Why this guide
- Built from the public Microsoft AI-102 skills outline — the current generative-AI and NLP emphasis
- Azure AI service decision tree — when to use Language, Vision, Speech, OpenAI, or custom model endpoints
- Prompt engineering and RAG essentials — the generative-AI topics now tested on the exam
- Designed for printing — full guide, two 1-page cheat sheets, and a 1-page pocket card
Who this is for
- AI engineers building and deploying Azure AI solutions for production workloads
- Data scientists moving models from notebooks to Azure AI Services and Azure Machine Learning
- Developers integrating language, vision, speech, and decision APIs into applications
- Cloud architects designing responsible AI systems on Azure
- Azure partners and consultants preparing for the AI-102 credential
What you'll learn
- Plan and manage an Azure AI solution: Select the right service, provision resources, define workflows, monitor costs, and manage access and security
- Implement decision support solutions: Anomaly Detector, Content Moderator, Personalizer, and knowledge-mining with Azure AI Search
- Implement computer vision solutions: Azure AI Vision, Custom Vision, Face API, image classification, object detection, and OCR
- Implement natural language processing solutions: Language service, entity recognition, sentiment analysis, question answering, translation, speech-to-text, text-to-speech
- Implement generative AI solutions: Azure OpenAI Service, model selection, prompt engineering, fine-tuning, retrieval-augmented generation, content filtering
- Responsible AI: fairness, reliability/safety, privacy/security, inclusiveness, transparency, accountability
- Core platform skills: Azure RBAC, managed identities, key vault integration, networking, monitoring, and container deployment
What you're getting
- 6 printable PDFs: cover, course notice, full study guide, two condensed cheat sheets, and an exam-day pocket card.
- Content built from the public syllabus and real test-taker accounts.
- No fake "actual exam" content — honest, source-cited study aids.
"The exam now includes Azure OpenAI and responsible AI. Older AI-102 notes miss the generative portion."
— paraphrased from public test-taker accounts