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 Cloud Developer Associate
The Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Cloud Developer Associate certification validates your ability to design, build, and implement AI solutions on Azure. It is ideal for developers focusing on back-end services and scalable architectures. Earning this certification demonstrates proficiency in the full development lifecycle on Azure.
Exam formatMultiple choice and multiple response
Duration120 minutes
DeliveryPearson VUE
Passing score700
Free questions311
The certification
What AI-200 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.
4domains
9objectives
73concepts
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 Cloud Developer Associate certification validates your skills in designing and implementing AI solutions on Azure. It focuses on back-end services, scalable architectures, and the complete development lifecycle. This certification is aimed at developers responsible for building and deploying AI solutions on Azure.
Achieving this certification demonstrates your ability to contribute to all phases of AI solution implementation, including requirements gathering, design, development, deployment, security, and monitoring. It highlights your proficiency in using Azure SDKs, data management services, and containerized applications.
Who it’s for
This certification is designed for developers who are responsible for implementing AI solutions on Azure. It is suitable for those who focus on back-end services and components, supporting all phases of the development lifecycle. Candidates should be proficient in Azure SDKs, data management services, monitoring, troubleshooting, and implementing containerized applications on Azure.
Recommended experience
Experience with Azure SDKs, data management, and containerized applications is recommended. Proficiency in Azure SDKs and third-party SDKs used in Azure; Experience with Azure data management services; Familiarity with Azure monitoring and troubleshooting; Knowledge of Azure messaging and eventing; Python programming skills; Experience implementing containerized applications on Azure
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 · See the source
Develop containerized solutions on Azure
- Implement container application hosting
- Implement container-orchestrated solutions
Develop AI solutions by using Azure data management services
- Develop AI solutions by using Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL
- Develop AI solutions by using Azure Database for PostgreSQL
- Integrate Azure Managed Redis in AI solutions
Connect to and consume Azure services
- Develop event- and message-based AI solutions
- Develop and implement Azure Functions
Secure, monitor, troubleshoot Azure solutions
- Implement secure Azure solutions
- Monitor and troubleshoot Azure solutions
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-200
CertificationAzure AI Cloud Developer Associate
Exam formatMultiple choice and multiple response
Duration120 minutes
Passing score700
DeliveryPearson VUE
LanguagesEnglish
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 Cloud Developer Associate
Credential earnedMicrosoft Certified: Azure AI Cloud Developer Associate Associate level certification Renewal and maintenance
Renew eligible Certifications annually at no cost by completing a short online 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.
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Questions people ask
What job roles does the Azure AI Cloud Developer Associate credential map to?
It aligns with roles such as AI developer, cloud developer, and back-end developer focusing on AI solutions on Azure.
Is any part of the AI-200 exam hands-on or lab-based?
Yes. The exam may include interactive components that require practical application of skills.
If I fail AI-200, when can I retake it?
You must wait 24 hours after a first failed attempt, and 14 days before each subsequent attempt.
How do I schedule the AI-200 exam?
You can schedule the exam through Pearson VUE, either online or at a test center.
Are there any accommodations available for the AI-200 exam?
Yes. Microsoft offers a variety of accommodations to support candidates with disabilities.
Practice free questions 311 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.
4domains
9objectives
73concepts
65free 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 · See the source
1Develop containerized solutions on Azure70 questions
2Develop AI solutions by using Azure data management services109 questions
3Connect to and consume Azure services71 questions
4Secure, monitor, troubleshoot Azure solutions61 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.
Implement container application hosting6 pagesOpen →
Free in front of it
30 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
311 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.
311questions
65pages
9objectives
Freealways
Browse by domain
Every objective, and every page range, is a link — so you can pick up exactly where you left off.
1Develop containerized solutions on Azure70 questions
2Develop AI solutions by using Azure data management services109 questions
3Connect to and consume Azure services71 questions
4Secure, monitor, troubleshoot Azure solutions61 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.
73concepts
311free 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.
1official link
73concepts 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 — 9 objectives, 73 concepts written under them, and free questions against every one. When Microsoft changes the outline, this page changes with it.
9objectives on the outline→73concepts written→311free 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.