Azure / Associate / AI-103
Azure AI Apps and Agents Developer Associate
Build and operate grounded, tool-using and multimodal AI applications with evaluation and controlled access.
AI-103 is the current Apps and Agents Developer path. AI-102 retired in June 2026; this guide follows the newer Foundry and agent objectives.
THE REVISION PATH
Your topics, in order.
Read. Recall. Explain the alternative.
AI Models, Workloads and Responsible Use
Identify the input, output and consequence before selecting a model.
Foundry Projects, Prompts and Lightweight Clients
Authenticate, select the deployment, send a bounded request, inspect the result and handle failure.
Text, Speech, Vision and Content Understanding
Interpret existing evidence, generate new content and extract structured fields as different tasks.
RAG, Agents and Production Integration
Authorise evidence before retrieval, and authorise actions before tool execution.
AI Evaluation, Safety and Observability
Measure groundedness and task success alongside latency, cost and harm.
Multimodal Generation and Extraction Pipelines
Keep the original evidence, its location and the requested transformation distinct.
How this guide is organised
Original revision notes arranged around practical decisions. The linked official objectives define the mapped scope; primary documentation supports the explanations. Read each topic, answer without looking, then explain why another option would fail.
- Official exam guide ↗ Scope authority
Revision material supports preparation; it does not guarantee every possible exam question. Check the exam version and official objectives before booking.