AIB-C01 is the AWS Certified AI Business Strategist exam, the first certification in AWS's new Business category. It is built for professionals who evaluate, champion, or scale AI initiatives — product managers, program managers, line-of-business managers, consultants, marketers, and business analysts — and it tests strategic decision-making, not hands-on building. There is no coding, no model development, and no AWS service configuration on this exam.
About the AWS Certified AI Business Strategist (AIB-C01) Exam
AWS announced the AI Business Strategist certification on 1 September 2026, with beta exam delivery starting 29 September 2026. The exam validates that a business professional can translate AI capabilities into business outcomes, establish responsible AI practices, evaluate AI investments with KPIs and ROI frameworks, and drive AI adoption at scale across an organization.
Key exam facts:
- Exam code: AIB-C01
- Questions: 65 scored questions in the standard exam (85 in the beta exam)
- Duration: 130 minutes (170 minutes for the beta)
- Format: Multiple choice and multiple response
- Passing score: 700 on a scaled score of 100–1,000 (compensatory scoring — you pass overall, not per domain)
- Cost: $100 USD standard ($50 USD during the beta)
- Delivery: Pearson VUE test center or online proctored
- Validity: 3 years
- Early Adopter: candidates who certify by 15 February 2027 also earn an Early Adopter digital badge
- Prerequisites: none — AWS recommends about 6 months of experience working with or alongside AI initiatives
AIB-C01 Exam Domains
The exam is organized into four content domains:
- Domain 1: AI Fundamentals and Literacy (24%) — core AI concepts and terminology, AI vs ML vs generative AI, structured and unstructured data, data quality, AI agents, model drift and shadow AI, prompt engineering, tokens and context windows, and model adaptation techniques such as RAG and fine-tuning.
- Domain 2: AI Strategy and Business Value Creation (28%) — identifying high-impact use cases, build-buy-partner decisions, prioritizing initiatives (scale, pause, or terminate), knowing when AI is not the right solution, defining KPIs and baselines, ROI frameworks, leading indicators, cost controls, and positioning AI for competitive advantage.
- Domain 3: AI Governance and Responsible AI Leadership (24%) — responsible AI dimensions such as fairness, explainability, privacy, safety, and transparency, governance by design, human oversight and guardrails, cross-functional governance structures, regulatory compliance, access controls, AI risk classification, bias drift, harmful content, and intellectual property.
- Domain 4: Business Readiness, Leadership, and AI Transformation (24%) — AI readiness and maturity assessment, capability gaps across people, process, technology, and governance, data strategy and data silos, executive sponsorship and AI champions, change management and workforce AI literacy, AI centers of excellence, and scaling pilots to enterprise-wide deployments.
Why Practice with Study4Pass?
AIB-C01 is a judgment exam: almost every question presents a business scenario and asks for the best decision. Reading the exam guide alone does not train that judgment — working through realistic scenarios does. The Study4Pass AIB-C01 practice test gives you 120 scenario-based practice questions written directly against the official AWS exam guide, covering all four domains in the same proportions as the real exam, each with a detailed explanation of why the correct answer wins and why the alternatives fail.
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