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AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer - Associate

Standardize your team on AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer - Associate with a structured AWS training path — team admin reporting included on every CBT Nuggets Teams seat.

1
Course
5
Core skills
$150
Exam fee (AWS)
AWS cloud engineering team reviewing architecture diagrams together
Difficulty
Difficulty: 3 of 5 (Moderate)
Moderate
Exam fee (AWS)
$150
Courses on path
1
Exam code
  • MLA-C02

Exam datasheet

Prerequisites
None
Recommended experience
1-2 years of experience in machine learning and deep learning on AWS
Recertification
3 years

Exams

Exams for this certification

Exam fees per engineer, paid to the exam vendor$150

Exam — Required

Every engineer on the AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer - Associate path takes MLA-C02.

  1. MLA-C02AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer - Associate

    Earlier editions of this exam: MLA-C01 (retired on ).

    Exam fee
    $150
    Exam length
    130 minutes
    Questions
    65
    Passing score
    750

Skills your team builds

machine learningdeep learningAWS servicesdata engineeringmodel deployment

Every certification course includes

  • Expert-led video training
  • Per-team completion reporting

AWS career ladder

Where AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer - Associate sits in your team's AWS progression

The cert your team is on now, plus the levels above and below. Use this to map an engineer's next-step credential or to plan headcount coverage across tiers.

Customer outcome

Build AWS capability across the whole team, not one engineer

Assign the AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer - Associate course to the engineers who need it, and the team report shows who has started, who has finished — the view leadership uses to see AWS skills coverage across the team and where the gaps are.

Team capability

Make AWS a number on your team capability sheet, not a single engineer’s certificate.

Standardizing your team on AWS gives leadership a clear picture of AWS skills coverage — who has completed the training, who is still on the path, and where the gaps are — so staffing and escalation plans rest on known capability instead of on one engineer.

Credential: AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer - Associate

Exam
  • MLA-C02

Frequently asked questions about AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer - Associate training

Common questions IT directors ask when evaluating AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer - Associate training for their team.

How does AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer - Associate fit into our internal compliance and governance program?

Teams often cite this credential when documenting who is trained to handle machine learning workloads on AWS, including IAM access control and network isolation for ML resources. CBT Nuggets team reporting provides per-learner progress, completion and completion exports that IT leaders can use as audit evidence, while the auditor's control crosswalk decides how the certification maps to a formal framework.

Who on the team should hold AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer - Associate, and what can a certified team own?

It suits the cloud, data and DevOps engineers who will build and run ML workloads on AWS. The linked course prepares them to own data preparation with AWS Glue and Glue DataBrew, streaming data ingestion, SageMaker domain setup, labeling and data augmentation, and feature stores. It also covers framing business problems as ML tasks, training with SageMaker built-in algorithms, and tuning models with SageMaker JumpStart and hyperparameter tuning, all inside IAM-secured, network-isolated environments.

What does CBT Nuggets AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer - Associate training include for a team?

CBT Nuggets AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer - Associate courses are built by named expert trainers. Where a course includes hands-on virtual labs or a practice exam mapped to AWS's published exam objectives, the course list on this page says so. Team admin reporting tracks assignment, completion and exam readiness per engineer — the view managers use to run a team training program.

How do I assign and track AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer - Associate training for my team?

From the admin console, managers assign the AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer - Associate courses directly to specific engineers or role groups and track completion and practice-exam scores per learner. Team-wide reporting rolls up to a single dashboard you can review or export for leadership reviews or compliance reporting.

How long does it take to certify a team on AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer - Associate?

The linked CBT Nuggets training totals about 24 hours of video. Actual time to certify depends on each engineer's starting point with AWS data services and SageMaker, and team reporting lets IT leaders track course completion across the group before exams are scheduled.

What if AWS updates the AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer - Associate exam objectives?

CBT Nuggets updates AWS course content as exam objectives refresh, and this page shows the current exam's status and any retirement date the vendor has announced. When AWS restructures or renames a track, the assigned training stays aligned with the same team training plan, and the training stays current without anyone losing their progress mid-stream.

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Build AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer - Associate capability across your team

See how CBT Nuggets helps IT leaders plan and track AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer - Associate training across the team — reporting included.