Introduction

0:00 hey this is Andrew Brown your favorite Cloud instructor bringing you another free Cloud certification course and this one is the aabus certified AI practitioner also known as the aif c01 and the way we're going to get certified is we're going to be doing lecture content hands on labs and as always I provide you a free practice exam so you can as that exam uh put it on your resume or LinkedIn to go try to get that job you've been looking to get uh if you like courses like this one the best way to support it is by purchasing the uh optional paid materials on exampro doco for this course it's at aif c01 this is where you're going to get uh additional practice exams uh cheat sheets um downloadable lecture slides and more um and you know if you do not know me I've taught a lot of courses um so you know Microsoft AWS gcp terraform kubernetes you name it I've taught it and so looking forward to jumping into the AI stuff here and I'll see you in a moment okay hey this is angre brown and we're at the start of our journey asking the

1:10 most important question first which is what is the AI practitioner so this is an AI certification teaching you the foundational knowledge of AI Cloud workloads adus offerings around traditional ml pipelines adabs offerings around managed AI Services offerings around gen and large language models the course code here is the AI aifc one so make sure you check the course code so that you know that you're using the latest course uh consider the certification if you want to become an AI engineer or a data scientist or you have to work with um AI stuff in your developer job if you don't know what an AI engineer is it's someone that builds AI Solutions using manage AI Services it could also be building uh ml pipelines or working with data scientists um to some degree you will want this uh certification if you're looking to architect business use cases for ml a geni this certification is more focused on the SE suite and decision makers to help them buy into the ad ecosystem for AIML but I'm going to cram in a bunch of developer stuff because I know that people want to do this for real and not just talk about it um if you enjoy the following tasks like stats and matths working with data working with python

2:21 then this is a career path for you if you don't you better watch out here because this stuff creeps up on you uh unexpectedly but for generative AI it's not so much an issue here's our Ana certification road map and you know again this is just a suggestion you can do these in any order that you want but I strongly suggest that before you do AI practitioner do the cloud practitioner because a lot of those skills are expected uh for this okay um and I just need to remind you that ad certifications do not validate programming technical diagramming code management and many other technical skills that are required for obtaining technical roles so do not assume that when you get aert you can do the job it's part of your Learning Journey yes of course but uh you need to really make sure that you can do the skills um how long will it take to pass well if you're

3:07 beginner 20 hours if you're experienced five hours this is not a hard certification I probably made the content harder than it had to be but I want to prep you you know for your rules in actually being able to do this stuff you're looking about 10 hour average study time spend half your time with lecture in Labs other half with practice exams recommending you study one or two hours for possibly 14 days days again it won't take long to get through this course watch the lecture content do the Hands-On Labs now this certification doesn't require any hands-on experience but I really think that you should do it because uh in practice versus on paper are to completely do different things the labs are not hard here and it will really help cement your knowledge and in some cases I'm keeping the lecture slides light because we're going to be doing the lab so even if you don't do them watch what I do so you get at least that experience there get paid practice exams because this one has new exam question types uh and people said that uh it was it threw them off right so um you know you can go over to the exam Pro platform get your free practice exam we also have paid ones um and you can find that aif c01 buy those paid ones support

4:19 more of this free content we really appreciate your support and this stuff is hard to make so um let's talk about the domains for the exam there are five domains each domain has its own weighting this is deter how many questions that will show up in domain uh so for domain one we have fundamentals of AI and ml domain two we have fundamentals of gen domain three we have apps applications of foundation Foundation models I love just saying applications is apps and by the way this is not a spelling mistake I copy and paste it it's Foundation models but foundational models is also correct um domain four is guidelines of responsible Ai and domain five is security compliance governance AI Solutions which there's not a lot to talk about so they really over emphasize it when there's not much to say but these two categories is all gen so I put a lot of gen in this

5:05 course Amazon Bedrock is done end to end for this um so you're you're in really good shape I probably have the best course for um for the AI practitioner for the Bedrock stuff okay sag maker uh I do an okay job of it sagemaker um used to be sagemaker Studio Classic and they've migrated over to this new experience which is not very good and so you know I'm I'm kind of grumpy when making the content for sage maker because I miss the old experience and I I I think ad has kind of U not done a good job re reimagining that solution but anyway where do you take this exam in person or online uh adabs uses Pearson view uh for their proctored online exam system and also for their uh their test Network PSI is gone if you remember PSI from a long time ago ads is not using them anymore the experience with PSI hasn't been great but I also think the reason why us is going with a single provider now is just that they can leverage that platform to its maximum and add new new features like exam question types which we'll talk about in a moment a proctor uh is someone that watches the exam so the idea is they're there to make sure you do not cheat so understand that is a component in the test

