Study guide for Exam AI-102: Designing and Implementing a Microsoft Azure AI Solution

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Most questions cover features that are general availability (GA). The exam may contain questions on Preview features if those features are commonly used.

Skills measured as of April 30, 2025

Audience profile

As a Microsoft Azure AI engineer, you build, manage, and deploy AI solutions that leverage Azure AI.

Your responsibilities include participating in all phases of AI solutions development, including:

• Requirements definition and design

• Development

• Deployment

• Integration

• Maintenance

• Performance tuning

• Monitoring

You work with solution architects to translate their vision. You also work with data scientists, data engineers, Internet of Things (IoT) specialists, infrastructure administrators, and other software developers to:

• Build complete and secure end-to-end AI solutions.

• Integrate AI capabilities in other applications and solutions.

As an Azure AI engineer, you have experience developing solutions that use languages such as:

• Python

• C#

You should be able to use Representational State Transfer (REST) APIs and SDKs to build secure image processing, video processing, natural language processing, knowledge mining, and generative AI solutions on Azure. You should:

• Understand the components that make up the Azure AI portfolio and the available data storage options.

• Be able to apply responsible AI principles.

Skills at a glance

• Plan and manage an Azure AI solution (20–25%)

• Implement generative AI solutions (15–20%)

• Implement an agentic solution (5–10%)

• Implement computer vision solutions (10–15%)

• Implement natural language processing solutions (15–20%)

• Implement knowledge mining and information extraction solutions (15–20%)

Plan and manage an Azure AI solution (20–25%)

Select the appropriate Azure AI services

• Select the appropriate service for a generative AI solution

• Select the appropriate service for a computer vision solution

• Select the appropriate service for a natural language processing solution

• Select the appropriate service for a speech solution

• Select the appropriate service for an information extraction solution

• Select the appropriate service for a knowledge mining solution

Plan, create and deploy an Azure AI service

• Plan for a solution that meets Responsible AI principles

• Create an Azure AI resource

• Choose the appropriate AI models for your solution

• Deploy AI models using the appropriate deployment options

• Install and utilize the appropriate SDKs and APIs

• Determine a default endpoint for a service

• Integrate Azure AI services into a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline

• Plan and implement a container deployment

Manage, monitor, and secure an Azure AI service

• Monitor an Azure AI resource

• Manage costs for Azure AI services

• Manage and protect account keys

• Manage authentication for an Azure AI Service resource

Implement AI solutions responsibly

• Implement content moderation solutions

• Configure responsible AI insights, including content safety

• Implement responsible AI, including content filters and blocklists

• Prevent harmful behavior, including prompt shields and harm detection

• Design a responsible AI governance framework

Implement generative AI solutions (15–20%)

Build generative AI solutions with Azure AI Foundry

• Plan and prepare for a generative AI solution

• Deploy a hub, project, and necessary resources with Azure AI Foundry

• Deploy the appropriate generative AI model for your use case

• Implement a prompt flow solution

• Implement a RAG pattern by grounding a model in your data

• Evaluate models and flows

• Integrate your project into an application with Azure AI Foundry SDK

• Utilize prompt templates in your generative AI solution

Use Azure OpenAI Service to generate content

• Provision an Azure OpenAI Service resource

• Select and deploy an Azure OpenAI model

• Submit prompts to generate code and natural language responses

• Use the DALL-E model to generate images

• Integrate Azure OpenAI into your own application

• Use large multimodal models in Azure OpenAI

• Implement an Azure OpenAI Assistant

Optimize and operationalize a generative AI solution

• Configure parameters to control generative behavior

• Configure model monitoring and diagnostic settings, including performance and resource consumption

• Optimize and manage resources for deployment, including scalability and foundational model updates

• Enable tracing and collect feedback

• Implement model reflection

• Deploy containers for use on local and edge devices

• Implement orchestration of multiple generative AI models

• Apply prompt engineering techniques to improve responses

• Fine-tune an generative model

Implement an agentic solution (5–10%)

Create custom agents

• Understand the role and use cases of an agent

• Configure the necessary resources to build an agent

• Create an agent with the Azure AI Agent Service

• Implement complex agents with Semantic Kernel and Autogen

• Implement complex workflows including orchestration for a multi-agent solution, multiple users, and autonomous capabilities

• Test, optimize and deploy an agent

Implement computer vision solutions (10–15%)

Analyze images

• Select visual features to meet image processing requirements

• Detect objects in images and generate image tags

• Include image analysis features in an image processing request

• Interpret image processing responses

• Extract text from images using Azure AI Vision

• Convert handwritten text using Azure AI Vision

Implement custom vision models

• Choose between image classification and object detection models

• Label images

• Train a custom image model, including image classification and object detection

• Evaluate custom vision model metrics

• Publish a custom vision model

• Consume a custom vision model

• Build a custom vision model code first

Analyze videos

• Use Azure AI Video Indexer to extract insights from a video or live stream

• Use Azure AI Vision Spatial Analysis to detect presence and movement of people in video

