A guide to achieving artificial intelligence expertise on Azure
With cloud AI services and tools, now every developer can leverage AI to create
innovative applications that solve complex problems.
This guide will show you how to create the next generation of applications using
Azure AI in only 4 weeks. By committing less than an hour each day—think coffee-
fueled morning ritual or mid-afternoon break— you’ll be able to build intelligent
apps confidently with the tools and frameworks of your choice.
Each week you’ll watch a video on foundational concepts of Azure AI, complete a
step-by-step training, and try what you’ve learned with a hands-on exercise. This will
give you the expertise you need to successfully complete your Azure AI
Fundamentals certification.
Let’s get started!
There’s so much to learn about Azure AI. Don’t worry- we’ve curated an easy to
understand journey to drive you towards certification in only 4 weeks. Each week you’ll
watch a video on foundational concepts, learn from a step-by-step training, and try skills
for yourself with a hands-on exercise. Click on the icon to jump to that week’s training.
Before you begin, click here to prepare for your journey.
Attain Azure AI
Fundamentals
certification
WEEK 1 WEEK 2 WEEK 3 WEEK 4
Tour the Basics Experience Computer Vision Explore Speech and Language Discover Cognitive Search
Learn about key AI concepts and Find out how to solve common Discover how to incorporate natural See how to transform raw,
tools, and how to easily get started computer vision problems using language processing and speech unstructured information into
with AI on Microsoft Azure. Azure Cognitive Services. capabilities into your apps and bots. searchable content.
Back to Learning Journey
Make sure to complete the following tasks before you hit the road. Then use the
navigation bar to return to your Learning Journey and start your training, or click
ahead to move to week 1.
Sign up for the 30 Days Start an Azure Free Trial
to Learn It challenge, or use your existing
and after completing all Azure subscription.
required learning You’ll need it for hands-
modules, you’ll be on learning.
eligible to receive 50
percent off a Microsoft
Certification exam*.
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Conditions to learn
more.
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WEEK 1
Week 1
Tour the basics
Azure AI enables you to build on your terms. With Azure, you can
build applications using the languages and tools of your choice, and
deploy your AI models anywhere. Whether you want to leverage pre-
built models, build custom models with code-first or code-free
experiences, or do advanced machine learning, Azure is a great place
to get started with AI.
Spend this first week learning the essentials—we’ll cover key AI
concepts and introduce the Azure AI services to help you bring
capabilities like speech, vision, language, decision, and search to your
applications, no matter your skill level. We’ll provide step-by-step
guidance to show how easy it is to add value to your applications.
Click ahead to access this week’s trainings >
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WEEK 1
Click the box to launch each module. Once completed, be sure to check the box to easily track your progress.
WATC H LEARN
15 mins 30 mins
Intro to Azure AI Get started with artificial
Get an overview of what AI can enable intelligence on Azure
and how you can harness the power of
Azure AI services to create Discover the easy-to-use services
breakthrough experiences. Azure provides to help you get started
with AI.
3 hrs 30 mins
Create no-code predictive
models with AML
Find out how to use Azure Machine
Learning to create and publish multiple
types of models without writing code.
Use the navigation bar to return to your Learning Journey and preview next week or click ahead to move to week 2.
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WEEK 2
Week 2
Experience Computer Vision
Computer vision enables software systems to perceive the world
visually, through cameras, images, and video. With Azure Cognitive
Services, it’s easy to add computer vision capabilities to your apps.
This week we’ll use computer vision examples to illustrate foundational
concepts of building AI-powered applications on Azure – whether you
want to leverage APIs and SDKs, or create an app without writing a
single line of code. You’ll also get a chance to practice using Custom
Vision to build an object detection model with a step by step tutorial.
Click ahead to access this week’s trainings >
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WEEK 2
Click the box to launch each module. Once completed, be sure to check the box to easily track your progress.
WATC H LEARN TRY
15 mins 3 hrs 30 mins
Easily add AI to your Explore computer vision Custom Vision – Build an
applications Understand how to solve computer Object Detector
vision problems using pre-built and
Learn foundational concepts of custom AI models. Create, train, and test an object
working with Azure Cognitive Services, detection model. Choose your
through the example of creating an preferred format to complete the
object detection application. exercise:
• Web Portal, or
• SDK (Option enables you to use
the language of your choice)
Use the navigation bar to return to your Learning Journey and preview next week or click ahead to move to week 3.
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WEEK 3
Week 3
Explore Speech and Language
Speech and natural language processing capabilities can be used to enhance
many types of apps and services, from building a chatbot, to modernizing
your call center, to making your application more accessible to low-vision
users or to a global population.
Your week ahead focuses on how the speech transcription, translation, and
language understanding capabilities of Azure AI can be applied to solve a
range of business challenges. We’ll walk you through two common
challenges starting with an overview of each use case at the enterprise level,
followed by an in-depth training on the AI components of a successful
solution. Then practice your new learnings using our sample code to build
solutions for common user scenarios. We can’t wait to see what you create!
Click ahead to access this week’s trainings >
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WEEK 3
Click the box to launch each module. Once completed, be sure to check the box to easily track your progress.
WATC H LEARN TRY
15 mins 30 mins 2 hr
1. Build a chatbot 2. Explore conversational 3. Virtual Assistant
Dive into the various components of AI Hands-on Exercise
Azure AI that you can use to build Use the QnA Maker service and Azure Play with sample code to build your
bots. Bot Service to create a bot that own intelligent grocery bot app.
answers user questions.
Chat Bot series
15 mins 2 hrs 1 hr
4. Create an intelligent 5. Explore NLP 6. Travel Journal App
call center Discover how to use Azure Cognitive Hands-on Exercise
Find out how you can use Azure AI to Services to build apps supporting Build a travel journal app to explore
transform the call center experience. natural language. Azure AI services including language
and speech Cognitive Services.
NLP series
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WEEK 4
Week 4
Discover Cognitive Search
Real-world data is messy. It often spans media types, changes constantly,
and carries valuable knowledge that’s not always readily usable. Azure
Cognitive Search is a cloud search service that can help you build a rich
search experience into your apps.
This week we’ll break down how Cognitive Search works in three easy steps
and show you how to use it with Azure AI's vision and decision capabilities,
to transform raw, unstructured information into searchable content. Then
you’ll get to tackle a fun challenge! We’ll provide sample code for you to
build a knowledge mining solution that extracts valuable insights from your
documents, images, and media.
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WEEK 4
Click the box to launch each module. Once completed, be sure to check the box to easily track your progress.
WATC H LEARN TRY
15 mins 1 hr 1 hr
Use AI to automate Implement knowledge Personal Finance
document processing mining with Azure App Hands-on Exercise
See how organizations Cognitive Search Use sample code to build an app that
across industries rely on Azure AI to Discover how to use Azure Cognitive can help you manage personal
automate their document processing. Search to easily identify and explore expenses.
relevant content at scale.
Use the navigation bar to click ahead to complete your journey.
Back to Learning Journey
Congratulations you’ve completed your training! Now, you’re
ready to create the next generation of apps using Azure AI.
Schedule your Azure AI Fundamentals certification exam
Show the world you’re equipped with the core skills for working with Azure
AI services. After completing the ‘30 Days to Learn It’ challenge, you’ll
receive an email with instructions for how to redeem your 50% discount for
the Microsoft certification exam.
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