6:15 experience the grading here is 700 out of a th000 for a passing score I put an aster there because it's around 70% because it must uses scaled scoring you could technically fail at 70% right so always aim for higher um there are 65 questions on this exam 50 scored 15 unscored you can get uh 15 scored questions wrong there's no penalty for wrong questions format of questions multiple choice multiple answer but also uh ordering ordering matching and case studies for this exam for sure so um right now the exam is in beta at the time to make this video so they might change and get rid of those questions because people don't like them but understand that a US is trying new exam type questions you'll experience this our platform simulates them so you'll be in good shape if you use our practice exams not all providers can even similar things like case studies we absolutely have that in Spades and we've been doing that well before this so it was just coincidental that Aus decided to do that uh 50 questions are on the exam or unscored they will not count towards your final score why are they unscored unscored questions are used to evaluate the introduction of new questions to determine if the exam is too easy in the

7:22 passing score or questioned uh difficulty needs to be increased discover users who are attempting to cheat Okay so there's lots of reasons why they do this if you encounter questions you've never studied for that seem really hard keep your cool remember they may be unscored questions the duration of the exam is 2.5 hours you get about 1.5 minutes per question um there is 120 Minutes with 150 minutes seat time seat time refers to the time you should allocate for the exam this includes reviewing the instructions showing up for online uh Proctor uh on showing up for the Proctor to look at your workspace reading accepting the NDA complete the exam provide feedback at the end if it seems like I'm tired it's cuz I shot this three times my microphone wasn't on and so my voice is kind of wearing out but we'll get through this okay the uh the exam is valid for 36 months and three years before recertification I don't really know that for certain because at the time of this exam they didn't say that but the general rule is that search for 8 us is always three years if you're going to get recertified it's going to be um You probably get it for free through a of a skill Builder they're always trying to do that let's have some real talk talk about certifications I

8:30 have to remind you that cloud certifications expect you to have foundational technical skills like programming scripting SQL it networking Linux Windows servers project management developer tools app development skills compi algorithm skills and more if you do not have these skills and you get these searchs you cannot do the job right this only teaches you how to do ml AI on the adus platform but it's missing a lot of stuff uh and adus likes to position this certific a as a fund fun fundamental exam but I find there's tons of gaps with this one I'm producing my own uh uh foundational generic uh a gen certification to really fill the gaps here but you know to fill the gaps leverage fore Cod Camp their large catalog of General technical content and we at exam Pro also make additional uh materials uh beside the certification to really help you there that's only available in the subscription okay it itself does not care about ad certifications for hiring for their own technical roles certifications serve as a structured way of learning with a goalpost now originally certification actually mattered back in 2016 17 if you had Ana certification we're talking about it companies took notice but now it's more

9:45 of a learning path thing nurse certifications can be more valuable so the reception of the partitioner might be more valuable uh but I don't know at this point so I don't want to give you false hope and considerations but you still it's good to learn this and and stuff like that understand that you might need to add 250 to 500 hours beside the certification to have the developer knowledge to perform the stuff here or AI knowledge if you will so you know again just consider there's additional work to be done if you want to work as an AI engineer or data scientist um we are going to add Hands-On labs to help you fill the gaps here so if you see me taking due TS and it seems like we're doing long labs I'm trying to help you out here you can watch them and not do them if you want but really you're really should do them

10:30 because I'm giving you Real World skills here here and you folks keep saying that you want it so I'm giving it to you so some of the labs might even uh end up in failed implementations uh not for this certification I think there was only like one that I that that was bust and it wasn't my fault it was just yeah I think we're trying to do fine t on Amazon bedrock and so it just wasn't clear the spend and I just did not want to end up with a $5,000 bill or something crazy so I did show the process and I I did tell you that but uh this one has next to no failures it's just the one there but understand that it's it's about seeing the problems seeing what's worth using seeing what's not worth using because these certifications are marketing tools to convince you to utilize them but I'm here as your uh Community hero and I

11:17 actually am an aist Community hero to tell you the real truth about these services and which ones you should use and and maybe avoid and I want to be really clear with that uh we do try our best to clean up infrastructure but you should always be proac and check if the resources are running you're responsible for the cost and spending your ad account in the adus um practitioner course I show you budgeting and stuff I'm not showing you in this course but I do in this one and by the way in this course I actually had unexpected spend I usually don't have it but I had it with stagemaker canvas it was like almost $400 $500 Canadian because it's US dollars converted afterwards and uh it's just one of those Services where they really really misled you uh not intentionally but like because the UI was so bad and I I really pointed out and I even tell you don't