Implement natural language processing solutions (15–20%)

Analyze and translate text

• Extract key phrases and entities

• Determine sentiment of text

• Detect the language used in text

• Detect personally identifiable information (PII) in text

• Translate text and documents by using the Azure AI Translator service

Process and translate speech

• Integrate generative AI speaking capabilities in an application

• Implement text-to-speech and speech-to-text using Azure AI Speech

• Improve text-to-speech by using Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML)

• Implement custom speech solutions with Azure AI Speech

• Implement intent and keyword recognition with Azure AI Speech

• Translate speech-to-speech and speech-to-text by using the Azure AI Speech service

Implement custom language models

• Create intents, entities, and add utterances

• Train, evaluate, deploy, and test a language understanding model

• Optimize, backup, and recover language understanding model

• Consume a language model from a client application

• Create a custom question answering project

• Add question-and-answer pairs and import sources for question answering

• Train, test, and publish a knowledge base

• Create a multi-turn conversation

• Add alternate phrasing and chit-chat to a knowledge base

• Export a knowledge base

• Create a multi-language question answering solution

• Implement custom translation, including training, improving, and publishing a custom model

Implement knowledge mining and information extraction solutions (15–20%)

Implement an Azure AI Search solution

• Provision an Azure AI Search resource, create an index, and define a skillset

• Create data sources and indexers

• Implement custom skills and include them in a skillset

• Create and run an indexer

• Query an index, including syntax, sorting, filtering, and wildcards

• Manage Knowledge Store projections, including file, object, and table projections

• Implement semantic and vector store solutions

Implement an Azure AI Document Intelligence solution

• Provision a Document Intelligence resource

• Use prebuilt models to extract data from documents

• Implement a custom document intelligence model

• Train, test, and publish a custom document intelligence model

• Create a composed document intelligence model

Extract information with Azure AI Content Understanding

• Create an OCR pipeline to extract text from images and documents

• Summarize, classify, and detect attributes of documents

• Extract entities, tables, and images from documents

• Process and ingest documents, images, videos, and audio with Azure AI Content Understanding

Study resources

We recommend that you train and get hands-on experience before you take the exam. We offer self-study options and classroom training as well as links to documentation, community sites, and videos.

Study resources	Links to learning and documentation
Get trained	Choose from self-paced learning paths and modules or take an instructor-led course
Find documentation	Azure AI services Azure AI Vision Azure AI Video Indexer Azure AI Language Azure AI Speech Azure AI Search Azure OpenAI Azure AI Document Intelligence
Ask a question	Microsoft Q&A | Microsoft Docs
Get community support	AI - Machine Learning - Microsoft Tech Community AI - Machine Learning Blog - Microsoft Tech Community
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Find a video	The AI Show Browse other Microsoft Learn shows

Change log

The table below summarizes the changes between the current and previous version of the skills measured. The functional groups are in bold typeface followed by the objectives within each group. The table is a comparison between the previous and current version of the exam skills measured and the third column describes the extent of the changes.

Skill area prior to April 30, 2025	Skill area as of April 30, 2025	Change
Audience profile		No change
Plan and manage an Azure AI solution	Plan and manage an Azure AI solution	% of the exam increased
Select the appropriate Azure AI service	Select the appropriate Azure AI services	Minor
Plan, create and deploy an Azure AI service	Plan, create and deploy an Azure AI service	Major
Manage, monitor and secure an Azure AI service	Manage, monitor, and secure an Azure AI service	Minor
	Implement AI solutions responsibly	New
Implement content moderation solutions	Implement generative AI solutions	% of the exam increased
Create solutions for content delivery		Deleted
	Build generative AI solutions with Azure AI Foundry	New
	Use Azure OpenAI Service to generate content	New
	Optimize and operationalize a generative AI solution	New
	Implement an agentic solution	New
	Create custom agents	New
Implement computer vision solutions	Implement computer vision solutions	% of the exam decreased
Implement custom vision models by using Azure AI Vision	Implement custom vision models	Minor
Implement natural language processing solutions	Implement natural language processing solutions	% of the exam decreased
Analyze text by using Azure AI Language	Analyze and translate text	Minor
Process speech by using Azure AI Speech	Process and translate speech	Major
Translate language		Deleted
Implement and manage a language understanding model by using Azure AI Language	Implement custom language models	Major
Create a question answering solution by using Azure AI Language		Deleted
Implement knowledge mining and document intelligence solutions	Implement knowledge mining and information extraction solutions	% of the exam increased
Implement an Azure AI Search solution	Implement an Azure AI Search solution	Major
Implement an Azure AI Document Intelligence solution	Implement an Azure AI Document Intelligence solution	Minor
	Extract information with Azure AI Content Understanding	New
Implement generative AI solutions		Deleted
Use Azure OpenAI Service to generate content		Deleted
Optimize generative AI		Deleted