AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer — Associate
MLA-C01Checked against the published guide on 11 September 2026
What the vendor publishes
- Items
- 65 total, 50 scored
- Unscored items
- 15
- Duration
- Not published by the vendor
- Passing score
- 720 on a 100–1000 scale
- Price
- Not published by the vendor
- Validity
- Not published by the vendor
Scaled scoring 100–1,000, compensatory. Four item formats: multiple choice, multiple response, ordering (3–5 responses in sequence) and matching (3–7 prompts). Duration and price are not stated in the exam guide PDF.
Domains and weightings
Weightings are the vendor's own. Where a range is published rather than a point, both bounds are shown — build to the midpoint.
- Data preparation for machine learning28%
- Model development26%
- Deployment and orchestration of ML workflows22%
- ML solution monitoring, maintenance and security24%
The guide
Not written yet. The blueprint is published and checked; the long-form guide for this exam is still to be written. Guides are written one at a time rather than generated, which is slower and is the point.
Where this came from
Every figure on this page was read from Amazon Web Services’s published material, not from anyone’s exam. Blank fields are blank because the vendor does not publish them.
Source: docs.aws.amazon.com
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