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%)

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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