Azure / Foundational / AI-901
Azure AI Fundamentals
Understand AI choices and the basic Foundry application lifecycle, including agents, multimodal inputs and information extraction.
This guide follows AI-901, the current Azure AI Fundamentals exam. It includes Foundry implementation concepts; older AI-900-only notes are not a complete match.
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.
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.