AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer – Associate

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AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer – Associate

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We scored 65 real AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer – Associate exam questions 1-10 on question complexity and broke the result down by exam domain.

65 questions scored
5 domains
2.1/10 overall complexity

Complexity by exam domain

Higher scores mean more demanding question formats. The exam score is computed over the whole bank, not averaged across domains.

Exam complexity score2.1/10Gentle · measured across 65 bank questions
  • Data Preparation for Machine Learning12 questions · complexity 2.0/10 · Gentle

    33% multi-select · 0% scenario · 33% interactive

  • Deployment and Orchestration18 questions · complexity 2.0/10 · Gentle

    33% multi-select · 0% scenario · 33% interactive

  • ML Operations (MLOps)10 questions · complexity 1.9/10 · Gentle

    30% multi-select · 0% scenario · 30% interactive

  • ML Security and Compliance8 questions · complexity 2.6/10 · Gentle

    50% multi-select · 0% scenario · 25% interactive

  • Model Development17 questions · complexity 2.0/10 · Gentle

    35% multi-select · 0% scenario · 29% interactive

Full per-domain breakdown

Blueprint weight, bank size and question format mix for every domain of the exam.

DomainBlueprintQuestionsSingleMultiInteractiveComplexity
Data Preparation for Machine Learning18%124442.0/10Gentle
Deployment and Orchestration28%186662.0/10Gentle
ML Operations (MLOps)16%104331.9/10Gentle
ML Security and Compliance12%83322.6/10Gentle
Model Development26%176652.0/10Gentle

How the score is calculated

The formula is fixed and public, so anyone can reproduce these numbers from the same bank.

Every question in the AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer – Associate bank is measured on four signals that can be read directly from the database. Each signal is expressed as a share of the questions in the domain, and the four shares are combined with fixed weights:

  • Multi-select questions (40% weight). Items with more than one correct answer. The candidate has to find all of them, which is the single hardest format in the bank.
  • Scenario questions (30% weight). Questions longer than 150 characters, which describe a situation instead of a definition and therefore test reasoning rather than recall.
  • Interactive questions (20% weight). Items that require reading code or a configuration snippet.
  • Deep explanations (10% weight). Questions whose explanation runs past 300 characters, which signals a concept with real nuance behind it.

The combined share is multiplied by ten to produce a 1-10 score. The exam-level score is computed over the whole bank rather than averaged across domains, so a small domain cannot distort the total. Figures on this page are recomputed from the live bank on every crawl.

Data set: Certilum AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer – Associate Foundation question bank, 65 questions, 5 domains. Published by CERTILUM. This is Certilum’s own measurement of its own question bank and is not an official Amazon Web Services statistic.

Questions analysed
65
Exam domains
5
Hardest domain
ML Security and Compliance (2.6)
Most approachable domain
ML Operations (MLOps) (1.9)
Question mix
23 single · 22 multi · 20 interactive
Measured on
Foundation

Frequently asked questions

What our AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer – Associate complexity numbers mean and how they are produced.