Category Archives: Microsoft
Microsoft AI-901: Build and Test a Single Agent with Foundry A single agent is a bounded task, not a fleet of automations An entry-level Foundry agent can be useful when one model needs reusable instructions and a conversation interface for a constrained job. AI-901 explicitly includes creating and testing a single-agent solution in the portal […]
Microsoft AI-901: Text Analysis and Speech with Foundry Tools Choose the outcome before selecting a language feature AI-901 includes conceptual language capabilities and lightweight implementation tasks. A support-desk tool might identify a customer’s product name, summarize a paragraph or convert spoken questions into text. Those outputs are different. Entity detection identifies named spans, sentiment estimates […]
Microsoft AI-901: Vision and Image Generation in Foundry Understand the two different image tasks in AI-901 The current AI-901 guide asks learners to interpret visual input using a deployed multimodal model, create new visual outputs with generative models, and build a lightweight application with vision capability. Those sound related, yet the first task extracts or […]
Microsoft AI-901: Content Understanding for Documents, Images, Audio and Video Choose extraction when the output must have a defined structure AI-901 now expects a learner to do more than recognize that a model can look at a document or listen to speech. Microsoft’s current fundamentals objectives name information extraction from documents, images, audio, and video […]
Microsoft AI-901: Foundry Models, Prompts and Python Clients A deployed model and a client are two different deliverables AI-901 now includes implementing a model interaction with Microsoft Foundry. It is not enough to identify a language model’s general purpose on an exam flashcard. A model must be available to a project, a suitable deployment must […]
Microsoft AI-901: Responsible AI and Model Selection Start with a decision the model is supposed to support An AI fundamentals learner needs more than a list of services. A school scheduling assistant, an invoice classifier and a generative writing tool have different desired outputs, data inputs and consequences. Before picking a model, describe the task […]
Design Cross-App Dynamics 365 Agent Workflows Start with a cross-app business decision instead of an agent demo The Microsoft AB-100 solution architect is expected to design AI-powered business solutions across multiple Dynamics 365 applications, not simply to know that each product offers Copilot. A sales case can begin as a lead, move through an order, […]
MCP, Computer Use and Voice in Copilot Studio Architecture Choose the integration mechanism before adding another agent AB-100 architects need to decide whether a business capability belongs in a managed connector, a direct API, a Model Context Protocol server, a deterministic workflow or an agent using a computer interface. These options can all retrieve data […]
Model Routing, Prompt Libraries and Cost in Microsoft Foundry AB-100 links model selection to the business decision An architect planning an AI-powered business solution must decide which model capabilities are necessary, what quality constraints cannot be compromised and how to measure the total cost of a completed business task. Microsoft’s AB-100 blueprint includes model routing, […]
Test AI Agents Across Dynamics 365 and Copilot Studio Evaluate a business solution, not only a generated answer AB-100 architects need to design tests that demonstrate how an agent affects a business process. An answer can be fluent and still disclose a record the user was not authorized to see, use the wrong policy or […]
A team can create a storage account that is encrypted at rest by default, give a workload an access key, and leave its network endpoint reachable far beyond the intended application. Another team can lock down its storage firewall so aggressively that backups, diagnostics or application startup begin to fail. Neither result is a sound […]
An administrator is asked to deploy a small internal application environment in Azure. The work looks simple on a diagram: one resource group, a virtual machine, a storage account, a network, and an alert. Real operating risk appears between those boxes. Who can change the resources? Can the VM reach the data while unwanted clients […]
An application is deployed to Azure App Service and responds at its default azurewebsites.net address, but the public custom hostname still returns a certificate warning. A team fixes DNS and then discovers that its private database is unreachable. Later, someone restores an App Service backup and expects the custom domain, managed identity, and monitoring alerts […]
A virtual machine contains business data on its managed disks, some cached disk data on the host, and often temporary data that does not behave like persistent storage. An administrator sees that Azure encrypts managed disks by default and assumes every part of the workload has the same protection. Another administrator wants to move that […]
A deployment team needs to move a directory of application assets into Azure Blob Storage. A developer uses a graphical tool for a few selected files. An operations engineer writes a repeatable transfer command for hundreds of gigabytes. Both approaches can succeed, but their failure modes are different: permissions, path selection, accidental overwrites, unexpected deletions, […]
