A comprehensive study guide that will

provide you with great preparation tools

for the AI-900: Microsoft Azure AI
Fundamentals

AI-900
Official
Course Study
Guide

Jordi Koenderink 11/20/2022

Introduction
Welcome to the AI-900 Study Guide. This guide will go over each topic of the skills outline, provided
by Microsoft for the AI-900: Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals exam.

This exam is an opportunity to demonstrate knowledge of machine learning (ML) and artificial
intelligence (AI) concepts and related Microsoft Azure services. Candidates for this exam should have
familiarity with Exam AI-900’s self-paced or instructor-led learning material.

This exam is intended for candidates with both technical and non-technical backgrounds. Data
science and software engineering experience are not required; however, awareness of cloud basics
and client-server applications would be beneficial.

Azure AI Fundamentals can be used to prepare for other Azure role-based certifications like Azure
Data Scientist Associate or Azure AI Engineer Associate, but it is not a prerequisite for any of them.

About the exam:

• Taking the exam will cost you $99 US dollars.

• Microsoft certification exams are scored out of 1000 points. You need 700 points or higher to
pass the AI-900 exam and gain your Azure AI Fundamentals.
• The AI-900 exam will need to be renewed every year. Microsoft will from time to time retire
certifications, however, and you may also find exam numbers evolve when Microsoft
changes the curriculum substantially for the certification.
• The exam will have around 55 questions for which you have 3h to answer.
• As of this moment of writing, there’re no labs.

Books/e-books:

Exam Ref AI-900 Microsoft Azure AI

Fundamentals
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Fundamentals offers professional-level
preparation that helps candidates maximize
their exam performance and sharpen their skills
on the job. It focuses on the specific areas of
expertise modern IT professionals need to
demonstrate real-world mastery of common
machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence
(AI) workloads and how to use them in Azure.

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MS Presstore: Exam Ref AI-900 Microsoft Azure

AI Fundamentals | Microsoft Press Store

Video training:

This course goes over each requirement of the

exam in detail. If you have no background in
machine learning and want to learn about it and
want to learn more about AI / ML concepts and
services within Azure or have some background
in machine learning and want to progress
eventually to an Azure Data Engineer or Data
Analyst type role, this course is a great resource
for you.

AI-900 Azure AI Fundamentals Exam Prep In

One Day - SEP 2022 | Udemy
In this fast-paced course, AI: Executive Briefing,
you will start at the beginning—with the
fundamental concepts and terms of Artificial
Intelligence. First, you'll go over the cliches—
the things "everybody knows" about AI—and
use them to explore several core concepts.
Next, you will explore multiple different ways AI
can be implemented, including Machine
Learning, Deep Learning and Natural Language
Processing. Finally, you will explore the AI
marketplace and current AI issues and risks.
When you are finished with this course, you will
have practical, pragmatic understanding of the
current state of Artificial Intelligence as it is
being used today.

AI: Executive Briefing | Pluralsight

Whizlabs’ Microsoft Azure Exam AI-900 Online
Course helps Professionals to prepare
themselves for the actual certification exam.

Microsoft Azure Exam AI-900 Certification |

Online Course | Whizlabs

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 In this course you’ll learn about the features of
Microsoft Azure AI and get an overview of the
concepts covered in the AI-900 certification
exam. Explore AI, machine learning, and data
science. Emilio Melo discusses cognitive
services, computer vision image analysis,
natural language processing (NLP), speech APIs,
and more.
Exam Tips: Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals
(AI-900) (linkedin.com)

Microsoft Learn:

Those tutorial/paths have been combined by Microsoft and published for free. They contain a
collection of text, videos, and exercises for the exam.

Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals: Get started

with artificial intelligence
Artificial Intelligence (AI) empowers amazing
new solutions and experiences; and Microsoft
Azure provides easy to use services to help you
get started.

Get started with artificial intelligence on Azure -

Learn | Microsoft Docs
Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals: Explore
visual tools for machine learning
Machine learning is at the core of artificial
intelligence, and many modern applications and
services depend on predictive machine learning
models. Learn how to use Azure Machine
Learning to create and publish models without
writing code.

Use visual tools to create machine learning

models with Azure Machine Learning - Learn |
Microsoft Docs

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Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals: Explore
computer vision
Computer vision is an area of artificial
intelligence (AI) in which software systems are
designed to perceive the world visually, through
cameras, images, and video. There are multiple
specific types of computer vision problem that
AI engineers and data scientists can solve using
a mix of custom machine learning models and
platform-as-a-service (PaaS) solutions -
including many cognitive services in Microsoft
Azure.

