Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate (AI-102) Certification Training
Design and Implement AI Solutions that Solve Real-World Challenges.
This comprehensive course is designed to prepare you for the AI-102 certification, validating your skills in using Azure Cognitive Services and Azure Applied AI to build powerful, cutting-edge artificial intelligence solutions. As AI transforms industries, the ability to architect, implement, and monitor AI workloads on a scalable cloud platform is a critical and in-demand skill.
You will learn to use Azure’s AI service portfolio to create solutions for vision, language, speech, and decision-making. This course combines theory with hands-on labs, empowering you to integrate AI capabilities into applications, making them more intelligent, accessible, and impactful.
Key Benefits & Learning Outcomes:
You will learn to:
Plan and manage Azure Cognitive Services solutions.
Implement computer vision, natural language processing, and knowledge mining solutions.
Create and run conversational AI solutions with Azure Bot Service.
Implement generative AI solutions using Azure OpenAI Service.
You will be able to:
Pass the AI-102 Azure AI Engineer Associate exam with confidence.
Design and implement end-to-end AI solutions on Microsoft Azure.
Automate processes and enhance user experiences with intelligent features.
Position yourself at the forefront of the AI revolution in cloud computing.
Who is this course for?
AI Engineers and Machine Learning Engineers
Data Scientists and Developers looking to specialize in AI
Cloud Solution Architects focusing on AI workloads
Professionals interested in building solutions with Azure Cognitive Services and Azure OpenAI.
Requirements
To successfully complete this course and prepare for the exam, you will need:
Technical Requirements:
A computer with a stable internet connection and a modern web browser.
An active Azure Subscription (free tier is sufficient to start).
Familiarity with a programming language like Python or C# is necessary for labs.
Course-Specific Requirements:
Dedication to complete all coding labs and understand API integrations.
A problem-solving mindset and curiosity about AI capabilities.
We recommend a study commitment of 6-8 hours per week for 6-8 weeks to thoroughly grasp the concepts and prepare for the exam.
- A free or paid subscription to Microsoft Azure
- Eagerness to learn about Microsoft’s expanding cloud platform
- Basic experience with Visual Studio (preferred but not required)
- Previous coding experience in python or a similar language
- Familiarity with cloud computing concepts (helpful but not mandatory)
Prerequisites
This is an associate-level certification, and while there are no formal prerequisites from Microsoft, specific foundational knowledge is required for success.
Mandatory Prerequisites:
None. You can register for the AI-102 exam without any prior certifications.
Recommended Knowledge/Skills:
Proficiency in Python or C# is essential for implementing the solutions in the labs and on the job.
A fundamental understanding of REST-based APIs and JSON.
Familiarity with basic machine learning concepts is highly beneficial.
Experience with Azure fundamentals (e.g., AZ-900 level knowledge) is recommended but not required.
Course Completion Certificate
Curriculum
- 14 Sections
- 145 Lessons
- 21 Hours
- Introduction2
- Getting Started with Azure AI Foundary and Playgrounds17
- 2.1Set Up Your First Azure AI Foundry Resource
- 2.2Navigating the Azure AI Foundry Portal: A Complete Overview
- 2.3Exploring the Azure AI Foundry Model Catalog
- 2.4Deploying Models with Azure AI Foundry
- 2.5Chat Playground in Azure AI Foundry: Instructions, Context, and System Prompts
- 2.6Chat Playground in Azure AI Foundry: Tuning Parameters for Better Results
- 2.7Chat Playground in Azure AI Foundry: Managing Safety System Messages
- 2.8Chat Playground in Azure AI Foundry: Working with Examples
- 2.9Chat Playground in Azure AI Foundry: Using Variables
- 2.10Chat Playground in Azure AI Foundry: Working with Phi-4 Model
