Content Domain 2: Fundamentals of GenAI - AWS Certification

Content Domain 2: Fundamentals of GenAI

Domain 2 covers the fundamentals of GenAI and represents 24% of the scored content on the exam.

Task Statement 2.1: Explain the basic concepts of GenAI.

Objectives:

  • Define foundational GenAI concepts (for example, tokens, chunking, embeddings, vectors, prompt engineering, transformer-based LLMs, foundation models [FMs], multimodal models, diffusion models).

  • Identify potential use cases for GenAI models (for example, image, video, and audio generation; summarization; AI assistants; translation; code generation; customer service agents; search; recommendation engines).

  • Describe the foundation model lifecycle (for example, data selection, model selection, pre-training, fine-tuning, evaluation, deployment, feedback).

Task Statement 2.2: Understand the capabilities and limitations of GenAI for solving business problems.

Objectives:

  • Describe the advantages of GenAI (for example, adaptability, responsiveness, simplicity).

  • Identify disadvantages of GenAI solutions (for example, hallucinations, interpretability, inaccuracy, nondeterminism).

  • Identify factors to consider when selecting GenAI models (for example, model types, performance requirements, capabilities, constraints, compliance).

  • Determine business value and metrics for GenAI applications (for example, cross-domain performance, efficiency, conversion rate, average revenue per user, accuracy, customer lifetime value).

Task Statement 2.3: Describe AWS infrastructure and technologies for building GenAI applications.

Objectives:

  • Identify AWS services and features to develop GenAI applications (for example, Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, Amazon Bedrock PartyRock, Amazon Q, Amazon Bedrock Data Automation).

  • Describe the advantages of using AWS GenAI services to build applications (for example, accessibility, lower barrier to entry, efficiency, cost-effectiveness, speed to market, ability to meet business objectives).

  • Describe the benefits of AWS infrastructure for GenAI applications (for example, security, compliance, responsibility, safety).

  • Describe cost tradeoffs of AWS GenAI services (for example, responsiveness, availability, redundancy, performance, regional coverage, token-based pricing, provision throughput, custom models).