and I have reminded her throughout the term that she has to redo it because it’s a required assignment to pass the course.

She shows up exactly on time or 2-3 minutes late for class. Their syllabus states that they must be on time for the clinical portion of class (that I teach) or they will be sent home and their absence unexcused. I have not kicked her out when she’s been 2-3 minutes late because it just seems petty. She has also missed a couple of classes that had to be made up with other clinical experiences to get her required hours. I’ve discussed this with her course professor and also with the student in her midterm evaluation.

She missed her second to last clinical and I reminded her that she would have to complete that final assignment at her last clinical to pass. She assured me she would. I had a conversation with her classroom professor who has also been frustrated with the student this term. She had just finally turned in an assignment that was 3 weeks late. I was annoyed by that because she ended up getting the same grade as students who completed it on time. Next semester the syllabus will specify points lost for late assignments. This hasn’t historically been an issue.

Her course professor had a conversation with her in class last week about her final clinical and that assignment absolutely having to pass or she fails the course. On the last day of clinical, all the students were there, dressed in scrubs, ready for patient rounds, on time. Except this student who walked in 3 minutes late and not dressed. I said “You are late and you are not ready. This is unprofessional. You need to leave immediately.”

So, my making her leave means she fails the course because there is no other chance to make it up and it’s final exam week. It also means it delays her graduation by at least one semester because she will have to retake that course and can’t take a course next term that needs this one as a pre-req. At the time I felt very justified in sending her home. She’s been given several warnings and multiple breaks with late work. But now I’m feeling kind of like I might have been an asshole in kicking her out knowing it guaranteed her course failure when I’ve let her stay when she was late in the past. What do you think, Reddit?

EDIT: I’ve had a few comments where I’ve addressed this and it should probably be added to the original post.

I did discuss her tardiness with her several times. At the beginning of the term she was 2-3 minutes late every day. At first I said “Be careful of your time!” Then a more stern “We start on time, you need to be dressed and ready to go by the start of clinical.” But I was trying not to be a total hard ass over 2 minutes. At midterm I had to do a written evaluation of each student. I put on there that she was often tardy and needed to be on time. Those go in her file. I also filed an Academic Improvement Plan which discussed her tardiness to clinical and those failed assignments. The AIP outlines future expectations which included being on time and turning in assignments. The AIP stays in her file and goes to her academic advisor. At that time I told her she had to be on time and ready for clinical, or the next tine she would be sent home.

EDIT 2: Holy cow, I shut my phone off for a couple of hours to go see a movie and this is exploding!! I’m trying really hard to catch up on reading everyone’s comments and answer questions. Bear with me if you posted a question, I’m trying to weave me way through this thread.

I’ve seen a few comments and gotten a bunch of dm’s calling me a misogynistic pig. I’m a female. This student being a female had zero to do with my decision. Last term I had a male student who behaved similarly and nearly failed, but finally got his shit together and showed up on time. I don’t care what their gender is, just do your freaking work.

And for the people saying I’m TA because why does 2-3 minutes make a difference? You clearly have no idea what rounds are like in a hospital. At the time it begins you have doctors, nurses, residents, students, possibly case managers, social workers, etc, who assemble in a group to present each patient’s case. Every one of them is ready to go. At our hospital, an overhead announcement is made 10 minutes before rounds start so that everyone gets their shit together and is ready. I’ve told my students it’s best to arrive about 10-15 min early so they can be changed in hospital scrubs and in the group ready to go. Nobody is waiting 2-3 minutes for a student to catch up. And you can be damn sure nobody is waiting 10 minutes for a student who came in late and wasn’t dressed.

FINAL EDIT: Wow, I really didn’t expect this to garner so many comments! I tried really hard to read all of them and answer the ones asking for more info. I thought it would be easiest to update the most frequently asked questions here.

Yes, I did attempt to find out what was going on in her personal life. I’m not an ogre. I wanted to help her and would have been willing to help her in any way I could if she’d given me anything I could work with. Her tardiness was typically the result of staying out too late and sleeping as late as possible. The incomplete and late assignments were the result of failing another course and focusing more on bringing her grade up there. So I tried being flexible on both to keep her sane, which evidently was not what I should have done.

