Microsoft Azure AI Engineer Associate: the honest guide
Everything Microsoft Azure publishes about AI-102, in one place: what the exam asks, how the domains are weighted, and what it takes to be ready.
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Multiple choice and multiple response, plus drag-and-drop ordering, hot area items where you click a region of a screenshot, and case studies that hold one scenario across several linked questions.
- Multiple choice
- Multiple response
- Drag and drop
- Hot area
- Case study
The highlighted formats are the ones you cannot answer from memory alone. Microsoft Learn, exam duration and question types ↗
Domain breakdown and official weightings
From the official Microsoft Learn study guides. Plan and manage an Azure AI solution is the heaviest domain at 23 percent, followed by Implement natural language processing solutions at 19 percent.
- Plan and manage an Azure AI solution23%
- Implement generative AI solutions18%
- Implement an agentic solution8%
- Implement computer vision solutions13%
- Implement natural language processing solutions19%
- Implement knowledge mining and information extraction solutions19%
What comes after passing
Role-based certifications last one year and renew free through an online assessment on Microsoft Learn. The only cost is the hour it takes.
Costs across the full renewal cycle are on the Azure AI Engineer cost page.
Frequently asked questions
What changed recently in AI-102?
The outline now includes implementing agentic solutions alongside generative AI, and Azure AI Foundry carries much of the exam. Prep material written for the older cognitive-services outline misses examinable ground.
How much coding does AI-102 expect?
You read SDK calls and REST payloads in C# or Python and choose the right one. The exam tests wiring services together: keys and endpoints, deployments, prompts and skillsets, rather than model mathematics.
Note on domain weightings
Microsoft publishes weightings as ranges. The figures here use midpoints of the official ranges from the current AI-102 study guide.
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