- 2.11Image Playground & Using Images as Input in Chat Playground
- 2.12Video Playground in Azure AI Foundry
- 2.13Audio Playground in Azure AI Foundry
- 2.14Speech Playground in Azure AI Foundry
- 2.15Language & Translator Playground in Azure AI Foundry
- 2.16Prompt Engineering Fundamentals & Best Practices
- 2.17Grok Models in Azure AI Foundry
- Building Assistance in Azure AI Foundary and Playgrounds5
- 3.1Building Your First Assistant in Azure AI Foundry
- 3.2Creating a Smart Travel Buddy with Vector Store in Assistant Playground
- 3.3Building Data Analyzer Pro with Code Interpreter in Assistant Playground
- 3.4Designing PyLabCoach with Advanced Code Interpreter in Assistant Playground
- 3.5Functions in Assistant Playground
- Building RAG, Model Fine-Tuning and Safety Control in Azure AI Foundary5
- 4.1Build Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Based Solution in Azure AI Foundry
- 4.2Fine-Tune and Deploy a Language Model in Azure AI Foundry
- 4.3Guardrails and Controls: Using Default Content Filters
- 4.4Guardrails and Controls: Creating Custom Filters & Blocklists
- 4.5Evaluate Generative AI Model Performance (Manual & Automated Evaluation)
- Python Application with Azure AI Foundary7
- 5.1Generative AI Chatbot with Python & Azure AI Foundry
- 5.2Generative AI Chatbot with Python & Azure AI Foundry (Gradio Integration)
- 5.3Code Walkthrough: Generative AI Chatbot with Python & Azure AI Foundry
- 5.4Vision-Powered Chatbot with Python & Azure AI Foundry
- 5.5Code Walkthrough: Vision-Powered Chatbot with Python & Azure AI Foundry
- 5.6Image Generation with DALL·E 3 Using Python
- 5.7Python Application for Assistants Playground
- Develop AI Agent with Azure AI Foundary5
- 6.1Build Your First AI Agent in Azure AI Foundry: Travel Reimbursement Assistant
- 6.2Data Analysis AI Agent with Code Interpreter (CSV Project)
- 6.3Data Analysis AI Agent (Python SDK)
- 6.4Custom function (Tool) in AI Agent: Automating Support Tickets (Python SDK)
- 6.5Design Multi-Agent AI Solutions: Movie Night AI Assistant (Python SDK)
- Prompt Flow in Azure AI Foundary11
- 7.1Prompt Flow for Conversational AI Chat Apps
- 7.2Simple Prompt Flow in Azure AI Foundry Part 1
- 7.3Simple Prompt Flow in Azure AI Foundry Part 2
- 7.4Simple Prompt Flow in Azure AI Foundry Part 3
- 7.5Prompt Flow: Multiple LLM calls in Sequence
- 7.6Prompt Flow: Multiple LLM calls in Parallel
- 7.7Prompt Flow: Simple Chat Flow
- 7.8RAG with Prompt Flow: Standard Flow with Index Lookup Part 1
- 7.9RAG with Prompt Flow: Standard Flow with Index Lookup Part 2
- 7.10RAG with Prompt Flow: Chat Flow with Index Lookup
- 7.11Web Search with SERP API in Prompt Flow
- Get Started with AI Azure Services13
- 8.1Develop AI Solutions on Azure
- 8.2How to Access Azure AI Services (Now Rebranded as Azure AI Foundry)
- 8.3[Hands-On] Lab Get Started with Azure AI Services Part 1
- 8.4[Hands-On] Lab Get Started with Azure AI Services Part 2
- 8.5[Hands-On] Manage Azure AI Services Security Part 1
- 8.6[Hands-On] Manage Azure AI Services Security Part 2
- 8.7[Hands-On] Manage Azure AI Services Security Part 3
- 8.8[Hands-On] Monitor Azure AI Services
- 8.9Azure AI Services in Containers
- 8.10[Hands-On] Use an Azure AI Services Container
- 8.11Azure Content Safety
- 8.12[Hands-On] Implement Azure AI Content Safety Part 1
- 8.13[Hands-On] Implement Azure AI Content Safety Part 2
- Computer Vision Solution with Azure AI Vision11
- 9.1Computer Vision Solutions
- 9.2[Hands-On] Analyze Images with Azure AI Vision
- 9.3[Hands-On] Classify Images with Azure AI Vision Custom Model Part 1
- 9.4[Hands-On] Classify Images with Azure AI Vision Custom Model Part 2
- 9.5[Hands-On] Detect Objects in Images with Azure AI Custom Vision
- 9.6[Hands-On] Detect and Analyze Faces Part 1
- 9.7[Hands-On] Detect and Analyze Faces Part 2
- 9.8[Hands-On] Read Text in Images
- 9.9[Hands-On] Analyze Video with Video Indexer
- 9.10[Hands-On] Build Image Classification Model with Custom Vision
- 9.11Pricing: Azure Computer Vision Solutions