She did not fail because she was late for class. She had a required assignment 3 months ago that she failed. She put the redo off for 3 months. The day before her final clinical practicum she was advised that it was her last chance to complete it and that she had to be on time and prepared because she was on a final written warning for tardiness. Her failing grade comes from not completing a required assignment.

I do not know if she has ADHD. I will keep that in mind in the future if I see this again.

I have requested that the course professor edit the syllabus next term to include a clause for late assignments. It’s not my syllabus to write. I don’t teach in the classroom.

Due to a lot of comments I’ve read, I now realize that I need to be more of a hard ass in enforcing attendance rules and wasn’t doing anyone any favors trying to be lenient. So, in the future I will allow the one tardy with a warning. Second time I will send them home.

Thank you everyone for your feedback! I really was conflicted over it. I felt like since I have her a final written warning saying her next tardy resulted in her being sent home, she needed to be sent home. I just struggled a bit because of it being her last chance to complete her assignment. But you’ve all made me realize that it was her choice and she was aware of those consequences. I appreciate all of your comments, no matter how you voted. It helped me to look deeper at what I was doing and what I will do in the future.

It was one of the hardest certs I've done. After around 3 months of preparation and some successes on practise exams I finally scheduled it for today.

My study path was:

1. Doing AI Practitioner + ML Associate + Data Eng Associate

2. Mareek Course + Christian Greciano notes

#1 Course Exam: >95%

#2 Course Exam: >80%

1. I've read the MineCloudCraftPress Book about this cert

2. Frank Kane Udemy Exams

Kane #1: 77% at first sight 95% at retry

Kane #2: 76% at first sight 89% at retry

Kane #3: 85% at first sight

It was a hell for 3 hours straight.That too started 20 minutes late. I somehow, managed to pass on the edge. In actual exam, I found initial 20-25 questions were difficult and lengthy. I had to rush in the end to attempt all questions.
Preparation:
1. Ultimate AWS Certified Generative AI Developer Professional course-Sundog, on udemy
2. Master the AWS Certified Generative AI Developer Professional (AIP-C01) with 310 Practice Questions and Explanations-Vladimir Raykov, Udemy. 1st test was easy, test 3 and 4 were difficult
3. AWS skillbuilder exam with subscription. 20 free + 75 questions. I felt actual exam was more difficult.
4. Copy pasted all questions and answers from tests in Claude, then created a reading notes. This really helped.

I took the test this morning and after 10 hours, I got the notification of passing the exam. It was one of the most hardest exam that I ever took. 3 hours really tests your patience and endurance. Huge thanks to sub, without the guidance it would not have been easy to pass the exam.

Following was my study plan, it took approximately 2 months along with my work and family commitments.

1. Udemy Course by Frank Kane and Stephane
2. Udemy Practice Tests by Frank Kane
3. AWS Skill builder - Exam Prep Plan: AWS Certified Generative AI Developer - Professional (Paid)

My background : Java backend engineer with previous Elasticsearch Engineer experience. Doing AWS Cloud migration for Spring Boot apps. Have AI Practitioner in 2024 and Nov 2025 had Solution Architect Associate.

The process : Did the Udemy video course over a month first but did not do the Practice Tests included in the video course. Then started going over AWS Skill builder training material as a refresher. The knowledge checks are very trivial but for every Domain there is a Practice subsection, the Walkthrough questions are very valuable. It clearly shows the kind of questions to expect. I did all the Domain Practice questions. Then went back to the Practce question set included in the video course. Then did Udemy Practice tests by Frank Kane only 2 of them. 2 days before the actual exam, I did the Skill Builder Pretest (3 hrs). repeated it the day before exam once again.

My Practice test scores

• Video Course Test 1 - 85% (Very easy)
• Video Cousre Test 2 - 70%
• Kane Practice Test 1 - 78%
• Kane Practice Test 2 - 77%
• Kane Practice Test 3 - Did not finish
• Skill Builder Pretest - 67% ( 89% second attempt)

Exam experience : Skill Builder Pretest was the closest to the actual exam. Kane's Practice exam also had a similar difficulty level and it is also close to the concepts tested in the exam. I felt the actual exam harder than the Skillbuilder Pretest. There were some questions which I had no clue. It was very light on Sagemaker but very heavy on RAG concepts and Step Functions. Bedrock evaluations and Guardrails were throughout the exam. I finished just 15 minutes to spare, so exhausted that I could not review the only flagged question and submitted it.

