Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate
Validates expertise in building, managing, and deploying AI solutions that leverage Azure AI services. This associate-level certification covers planning and managing Azure AI solutions including resource provisioning, responsible AI governance, and content moderation, implementing generative AI solutions with Azure AI Foundry and Azure OpenAI including RAG patterns and prompt engineering, implementing agentic solutions with Microsoft Foundry Agent Service, implementing computer vision solutions with Azure AI Vision and custom models, implementing NLP solutions including text analytics, speech services, and custom language models, and implementing knowledge mining with Azure AI Search and Document Intelligence. Requires experience developing with Python or C# and using REST APIs and SDKs.
Exam domains
- Plan and manage an Azure AI solution24%
Select Microsoft Foundry Services for generative AI, vision, language, speech, information extraction, and knowledge mining; plan and deploy Microsoft Foundry resources with appropriate models and SDKs; manage authentication, monitoring, and cost; and implement responsible AI with content filters, blocklists, prompt shields, and harm detection.
- Implement generative AI solutions18%
Build Microsoft Foundry hubs, projects, prompt flows, and retrieval-augmented generation patterns; deploy and integrate Azure OpenAI in Foundry models including DALL-E and multimodal models; and optimize generative solutions through monitoring, scaling, prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and orchestration.
- Implement natural language processing solutions18%
Extract key phrases, entities, sentiment, language detection, and PII from text; translate text and documents with Azure Translator in Foundry Tools; integrate text-to-speech, speech-to-text, custom speech, and intent recognition; and build custom language understanding and question-answering models.
- Implement knowledge mining and information extraction solutions18%
Sources
Questions are grounded in 100 references from official and authoritative materials.