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Introduction to AI in Azure
Course Description
AI-901: Introduction to AI in Azure
Learn AI from scratch and build your first AI agent on Azure. This beginner-friendly, lab-driven course introduces core AI concepts and shows you how to use Microsoft Foundry for generative AI, agents, text analysis, speech, vision, and information extraction. It also prepares you for the Azure AI Fundamentals certification.
Duration: 1 day (about 6-7 hrs) or 2 half-day workshops | Format: Instructor-led with hands-on labs | Level: Beginner (also a quick refresher for experienced professionals) | Prerequisites: None. Coding is optional.
What You’ll Learn
- Describe AI workloads and how Microsoft Foundry supports them
- Understand how generative AI and agents work, and create an agent
- Analyze text with general-purpose models and Azure Language
- Use speech-to-text and text-to-speech with Azure Speech
- Apply computer vision with vision-capable models
- Extract data from documents and media with Azure Content Understanding
Who Is This Course For?
Students, career changers, business analysts, project and product managers, IT professionals, and developers who are new to AI. Experienced professionals can use it as a fast, structured overview of the Azure AI landscape before moving on to advanced courses.
Course Curriculum
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What AI is
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common AI workloads (generative AI, text, speech, vision, information extraction)
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responsible AI principles
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a tour of Microsoft Foundry and its tools
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How large language models work
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prompts and responses
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grounding
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what agents are and how they use tools and instructions
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NLP techniques: sentiment
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key phrases
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entities
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summarization
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translation
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Compare general-purpose models with Azure Language
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How speech recognition and synthesis work
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speech-to-text
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text-to-speech
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voice use cases
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How image analysis works
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OCR
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captioning
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object detection
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image understanding with vision-capable models.
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How extraction solutions work
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structured data from documents
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images
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audio
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video with Azure Content Understanding
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Certification path
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review quiz
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a Learn study plan
Course Eligibility
Audience profile
The Introduction to AI in Azure course is designed for anyone interested in learning how to start
developing artificial intelligence (AI) applications and agents on Azure. You don’t need to have any
experience of using Microsoft Foundry before taking this course, but a basic familiarity with programming
(Python preferred) is assumed.
Audience prerequisites
Prerequisite certification is not required before taking this course. Successful AI-901 students start with
some basic awareness of computing and internet concepts, and some basic knowledge of programming
concepts and syntax.
Specifically:
• Experience using computers and the internet.
• Familiarity with programming concepts and syntax (preferably Python).
• Interest in use cases for AI applications agents.
• A willingness to learn through hands-on exploration.
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