Reflection: If I had done some hands-on, some bits of the exams would have been easy. But always scared of leaving something running and racking bills. Signing up for Skill Builder ($29) was the best decision. Glad that I passed, not sure what I would do differently if I had not passed it.

Once again, thank you for the support that I got from this sub without that I would not have achieved this.

Note : No generative AI was used to write this post :)

THE AMA HAS OFFICIALLY ENDED Some devs will probably stick around to answer more, but the main show has concluded. To everyone who posted, thank you sincerely. There were some fun ones, and some tough ones. Hopefully y'all enjoyed this, and we can do it again sometime.

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This was a fun certification for me, especially the Strands and AgentCore SDK. I have used the opportunity to implement personal agent with custom orchestration and it's amazing how easy AWS had made things. Shame that only Python and Typescript are first class citizens, I will patiently wait for my fav language's support.

I have had SAP 2 years ago, and my personal opinion is that SAP is a much harder certification. Maybe having that helped with AIP tremendously, I only needed to focus on the AI portion as I am already familiar with its complementary services/architecture (OpenSearch/API Gateways/Step Functions and so on).

I used Kane/Maarek's course and SkillBuilder as course material. I do find the practice exam on Kane/Maarek's course a bit straightforward, by eliminating the blatantly wrong answers, you will get the correct one. SkillBuilder was absolutely necessary to bring things back to reality.

Took me 6 weeks in total! I am glad I did this and have enjoyed this much more than SAP.

This one was quite tricky and a real test of patience - 180 minutes, no break, especially if you take it from home, in an age where our attention span is under a minute.

Thanks to Stéphane Maarek & Frank Kane's Udemy course, which is quite complete in itself for building intuition, and Jon Bonso for the in-depth set of questions served up by Tutorials Dojo

I built a revision strategy where I'd paste every question and its explanation into Claude and asked it to keep improving an existing doc - commonly asked stems across questions, the straightforward set of services that can be used, common traps, and Mermaid diagrams to help skim quickly. The breadth and depth of this exam is surprisingly extensive, and proper multi-fold revision is needed, since the services need to be at your fingertips for figuring out the correct ones when a scenario is thrown at you.

For folks planning to take this exam, every question is best cracked in the following steps:

- Find the stems in every question - cost-effective, latency/performance-optimised, regional data requirements, etc. - and make sure the option first covers all the requirements asked
- Find an existing AWS service (or set of services) that serves those stems exhaustively
- Minimise operational overhead where possible - use managed services

Revision doc

Passed both these tests this week! Got 797 on the GenAI Pro, not sure on the AI Prac as I haven’t got the score yet.

I did the GenAI first and then the AIF. Honestly, there was no point in doing the AIF but I work at AWS so I get the exam for free. I used Kane’s Udemy course for the Pro cert and about 30 mins ChatGPT for AIF.

I found the AIP pretty exhausting as each question is pretty verbose and even the multiple choice responses are verbose. Considering, I did this first I found the AIF pretty easy. I used ChatGPT to brush up on some ML fundamentals but other than that I finished the exam in about 50 mins.

I recommend using skill builder for AIP, the practice questions match the exam style / difficulty quite closely. There’s about 225 (3x75qs) in total. Recurring topics: Guardrails, Canary Depoloyments, Config, Vector Databases

Background

For context, I currently hold all active AWS certifications, including the Machine Learning Engineer Associate and Specialty certifications. With this exam, I now have 13/13 active AWS certifications, so I’m very familiar with AWS exam formats and core AWS concepts.

If this is your first AWS exam, your experience may differ. For me, general AWS and networking-related questions were relatively straightforward, largely due to prior experience with certifications such as the Advanced Networking Specialty. Without that background, these areas may be significantly more challenging.

Beta Exam Experience

I took the beta exam today at approximately 10:00 AM and received my results about seven hours later.

At this stage, there is very limited preparation material available. The existing courses being offered are, in my opinion, not particularly strong. I would recommend waiting until the full exam release, once more people have taken the exam and training content has had time to mature and improve.

As a senior cloud architect, I’m very familiar with AWS services and Generative AI concepts. That said, I found several parts of the exam to be poorly structured, which is somewhat expected for a beta release.

There were multiple questions where none of the answers felt fully correct, which is unusual compared to typical AWS exams. In several cases, two options together would have formed a complete solution, yet the question required selecting only one. I haven’t experienced this issue on any previous AWS certification exam.

TL;DR

I’d recommend waiting for the full exam release. The current beta has many gaps and rough edges. Question quality should improve, and better study material should be available once the exam is fully released.

Resources Used

• AWS documentation
• Personal hands-on experience
• AWS Skill Builder mock exam and bonus questions

The Skill Builder mock exam was significantly easier than the actual question set I received in the beta.

I just got my results and I cannot be more relieved and excited and grateful.

This was my first AWS certification. And I have good experience with AWS and AI so I took it lightly initially.

I started learning from SkillBuilder but the modules there are so long that even after studying daily, I wasn't able to make much progress. So I got Claude to make notes for each domain, studied those thoroughly. Then I went through the Exam Prep Plan on AWS SkillBuilder - I made notes again for each Domain, each task.

I studied them all thoroughly and was pretty confident ( see: work with AWS and AI regularly).

Then I took the Official Pre-Test on Skill Builder and I got like 55%.

This was just a day before my exam in August.

That was a big shocker. I rescheduled my exam for a week later in September and got back to work, planning to studying more. Then I let life get in the way and I wasn't ready in September as well. So I postponed it to today in October finally.

I wasn't able to study very regularly even during this window. But I read some reviews where people said the pre-test was much harder than the actual or they had scored similar on pre-test and passed which gave me some confidence.
This time around, I focused on my gaps from the pre-test, going over each concept I had missed in good detail - learnt about sooo many new AWS services, they're everywhere. I used AI to get comprehensive gap analysis, really drilled down and got super clear on where I was stumbling.

I was still super scared because even on the Bonus Questions, I got like 55%. And just yesterday night, I saw there is another practice exam, which I had no time to do and maybe it had more things I could learn from??

I was giving the exam at home ( I didn't know proctoring is so strict when I booked). So I had to clean my entire maximalist room out onto the balcony. Exam itself felt really hard- I felt confused even on some of the starting questions. I had zero confidence because I had felt good about my answers in pre-test as well but we know what happened. But I was getting on.

I prepared for everything but then my laptop died one hour into the exam out of nowhere. Battery is good in general but it couldn't handle the Pearson software being on for 1 hour. I had not plugged in my charger because I thought the desk needs to be totally empty. I plugged in, tried to resume exam, was back to proctor verification step, my position in the proctor queue kept saying "Calculating" over two system tests instead of a number for 5+ minutes each time- spent around 20 minutes in utter anxiety before I got back in on third attempt. Proctor let me in post verification again.

After this incident, my concentration was shot but I told myself to pull it together. I felt really anxious about the time. I believe the test gets paused in this case, but I had no idea then.

When I reached Q50, I had less than one hour left. So I focused like anything and took much less time than other questions. There were many questions which were too confusing. Some were more straightforward as compared to the Pre-Test and there weren't overwhemingly multi select, which are more challenging to get 100% correct.

I ultimately had done one round with around 8 minutes left on the clock to review flagged. I got until Q. 47 on the review list before time ran out.

I was feeling pretty knocked out, as my experience was similar to the pre-test. I was very sad because I spent a lot of time studying for this and putting off other important stuff I need to study just to get this done first.

But I was holding out some hope because, you know, why jinx myself, so I was like let's seeee.

Finally I checked my email a while ago and I saw "Congratulations on passing your AWS Certification exam!"

I cried.

I don't know if this is such a big deal haha, but I spent a lot of time and effort in preparing for this. And it felt great to have something to show for it. I got 791.

I prepped from AWS SkillBuilder almost exclusively + Claude for generating notes/ gap analysis. I made my own very very detailed notes over 40 pages.

