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
