Amazon AWS Certified Alexa Skill Builder – Specialty Version: 1.0

AWS Certified Alexa Skill Builder – Specialty is Amazon’s first AWS certification for Alexa, the popular virtual assistant used in Amazon Echo and Amazon Echo Dot smart speakers. This certificate is launched by Amazon to provide a path to developers who want to acquire the validation for working with the virtual assistant for smart speakers.

AWS Certificate Alexa Skill Builder is best-suited for candidates performing a role as an Alexa skill builder. The AWS Alexa Skill Builder exam validates a candidate’s ability to build, test, and publish Amazon Alexa skills. AWS Certified Skill Builder – Specialty Exam (AXS-C01) is intended to prove a candidate’s ability to prove knowledge about building, testing, publishing, and certifying Amazon Alexa Skills.

Course Key Learnings

• Pass the AWS Certified Alexa Skill Builder Specialty Certification
• Alexa Skill Development
• Build an Alexa Skill
• Built-in & Custom Intents
• Slots & Entity Resolution
• Annotation Set & Evaluation Model
• Interfaces
• Alexa-Hosted Skil
• Custom-Hosted Skill
• Master Alexa Simulator
• Skill Distribution
• Understand Skill Certification Checklist
• Skill Analytics
• Sell Products on Alexa
• Account Linking
• Pre-built models

Course Outline

Voice-First Design Practices and Capabilities

• Explain how user-interaction takes place with skills
• Map features and capabilities to use cases

Skill Design

• Design and develop an interaction model
• Design a multi-turn conversation
• Use built-in intents and slots
• Handle unexpected conversational requests or responses
• Design multi-modal skills using one or more service interfaces

Skill Architecture

•  Identify AWS services for extending Alexa skill functionality
• Use AWS Lambda to build Alexa skills
• Follow AWS and Alexa security and privacy best practices

Skill Development

•  Implement in-skill purchasing and Amazon Pay for Alexa Skills
• Use Speech Synthesis Markup Language for expression and MP3 audio
• Implement state management
• Implement Alexa service interfaces
• Parse Alexa JSON requests and provides responses

Test, Validate and Troubleshoot

• Debug and troubleshoot using Amazon CloudWatch or other tools
• Use the Alexa developer testing tools
• Perform beta testing
• Troubleshoot errors in the interaction model

Publishing, Operations, and Lifecycle Management 

• Describe the skill publishing process
• add and remove users in the developer console
• Perform analysis of skill analytics in the developer console
• Differentiate among the statuses/versions of skills