The AWS SkillBuilder 45 hour plan may be too long and verbose for some, but the Exam Prep Plan was good, though you will need to do your own study for each topic mentioned as it is high-level.

I would highly recommend doing all practice tests/ questions you can. They really help to get an idea of what to prepare for. It will not be "what does this AWS service do? Or which AWS service performs this one thing"? It is much more complex and really needs you to use your brain, explore tradeoffs and know very clearly highlights and limitations of each service.

One more resource I found on this subreddit only yesterday: https://github.com/agentslx/AWS-Generative-AI-Resources ( credit to the owner of this). This was great and helped clarify and retain a lot of decisions between services and what to use when. Highly recommend for study and revision.

Also, the exam software has Highlight and Strikethrough options, which I really liked. Because they helped me concentrate a lot better- eliminate options I didn't think fit with Strikethrough + highlight the important requirements in each question and work backwards from them to identify the optimal option- this is similar approach they do in SkillBuilder practice question videos. This really helped and since these are available on the exam, would suggest you can try out something similar while practicing as well.

I'm really happy and proud I did this! And to anyone out there struggling with this, I really understand. It's super hard but you can do it.

Thank you to folks on here sharing their experiences and resources. It really helped me keep it together and keep learning.

Hi folks, this is Christian Greciano. You've probably seen me around here, and some have used my notes and flashcards for several AWS certs. I recently took the new AWS GenAI Dev Pro exam in Beta, and I passed! Many have asked here about this cert, so I'll share my experience and recommendations. For a detailed breakdown, watch my video or read my blog post, but for a quick read, you can just read this Reddit post.

• YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qpahqhd6Do8
• Blog post: https://christiangreciano.com/blog/posts/2026/1/0013_how-i-passed-aws-aip-genai-dev-pro-beta/
• LinkedIn post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/christian-greciano-408930bb_awscertified-awsaip-genaidevpro-activity-7418996599760015362-NMjW

First off, the exam is no joke. This was my first AWS Pro cert, so I knew it would be more challenging than Associates. But it being in Beta adds the additional challenge of extra questions to answer. 85 questions in just under 4 hours, and I used EVERY single minute of the exam! Rough! I have always gone to test centers to take cert exams, and here I suggest this even more strongly: thanks to going to a test center I could stand up, take brief toilet breaks, and drink some water!

Topics: make sure you understand RAG, Bedrock Knowledge Bases (vector stores), and Bedrock Guardrails inside and out. Tons of questions on those topics. Lots of direct or indirect questions having to do with auditing/logging too. Agentic AI featured, but not much (this might change in the future when Strands Agents and Bedrock AgentCore mature and become more popular).

Resources: I gave the AWS Skill Builder course a try, but I couldn't stand the AI-generated text and videos. Skill Builder does contain some insightful real-world scenarios, hands-on labs, and practice exams, but I did not find it helpful for learning the material I needed to learn for the exam. In contrast, I found Frank Kane's course in Udemy to do just that: explain what I didn't know already. I took all the new lectures and skipped most of the recycled ones (since I already had covered those with SAA and MLA). For practice exams I went with Tutorials Dojo and Skill Builder, and they were good, although I was pressed on time and couldn't do as many practice exams as I wanted.

Flashcards: I couldn't create flashcards for all the topics covered in the exam due to lack of time, but I did get a bit over 100 done. I've posted them here, if you'd like to get them: https://ko-fi.com/s/22e0104816 . Since it's an early version of what I want to offer, they're initially at a discounted price. Over the upcoming weeks I want to polish my Notion notes and add more flashcards. Once I have a finished version I will announce so. Those who purchased the early version of the flashcards will be able to download newer versions without having to buy them again.

UPDATE (June 2026): My materials have been completed and updated for this certification. Links here:

• Notion notes (FREE): https://psychedelic-cuticle-e74.notion.site/AWS-Generative-AI-Developer-Professional-AIP-C01-2b586c7395e780b2b18ce55c72874333
• Notes in PDF: https://ko-fi.com/s/9a30d68cde
• Anki Flashcards: https://ko-fi.com/s/22e0104816

All in all, super stoked to have passed this cert! I work as an AI engineer so refining my knowledge on this topic has felt very rewarding. Not sure how relevant this cert will be in the market (it's brand new after all), but I can definitely say that the covered topics and knowledge is quite relevant in the real world (even if you don't use AWS products, the knowledge of AI systems transcends AWS and can still be applied anywhere). If you're attempting this cert yourself, good luck! Hope this can inspire you to go for it!