12:02 use stagemaker canvas and just watch me do it so be very careful with Spen but I do my best but you are responsible just remember that [Music] okay hey this is Andrew Brown I'm on the adabs training certifications pages and we're looking at the adabs certified a practitioner I do want to point out that right now the exam is in beta um so generally I would recommend for you to wait for to go out of beta because beta means that the exam questions are going to change and often beta is for testing to see whether the exam is good or not not really forgetting that validation but anyway if you want to go sit it early you can but again my recommendation is to wait the um exam guide is very unlikely to change so uh itus doesn't usually change too much from the the beta experience it's more about the exams so this is going to be fine but let's scroll on down and take a look here and see what they're recommending so familiar with adus core Services um share responsibility model I am Global infrastructure this is all the stuff that gets covered in the um adabs Cloud petitioner so you should have your Cloud petitioner before proceeding for

13:13 this certification things you don't have to do develop coding ml algorithms implementing data engineering feature techniques hyper parameters building deploying AI pipelines conducting math or statistics basically nothing you don't have to do any Hands-On but I'm going to tell you I I pack back in Hands-On stuff because I think that if you do some Hands-On that it's going to really help cement that information your head there's no reason not to do it um because you know we can read something on a paper but it has nothing to do with what's actually happening so you should do Hands-On labs and I have hands on labs for you I have a lot around Amazon Bedrock just because I feel that that was um should have been more strengthened in this certification and so or just knowledge in general because it's such a large product but I spend a lot of time in Bedrock let's scroll down here and take look so we have multiple choice multiple response ordering matching case studies these three are new not new if you're from Azure because that seems like a similar thing from over there um but yeah these are new question types we have uh 15 unscored questions we uh so we'll continue on to here the results is between 100 and 1,000 with a minimum passing score of

14:23 700 okay your you score report can contain tables of classifications of performance which I'm not really interested in we'll scroll on down let's take a look at the domains we have fundamentals of AIML fundamentals of gen applications of foundational models guiding of responsible Ai and then security so we'll take a look here and they uh rattle off a bunch of different terms and so I do my best to cover as much as I can here the problem is is that it's not very succinct or exactly what it is that they want you to know and because we're right now in betas I don't know exactly what's going to show up on there but I did a lot of coverage here have as much as I that can over here we have recognize app AI workload so they're just talking about like when you should use them when you should not use them do you know all the manage services and we cover all those

15:08 manag Services here then we're talking about Sage maker and the ml pipeline all the steps and and all the core sagemaker features and services you should know um then there's about model performances so I give this a bit of extra time in the course just because you know they become valuable later down the road but they're not super technical um so you're not going to have hard time with that for Gen we have a lot of stuff and I I really really dot the eyes on gen not because well it's it's not like I'm huge about gen but just I just happen to be building a lot of J projects so I just was able to pack in a lot of good stuff here and I think a lot of companies again this is where their focus is going to be when they're taking the AI practitioner um so a lot of information on that then you know they're talking about more of the other

15:54 services like Party Rock Bedrock playground Amazon Q by the way Amazon Q is a terrible terrible product um ad us keeps telling me like oh it's it's new and improved every like two weeks and I I come back and doing it's just garbage I don't know why they keep promoting it but I guess they've invested a lot of energy into that product and unfortunately it's just not very good um so sorry I don't have anything nice to say of it maybe in the future it's better but every time I look at it it's bad applications of foundation model so yeah we're talking about not just Foundation models but just types of what do they call this application Foundation model but yeah just general generative AI knowledge it's weird that they just have this here because it's basically that section as well uh and then responsible AI you know there's isn't there isn't a whole lot to say about responsible AI it's kind of weird that it has uh so much attention here but we literally just spend one video on it and there's three other videos of services to look look at but um you can pretty much guess like what is responsible and what's not so it's not like that hard we'll go down below here um you know not a whole lot to talk about security I

17:01 mean they listed a bunch of stuff in here but some a lot of the things that they were listing don't even exist yet so um and not I don't mean because it's a beta I just mean like they're talking about things that just don't exist like or they haven't been implemented so you know again I think that this is just adabs is not not doing a very good job putting together these exam guides as they used to they're really throwing a lot of stuff at the wall here but that's okay I'm going to make sure you come through this uh uh pretty well here with no problems there's the appendix of a lot of services and what is in scope and what's out of scope so here you can see a bunch of services here um you know and not all of them are in the course but I I listed the ones that I thought were most relevant and what my experience was and what logically made sense and uh yeah so there you