AI-901-Microsoft Azure AI Fundamental Certification

Release v5.0 – May 2026 (AI-901 Beta Content Added)

The AI-900 exam will retire on June 30, 2026, and is being replaced by AI-901: Azure AI Fundamentals (Refreshed). Since AI-901 is currently in beta, this course now covers both exams so you can prepare for either path with confidence.

What's new in AI-901?

AI-901 is a substantial redesign that pivots from individual Azure AI services to the unified Microsoft Foundry platform. The new exam emphasises implementing generative AI apps and agents, deploying models in the Foundry portal, building lightweight client applications with the Foundry SDK, and extracting information using Azure Content Understanding. Examinotion

The exam is structured around two core skill areas:

• Identify AI Concepts and Responsibilities (40–45%) — covering responsible AI principles, AI model components and configurations, and AI workloads including generative and agentic AI, text analysis, speech, computer vision, and information extraction Microsoft Learn

• Implement AI Solutions using Microsoft Foundry (55–60%) — covering generative AI apps and agents, text and speech solutions, computer vision and image generation, and information extraction using Azure Content Understanding in Foundry Tools

Release v4.0 - August2025

Artificial Intelligence is no longer the future—it’s the present, reshaping how industries operate and how we work, live, and interact. With tools like ChatGPT and Azure AI becoming part of everyday workflows, staying current with AI fundamentals is not just useful—it’s essential.

The entire course has been updated and refreshed. All chapters have been re-recorded. This has been done to ensure that all contents now reflect the most recent changes to the services on the Azure platform.

All course contents have also been aligned as per any changes to the course objectives.

Release v3.0 - January 2025

The entire course has been updated and refreshed. All chapters have been re-recorded. This has been done to ensure that all contents now reflect the most recent changes to the services on the Azure platform.

All course contents have also been aligned as per any changes to the course objectives.

Additional questions also added to the Practice Tests available at the end of the course.

Release v2.0 - July 2023

The entire course has been updated and refreshed. All chapters have been re-recorded. This has been done to ensure that all contents now reflect the most recent changes to the services on the Azure platform.

All course contents have also been aligned as per any changes to the course objectives.

Quiz questions have also been added to the end of each section.

This course is a preparation course for students who want to attempt the Exam AI-900: Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals

This course has contents for the Exam AI-900

The objectives covered in this course are

• Describe AI workloads and considerations (15-20%) - Here we will discuss the the basics on AI-based workloads.

• Describe fundamental principles of machine learning on Azure (30-35%) - Here we will understand what is Machine Learning. We will also look at labs on how to work with the Machine Learning service.

• Describe features of computer vision workloads on Azure (15-20%) - Here we will look at the different features of the Computer Vision service. We will also look at the Custom Vision service, the Face service and the Form Recognizer service.

• Describe features of Natural Language Processing (NLP) workloads on Azure (15-20%) - Here we will look at services such the Text Analytics service, the Language Understanding Intelligence Service , the Speech service.

• Describe features of conversational AI workloads on Azure (15-20%) - Here we will see the basics on the QnA Maker service and the Bot Framework.

There is also a number of labs available in this course. These labs focus on the different services available in Azure when it comes to Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.