Microsoft Certified: AI Agent Builder Associate (beta)

As a candidate for this Microsoft Certification, you’re a professional developer or advanced builder who builds, extends, and integrates custom agents for enterprise-grade solutions. You typically work as an IT application developer, consultant, or independent software vendor (ISV) partner focused on creating scalable AI solutions for organizations or customers.

For this exam, you should be familiar with Power Fx, Microsoft Dataverse, Microsoft Power Platform environments and components, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft Foundry, and adaptive cards.

You need intermediate knowledge of generative AI concepts, including models, orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), Model Context Protocol (MCP), Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol, and more. You should also have experience with prompt engineering and with REST APIs and integration patterns. Additionally, you need experience configuring agents with basic knowledge sources, instructions, tools, and topics in Microsoft Copilot Studio.

As a developer who works in Copilot Studio, you:

• Integrate agents with Microsoft Foundry.
• Integrate agents with Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers.
• Integrate agents with custom connectors.
• Integrate agents with APIs.
• Integrate agents with Microsoft Fabric.
• Automate tasks with computer use.
• Integrate agents with connectors.

You create:

• Multi-agent solutions.
• Agents with enterprise knowledge sources (such as ServiceNow, SAP, and others).
• Advanced agent topics and tools.
• Computer-using agents.
• Agents that perform advanced actions via APIs.

You collaborate with Microsoft 365 administrators, Microsoft Power Platform administrators, Microsoft Copilot administrators, Copilot Studio agent builders, Copilot Studio administrators, Foundry administrators, agentic AI business solutions architects, and Copilot Studio architects.