Explore computer vision in Microsoft Azure -

Learn | Microsoft Docs
Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals: Explore
natural language processing
Natural language processing supports
applications that can see, hear, speak with, and
understand users. Using text analytics,
translation, and language understanding
services, Microsoft Azure makes it easy to build
applications that support natural language.

Explore Natural Language Processing in

Microsoft Azure - Learn | Microsoft Docs
Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals: Explore
decision support
Learn how to automate decision support
processes using Azure.

Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals: Explore

decision support - Training | Microsoft Learn
Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals: Explore
knowledge mining
Knowledge mining is a discipline in artificial
intelligence (AI) that uses a combination of
intelligent services to quickly search and learn
from vast amounts of information.

Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals: Explore

knowledge mining - Training | Microsoft Learn

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Practice exams

Those are practice exams and not dumps. I do not encourage dumps as they ruin the certification
value for everyone.

Whizlabs – Microsoft Azure Exam AI-900

Practice Tests
Practice tests designed by experts to simulate
the real exam scenario. AI-900 questions are
based on the exam syllabus outlined by official
documentation. The questions that appear in
each practice test are unique and not repeated
in other practice tests. These practice tests are
provided to the candidates to gain more
confidence in exam preparation and self-
evaluate them against the exam content.

What’s inside:

• 2 Full-Length Mock Exams (110 Unique

Questions)
• Exhaustive Explanation with every question
• Objective-based Practice Tests
• Exhaustive Explanation with every question
• Reports to assess strengths & weaknesses
• Unlimited Access
• 3+ Hours Training Videos for all Exam
Objectives (100% Syllabus Covered)
• Unlimited Access for 2 years
• 16 Scenario-based lab exercise videos
recommended for AI-900 Exam

Microsoft Azure Exam AI-900 Certification |

Practice Tests | Whizlabs

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This guide is divided up into the following sections and is also part of the exam:

• Describe Artificial Intelligence workloads and considerations (20-25%)

• Describe fundamental principles of machine learning on Azure (25-30%)
• Describe features of computer vision workloads on Azure (15-20%)
• Describe features of Natural Language Processing (NLP) workloads on Azure (15-20%)

Feel free to join our Facebook Azure Study Group, or check out the Azure courses on Udemy. Errors
and suggestions can also be reported in the Azure Group on Facebook.

Thank you,

Software Architect Team

Jordi Koenderink

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Contents
Introduction............................................................................................................................................. 1
Describe Artificial Intelligence workloads and considerations (20-25%) ........................................ 8
Identify features of common AI workloads ..................................................................................... 8
Identify guiding principles for responsible AI .................................................................................. 8
Describe fundamental principles of machine learning on Azure (25-30%)............................................. 9
Identify common machine learning types ....................................................................................... 9
Describe core machine learning concepts ...................................................................................... 9
Describe capabilities of visual tools in Azure Machine Learning Studio ......................................... 9
Describe features of computer vision workloads on Azure (15-20%) ................................................... 10
Identify common types of computer vision solution .................................................................... 10
Identify Azure tools and services for computer vision tasks ......................................................... 10
Describe features of Natural Language Processing (NLP) workloads on Azure (25-30%) ..................... 11
Identify features of common NLP Workload Scenarios ................................................................ 11
Identify Azure tools and services for NLP workloads .................................................................... 11
Identify common use cases for conversational AI......................................................................... 11

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Describe Artificial Intelligence workloads and considerations (20-25%)
Identify features of common AI workloads
Identify features of anomaly detection workloads

Anomaly Detector - Anomaly Detection System | Microsoft Azure

Identify computer vision workloads

Content tags - Computer Vision - Azure Cognitive Services | Microsoft Docs

Object detection - Computer Vision - Azure Cognitive Services | Microsoft Docs

Brand detection - Computer Vision - Azure Cognitive Services | Microsoft Docs

Image categorization - Computer Vision - Azure Cognitive Services | Microsoft Docs

Image descriptions - Computer Vision - Azure Cognitive Services | Microsoft Docs

Identify natural language processing

Natural language processing technology - Azure Architecture Center | Microsoft Learn

Identify knowledge mining workloads

Microsoft Conversational AI tools enable developers to build, connect and manage intelligent bots |
Azure Blog and Updates | Microsoft Azure

Identify guiding principles for responsible AI

Describe considerations for fairness in an AI

Responsible AI principles from Microsoft

FATE: Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics in AI - Microsoft Research

