AI-102T00: Designing and Implementing a Microsoft Azure AI Solution Training Course

Module 1: Introduction to AI on Azure

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become central to modern applications and services. In this module, you will explore common AI capabilities available for integration into your applications and how these are implemented within Microsoft Azure. You will also cover key considerations for designing and implementing AI solutions responsibly.

Lessons

• Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

• Artificial Intelligence in Azure

Upon completing this module, students will be able to:

• Outline considerations for developing AI-enabled applications

• Identify Azure services suitable for AI application development

Module 2: Developing AI Apps with Cognitive Services

Cognitive Services serve as the fundamental building blocks for integrating AI capabilities into applications. This module covers provisioning, securing, monitoring, and deploying cognitive services.

Lessons

• Getting Started with Cognitive Services

• Using Cognitive Services for Enterprise Applications

Lab : Get Started with Cognitive Services

Lab : Manage Cognitive Services Security

Lab : Monitor Cognitive Services

Lab : Use a Cognitive Services Container

Upon completing this module, students will be able to:

• Provision and consume cognitive services in Azure

• Manage security for cognitive services

• Monitor cognitive services

• Utilize a cognitive services container

Module 3: Getting Started with Natural Language Processing

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a branch of artificial intelligence focused on extracting insights from written or spoken language. In this module, you will learn how to use cognitive services to analyze and translate text.

Lessons

• Analyzing Text

• Translating Text

Lab : Translate Text

Lab : Analyze Text

Upon completing this module, students will be able to:

• Utilize the Text Analytics cognitive service to analyze text

• Utilize the Translator cognitive service to translate text

Module 4: Building Speech-Enabled Applications

Numerous modern applications and services process spoken input and respond by synthesizing text. This module expands on natural language processing capabilities, teaching you how to build speech-enabled applications.

Lessons

• Speech Recognition and Synthesis

• Speech Translation

Lab : Recognize and Synthesize Speech

Lab : Translate Speech

Upon completing this module, students will be able to:

• Use the Speech cognitive service to recognize and synthesize speech

• Use the Speech cognitive service to translate speech

Module 5: Creating Language Understanding Solutions

To develop an application capable of intelligently understanding and responding to natural language input, you must define and train a model for language understanding. This module demonstrates how to use the Language Understanding service to create an app that identifies user intent from natural language input.

Lessons

• Creating a Language Understanding App

• Publishing and Using a Language Understanding App

• Using Language Understanding with Speech

Lab : Create a Language Understanding Client Application

Lab : Create a Language Understanding App

Lab : Use the Speech and Language Understanding Services

Upon completing this module, students will be able to:

• Create a Language Understanding app

• Develop a client application for Language Understanding

• Integrate Language Understanding and Speech

Module 6: Building a QnA Solution

A frequent interaction between users and AI software agents involves users submitting questions in natural language and receiving intelligent responses. This module explores how the QnA Maker service facilitates the development of such solutions.

Lessons

• Creating a QnA Knowledge Base

• Publishing and Using a QnA Knowledge Base

Lab : Create a QnA Solution

Upon completing this module, students will be able to:

• Use QnA Maker to create a knowledge base

• Implement a QnA knowledge base in an app or bot

Module 7: Conversational AI and the Azure Bot Service

Bots form the foundation of an increasingly popular type of AI application where users engage in conversations with AI agents, similar to interacting with a human agent. This module explores the Microsoft Bot Framework and the Azure Bot Service, which together provide a platform for creating and delivering conversational experiences.

Lessons

• Bot Basics

• Implementing a Conversational Bot

Lab : Create a Bot with the Bot Framework SDK

Lab : Create a Bot with Bot Framework Composer

Upon completing this module, students will be able to:

• Use the Bot Framework SDK to create a bot

• Use the Bot Framework Composer to create a bot

Module 8: Getting Started with Computer Vision

Computer vision is an area of artificial intelligence where software applications interpret visual input from images or video. This module begins your exploration of computer vision by teaching you how to use cognitive services to analyze images and video.

Lessons

• Analyzing Images

• Analyzing Videos

Lab : Analyze Video

Lab : Analyze Images with Computer Vision

Upon completing this module, students will be able to:

• Use the Computer Vision service to analyze images

• Utilize Video Analyzer to analyze videos

Module 9: Developing Custom Vision Solutions

While pre-defined general computer vision capabilities are useful in many scenarios, there are times when you need to train a custom model using your own visual data. This module introduces the Custom Vision service and demonstrates how to use it to create custom image classification and object detection models.

Lessons

• Image Classification

• Object Detection

Lab : Classify Images with Custom Vision

Lab : Detect Objects in Images with Custom Vision

Upon completing this module, students will be able to:

• Use the Custom Vision service to implement image classification

• Use the Custom Vision service to implement object detection

Module 10: Detecting, Analyzing, and Recognizing Faces

Facial detection, analysis, and recognition are common computer vision scenarios. This module explores the use of cognitive services to identify human faces.

Lessons

• Detecting Faces with the Computer Vision Service

• Using the Face Service

Lab : Detect, Analyze, and Recognize Faces

Upon completing this module, students will be able to:

• Detect faces with the Computer Vision service

• Detect, analyze, and recognize faces with the Face service

Module 11: Reading Text in Images and Documents

Optical character recognition (OCR) is another prevalent computer vision scenario where software extracts text from images or documents. This module explores cognitive services that enable the detection and reading of text in images, documents, and forms.

Lessons

• Reading text with the Computer Vision Service

• Extracting Information from Forms with the Form Recognizer service

Lab : Read Text in Images

Lab : Extract Data from Forms

Upon completing this module, students will be able to:

• Use the Computer Vision service to read text in images and documents

• Use the Form Recognizer service to extract data from digital forms

Module 12: Creating a Knowledge Mining Solution

Many AI scenarios ultimately involve intelligently searching for information based on user queries. AI-powered knowledge mining is a critical approach for building intelligent search solutions that use AI to extract insights from large repositories of digital data, enabling users to find and analyze those insights.

Lessons

• Implementing an Intelligent Search Solution

• Developing Custom Skills for an Enrichment Pipeline

• Creating a Knowledge Store

Lab : Create a Custom Skill for Azure Cognitive Search

Lab : Create an Azure Cognitive Search solution

Lab : Create a Knowledge Store with Azure Cognitive Search

Upon completing this module, students will be able to:

• Create an intelligent search solution with Azure Cognitive Search

• Implement a custom skill in an Azure Cognitive Search enrichment pipeline

• Use Azure Cognitive Search to create a knowledge store