Azure AI Fundamentals

This training prepares you for the AI-900: Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals certification, which validates your foundational knowledge of artificial intelligence concepts and related Microsoft Azure AI services at an entry level. The program follows the official Microsoft curriculum and covers core technical domains measured on the exam: Artificial Intelligence, Azure Machine Learning, Azure Computer Vision, Azure NLP and Azure Generative AI.

You will learn how to describe artificial intelligence concepts including machine learning, deep learning, and neural networks; identify Azure AI services for computer vision such as Azure AI Vision and Azure AI Custom Vision; explore language services including Azure AI Language for text analysis and Azure AI Translator; and understand speech services like Azure AI Speech for recognition and synthesis. The training also addresses generative AI fundamentals, Azure OpenAI Service capabilities, and responsible AI principles including fairness, reliability, safety, privacy, and inclusiveness.

By completing this program, you will develop the foundational skills required to pursue role-based Azure certifications such as AI-103: Azure AI Agents Developer or AI-200: Azure AI Cloud Developer. The certification demonstrates that you understand core AI and machine learning concepts and Azure AI services, and can make informed decisions about AI implementations based on requirements, ethics, and business value.

In this lesson I demonstrate a python notebook that uses Azure Cognitive Services to detect, analyze and recognize faces in uploaded images.

The lesson covers how to call the Azure Cognitive Services from python code, and use the Azure Face Service to detect, analyze and recognize faces.