Describe considerations for reliability and safety in an AI solution

Responsible AI principles from Microsoft

FATE: Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics in AI - Microsoft Research

Describe considerations for privacy and security in an AI solution

Responsible AI principles from Microsoft

FATE: Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics in AI - Microsoft Research

Describe considerations for inclusiveness in an AI solution

Responsible AI principles from Microsoft

FATE: Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics in AI - Microsoft Research

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Describe considerations for transparency in an AI solution

Responsible AI principles from Microsoft

FATE: Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics in AI - Microsoft Research

Describe considerations for accountability in an AI solution

Responsible AI principles from Microsoft

FATE: Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics in AI - Microsoft Research

Describe fundamental principles of machine learning on Azure (25-

30%)
Identify common machine learning types
Identify regression machine learning scenarios

ML Studio (classic): Linear Regression - Azure | Microsoft Docs

Identify classification machine learning scenarios

ML Studio (classic): Initialize Classification Models - Azure | Microsoft Docs

Identify clustering machine learning scenarios

ML Studio (classic): Initialize Clustering Models - Azure | Microsoft Docs

Describe core machine learning concepts

Identify features and labels in a dataset for machine learning

Framing: Key ML Terminology | Machine Learning Crash Course (google.com)

Describe how training and validation datasets are used in machine learning

About Train, Validation and Test Sets in Machine Learning | by Tarang Shah | Towards Data Science

Describe capabilities of visual tools in Azure Machine Learning Studio

Automated machine learning

What is automated ML? AutoML - Azure Machine Learning | Microsoft Learn

Azure Machine Learning designer

What is the Azure Machine Learning designer? - Azure Machine Learning | Microsoft Learn

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Describe features of computer vision workloads on Azure (15-20%)
Identify common types of computer vision solution
Identify features of image classification solutions

Tutorial: Train an example Jupyter Notebook - Azure Machine Learning | Microsoft Docs

Identify features of object detection solutions

Object detection - Computer Vision - Azure Cognitive Services | Microsoft Docs

Identify features of optical character recognition solutions

What is Optical character recognition? - Azure Cognitive Services | Microsoft Docs

Identify features of facial detection, facial recognition, and facial analysis solutions

Face detection and attributes concepts - Azure Cognitive Services | Microsoft Docs

Face recognition concepts - Azure Cognitive Services | Microsoft Docs

Example: Real-time video analysis - Face - Azure Cognitive Services | Microsoft Docs

Identify Azure tools and services for computer vision tasks

identify capabilities of the Computer Vision service

What is Computer Vision? - Azure Cognitive Services | Microsoft Docs

Identify capabilities of the Custom Vision service

What is Custom Vision? - Azure Cognitive Services | Microsoft Docs

Identify capabilities of the Face service

What is the Azure Face service? - Azure Cognitive Services | Microsoft Docs

Identify capabilities of the Form Recognizer service

What is Azure Form Recognizer? - Azure Applied AI Services | Microsoft Docs

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Describe features of Natural Language Processing (NLP) workloads on
Azure (25-30%)
Identify features of common NLP Workload Scenarios
Identify features and uses for key phrase extraction

Key phrase extraction using the Text Analytics REST API - Azure Cognitive Services | Microsoft Docs

Identify features and uses for entity recognition

Entity Recognition cognitive skill - Azure Cognitive Search | Microsoft Docs

Identify features and uses for sentiment analysis

Tip 72 - Sentiment Analysis with Cognitive Service and Azure | Azure Tips and Tricks
(microsoft.github.io)

Identify features and uses for language modeling

MSRLM: a Scalable Language Modeling Toolkit - Microsoft Research

Identify features and uses for speech recognition and synthesis

What is the Speech service? - Azure Cognitive Services | Microsoft Docs

Speech-to-text quickstart - Speech service - Azure Cognitive Services | Microsoft Docs

Identify features and uses for translation

App Features - Microsoft Translator

Identify Azure tools and services for NLP workloads

Identify capabilities of the Language service

Language Understanding (LUIS) Overview - Azure Cognitive Services | Microsoft Docs

Identify capabilities of the Speech service

What is the Speech service? - Azure Cognitive Services | Microsoft Docs

Speech-to-text quickstart - Speech service - Azure Cognitive Services | Microsoft Learn

Identify capabilities of the Translator service

Translator Text API - Microsoft Translator for Business

Identify common use cases for conversational AI

Identify features and uses for bots

Azure Bot Service – Conversational AI Application | Microsoft Azure

Identify capabilities of the Azure Bot service

Azure Bot Service – Conversational AI Application | Microsoft Azure

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