The AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer - Associate (MLA-C01) exam validates a candidate’s ability to build, operationalize, deploy, and maintain machine learning (ML) solutions and pipelines by using the AWS Cloud.
This exam validates a candidate's ability to complete the following tasks:
- Ingest, transform, validate, and prepare data for ML modeling.
- Select general modeling approaches, train models, tune hyperparameters, analyze model performance, and manage model versions.
- Choose deployment infrastructure and endpoints, provision compute resources, and configure auto scaling based on requirements.
- Set up continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines to automate orchestration of ML workflows.
- Monitor models, data, and infrastructure to detect issues.
- Secure ML systems and resources through access controls, compliance features, and best practices.
Who Should Take This Exam?
The target candidate should have at least 1 year of experience using Amazon SageMaker and other AWS services for ML engineering. The target candidate also should have at least 1 year of experience in a related role such as a backend software developer, DevOps developer, data engineer, or data scientist. Recommended general IT knowledge:
- Basic understanding of common ML algorithms and their use cases
- Data engineering fundamentals, including knowledge of common data formats, ingestion, and transformation to work with ML data pipelines
- Knowledge of querying and transforming data
- Knowledge of software engineering best practices for modular, reusable code development, deployment, and debugging
- Familiarity with provisioning and monitoring cloud and on-premises ML resources
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code (IaC)
- Experience with code repositories for version control and CI/CD pipelines
Steps to Achieve Your AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer - Associate Certification
- Attend AWS Technical Essentials
- Attend DevOps Engineering on AWS
- Attend Practical Data Science with Amazon SageMaker
- Attend MLOps Engineering on AWS Training Course
- Pass the following exams: