Format
Multiple choice, multiple answer
Type
Specialty
Delivery Method
Testing center or online proctored exam
Time
180 minutes to complete the exam
Cost
300 USD (Practice exam: 40 USD)
Language
Available in English, Japanese, Korean, and Simplified Chinese
The AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty certification is intended for individuals who perform a development or data science role. It validates a candidate's ability to design, implement, deploy, and maintain machine learning (ML) solutions for given business problems.
This course is structured into the four domains tested by this exam: data engineering, exploratory data analysis, modeling, and machine learning implementation and operations. Just some of the topics we'll cover include:
S3 data lakes
AWS Glue and Glue ETL
Kinesis data streams, firehose, and video streams
DynamoDB
Data Pipelines, AWS Batch, and Step Functions
Using scikit_learn
Data science basics
Athena and Quicksight
Elastic MapReduce (EMR)
Apache Spark and MLLib
Feature engineering (imputation, outliers, binning, transforms, encoding, and normalization)
Ground Truth
Deep Learning basics
Tuning neural networks and avoiding overfitting
Amazon SageMaker, in depth
Regularization techniques
Evaluating machine learning models (precision, recall, F1, confusion matrix, etc.)
High-level ML services: Comprehend, Translate, Polly, Transcribe, Lex, Rekognition, and more
Security best practices with machine learning on AWS
Abilities Validated by the Certification
Select and justify the appropriate ML approach for a given business problem
Identify appropriate AWS services to implement ML solutions
Design and implement scalable, cost-optimized, reliable, and secure ML solutions
Recommended Knowledge and Experience
1-2 years of experience developing, architecting, or running ML/deep learning workloads on the AWS Cloud
The ability to express the intuition behind basic ML algorithms
Experience performing basic hyperparameter optimization
Experience with ML and deep learning frameworks
The ability to follow model-training best practices
The ability to follow deployment and operational best practices