The Journey to Certification: AWS AI Practitioner
We’re back for a brand-new season of From Cover to Code 📘💻 — and this time, we’re diving into AI on AWS.
In this Season 4 premiere, Michael Jenkins and Angela Andrews kick off their review of the "AWS Certified AI Practitioner (AIF-C01) Study Guide" by Tom Taulli.
This episode sets the foundation for the entire season, focusing on *why* the AWS AI Practitioner certification exists, *who* it’s designed for, and the AWS fundamentals every AI practitioner is expected to understand before touching models, prompts, or GenAI tools.
If you’re cert-curious, career-pivoting, or trying to cut through the AI hype with real cloud knowledge, this episode lays the groundwork for your certification journey—and invites you to take it alongside us.
In this episode, we cover:
- Why AWS introduced the AI Practitioner certification
- How AWS frames AI, machine learning, and generative AI at a foundational level
- Core AWS services and cloud concepts tested on the exam
- Exam structure, scoring, and certification tiers
- Why scheduling your exam date makes studying *real*
- How to use this book—and this series—as a practical study companion
- Tools and strategies to study smarter, not harder
Read along, join us live, and let’s go **from cover → to code → to certification**, together.
Book & Resources- The book: [https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/aws-certified-ai/9798341622326/](https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/aws-certified-ai/9798341622326/)
- AWS Free Tier [https://aws.amazon.com/free/](https://aws.amazon.com/free/)
- Google NotebookLM (study tool mentioned [https://notebooklm.google.com/](https://notebooklm.google.com/)
Video Chapters00:00 Welcome to From Cover to Code
01:09 Season 4 Kickoff and Host Catch-Up
05:50 Why AWS AI Practitioner Certification
08:26 Scheduling the Exam Makes It Real
11:52 Exam Structure, Scoring, and Weighting
18:46 AWS Certification Levels Explained
27:03 Cloud Computing and AWS Fundamentals
34:27 Core AWS Services Every Practitioner Should Know
37:36 AWS Glue, ETL, and Real-World Case Study
42:49 Live Quiz and Exam Mindset
59:00 What’s Next: AI, ML, and Generative AI
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