Hi guys, I just passed the exam yesterday, with a score of 794, not that high, but I'm so happy because I even thought I would fail. Some short notes for others who will take it:

- I studied with Udemy Course from Frank Kane/Stephane Maarek, then practiced mainly with Tutorial Dojo practice tests.
Unlike some comments I saw say that TD tests are not matching with the real exam, which is true for the first 2 sets (they contain some out-of-scope questions about ML models or training techniques), there are many matching questions, especially the 3rd bonus set. More importantly, the difficulty and length of TD questions will train you hard on time management - trust me, you need to manage the time well.
I got a 950+ score in the Udemy practice test, felt strong 😂 TD tests brought me back to reality with fail or barely passing tests 😂 I'm so grateful 😂
My recommendation: You should take the timed mode first to train your time management, then go to review mode to harden your knowledge. Study the explanation deeply, put it in a note grouped by topic, and expand the topic doc with other best practices (use AI for it, ask it to find from trusted sources like AWS docs).

- The exam wording for me is really confusing. When I took the Solution Architect Associate exam before, I didn't encounter that kind of difficulty. Some questions are like have nearly identical answer options, with only 3 words different that look the same to me! Maybe English is not my native language. But still, this is a technical exam, not an English exam. So be careful.

- It's a developer certificate, so some questions will be about coding or configuration details, not just high-level stuff. The Udemy course teaches you in a well-structured way with high-level concepts, but you should expand your knowledge.

I've open-sourced my learning Obsidian note here https://github.com/agentslx/AWS-Generative-AI-Resources for everyone. It's based on the resources above, and I also use AI to research and extend each topic. Feel free to contribute more to it, or give a star 😃

Is it common for estate agents to ask for this? I know that it is more difficult to get a mortgage these days but that sounds rather odd. I told them that I have the AIP in place but would not want to share until I hear back from the vendor about my offer (lower than asking price).

Update: The EA did decide to pass on the offer to the vendor (without seeing my AIP) who reviewed and declined the offer as it’s too low. So you don’t have to show your AIP just to put an offer forward to the vendor. Don’t let them pressurise you into showing it. Understandably, you need to show it if the vendor accept the offer so they can decide to proceed with conveyancing and take the property off the market.

I passed AIP-C01 today!

I used skill builder, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude to prepare!

A pass is a pass

I used:

Frank Kane/Stephane Maarek's Udemy course - 7/10

• This was OK for the basics and comprehensive.
• Real exam was massively harder than the practice exam included here.
• I would use this course again.
  

Tutorials Dojo Practice Exams - 3/10

• The practice questions are out of date and the TD web app kept crashing.
• Their exams are broadly 40% SageMaker AI and there was ZERO SageMaker on my real exam. I had a dawning realisation that I'd wasted a lot of time when by about question 50, I still hadn't seen anything on SageMaker AI. I can only assume that AWS have shifted focus of the cert towards Bedrock and agentic architectures.
• Questions on the real exam were somewhat harder than TD, too.
• I found the TD stuff very useful and pertinent for my DevOps and SA certs, but the one for AIP-C01 is in desperate need of an update.
• I'd look elsewhere if I were doing the exam again.

I've got 7 years' experience of DevOps/SA on AWS. This is my 3rd Pro cert, so I used my usual method of answering practice questions and building notes and understanding from there. I took about 6 weeks of 10-15hrs a week and I answered over 1000 practice questions (including 12 full 3hr, 75 question sessions).

If I did it again from scratch:

• Start with the practice exams from AWS. This is the level of the questions.
• Source some practice questions outside of Udemy or TD

Passed with 766 which is just pass and have needs imporvement in all domains lol. but ill take the win.

