Chapter 4: Describe the different types of data in AI models (for example, labeled and unlabeled, tabular, time-series, image, text, structured and unstructured).
Chapter 7: Determine when AI/ML solutions are not appropriate (for example, costbenefit analyses, situations when a specific outcome is needed instead of a prediction).
Chapter 11: Describe components of an ML pipeline (for example, data collection, exploratory data analysis [EDA], data pre-processing, feature engineering, model training, hyperparameter tuning, evaluation, deployment, monitoring).
Chapter 14: Identify relevant AWS services and features for each stage of an ML pipeline (for example, SageMaker, Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler, Amazon SageMaker Feature Store, Amazon SageMaker Model Monitor).
Chapter 15: Understand fundamental concepts of ML operations (MLOps) (for example, experimentation, repeatable processes, scalable systems, managing technical debt, achieving production readiness, model monitoring, model re-training).
Chapter 16: Understand model performance metrics (for example, accuracy, Area Under the ROC Curve [AUC], F1 score) and business metrics (for example, cost per user, development costs, customer feedback, return on investment [ROI]) to evaluate ML models.
Chapter 18: Identify potential use cases for generative AI models (for example, image, video, and audio generation; summarization; chatbots; translation; code generation; customer service agents; search; recommendation engines).
Chapter 19: Describe the foundation model lifecycle (for example, data selection, model selection, pre-training, fine-tuning, evaluation, deployment, feedback).
Chapter 22: Understand various factors to select appropriate generative AI models (for example, model types, performance requirements, capabilities, constraints, compliance).
Chapter 23: Determine business value and metrics for generative AI applications (for example, cross-domain performance, efficiency, conversion rate, average revenue per user, accuracy, customer lifetime value).
Chapter 24: Identify AWS services and features to develop generative AI applications (for example, Amazon SageMaker JumpStart; Amazon Bedrock; PartyRock, an Amazon Bedrock Playground; Amazon Q).
Chapter 25: Describe the advantages of using AWS generative AI services to build applications (for example, accessibility, lower barrier to entry, efficiency, cost-effectiveness, speed to market, ability to meet business objectives).
Chapter 31: Identify AWS services that help store embeddings within vector databases (for example, Amazon OpenSearch Service, Amazon Aurora, Amazon Neptune, Amazon DocumentDB [with MongoDB compatibility], Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL).
Chapter 32: Explain the cost tradeoffs of various approaches to foundation model customization (for example, pre-training, fine-tuning, in-context learning, RAG).
Chapter 36: Understand the benefits and best practices for prompt engineering (for example, response quality improvement, experimentation, guardrails, discovery, specificity and concision, using multiple comments).
Chapter 39: Define methods for fine-tuning a foundation model (for example, instruction tuning, adapting models for specific domains, transfer learning, continuous pre-training).
Chapter 40: Describe how to prepare data to fine-tune a foundation model (for example, data curation, governance, size, labeling, representativeness, reinforcement learning from human feedback [RLHF]).
Chapter 41: Describe methods to evaluate foundation model performance.-Understand approaches to evaluate foundation model performance (for example, human evaluation, benchmark datasets).
Chapter 42: Describe methods to evaluate foundation model performance.-Identify relevant metrics to assess foundation model performance (for example, Recall-Oriented Understudy for Gisting Evaluation [ROUGE],
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Chapter 44: Describe methods to evaluate foundation model performance.-Determine whether a foundation model effectively meets business objectives (for example, productivity, user engagement, task engineering).
Chapter 48: Identify legal risks of working with generative AI (for example, intellectual property infringement claims, biased model outputs, loss of customer trust, end user risk, hallucinations).
Chapter 51: Describe tools to detect and monitor bias, trustworthiness, and truthfulness (for example, analyzing label quality, human audits, subgroup analysis, Amazon SageMaker Clarify, SageMaker Model Monitor, Amazon Augmented AI [Amazon A2I]).
Chapter 52: Recognize the importance of transparent and explainable models.-Understand the differences between models that are transparent and explainable and models that are not transparent and explainable.
Chapter 53: Recognize the importance of transparent and explainable models.-Understand the tools to identify transparent and explainable models (for example, Amazon SageMaker Model Cards, open source models, data, licensing).
Chapter 54: Recognize the importance of transparent and explainable models.-Identify tradeoffs between model safety and transparency (for example, measure interpretability and performance).
Chapter 56: Security, Identify AWS services and features to secure AI systems (for example, IAM roles, policies, and permissions; encryption; Amazon Macie; AWS PrivateLink; AWS shared responsibility model).
Chapter 57: Security, Understand the concept of source citation and documenting data origins (for example, data lineage, data cataloging, SageMaker Model Cards).
Chapter 58: Security, Describe best practices for secure data engineering (for example, assessing data quality, implementing privacy-enhancing technologies, data access control, data integrity).
Chapter 59: Security, Understand security and privacy considerations for AI systems (for example, application security, threat detection, vulnerability management, infrastructure protection, prompt injection, encryption at rest and in transit).
Chapter 60: Identify regulatory compliance standards for AI systems (for example, International Organization for Standardization [ISO], System and Organization Controls [SOC], algorithm accountability laws).
Chapter 61: Identify AWS services and features to assist with governance and regulation compliance (for example, AWS Config, Amazon Inspector, AWS Audit Manager, AWS Artifact, AWS CloudTrail, AWS Trusted Advisor).