AI-102: Designing and Implementing a Microsoft Azure AI Solution

Prepare to earn the Microsoft Azure AI Engineer Associate certification in just 3 hours a week! Next cohort starts April 15, 2025! 

Why Hybrid Training?

Flexible Hybrid Format

Experience the perfect blend of live instruction and self-paced learning, allowing you to stay engaged without disrupting your schedule.

Hands-On Learning

Gain practical experience through assignments, simulations, and labs, all designed to prepare you for real-world applications.

Consistent Instructor Support

Enjoy weekly live sessions that provide direct access to expert guidance, feedback, and support.

Certification Preparation

Prepare to earn Microsoft validated certifications that validate your skills, making you more attractive to career-focused employers.

Course Description

AI-102 Designing and Implementing an Azure AI Solution is intended for software developers wanting to build AI infused applications that leverage Azure AI Services, Azure AI Search, and Azure OpenAI. The course will use C# or Python as the programming language.

Audience Profile

Software engineers concerned with building, managing and deploying AI solutions that leverage Azure AI Services, Azure AI Search, and Azure OpenAI. They are familiar with C# or Python and have knowledge on using REST-based APIs to build computer vision, language analysis, knowledge mining, intelligent search, and generative AI solutions on Azure.

About this Course

Skills at a glance

  • Plan and manage an Azure AI solution (15–20%)

  • Implement content moderation solutions (10–15%)

  • Implement computer vision solutions (15–20%)

  • Implement natural language processing solutions (30–35%)

  • Implement knowledge mining and document intelligence solutions (10–15%)

  • Implement generative AI solutions (10–15%)

Plan and manage an Azure AI solution (15–20%)

Select the appropriate Azure AI service

  • 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 a generative AI solution

  • Select the appropriate service for a document intelligence 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

  • 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

  • Configure diagnostic logging

  • Monitor an Azure AI resource

  • Manage costs for Azure AI services

  • Manage account keys

  • Protect account keys by using Azure Key Vault

  • Manage authentication for an Azure AI Service resource

  • Manage private communications

Implement content moderation solutions (10–15%)

Create solutions for content delivery

  • Implement a text moderation solution with Azure AI Content Safety

  • Implement an image moderation solution with Azure AI Content Safety

Implement computer vision solutions (15–20%)

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 computer vision models by using Azure AI Vision

  • 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

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 (30–35%)

Analyze text by using Azure AI Language

  • Extract key phrases

  • Extract entities

  • Determine sentiment of text

  • Detect the language used in text

  • Detect personally identifiable information (PII) in text

Process speech by using Azure AI Speech

  • Implement text-to-speech

  • Implement speech-to-text

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

  • Implement custom speech solutions

  • Implement intent recognition

  • Implement keyword recognition

Translate language

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

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

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

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

  • Translate to multiple languages simultaneously

Implement and manage a language understanding model by using Azure AI Language

  • Create intents and add utterances

  • Create entities

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

  • Optimize a language understanding model

  • Consume a language model from a client application

  • Backup and recover language understanding models

Create a custom question answering solution by using Azure AI Language

  • Create a custom question answering project

  • Add question-and-answer pairs manually

  • Import sources

  • Train and test a knowledge base

  • Publish a knowledge base

  • Create a multi-turn conversation

  • Add alternate phrasing

  • Add chit-chat to a knowledge base

  • Export a knowledge base

  • Create a multi-language question answering solution

Implement knowledge mining and document intelligence solutions (10–15%)

Implement an Azure AI Search solution

  • Provision an Azure AI Search resource

  • Create data sources

  • Create an index

  • Define a skillset

  • 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 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

  • Implement a document intelligence model as a custom Azure AI Search skill

Implement generative AI solutions (10–15%)

Use Azure OpenAI Service to generate content

  • Provision an Azure OpenAI Service resource

  • Select and deploy an Azure OpenAI model

  • Submit prompts to generate natural language

  • Submit prompts to generate code

  • Use the DALL-E model to generate images

  • Use Azure OpenAI APIs to submit prompts and receive responses

  • Use large multimodal models in Azure OpenAI

Optimize generative AI

  • Configure parameters to control generative behavior

  • Apply prompt engineering techniques to improve responses

  • Use your own data with an Azure OpenAI model

  • Fine-tune an Azure OpenAI model

 

8 Weeks

Intermediate

Microsoft Azure

AI Engineer

Hybrid Course Schedule​

CourseStart DateEnd DateMeets onStart TimeEnd TimeTime ZoneWeeksWeekly Live TrainingWeekly Self Paced
AI-900: Azure FundamentalsMarch 4thApril 8thTuesday12:00 PM1:00 PMCentral41 Hour2 Hours
AI-102: Designing and Implementing a Microsoft Azure AI SolutionApril 15thJune 4thTuesday12:00 PM1:00 PMCentral81 Hour2 Hours

Microsoft Azure AI Engineer Track

Azure AI Fundamentals
Azure AI Fundamentals

Start Date: March 4, 2025
Duration: 4 Weeks
Format: Live + On-demand
Price: $299

View Course Description

Azure AI Engineer
Azure AI Engineer

Start Date: April 15, 2025
Duration: 8 Weeks
Format: Live + On-demand
Price: $699

View Course Description

Have Questions?

We’re here to help! If you have any questions about our programs or need assistance with enrollment, please contact us.