Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-901)

Start your journey in AI solution development

Artificial intelligence is increasingly part of software, services and everyday digital experiences. This one-day course introduces the concepts and Azure technologies that aspiring AI developers and technology professionals need to understand before progressing to more complex implementations. It combines an explanation of AI capabilities with an introduction to how they are delivered through Microsoft Foundry.

Understand the technology behind the results

Explore the differences between common AI workloads and consider how model capabilities, deployment options and configuration settings affect the solutions you design. Learn why responsible AI matters, including fairness, reliability, privacy, security, transparency and accountability. Rather than treating every challenge as a chatbot problem, you will examine where text, speech, visual understanding, image generation and information extraction can contribute.

Connect concepts to Azure services

See how the Foundry portal supports model deployment, prompting and agent development. Examine the role of the Foundry SDK and lightweight client applications, alongside Azure Speech and Azure Content Understanding in Foundry Tools. The focus is foundational: understanding appropriate approaches and the components involved, not mastering production architecture or advanced Python development.

Build an informed next step

Use practical solution scenarios to connect the right workload to a technical requirement, from analysing written feedback to interpreting images or extracting data from documents and media. The course follows the published AI-901 exam objectives and helps you identify topics for further study and practice before sitting Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals. Familiarity with Python syntax, Azure resources and core cloud concepts will help you follow the technical content.