


About the AI-901: Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals Certification
The AI-901: Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals certification confirms foundational knowledge of artificial intelligence concepts and Microsoft Azure AI solution capabilities. This exam focuses on responsible AI, common AI workloads, generative AI, agentic AI, Microsoft Foundry, text analysis, speech, computer vision, image generation, and information extraction.
This question-based course follows the official AI-901 exam outline and helps students become familiar with the topics, wording, and scenario style used across Microsoft fundamentals exams.
The certification is structured around two main exam domains:
Identify AI concepts and capabilities (40–45%)
This domain covers responsible AI principles, AI model components, generative AI concepts, model deployment options, and common AI workloads. Students review topics such as fairness, reliability and safety, privacy and security, inclusiveness, transparency, accountability, tokens, prompts, context windows, text analysis, speech, computer vision, image generation, and information extraction.
Implement AI solutions by using Microsoft Foundry (55–60%)
This domain focuses on Microsoft Foundry and Foundry Tools. Students work through questions related to system prompts, user prompts, model deployment, chat clients, Foundry SDK usage, single-agent solutions, lightweight agent clients, Azure Speech, multimodal models, vision capabilities, image generation, and Azure Content Understanding.
The exam measures the ability to recognize AI workloads, select suitable AI capabilities for business scenarios, understand how generative AI models operate, and identify how Microsoft Foundry is used to create AI-powered apps and agents.
Who This Course Is For
This course is for beginners, students, IT professionals, business users, cloud learners, and anyone interested in the AI-901: Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals certification. It is also useful for people who want a clear introduction to Microsoft Azure AI concepts, Microsoft Foundry, responsible AI, generative AI, agentic AI, speech, vision, and information extraction.
No formal certification is required before taking this course. Basic awareness of cloud computing, Azure resources, Python syntax, APIs, SDKs, or AI concepts can be helpful, but the course starts with beginner-level exam topics.
Course Purpose
This course gives students structured AI-901 exam questions mapped to the official Microsoft exam outline. The questions focus on realistic scenarios, core terminology, Microsoft Foundry workflows, Azure AI capabilities, and responsible AI principles.
Students will review how to identify AI workloads, understand model components, work with generative AI prompts, recognize Foundry deployment options, use lightweight client concepts, and apply text, speech, vision, and Content Understanding capabilities in common solution scenarios.
By the end of the course, students should feel more confident with the major AI-901 topic areas and more familiar with the type of thinking needed for the Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals exam.
Main Topics Covered
Responsible AI principles, including fairness, reliability, safety, privacy, security, inclusiveness, transparency, and accountability
AI model components and configuration topics, including generative AI models, model capabilities, deployment options, and configuration parameters
AI workloads, including generative AI, agentic AI, text analysis, speech, computer vision, image generation, and information extraction
Microsoft Foundry topics, including prompts, deployed models, chat clients, SDK usage, agents, and lightweight applications
Text and speech solutions using Foundry, deployed multimodal models, and Azure Speech in Foundry Tools
Vision and image-generation solutions using multimodal models, visual prompts, generated images, and image analysis
Information extraction using Azure Content Understanding for documents, forms, images, audio, and video
Exam Overview
Certification: Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals
Exam: AI-901: Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals
Question style: Multiple-choice and scenario-based questions
Passing score: 700
Level: Beginner
Prerequisites: None required
Main platform focus: Microsoft Azure AI and Microsoft Foundry
This course is not affiliated with Microsoft. Microsoft, Azure, Microsoft Foundry, and Azure AI are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.