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Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals AI-900 Exam Guide

By : Aaron Guilmette, Steve Miles
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Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals AI-900 Exam Guide

By: Aaron Guilmette, Steve Miles

Overview of this book

The AI-900 exam helps you take your first step into an AI-shaped future. Regardless of your technical background, this book will help you test your understanding of the key AI-related topics and tools used to develop AI solutions in Azure cloud. This exam guide focuses on AI workloads, including natural language processing (NLP) and large language models (LLMs). You’ll explore Microsoft’s responsible AI principles like safety and accountability. Then, you’ll cover the basics of machine learning (ML), including classification and deep learning, and learn how to use training and validation datasets with Azure ML. Using Azure AI Vision, face detection, and Video Indexer services, you’ll get up to speed with computer vision-related topics like image classification, object detection, and facial detection. Later chapters cover NLP features such as key phrase extraction, sentiment analysis, and speech processing using Azure AI Language, speech, and translator services. The book also guides you through identifying GenAI models and leveraging Azure OpenAI Service for content generation. At the end of each chapter, you’ll find chapter review questions with answers, provided as an online resource. By the end of this exam guide, you’ll be able to work with AI solutions in Azure and pass the AI-900 exam using the online exam prep resources.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Free Chapter
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Part 1: Identify Features of Common AI Workloads
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Part 2: Describe the Fundamental Principles of Machine Learning on Azure
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Part 3: Describe Features of Computer Vision Workloads on Azure
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Part 4: Describe Features of Natural Language Processing (NLP) Workloads on Azure
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Part 5: Describe Features of Generative AI Workloads on Azure

Practice Resources – A Quick Tour

This book will equip you with all the knowledge necessary to clear the exam. As important as learning the key concepts is, your chances of passing the exam are much higher if you apply and practice what you learn in the book. This is where the online practice resources come in. With interactive mock exams, flashcards, and exam tips, you can practice everything you learned in the book on the go. Here’s a quick walkthrough of what you get.

A Clean, Simple Cert Practice Experience

You get a clean, simple user interface that works on all modern devices, including your phone and tablet. All the features work on all devices, provided you have a working internet connection. From the Dashboard (Figure 12.7), you can access all the practice resources that come with this book with just a click. If you want to jump back to the book, you can do that from here as well:

 Figure 12.7 – Dashboard interface on a desktop device

Figure 12.7 – Dashboard interface on a...