Study for the AWS AI Practitioner exam without leaving Claude

If you already use Claude, you can study for the AWS Certified AI Practitioner exam there too. CertBrain has a connector for Claude: connect it once, and Claude can see what you're due to review, quiz you on CertBrain's questions, and save your answers back to your account.

It's the same study plan as on the website, with one thing the website can't do: when you get a question wrong, you can ask why, and keep asking until it makes sense.

What the connector can do

Once it's connected, Claude can:

• show what's due: which of your lessons have questions or flashcards ready for review today
• read a lesson's questions and flashcards, including the explanation behind each answer
• record how you did, which updates your spaced-repetition schedule and your daily streak, exactly as if you'd studied on the website
• show your streak and progress

Everything stays in one schedule. A question you answer in Claude comes back on the website at the right time, and the other way round.

Set it up

You'll need a CertBrain account, so sign up first if you haven't.

On claude.ai: go to Customize → Connectors, click Add custom connector, and paste this URL:

https://certbrain.app/api/mcp

Claude sends you to CertBrain to sign in and approve access. That's it.

In Claude Code: run

claude mcp add --transport http certbrain https://certbrain.app/api/mcp

then run /mcp in a session to sign in.

Full details are on the connector page.

Your first session

Start a new conversation and try:

What's due on CertBrain today?

Claude lists the lessons that have questions ready for review. Pick one, or let Claude choose:

Quiz me on the due questions, one at a time. Don't show me the answer until I've picked.

Claude asks each question with its four options and waits for your answer. When you're done, it saves your results to CertBrain, so each question comes back sooner if you missed it and later if you knew it well.

If nothing is due yet, that's because spaced repetition only schedules what you've already started. Read a lesson on the website first, or ask Claude to quiz you on a lesson from one of the courses.

Where Claude really helps: the follow-up

On the website, a wrong answer shows you the explanation, and you move on. In Claude, you can stop and dig in:

I picked fine-tuning. Why is retrieval-augmented generation the better answer here?

Explain the difference between those two like I'm a product manager, then like an engineer.

Give me one more scenario where fine-tuning would be the right choice.

Each CertBrain question comes with a written explanation of the right answer and why each wrong option is wrong. Claude can start from that and go as deep as you need. That's often where an idea finally clicks: not on the first read, but on the third "but why?".

The follow-up questions are just conversation, so they don't change your schedule. Only the quiz answers Claude records do.

A five-minute daily habit

Spaced repetition works best a little at a time. A short daily prompt is enough:

Quiz me on whatever's due on CertBrain, at most ten questions. After each wrong answer, explain it in two sentences. Then record my results and tell me my streak.

Save it somewhere handy and use it with your morning coffee or on your commute.

A few tips

• Answer before you look. Ask Claude to hide the explanation until you've committed to an answer. Recognising the right answer is easier than choosing it, and the exam asks you to choose.
• Be honest about guesses. If you guessed right, tell Claude to count it as wrong. Your schedule should reflect what you know, not what you got lucky on.
• Check anything surprising. Every CertBrain question records the AWS documentation page it's based on. If Claude's follow-up explanation goes beyond the question, ask it to point you to the AWS docs, and read them yourself.

Ready to try it? Add the connector, then ask Claude what's due.

CertBrain is an independent study resource. It isn't affiliated with or endorsed by Amazon Web Services. AWS and AWS Certified AI Practitioner are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates.