You can see it againUnder pressure people bring back shapes and positions long after the wording has gone.
Picture superiority · Shepard 1967, Standing 1973
MICROSOFTMicrosoft Certified:Azure AI Engineer Associate
The Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate certification validates your ability to design and implement AI solutions using Azure AI services. It is aimed at AI engineers responsible for building, managing, and deploying AI solutions. Earning it demonstrates your expertise in leveraging Azure AI to create secure and scalable AI applications.
Exam formatMultiple choice and interactive components
Duration100 minutes
DeliveryPearson VUE
Passing score700
Free questions691
Content last reviewed 30 July 2026 · Up to date
The certification
What AI-102 proves, and what it asks of you
What this certification covers, who it is written for, and what the exam itself looks like on the day.
6domains
17objectives
138concepts
US $165exam fee
What it is
What this certification is
What it validates, who it is written for, and the experience it assumes.
About this certification
The Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate certification validates that you can design and implement AI solutions using Azure AI services, Azure AI Search, and Azure Open AI. It targets AI engineers responsible for the full lifecycle of AI solutions, from requirements definition to deployment and monitoring.
Earning this certification demonstrates your ability to work with solution architects, data scientists, and other professionals to build secure and scalable AI solutions. You will be able to integrate AI capabilities into applications and solutions, ensuring they meet business needs and performance requirements.
Who it’s for
This certification is for AI engineers who build, manage, and deploy AI solutions using Azure AI. You will work with solution architects, data scientists, and other professionals to create secure and scalable AI solutions. You should have experience with languages such as Python and C#, and be able to use REST APIs and SDKs to build AI solutions. Understanding Azure AI components and applying responsible AI principles are essential skills.
Recommended experience
Experience developing AI solutions using Azure AI services and familiarity with programming languages like Python and C#. Building and deploying AI solutions using Azure AI services; Collaborating with solution architects and data scientists; Implementing secure and scalable AI applications; Applying responsible AI principles
The syllabus
What you’ll learn
Every domain and objective Microsoft measures, with the weight they carry on the exam.
The official Microsoft exam outline · checked 30 July 2026 · See the source
Plan and manage an Azure AI solution
- Select the appropriate Microsoft Foundry Services
- Plan, create and deploy a Microsoft Foundry Service
- Manage, monitor, and secure a Microsoft Foundry Service
- Implement AI solutions responsibly
Implement generative AI solutions
- Build generative AI solutions with Microsoft Foundry
- Use Azure OpenAI in Foundry Models to generate content
- Optimize and operationalize a generative AI solution
Implement an agentic solution
- Create custom agents
Implement computer vision solutions
- Analyze images
- Implement custom vision models
- Analyze videos
Implement natural language processing solutions
- Analyze and translate text
- Process and translate speech
- Implement custom language models
Implement knowledge mining and information extraction solutions
- Implement an Azure AI Search solution
- Implement an Azure Document Intelligence in Foundry Tools solution
- Extract information with Azure Content Understanding in Foundry Tools
On the day
The exam itself
Everything Microsoft publishes about sitting it, and nothing we inferred.
Prerequisites
No mandatory prerequisites — this certification has no required predecessor exam or credential.
Exam codeAI-102
CertificationAzure AI Engineer Associate
Exam formatMultiple choice and interactive components
Duration100 minutes
Passing score700
DeliveryPearson VUE
LanguagesEnglish, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), Korean, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Chinese (Traditional), Italian
PricingUS $165
Certification levelAssociate
After you pass
Where this credential goes next
The path Microsoft lays out, how the credential is kept, and where to book.
Step-by-step path to Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate
Credential earnedMicrosoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate Associate level certification Renewal and maintenance
The Azure AI Engineer Associate certification is valid for one year. Renew before it expires by completing Microsoft's free online renewal assessment. Stay current with the latest technologies and maintain your certification.
Learn more about renewal requirements Lifecycle status
This certification is currently active and available. Microsoft maintains this certification to validate current skills and industry relevance.
Exam status: ActiveMaintained by Microsoft
Exam registration
Register for the exam through Pearson VUE, Microsoft’s authorized testing partner.
Schedule your examVisit the official Microsoft certification page for exam policies and requirements.
View the official pageYour coach
And when you are serious, your coach Pip takes over
Your coach in the app reads what you have answered with the book closed and tells you one thing to do tonight. It will not count an answer you gave with the page open, and it will tell you when you are not ready.
See how the coach worksBefore you book
Questions people ask
What happens if I fail the AI-102 exam?
You can retake the exam 24 hours after the first attempt. For subsequent retakes, the waiting period varies.
Is there a hands-on component in the AI-102 exam?
Yes, the exam includes interactive components that may require hands-on tasks.
What job roles does the Azure AI Engineer Associate credential map to?
It aligns with roles such as AI engineer, data scientist, and solution architect responsible for AI solutions.
Can I recertify by passing a different Microsoft exam?
