Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate

Candidates for the Azure AI Engineer Associate certification build, manage, and deploy AI solutions that leverage Azure Cognitive Services and Azure Applied AI services.

Their responsibilities include participating in all phases of AI solutions development—from requirements definition and design to development, deployment, maintenance, performance tuning, and monitoring.

They work with solution architects to translate their vision and with data scientists, data engineers, IoT specialists, and AI developers to build complete end-to-end AI solutions.

Candidates for this certification should be proficient in C# or Python and should be able to use REST-based APIs and SDKs to build computer vision, natural language processing, knowledge mining, and conversational AI solutions on Azure.

They should also understand the components that make up the Azure AI portfolio and the available data storage options. Plus, candidates need to understand and be able to apply responsible AI principles.

Important

The English language version of this certification was updated on May 2, 2022. Please download the skills measured document on the Exam AI-102 page to see what changed.

Job role: AI Engineer

Required exams: AI-102

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Skills measured

  • This list contains the skills measured on the exam associated with this certification. For information about upcoming or recent changes, see the associated exam details page and download the exam skills outline.
  • Plan and manage an Azure Cognitive Services solution
  • Implement Computer Vision solutions
  • Implement natural language processing solutions
  • Implement knowledge mining solutions
  • Implement conversational AI solutions

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  • AI-102: Designing and Implementing a Microsoft Azure AI Solution

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    This exam measures your ability to accomplish the following technical tasks: plan and manage an Azure Cognitive Services solutions; implement Computer Vision solutions; implement natural language processing solutions; implement knowledge mining solutions; and implement conversational AI solutions.

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    for Designing and Implementing a Microsoft Azure AI Solution

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