AI Certifications: Azure, AWS, GCP, and PMI

Anass Metwally
4 min readJan 26, 2024

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In an age where artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming integral to our daily lives, acquiring AI certifications from leading platforms such as Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is more important than ever. These certifications not only validate professional expertise but also impart a substantial amount of knowledge in a short time.

Below, we will provide the available certifications for each cloud vendor:

Microsoft Azure

Azure offers two certifications to cover AI fundamentals, implementation, and design areas.

  • Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals — (AI-900)
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate — (AI-102)

The AI-900: Microsoft Azure, AI Fundamentals certification, is one of the recent additions to Azure’s certification model. It helps prove the fundamental knowledge of candidates in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning concepts.

Domains covered in the exam include:

Study guide for Exam AI-900: Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals

Certification Cost:

The total registration fee for the AI-900 certification exam is USD 99.

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The AI-102: This exam measures your ability to accomplish the following technical tasks: plan and manage Azure Cognitive Services solutions; implement Computer Vision solutions; implement natural language processing solutions; implement knowledge mining solutions; and implement conversational AI solutions.

Domains covered in the exam include:

Study guide for Exam AI-102: Azure AI Engineer Associate

Certification Cost:

The total registration fee for the AI-102 certification exam is USD 165.

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Amazon Web Services (AWS)

AWS offers only one exam related to the AI topic: the AWS Machine Learning Specialty.

The AWS Machine Learning Specialty: is intended for individuals who perform a development or data science role and have more than one year of experience developing, architecting, or running machine learning/deep learning workloads in the AWS Cloud.

Domains covered in the exam include:

Study guide for AWS Machine learning Specialty

Certification Cost:

The total registration fee for the AWS Machine Learning certification exam is USD 300.

Exam format: 65 questions; either multiple choice or multiple response.
Length: 180 minutes

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Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

GCP offers only one exam related to the AI topic, which is the Google Cloud Certified Professional Machine Learning Engineer.

A Professional Machine Learning Engineer builds, evaluates, productionizes, and optimizes ML models by using Google Cloud technologies and knowledge of proven models and techniques. The ML Engineer handles large, complex datasets and creates repeatable, reusable code. The ML Engineer considers responsible AI and fairness throughout the ML model development process and collaborates closely with other job roles to ensure the long-term success of ML-based applications.

Domains covered in the exam include:

Study guide for Google Cloud Certified Professional Machine Learning Engineer.

Certification Cost:

The total registration fee for the Google Cloud Certified Professional Machine Learning Engineer certification exam is USD 200.

Exam format: 50–60 multiple-choice and multiple-select questions
Length: Two hours

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Generative AI Overview for Project Managers

Generative AI Overview for Project Managers is a hands-on learning experience for project professionals that will empower you with practical knowledge of AI in project management that you can apply right away to your project management approaches.

Domains covered in the exam include:

Certification Cost:

The total registration fee for the Generative AI Overview for Project Managers by PMI is USD 0.00.

Exam registration link: https://www.pmi.org/shop/p-/elearning/generative-ai-overview-for-project-managers/el083

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