Troubleshooting GenAI — and Exam Readiness

The capstone: diagnosing context-window overflow, retrieval degradation and embedding drift, prompt regressions and API failures — then AIP question anatomy, the professional-level traps, and the final-week plan.

Content current as of 2026-10.

Lessons

1. Diagnosing GenAI failures
2. Troubleshooting retrieval: drift, chunks, embeddings
3. AIP question anatomy and the professional traps
4. The final week: drills, mock, exam day

Sources

• AIP-C01 exam guide — Content Domain 5: Testing, Validation, and Troubleshooting
• AIP-C01 exam guide — exam content, scoring, and in/out-of-scope services
• AWS Certified Generative AI Developer – Professional (official page)
• AWS Knowledge Center — troubleshooting InvokeModel API errors in Amazon Bedrock