Capability Development / AI
AI in Azure (AI-901)
This course introduces fundamental concepts related to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Microsoft Azure services used to build AI solutions. It blends core AI concepts with the technology skills that are foundational for a career in implementing AI solutions on Azure, building awareness of common AI workloads and the Azure services that support them.
Program Overview
This course introduces fundamental concepts related to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Microsoft Azure services used to build AI solutions. It blends core AI concepts with the technology skills that are foundational for a career in implementing AI solutions on Azure, building awareness of common AI workloads and the Azure services that support them.
Audience Profile
Designed for beginner-level AI engineers, developers and students at the start of their AI journey. Useful for learners with a basic knowledge of Python coding syntax and general programming techniques.
Course Syllabus
Module 1: Introduction to AI Concepts
Topics
- Generative AI and agents
- Text and natural language
- Speech
- Computer vision
- Information extraction
- Responsible AI
Labs / Practice
- Explore core AI workload scenarios
- Map workloads to Azure AI services
Module 2: Generative AI, NLP, Speech and Vision Concepts
Topics
- Large language models (LLMs) and prompts
- AI agents
- Tokenization and statistical text analysis
- Semantic language models
- Speech recognition and synthesis
- Computer vision tasks, CNNs and vision transformers
Labs / Practice
- Compare prompt strategies on a sample LLM
- Review vision and speech workload demos
Module 3: AI-Powered Information Extraction
Topics
- Overview of information extraction
- Optical character recognition (OCR)
- Field extraction and mapping
Labs / Practice
- Extract fields from a sample document
Module 4: Get Started with AI Apps and Agents on Azure
Topics
- Understanding Azure for AI development
- Microsoft Foundry overview and endpoints
- Generative AI models and creating an agent
Labs / Practice
- Explore Microsoft Foundry
- Create a first AI agent
Module 5: Azure Language, Speech, Vision and Extraction
Topics
- Azure Language SDK and MCP
- Speech recognition, synthesis and speech-capable agents
- Multimodal models for image and video analysis
- Extracting information from documents, audio and video
Labs / Practice
- Build a text-analysis call
- Create a speech-capable agent
- Analyze an image with a multimodal model
Module 6: AI Productivity for the Modern Workplace
Topics
- How AI is transforming workplace productivity
- Microsoft 365 Copilot across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams
- NotebookLM for research, summaries and study notes
- Claude AI for document analysis, reporting and reasoning
Labs / Practice
- Apply Copilot to a sample Office task
- Summarize a document with NotebookLM