Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals Training (AI-901)

This Azure AI Fundamentals Training prepares beginners, IT professionals, and business decision-makers to understand how artificial intelligence works on Microsoft Azure and to earn the AI-901 certification. You will gain hands-on experience through practical labs in the Microsoft Foundry portal, helping you learn AI concepts with real-world Azure AI solution scenarios.

Prerequisites

• Basic understanding of AI concepts is helpful.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Azure resources is recommended.
• Basic knowledge of Python syntax and programming techniques is recommended.
• Familiarity with REST APIs, SDKs, and CLIs is helpful.
• Basic understanding of cloud concepts, including cloud computing, storage, compute, and authentication, is recommended.
• No advanced AI or machine learning experience is required.

What Will You Learn?

• Responsible AI Principles
• AI Model Components and Configurations
• Generative AI Models
• AI Model Selection
• AI Model Deployment Options and Configuration Parameters
• Generative AI and Agentic AI Workloads
• Text Analysis
• Speech Recognition and Speech Synthesis
• Computer Vision
• Image Generation
• Information Extraction from Text, Images, Audio, and Video
• System and User Prompts
• Microsoft Foundry
• Model Deployment and Interaction in Microsoft Foundry
• Foundry SDK
• Lightweight Chat Client Applications
• Single-Agent Solutions
• Multimodal AI Models
• Azure Speech in Foundry Tools
• Azure Content Understanding
• Azure Machine Learning lifecycle
• Information Extraction Applications

Skills You Will Gain

• Identify suitable AI workloads for business scenarios.
• Select appropriate AI models based on their capabilities.
• Understand model deployment and configuration.
• Apply responsible AI principles and considerations.
• Deploy and interact with models in Microsoft Foundry.
• Create basic chat applications using the Foundry SDK.
• Create and test a single AI agent.
• Work with multimodal AI models.
• Build basic text, speech, and vision AI applications.
• Extract information from documents and other media using Content Understanding.

Tools Covered

• Microsoft Foundry portal
• Azure AI Foundry SDK (Python)
• Azure Machine Learning Studio
• Azure AI Vision
• Azure AI Language
• Azure AI Speech
• Foundry Models (including Azure OpenAI-based models)
• Copilot Studio 
• REST APIs, SDKs and CLI tools used across Azure AI services