Azure OpenAI Service Essentials

Take your Azure AI skills to the next level with Azure OpenAI Service Essentials, a practical course focused on building real-world AI applications with Azure OpenAI Service.

Learn about the latest Azure OpenAI model families, including GPT-5, GPT-4.1, GPT-4o, o-series reasoning models, embedding models, and image generation models. Understand how to choose the right model based on capabilities, performance, cost, context windows, and business requirements.

Master essential prompt engineering techniques, including zero-shot, one-shot, and few-shot prompting, and learn how to generate structured outputs such as JSON, Markdown, tables, and lists.

Explore advanced features such as multi-turn conversations, conversation history, system instructions, image inputs, visual understanding, and OCR.

Put your knowledge into practice with a hands-on capstone project where you’ll build a conversational Python application, implement streaming responses, and handle common authentication, deployment, and rate-limit errors.

You’ll also learn important Responsible AI practices, including content filtering, prompt injection, hallucinations, safe AI practices, and AI usage monitoring.

Whether you're a developer, Python programmer, Azure professional, AI enthusiast, or learner building on your Azure AI knowledge, this course provides practical skills to help you confidently work with Azure OpenAI Service and generative AI applications.

By the end of the course, you’ll have hands-on experience with Azure OpenAI and a practical foundation for progressing toward Azure AI Agent Service and more advanced AI solutions.