- Natural Language Processing Solutions with Azure AI Service13
- 10.1NLP Solutions with Azure AI Services
- 10.2[Hands-On] Analyze Text
- 10.3[Hands-On] Create Language Understanding Model Part 1
- 10.4[Hands-On] Create Language Understanding Model Part 2
- 10.5[Hands-On] Custom Text Classification Part 1
- 10.6[Hands-On] Custom Text Classification Part 2
- 10.7[Hands-On] Extract Custom Entities Part 1
- 10.8[Hands-On] Extract Custom Entities Part 2
- 10.9[Hands-On] Translate Text
- 10.10[Hands-On] Recognize and Synthesize Speech Part 1
- 10.11[Hands-On] Recognize and Synthesize Speech Part 2
- 10.12[Hands-On] Translate Speech
- 10.13Pricing: Azure Natural Language Processing Solutions
- Azure AI Document Intelligence11
- 11.1[Hands-On] Use Prebuilt Document Intelligence Models Part 1
- 11.2[Hands-On] Use Prebuilt Document Intelligence Models Part 2
- 11.3[Hands-On] Use Prebuilt Document Intelligence Models Part 3
- 11.4Extract Data from Forms with Azure Document Intelligence
- 11.5[Hands-On] Extract Data from Forms Part 1
- 11.6[Hands-On] Extract Data from Forms Part 2
- 11.7Create Composed Document Intelligence Model
- 11.8[Hands-On] Create Composed Document Intelligence Model Part 1
- 11.9[Hands-On] Create Composed Document Intelligence Model Part 2
- 11.10[Hands-On] Create Composed Document Intelligence Model Part 3
- 11.11Pricing: Azure Document Intelligence Solutions
- Generative AI Solutions with Azure OpenAI Service16
- 12.1Get Started with Azure OpenAI Service
- 12.2Apply Prompt Engineering with Azure OpenAI Service
- 12.3Build Natural Language Solutions with Azure OpenAI Service
- 12.4[Hands-On] Get Started with Azure OpenAI Service
- 12.5[Hands-On] Model Instructions and, Adding Examples
- 12.6[Hands-On] Safety System Messages, Examples and Parameters
- 12.7[Hands-On] Azure OpenAI SDKs
- 12.8Generate Code with Azure OpenAI Service
- 12.9[Hands-On] Generate and Improve Code with Azure OpenAI Service
- 12.10Generate Images with Azure OpenAI Service
- 12.11[Hands-On] Generate Images with DALL-E Model
- 12.12[Hands-On] Develop Web Application
- 12.13Implement RAG with Azure OpenAI Service
- 12.14[Hands-On] Implement RAG with Azure OpenAI Service Part 1
- 12.15[Hands-On] Implement RAG with Azure OpenAI Service Part 2
- 12.16Pricing: Azure Generative AI solutions
- Knowledge Mining with Azure AI Search21
- 13.1Create an Azure AI Search Solution
- 13.2Create Custom Skill for Azure AI Search
- 13.3Implement Advanced Search Features in Azure AI Search
- 13.4Maintain Azure AI Search Solution
- 13.5[Hands-On] Implement Enhancements to Search Results Part 1
- 13.6[Hands-On] Implement Enhancements to Search Results Part 2
- 13.7[Hands-On] Create Demo Search Application
- 13.8[Hands-On] Creating Skillset
- 13.9[Hands-On] Run Queries using Search Explorer
- 13.10Perform Vector Search and Retrieval in Azure AI Search
- 13.11[Hands-On] Vectorizing Text Part 1
- 13.12[Hands-On] Vectorizing Text Part 2
- 13.13[Hands-On] Vectorizing Images
- 13.14Create Knowledge Store with Azure AI Search
- 13.15[Hands-On] Create Knowledge Store with Azure AI Search
- 13.16Perform Search Reranking with Semantic Ranking in Azure AI Search
- 13.17[Hands-On] Semantic Ranker in Azure AI Search
- 13.18[Hands-On] Use Your Own Data with Azure OpenAI Models
- 13.19[Hands-On] Debug Search Issues
- 13.20[Hands-On] Use REST API to Run Vector Search Queries
- 13.21Pricing: Azure AI Search Solutions
- Azure AI Foundary Services8
- 14.1Create and Configure Azure AI Foundry Service
- 14.2Azure AI Foundry Service: Explore Model Catalog
- 14.3[Hands-On] Model Catalog: Deploying and Using Models (Phi-4)
- 14.4[Hands-On] Model Catalog: Deploying and Using Models (DeepSeek R1, LLama)
- 14.5[Hands-On] Azure AI Foundry Playgrounds: Chat & Speech Playgrounds
- 14.6[Hands-On] Azure AI Foundry Speech Playground: Custom Speech Fine-Tuning
- 14.7[Hands-On] Azure AI Foundry Playgrounds: Agents, Image, Healthcare & Language
- 14.8[Hands-On] Data and Indexing, Search Index Creation & LLM Setup
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