Study guide · AIF-C01

Fundamentals of Generative AI

24% of the exam by AWS's own published weighting.

What it covers

The official exam guide breaks this domain into 3 objectives:

  • Explain the basic concepts of generative AI
  • Understand the capabilities and limitations of generative AI for solving business problems
  • Describe AWS infrastructure and technologies for building generative AI applications

Practice this domain

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A sample question

What most clearly distinguishes generative AI from traditional predictive machine learning?

  • AGenerative AI requires no data at all, while predictive ML requires data.
  • BGenerative AI runs only on premises, while predictive ML runs only in cloud.
  • CGenerative AI creates new content, while predictive ML outputs a prediction.
  • DGenerative AI and predictive ML are simply two names for the same approach.

Generative AI produces new content such as text or images, whereas predictive ML outputs a classification, number, or grouping. Both depend on data, both run in either environment, and they are genuinely different approaches.

Kiro is an AWS offering associated with which activity?

  • AAI-assisted software development work carried out by engineering teams.
  • BArchiving rarely accessed records at the lowest available storage cost.
  • CDistributing incoming network traffic across several virtual servers.
  • DRecording every API call made within an AWS account for later auditing.

Kiro relates to AI-assisted software development. Archival storage, load balancing, and API auditing are handled by S3 Glacier, Elastic Load Balancing, and CloudTrail respectively.

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