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Exam AI-500: Designing and Implementing Multi-Agent AI Solutions (beta)

As a candidate for this exam, you’re an expert-level practitioner who has subject matter expertise in designing, building, and optimizing scalable, production‑ready, multi-agent AI systems and workflows. You manage the development from design to production.

You work closely with developers, machine learning engineers, platform engineers, data scientists, and business stakeholders to translate complex requirements into production-ready, multi-agent solutions.

For this exam, you should have experience developing AI and machine learning, deploying agentic systems in production environments, and orchestrating agent logic using Microsoft Foundry. You should also be proficient in Python.

Additionally, you need experience developing solutions that include Azure compute, network, storage, and data services. You should be familiar with open-source frameworks and standards, including Microsoft Agent Framework, Model Context Protocol (MCP), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and LangGraph.

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Part of the requirements for: Microsoft Certified: Multi-Agent AI Solutions Expert (beta)

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  • AI-500: Designing and Implementing Multi-Agent AI Solutions (beta)

    Languages: English

    Retirement date: none

    As a candidate for this exam, you’re an expert-level practitioner who has subject matter expertise in designing, building, and optimizing scalable, production‑ready, multi-agent AI systems and workflows. You manage the development from design to production.

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Assessed on this exam

  • Architect multi-agent solutions (15–20%)
  • Develop multi-agent solutions in Azure (30–35%)
  • Evaluate, optimize, and monitor multi-agent solutions (20–25%)
  • Secure, govern, and deploy multi-agent solutions (20–25%)

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