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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals
AI concepts and building with Microsoft Foundry (Exam AI-901)
A classroom course for the start of a career in AI solution development. It follows the two skill areas of Exam AI-901, which replaced AI-900 in June 2026: identifying AI concepts and capabilities, and implementing AI solutions with Microsoft Foundry. More than half of the exam is hands-on building, and it expects Python.
9Modules
BeginnerLevel
6 weeksDuration
COURSE THUMBNAIL
What you will be able to do
Describe the principles of responsible AI
Explain how generative AI models work and choose one for a task
Write effective system and user prompts
Build a small chat application and a single agent with Microsoft Foundry
Build small applications that use text, speech, vision and information extraction
Sit Exam AI-901 having covered every skill area Microsoft lists
Course outline
01
Principles of responsible AI
02
How generative AI models work; choosing and deploying a model
03
AI workloads: text, speech, vision and information extraction
04
Generative AI apps and prompts in Microsoft Foundry
05
Building and testing an agent in Foundry
06
Text and speech solutions with Foundry
07
Computer vision and image generation with Foundry
08
Information extraction with Content Understanding
09
Review and practice tests
Tools you will use
Microsoft FoundryFoundry SDKAzure SpeechAzure Content UnderstandingPythonAzure portal
What you need
Basic Python coding
Basic familiarity with Azure helps
