Course Outline

AWS Academy Machine Learning Foundations

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Course Version
This course outline applies to version 1.0 of AWS Academy Machine Learning Foundations in English.

Description
AWS Academy Machine Learning Foundations introduces students to the concepts and terminology of
Artificial Intelligence and machine learning. By the end of this course, students will be able to select
and apply machine learning services to resolve business problems. They will also be able to label, build,
train, and deploy a custom machine learning model through a guided, hands-on approach.

Course Objectives
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
• Describe machine learning (ML)
• Implement a machine learning pipeline using Amazon SageMaker
• Use managed Amazon ML services for forecasting
• Use managed Amazon ML services for computer vision
• Use managed Amazon ML services for natural language processing

Duration
Approximately 20 hours when delivered synchronously by an educator.

Intended Audience
This introductory course is intended for students at AWS Academy member institutions interested in
pursuing a career in data science, ML, and AI.

Student Prerequisites
To ensure success in this course, students should have:
• Completed AWS Academy Cloud Foundations (or another introductory cloud computing course)
• Experience scripting with Python or equivalent
• A basic understanding of statistics

Delivery Methods
This course can be delivered in person with synchronous lectures or with digital training modules that
students can complete independently, or a combination of in-person and digital instruction (flipped-
classroom model).

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Educator Prerequisites
This course does not have any prerequisites for educators. However, prior to facilitating this course,
educators are recommended to complete this course, complete the AWS Academy Cloud Foundations
course, and pass the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam.

Learning Resources
• Lecture materials
• Online multiple-choice knowledge checks
• Lab exercises
• Digital training
• Lecture or video introductions
• Lecture or video demos
• Example solutions
• S documentation and frameworks

Course Contents

# Slides/ Lab Total

Duration Duration
Lecture &
Demo
Duration

Module 1 – Welcome to AWS Academy Machine Learning 21/30 min. 30 min.

Foundations

Lecture or Video Course prerequisites and objectives

Lecture or Video Machine learning job roles

Lecture or Video Resources, documentation, and

whitepapers

Module 2 – Introducing Machine Learning 48/120 min. 120 min.

Lecture or Video What is Machine Learning?

Lecture or Video Business problems solved with Machine

Learning

Lecture or Video Machine Learning process

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# Slides/ Lab Total

Duration Duration
Lecture &
Demo
Duration

Lecture or Video Machine Learning tools overview

Lecture or Video Machine Learning challenges

Demo Demonstration: Introducing Amazon 10 min.

SageMaker

Knowledge Machine Learning Concepts 10 min.

Check

Module 3 – Implementing a Machine Learning pipeline with 132/230 min. 200 min. 430 min.
Amazon SageMaker

Lecture or Video Scenario introduction

Lecture or Video Collecting and securing data

Guided Lab Exploring Amazon SageMaker 30 min.

Lecture or Video Evaluating your data

Guided Lab Visualizing Data 30 min.

Lecture or Video Feature engineering

Guided Lab Encoding Categorical Variables 30 min.

Lecture or Video Training

Demo Demonstration: Training a Model Using 10 min.

Amazon SageMaker

Guided Lab Splitting Data and Training a Model using 30 min.

XGBoost

Lecture or Video Hosting and using the model

Guided Lab Hosting and Consuming a Model on AWS 20 min.

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# Slides/ Lab Total

Duration Duration
Lecture &
Demo
Duration

Lecture or Video Evaluating the accuracy of the model

Guided Lab Evaluating Model Accuracy 30 min.

Lecture or Video Hyperparameter and model tuning

Demo Demonstration: Optimizing Amazon 10 min.

SageMaker Hyperparameters

Demo Demonstration: Running Amazon 10 min.

SageMaker Autopilot

Guided Lab Tuning with Amazon SageMaker 30 min.

Knowledge Machine Learning pipeline 10 min.

Check implementation

Challenge Lab 1 Class Project – Select and Train an 300 min. 300 min.
algorithm

Module 4 – Introducing Forecasting 38/60 min. 60 min. 120 min.

Lecture or Video Forecasting overview

Lecture or Video Processing time series data

Lecture or Video Using Amazon Forecast

Demo Demonstration: Creating a Forecast with 10 min.

Amazon Forecast

Guided Lab Creating a Forecast with Amazon Forecast 60 min.

Knowledge Managed Services for Forecasting 10 min.

Check

Module 5 – Introducing Computer Vision (CV) 56/60 min. 60 min. 120 min.

Lecture or Video Introducing Computer Vision

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# Slides/ Lab Total

Duration Duration
Lecture &
Demo
Duration

Lecture or Video Analyzing image and video

Demo Demonstration: Introducting Amazon 10 min.

Rekognition

Lecture or Video Preparing custom datasets for computer

vision

Demo Demonstration: Labeling images with 10 min.

Amazon Ground Truth

Guided Lab Facial Recognition 60 min.

Knowledge Computer Vision 10 min.

Check

Module 6 – Introducing Natural Language Processing 37/ 60 min. 60 min. 120 min.

Lecture or Video Overview of Natural Language Processing

Lecture or Video Natural Language Processing managed

services

Demo Demonstration: Introducing Amazon Polly 10 min.

Demo Demonstration: Introducing Amazon 10 min.

Comprend

Demo Demonstration: Introducing Amazon 10 min.

Translate

Guided Lab Create a bot to schedule appointments 60 min.

Knowledge Natural Language Processing 10 min.

Check

Module 7 – Course Wrap-Up 11/ 30 min. 30 min.

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# Slides/ Lab Total

Duration Duration
Lecture &
Demo
Duration

Lecture or Video Course summary

Lecture or Video AWS documentation

Lecture or Video AWS Certified Machine Learning -

Specialty

Module Objectives

Module Title Learning Objectives

• Identify course prerequisites and objectives
Module 1:
• Describe the various roles that require machine learning knowledge
Welcome to AWS Academy • Identify resources for further learning
Machine Learning
Foundations
• Recognize how machine learning and deep learning are part of
Module 2:
artificial intelligence
Introducing Machine • Describe artificial intelligence and machine learning terminology
Learning • Identify how machine learning can be used to solve a business
problem
• Describe the machine learning process
• List the tools available to data scientists
• Identify when to use machine learning instead of traditional
software development methods
• Formulate a problem from a business request
Module 3:
• Obtain and secure data for machine learning (ML)
Implementing a Machine • Build a Jupyter Notebook using Amazon SageMaker
Learning pipeline with • Outline the process for evaluating data
Amazon SageMaker • Explain why dataneeds to be preprocessed
• Use open source tools to examine and preprocess data
• Use Amazon SageMaker to train and host an ML model
• Use cross-validation to test the performance of an ML model
• Use a hosted model for inference
• Create an Amazon SageMaker hyperparameter tuning job to
optimize a model’s effectiveness
• Describe the business problems solved by using Amazon Forecast
Module 4:

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Introducing Forecasting • Describe the challenges of working with time series data
• List the steps that are required to create a forecast by using Amazon
Forecast
• Use Amazon Forecast to make a prediction
• Describe the computer vision use cases
Module 5:
• Describe the AWS managed machine learning (ML) services for
Introducing Computer Vision image and video analysis
• List the steps required to prepare a custom dataset for object
detection
• Describe how Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth can be used to
prepare a custom dataset
• Use Amazon Rekognition to perform facial detection
• Describe the natural language processing (NLP) use cases that are
Module 6:
solved by using managed Amazon ML services
Introducing Natural • Describe the managed Amazon ML services available for NLP
Language Processing • Use managed Amazon ML Services
• N/A
Module 7:
Course Wrap-Up

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