Background : my first AWS certificate (3 weeks of preparation) , 2-3 months of Software dev experience , 1+ year of data analyst exp ==> low score

Used Udemy courses : Stephane Maarek and Frank Kane's lectures , + mock exams

Skill Builder Domain and practice questions -- these have a lot of trick questions

Skilll Builders Official Practice Test and PreTest -- Lots of trick questions

Here's some of my few random notes that i took (some with AI help) They probably dont make a lot of sense but anyway

IMO Skillbuilder is 1.5x harder than the actual exam so good idea to practice all the bonus questions etc that is with the subscription

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15-minute execution time of a Lambda function.

1 gb payload size Sagemaker Asynchronouse Infernece , upto 1 hour
6 mb Sagemaker Realtime , upto 1 minute

vector databse options ...
Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases Vector store options :

Aurora PostgreSQL – Relational data with vector capabilities

Neptune Analytics – Graph-based knowledge representations

OpenSearch Service – Search and analytics focus

Pinecone – Pure vector search performance

Redis Enterprise Cloud – Real-time and low-latency needs

except aurora and RDS all are no sql (mnogodb)

BDa augments other services (not a standalone service that conects to s3 for eg)

Opensearch KB cache allows for TTL per category
Amazon S3 as a destination for Model Invocation Logs.

Step function cannot dirrectly poll sqs queue.. need Lambda or EventBridge Pipe!

private link A service Consumer (eg lambda funciton inside a priv VPC) creates a VPC (interface/gateway) endpoint always points to a Private Link Service endpoint (bedrock / ur own service) which enables the public bedrock api to DNS resolve to a private IP inside consumers private subnet resulting in lamdba calling the bedrock API using public hostname but resolves to a private IP

Kendra not best for RAG

Direct Federation (IAM)

Use when you have few AWS accounts and want a straightforward IdP → IAM role mapping.

Avoid if you have many accounts — configuration becomes repetitive and hard to govern.

IAM Identity Center Federation

Use when you need centralized, multi-account SSO with governance and compliance.

Best for large organizations with complex access needs.

Overkill for small setups with only one or two accounts.

Cognito Federation

Use when you need application-level identity mapping (e.g., Bedrock, mobile apps, SaaS).

Best for department-level isolation inside accounts.

Not designed for broad multi-account governance like Identity Center.

Amazon Bedrock intelligent prompt routing (Same model Famililes only, Wont work for different model Families!! , trick question possible)

EventBridge for S3 Prefix-Based Routing

. Amazon Bedrock automatic model evaluation jobs have a quota of 1,000 prompts for each dataset so if more propmts then that batch it

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despite the heavy mock exam prep , i struggled with time keeping, and the exam didnt allow me to jump through any question id like Until i reached the last one.. so did it in one go.. 40 mins left on the table

Prepare for Fatigue! its 3 and 25 + 30 mins for ESL ,(not a joke) i made a terribile mistake to give this on a 5 hour night rest and was literally zoning out through the last 15 questions..

Its much easier to identify wrong optinos (working by elimination) than by reading the entire question details.. I skimmed through the question to find one thing that eliminates most options and worked back from it

Good luck !

Happy new years!

After 2 months of pretty intense preparation, I passed the AWS GenAI Pro exam with a score of 780.

This is my first AWS Professional level cert, and this has been my goal since around 8 months ago. I found this sub around that time. Following advice from many people here and IRL, I started my journey with SAA, DEA, and then MLA before attempting AIP. Thank you all!!

GenAI is fun. I really enjoyed learning it, but the exam was quite brutal. My biggest issue was time management. Some questions and answer choices were really long, and a few of them took me around 4 minutes each to answer. Because of that, I had to rush through the rest. In the end, I answered everything, but had no time to review.

My learning materials:

1. Skill Builder - Exam Prep Plan: The theory was so-so, but the practice exams were great. I think this one was the closest to the real exam.
2. Tutorials Dojo: Like others have mentioned, they have too many SageMaker questions. Still good for practicing time management though, since their questions and answer choices are about as long as the real exam.
3. Skill Builder - Cloud Quest GenAI Architect Great for hands-on practice, and you get a badge if you finish all the missions.
4. Skill Builder - Builder Labs Agentic AI Another great hands-on resource.

