MicrosoftAssociateAI-103
Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Apps and Agents Developer Associate
Shows you can design, build and deploy AI solutions and agents on Azure with Python and Microsoft Foundry.
Good to know: This replaces the Azure AI Engineer Associate (AI-102), which was retired in 2026.
- Issuer
- Microsoft
- Level
- Associate
- Exam code
- AI-103
- Exam format
- 120 minutes · proctored
- Focus
- AI agents
- Who it is for
- Developers who build AI apps and agents on Azure.
- Before you start
- Experience building apps with Python, plus familiarity with general AI, generative AI and Azure services.
What the exam covers
Listed as the issuer lists them, with weights where the issuer publishes them.
- Plan and manage an Azure AI solution
- Implement generative AI and agentic solutions
- Implement computer vision solutions
- Implement text analysis solutions
- Implement information extraction solutions
Key terms to know
Words from this certification's topic areas, in plain English. Know these and the study material will be much easier to follow.
- Large language model (LLM)
- A foundation model that reads and writes text.
- Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
- Looking up relevant documents first, then giving them to the model to answer from.
- AI agent
- Software that uses a model to plan steps and use tools to reach a goal.
- Tool calling
- A model asking your code to run a function, such as a search or a database lookup.
- Computer vision
- AI that understands images and video.
- Natural language processing (NLP)
- AI that works with human language.
- Prompt engineering
- Writing instructions so a model gives better answers.
- Guardrails
- Rules and filters that block unsafe inputs or outputs.
- Responsible AI
- Building and using AI fairly, safely, transparently and with accountability.
- Microsoft Foundry
- Microsoft's platform for building and running AI apps and agents on Azure.
Build the knowledge here
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Details last checked Oct 7, 2026 against the issuer's own pages. Exams, versions and rules change. Confirm on the official page before you book. We are not affiliated with Microsoft.