No, recertification requires completing the specific online renewal assessment for this credential.
How do I schedule the AI-102 exam?
You can schedule the exam through Pearson VUE's website, selecting either online proctored or test center options.
Are there any discounts available for the AI-102 exam?
Microsoft occasionally offers discounts and promotions. Check the official exam page for current offers.
Information freshness · Content last reviewed on 2026-07-30 Up to date
Practice free questions 691 questions, free, no account needed.
The curriculum
The whole exam, mapped and written
Every domain, every objective, and every concept Microsoft measures — each one written out.
6domains
17objectives
138concepts
145free pages
The domains, and what sits inside them
Every objective below is a page you can open and practise now, without an account.
The official Microsoft exam outline · checked 30 July 2026 · See the source
1Plan and manage an Azure AI solution125 questions
2Implement generative AI solutions141 questions
3Implement an agentic solution46 questions
4Implement computer vision solutions98 questions
5Implement natural language processing solutions144 questions
6Implement knowledge mining and information extraction solutions137 questions
Not a table of contents
Every line on this map already opens
In front of every objective the practice pages are already there, free and without an account. This is one objective, opened.
Select the appropriate Microsoft Foundry Services4 pagesOpen →
Free in front of it
16 questions on this objective, five to a page. Every range above is a real page, open now, with no account.
Reading the map is not the same as knowing the ground
The curriculum tells you what is on the exam. Proving you know it is a different job — and it is the one the closed-book run does.
Free questions
691 questions. No account, no card.
The whole bank is open. 5 questions to a page, every answer explained, and a discussion thread on each one.
691questions
145pages
17objectives
Freealways
Browse by domain
Every objective, and every page range, is a link — so you can pick up exactly where you left off.
1Plan and manage an Azure AI solution125 questions
2Implement generative AI solutions141 questions
3Implement an agentic solution46 questions
4Implement computer vision solutions98 questions
5Implement natural language processing solutions144 questions
6Implement knowledge mining and information extraction solutions137 questions
What a practice page gives you
1Five to a page
Short enough to finish, long enough to matter.
2Every answer explained
Not only which one is right — why the others are wrong.
3A discussion on each
Ask, answer, and vote. Every question has its own thread.
A question, and the idea behind it
Every question comes from a concept
These are not trivia. Each one is written against a concept in the book, so when you get one wrong there is somewhere to go and find out why.
The visual book
See it once. Carry it into the exam.
The pages shown here come from our AI-900 book — an example of how each concept is written in plain language and, where the idea needs one, drawn as a full page you can take in at a glance.
138concepts
691free questions
Why a picture, and not another paragraph
Three reasons, and each one is a real finding rather than a slogan.
You can see it againThe whole idea at onceWhere it starts, what happens in the middle, what comes out, and the mistake to avoid.
Multimedia principle · MayerThe look-alikes sit togetherThe pairs the exam tests are drawn side by side, so the difference is seen, not told.
Dual coding · PaivioWhat one page is made of
You are never asked to read a poster here — only to see how one is built. After that, every other page is legible at a glance.
1A numbered strip on top
The idea as a sequence, followed with a finger before a word is read.
2Panels for the parts
What it is, how the machine learns it, when it is the right tool.
3The trap, framed
The distinction the exam tests, given its own box instead of buried in prose.
4One line at the bottom
The sentence to carry into the exam room.
Open book, on purpose
Answer it with the picture beside you
This is the part that teaches. The illustration and the written explanation stay where they are while you work, so a scenario stops being a memory test and becomes something you can simply look at.
It teaches · it does not count
A smartphone uses AI to unlock when the owner looks at the camera. Which AI capability is being used?
AImage classification
BFacial recognition
COptical character recognition
DObject detection
Look at the five steps. Detect finds a face, align straightens it, encode turns it into numbers, search compares it with a stored face, and decide answers one question: is this the same person? Classification would only say “a face”. Detection would only draw a box. Neither decides whose.
Then the page shuts, and it starts counting
The same questions come back with the book closed — that run is the one that counts. After it, your coach picks one thing for tonight, sized to the time you have, and brings pages back before you lose them.
Testing effect · Roediger & Karpicke 2006 · spacing effect · Cepeda et al. 2006
Official resources
Straight from Microsoft
Where the exam is defined, scheduled and scored.
2official links
138concepts mapped
The source
Microsoft’s own pages
We link to them rather than repeat them, so nothing here goes stale behind them.
Checked against the source
Every objective on the official Microsoft outline already has questions here
We build from the official skills outline, not from a summary of it — 17 objectives, 138 concepts written under them, and free questions against every one. When Microsoft changes the outline, this page changes with it.
17objectives on the outline→138concepts written→691free questions
An official page tells you what will be asked. It cannot tell you what you will get right.
That is the only question worth answering the night before, and no link answers it. You answer it by taking the questions with the book closed, and seeing what comes back.