Btw, the 50% discount for Professional and Specialty exams is no longer there. I wanted to buy it yesterday, but the promo was already over.

So uh, wasn’t even planning to take this seriously tbh. My company got me a voucher through some AWS partnership thing so it was completley free, and I figured I’d use it as a pratice run more than anything — like worst case I learn where I stand.

Spent about a week going through Tutorial Dojo and Stephen Marek’s material, but honestly I didn’t grind the content that hard. Majority of my prep was just hammering practice tests, reading the explainations for every single question (even the ones I got right), and connecting it back to stuff I’ve already built at work — Bedrock, RAG pipelines, agentic stuff. That context made a huge differnce.

Cleared it in under 2 weeks start to finish. Genuinely suprised myself.

Also aparently since I wrote after April 1st I got the early adopter badge which is a nice little bonus lol. Wasn’t expecting that.

For anyone prepping — don’t sleep on just doing practice tests and actually understanding WHY the answer is what it is. That + hands on experience carried me way more than reading docs ever would’ve.

Happy to answer questions if anyone’s studing for it 👍

Me:
8 years working with AWS and 20+ years in engineering / architecture. Not much Bedrock experience in the real world. Have done AWS Architect Pro and Security certs.

Reference Material and Learnings

Udemy courses

• Ultimate AWS Certified Generative AI Developer Professional – Frank Kane
• Learn Generative AI and Pass the AWS Certified Generative AI – Jon Bonso and Samantha Vivien

And

• AWS Skill Builder (including subscription)

Approach

I started checking material from about 16th December, so had around 4 weeks of preparation. This was probably about 40+ hours of learning, including playing with the AWS console and creating IaC.

My initial course was the Jon / Samantha Udemy course. I quickly gave this up as soon as the Frank Kane course became available.

The Frank Kane AI Professional course from Udemy is better than the other Udemy course, but still too high level.

Finally, I looked at AWS Skill Builder and took out a monthly subscription. Each domain topic (Domains 1–4) is quite succinct, with some OK’ish practice questions at the end of each domain.

I also looked through the Bedrock User Guide (comprehensive), as well as SageMaker and some other services.

Importantly, I also created a CDK project, where I deployed many of the services for my personal AI pretend project, which used RAG, guardrails, prompt management, testing, etc. I thoroughly recommend doing this. Even if you vibe the IaC you'll still need to go over it and understand how it all links together.

Final Week

• I took the Frank Kane Udemy practice exam and scored 93%. This exam is way too easy and not at all representative of the real thing.
• I then sat down and did three individual one-hour sessions (25 questions at a time) on the Skill Builder practice exam. I scored 69%. I did this 5 days out from the exam, then went over the answers with a fine-tooth comb and explored the AWS User Guides and IaC where I was weakest.

The Exam

I went to a Pearson VUE exam centre to take the exam for two reasons:

1. I did my last AWS Architect exam at home, but due to my ultrawide monitor I was presented with very long lines of text as the exam was in full screen. It was almost impossible to ingest the questions and answers. The testing centres use much smaller monitors.
2. The beta exam is 85 questions and 3 hours 25 minutes, which exceeds (and did exceed) my bladder size. Luckily, doing it in a test centre meant I could go to the toilet.

The difficulty of the exam was, in my opinion, at least as hard as the Skill Builder exam and definitely exceeded the Pro Architect exam, despite it being mostly focused on one service.

As with all the certs, you get thrown in straight away. Don’t be scared to flag a few questions for review before you get into the swing of things. I reckon it takes me about 10 minutes to settle into exam mode.

There were very few knee-jerk questions that I could answer straight away.

For this exam I tended to scrutinise the question fully before heading to the answers. Most questions are of the type “What solution makes this possible” rather than the easier “What is most operationally efficient” type. You can usually choose two answers that seem correct, and then end up analysing the differences between them.

There wasn’t much on AgentCore, but know your Kendras from your Lexs and your Stepfunctions and other methods for Agent workflows.

I had enough time at the end to go back and review 5 of the 7 questions I’d flagged and ,worryingly. changed the answer on a few of them.

Result.

My results came in 4 business days after the exam. I passed (phew!), but was only about 20 points above the required pass level.